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Prayer and Praise
Last updated: June 17, 2010
- PRISON MINISTRY
- Bill is in the process for authorization to start visiting Easterling Correctional Facilty in Clio, AL. This is where he has two Spanish-speaking students who have been taking Bible courses through the mail. Hopefully they will be able to progress more rapidly and also have better training since some of it will be in person. Pray for this path to fully open in God’s time!
- Bill is scheduled to go to Natchez again July 23-24 for preaching and teaching.
- FRIENDLY FELLOWSHIP
- Prayer meetings continue with Mike and Trudy. They are an encouragement to us--we are blessed to be able to share and pray together for each others’ needs (ministry, financial, family, etc.).
- MINISTRY STATUS
- After the 2010 General Conference, we are seeing how our multicultural ministry will fit in to the new denominational structure, it at all. Please pray with us. One way or another, we trust God to be able to continue.
- NEW AVENUES OF MINISTRY
- Rev. Dr. Jackson Kariuki (of Kenyan origin) has started a new congregation in Kennesaw, GA and is interested in joining the EMC. Pray for guidance in this process.
- There are several new contacts from ethnic ministers in the Atlanta, GA area. Pray for the Lord to guide us in handling these inquiries with wisdom.
- Bill has just learned of a great new opportunity to do ministerial training to Spanish-speaking lay leaders in Gainesville, GA! This could eventually lead a to new EMC congregation in that city--perhaps more than one!
- Bill and Lisa will be conducting cross cultural workshops in four churches around the metro Atlanta for CEF this August. Aside from helping those local ministries, it will also help us be more prepared to teach this material in the EMC as the demand grows!
- ETHNIC AMERICA NETWORK
- Bill is the official representative of the EMC to the Ethnic America Network. This should be a great learning opportunity and will provide more contacts for networking in multicultural ministry. He went to Denver, CO January 6-9 for the annual EAN leadership retreat, and helped with ministry strategies on a national level. What an honor it is to be part of such a forward-thinking, Biblically sound ministry network!
- Throughout this year, we will continue working with EAN in development of the 2012 EAN Ministry Summit to be held in Spartanburg, SC.
- During April Bill and Lisa went to Boston for the EMC as part of the National Committee of the EAN to attend and help with the 2010 Boston Ethnic Workers Ministry Summit, themed “A City Without Walls”. These summits are always a blessing, but this one was especially challenging to our way of thinking. Due in part to immigration an globalization, evangelical Christianity here in North America is changing cultures. Read Dr. Soong Chan Rah’s book The Next Evangelicalsim to learn more. What will the traditional western-cultured Anglo church do? Run and hide or embrace and participate?
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