Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Below is an email from Robert and Emily, who are in England this week on a trip (written by Emily):
I had a few minutes this morning so I thought I would let you know how things are going. We got here Saturday morning and neither of us were able to sleep on the plane, but we were able to take short naps in the middle of the day, which allowed us to stay up until that night and get into their time. We were supposed to have a lunch and prayer time on Saturday with some people from the church, but somehow we were not informed that it was canceled, so instead we spent the day with the Adair family.
We went to see Cliff College, where Sean (Adair, the pastor there), Allison (his wife) and Allison's dad went to college ...
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Posted by Abbey Daniels
Monday, May 23, 2011
We had a great night of prayer last night for the local missions ministries going on in our church, and for those that we might start up in the near future!
If you have any questions, ideas, or want to get involved, please contact me (Abbey - ).
If you missed it, please join us in prayer now. We focused on these ministries/categories:
Chin Refugee Ministry
Baby supplies ministry (diapers, etc.) needs a leader!
Organization of donations to CRM
Chin/American relationships to develop
Volunteers for one-time or ongoing mentor relationships
The Chin church in Lewisville – leadership, direction
Children entering schools (and parents enrolling them)
Chin remaining in Burma under persecution
Feed My Starving ...
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Posted by Abbey Daniels
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Need odd jobs done around your house, office, yard, etc.?Need help raising funds for a mission trip? The First Church Missions Job Pool will connect youth and college students who would like to raise funds for trips with people around the church that would like to support missions while also having much-needed work done, such as: - Lawn care/landscaping- Babysitting- House-sitting- Painting a room- Dog walking- House cleaning- Minor repairs- Ride to the airport/auto shop- Get creative!If you are interested in doing work for members of our congregation with funds going into your missions account, OR if you have work to be done and would like to do it at a probably-less-than-professional cost while supporting missions, please contact ...
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Posted by Abbey Daniels
Monday, April 4, 2011
We are going to be meeting with Becky Nelson with World Relief next Tuesday evening (April 12) at 6:30pm.
We will be starting to work with the refugee services organization in the Lewisville area. They assist people, generally Chin people from Burma, who are relocated to Lewisville as refugees.
I would encourage everyone (everyone!) to consider becoming a part of this ministry. This is a perfect example of "glocal" missions - global missions in our own backyard. These people are the poor and the aliens among us that we are commanded so many times in the Bible to welcome.
Attending this meeting does not commit you to join this ministry! Come and find out how we can be involved.
Another thing I can't help but mention is that our church ...
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Posted by Abbey Daniels
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
This week we have FOUR different groups going to FOUR different continents on mission trips from First Church.
A group will be going to London to do some children's, youth, and adult ministry there and to investigate how to be involved in the future with our youth.
A group will be going to Cambodia to dedicate the new church building that we were able to fund as a bonus from the funds left over from the O'Khmom building!
A group will be going to Colombia to minister to the street kids there and to help with the ongoing ministry in Bogota.
And a group will be going to Cape Town, South Africa, to visit ministry partners and to see how to be involved in hunger relief ministry in the future.
If you ARE NOT going on one of these ...
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Posted by Abbey Daniels
Keywords: trips, colombia, england, cambodia, south africa
