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Mission News
Abba continue making items!
Chatham
Food Pantry in need!
Gift Cards help the
homeless!
HEAL Africa prayer request from
Judith A. Anderson, Executive Director of HEAL Africa(US)
Loaves & Fishes Ministry (LFM)
Thursday, August 12 from 3-6 p.m.
Wycliffe Bible Translators
June Newsletter from Paul and Christine!
Missions is our highest priority. We minister locally and throughout
the United States to bring the gospel and to alleviate suffering. Through
our missionary partners we are able to respond to areas of need throughout
the world.
If you would like to donate to any of these missions please contact
us. Thank-you.
Local Missions
Abba's Daughter Women's Ministry | Cape
Cod Council of Churches | Care Ministry
| Chatham Ecumenical Council for the Homeless - Gift
Cards | Chatham Food Pantry | Congregate
Housing Ministry | Habitat for Humanity
| Loaves & Fishes Ministry |
Lower Cape Outreach Council
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Prayer Shawl Ministry |
Teen Challenge
Abba's Daughter's Women's
Ministry
Abba is a women's ministry which makes fool-proof crafts which are sold
in our Benefit Shop to help support church
ministries. See the samples of Abba's crafts in the narthex. We encourage
everyone to continue making items for Abba's Corner in the Benifit shop.
If you would like more information please see Wendy.
Cape Cod Council
of Churches
Provides a baby center in Hyannis, chaplaincy programs, coordinates nights
of hospitality ministry and has a helping hands outreach center in Dennis.
Care Ministry
Bringing meals to those in need. We need folks to prepare and share a
meal and/or a visit. Please see the sign up sheets in the narthex.
Chatham Ecumenical Council for the
Homeless (CECH) - Purchase Gift Cards
CECH helps prevent homelessness by providing financial assistance to families
in need due to job loss, health or other family related crisis. We give
special offerings and we also participate with Stop & Shop and Shaw's,
purchasing gift cards, of which they donate 5% of proceeds to CECH. It's
a great way to help the homeless with no cost to you! Gift cards are available
from Liz. Please participate.
Chatham Food Pantry
- in need of the following items
The greatest need currently is coffee, laundry and dish detergent, canned
fruit and vegetables. The Chatham Food Pantry provides food for Chatham
people in need. The Pantry is coordinated through the Lower Cape Outreach
Council and is located at the corner of Seaquanset Road and Main Street
in West Chatham. A collection basket for the Pantry is located in our
Benefit Shop and in our upstairs and downstairs
entryways Please see Gordon for more information. Thank you.
Congregate
Housing Ministry (CHM)
Our church participates with other churches in Chatham serving meals to
the residents of Chatham Congregate Housing. Please see CeCe if you would
like to help serve meals.
Habitat
for Humanity
Habitat
for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical housing ministry building
affordable houses with your help. We are one of twelve churches that worked
together to build a home in Harwich in 2009. Thank you for your prayers,
for God's provision of funds and for the workers from our church.
Loaves & Fishes Ministry
(LFM) - Thursday, August 12 from 3-6 p.m.

Help serve meals to hungry people in the name of Jesus at the Calvary
Baptist Church in Hyannis the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Thursday's of every month
from 3-6 p.m.. Come and serve as long as you can. We encourage you to
take this opportunity to be a blessing and to be blessed! Please see Dallas
or Karen if you would like to help. Rides are available.
Lower
Cape Outreach Coucil (LCOC)
The LCOC provides
emergency assistance to people in Brewster, Chatham, Eastham, Harwich,
Orleans, Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet. If you would like to help
or would like more information please contact
us.
Prayer Shawl
Ministry - Prayer shawls needed!
This ministry makes knitted shawls to encourage those in need. For the
Prayer shawls use Lion's brand or similar soft, washable acrylic yarn
and size 11 needles. Cast on 70 stitches and knit till shawl can easily
cover your arms and shoulders. Please contact
us if you would like more information or if you would like attend
the Holy Trinity Church, 105 Earle Road, in West Harwich, Prayer Shawl
Minitstry on Mondays at 10 a.m. where they will teach you how to knit
a prayer shawl. Your handi-work can touch another heart profoundly.
Teen
Challenge
Teen Challenge
is a Christian Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitaion Program located throughout
the US and Puerto Rico offering solutions to life controlling problems.
Global Missions
Chosen People Ministries |
Compassion International | Foundation
for Orphans | Heal Africa | Hope
for the Children of Haiti |
Missionary Flights International |
Peru | Samaritan's Purse
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Chosen
People Ministries
Lawrence
Hirsch, the founder and director of Celebrate Messiah, Chosen
People Ministries in Sidney Australia is a Jewish evangelist. Please
pray for his ministry and family.
Compassion
International
Compassion
International is a Christian child advocacy ministry which has partnered
with the local church body in the US and abroad to carry out the mission
of releasing children from poverty in Jesus name. We are sponsoring a
child in Asia. If you would like to help sponsor contact
us. Thank you
Foundation
for Orphans (FFO)
The mission of FFO
is to provide financial assistance for the adoption of orphans. The Foundation
will provide designated financial assistance to meet the spiritual and
physical needs of orphans worldwide. Please pray for our missionaries
Jim and Maraide Sullivan.
HEAL
Africa - please click link below for a special prayer request
from director
HEAL Africa is
a Christian organization whose mission is to support DOCS Africa to care
for the vulnerable by training health professionals and strengthening
social activists. It was founded in 1994 in Goma, D.R.C. by Congolese
orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Jo Lusi and his wife Lyn.
Since 1992, this region has been torn by war. Over four million people
have lost their lives in this war. Madeline Albright has called this Africa's
First World War. The conflict has engaged seven African Nations since
1998. Law and order has broken down. The remaining militias continue to
rape, loot and destroy remote villages.
In July 2003, the international community helped negotiate a peace settlement,
which has begun to stabilize the region. People are tired of war and very
optimistic about the future and because of our medical specialists, HEAL
Africa (DOCS Africa) is called upon to deal with the physical, psychological
and emotional consequences of war.
The United Nations officials have identified the suffering in the Congo
as great as that in Darfur, but it is largely ignored by the world. If
you would like to help or would like more information please contact
us. Plant a seed of hope today in Africa.
Please read the prayer request below and pray. Thank you.
Click
this for a prayer request from Judith Anderson, Executive Director of
HEAL Africa (US).
Dear Friends,
I got a phone call last night from Lyn Lusi, asking for prayer for Mama
Muliri’s daughter ChouChou, who was in the hospital, in a coma,
suffering from something they weren’t sure about—malaria or
encephalitis. I called and spoke to Mama Muliri afterward, and we prayed.
This morning I got an email from Lyn saying that ChouChou had passed
away. Her kidneys and then her liver had shut down. I just spoke to Lyn
by phone.
What I didn’t know is that Mama Muliri’s older daughter had
died in the same way, just prior to her wedding several years ago. She
also was 24 years old. This is a huge blow, particularly as someone has
told them today that Chouchou was poisoned. There are moments in time
when we see things starkly.
This is a moment where Mama Muliri (who has pioneered the work of HEAL
Africa in many areas dealing with gender-based violence, training counselors
and developing curricula, to the seeds of the gender and Justice program),
really needs your prayer and thoughts. She’s going to have huge
demands on her time as the family mourns and prepares the funeral. Her
husband has high blood pressure. The doubts and fears that surround people
in Goma are being magnified by this loss. The only antidote is the power
and grace of Jesus, surrounding her and her loved ones in the way that
only the Spirit can. We pray that the peace of Christ, which passes understanding,
will be physically felt by Mama Muliri. That this terrible loss be transformed
into a witness of the power of love. The love that is promised in the
Bible, that nothing can separate us from: “for I am convinced that
neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present
nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything
else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God
that is Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38.
This death of ChouChou is more than the loss of a dearly beloved child.
It is a declaration of war. What Mama Muliri has accomplished by bringing
the issue of sexual violence into the open has certainly threatened many
kingdoms. The teams of HEAL Africa are bringing light into areas of deep
darkness, and the dark doesn’t like it. This type of loss will be
felt by everyone at HEAL Africa, and we ask your prayer teams to consistently
pray for Muliri and for all the family, and for the staff of HEAL Africa.
We know it will have a huge effect. The spirit and the physical are much
more closely entwined (or visibly so) in Africa than they are in the Western
world. I think we just mask it differently. But I pray that this tragedy
will be transformed into a sign of blessing. I have no idea how this can
happen, but I know that “all things are possible to them that believe”.
And God’s power is stronger than darkness. God’s love-light
will not be put out.
When our son Chad was 11 he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and operated
upon. While he was in the operating room I had an experience of the presence
and peace of Christ unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. It has
given me the strength and faith to do anything I’ve done since.
That was 22 years ago. I felt surrounded by prayer of people I didn’t
even know. I still can remember that assurance that—even if I lost
Chad, if I lost Dick, if I lost our other children, if I lost…and
I went down the entire list…I would be OK. That for me has been
the bedrock of my faith, of who I am.
I pray the same for Muliri now, so that she can continue to be the bearer
of light, an encourager, a warrior for peace. Please pray with me. Ask
your prayer warriors to pray, please. Pass this on to those who might
be interested, and who can stand with our sister in Congo. There is nothing
more powerful than prayer!
Thank you,
Judy
HEAL Africa (US)
Judith A. Anderson
Executive Director
P.O. Box 147
Monroe, WA 98272
Office: 360 863 3380
Hope
for the Children of Haiti (HFC ) - please pray for Haiti
Dr.
Joseph Bernard runs a Christian
orphanage and school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Dr. Bernard and the
children are safe. He was also able to rescue orphans from another center
who were in peril and bring them to their main center which is safe. Praise
God! If you would like more information or would like to donate to HFC
please contact us.
Missionary
Flights International (MFI) - please pray for Haiti
Missionary
Flights International flies in relief and support supplies for Christian
missionaries serving in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.
Joe
Karabensch, whom we support, is a pilot and administrator for MFI.
Without MFI many ministries would not be able to continue. Please keep
them in your prayer. If you would like more information or would like
to donate to MFI please contact us.
Peru
Ken and Cathy Metz are missionaries working in Peru.
Samaritan's
Purse
This ministry established by Franklin
Graham, is supported through our contributions toward Operation
Christmas Child (OCC) and
US Disaster Relief.
Wycliffe
Bible Translators
Paul and Christine Kroeger are teachers at the Wycliffe
Bible Translators School of Translation in Dallas Texas. The Kroegers
prepare students from around the world so that they can translate the
Bible for people who have no scriptures in their own language.
Click the link below to read the latest from Paul and Christine Kroeger!
June NewsLetter
Paul and Christine Kroeger
June 9, 2010
Dear friends and family,
Career Guidance service Corner:
One of you asked, "Do you use the Biblical spiritual gifts given
by the Holy Spirit?" Yes, we do offer a Spiritual gifts inventory
based on the work of Peter Wagner, but is optional. According to Wagner,
any natural gifts used intentionally for the glory of God become our
spiritual gifts. I have been careful about overly emphasizing ones gifts,
because we serve a Master above. Two books I often recommend to my clients
are: "What's So Spiritual About Your Gifts?" by Blackaby &
Blackaby and "Born for Battle" by Arthur Mathews. Both books
have been very helpful to me personally.
I have asked my recent client, who is an adult Third Culture Kid, if
I could talk a little about my experience working with her. During my
interviews with her, spread out over two months, I was reminded of the
word from 2 Corinthians 1:4-5 "the God of all comfort, who comforts
us in all our troubles so that we can comfort those in any trouble with
the comfort we ourselves have received from God.........". I have
re-read two books with her. "Third Culture Kids: The experience
of Growing Up Among Worlds" by David Pollock and Ruth Van Reken;
and Ruth Van Reken's book "Letters I Never Sent". I especially
recommend "Letters I Never Sent" — you will cry. Please
write me if you want to know more about the book. There is a great review
about this book on Amazon.com
GIAL, Training School:
June 5th was graduation day for GIAL, and also marked the end of the
school year for them, although Paul is still marking his students' term
papers. Two of Paul's thesis students graduated this spring; one of
them defended the thesis just a few weeks ago, which kept Paul busy
right up to the end of the term. We are looking forward to the summer
break.
2010 GIAL (M.A.) Graduates

Family Corner:
We had a lovely Memorial Day weekend celebrating Ruth's graduation (MA
in Urban Planning). We are very proud of her, and thankful for the opportunity
to meet some of her friends and professors. Sarah drove with Paul's
mother from Boston, so we had the extra bonus of seeing them too. We
plan to drive out west next week to visit Katie and Matt, staying with
former students and colleagues along the way. Our two other daughters
will fly out to meet us there for a long weekend together.
Prayer Request:
We have received the following requests from some of our former students
this past month:
—for complete healing for Matt (serving in SE Asia) from Hepatitis.
Please pray specifically that the Hep B viral count will go down.
—for Alison after a particularly emotional weekend visiting neighbors
who experienced a traumatic incident.
—for JW, perseverance and discipline in writing.
— for BL,on a 4-week trip which is mainly to obtain a visa platform
in a difficult-access country.
We would also appreciate your prayers for good family time with our
children in California, for safety in all our traveling, and for some
good restful time during the summer break for Paul.
Thanks for standing with us!
Under his Grace,
Christine and for Paul
DVD's of some of these local and global
ministries we support are in our library.
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