The Mission Team met together on August 16. We had the opportunity to hear Brittney Fallon, a college student from MVBC, tell us about her short term mission trip to Eastern Asia. She went with Campus Crusade for Christ this past summer. They went with the purpose of making connections with other college students and sharing the Gospel. The teams went to a number of universities and spent time with students in a number of different setting. Brittney got to see God's hand of blessing in amazing ways. We hope to have her be a guest blogger soon so check back to see more of her amazing story.
Pastor Hector sent pictures and gave reports on the Hermosillo youth taking a mission trip to Nayarit. This past summer we collected money to send to Pastor Hector to replace the front door of the church as it finally bit the dust. See the picture on the blog. Our goal was $500 and we raised $512, mostly from our kids and change jars. The cost of wiring the money is just over $10. Praise God. I will post pictures of the new door when we get them!
The Steel family also sent us an update and told us of their new responsibilities including training new missionaries, running the missionary guest house, plus all of the administrative stuff for New Tribes Mission in Paraguay. Their daughter Laura is a junior in high school and turned 16 August 12. Their son Derek is at Camp Redcloud in Colorado as missionary staff. Their son Ryan is in Wisconsin and considering going back to school for engineering. They ask for prayer for a new missionary couple arriving in Paraguay soon. Their was some problems with the gentleman's paperwork.
The Harrisses, Don and Lois, have changed mission boards to a more fundamentalist, separatist group and we will no longer be providing them support. September is our last month of support-please pray that they will find other like minded churches to support them. They are back in Argentina and doing well.
The Wilsons are assisting a Hispanic church in west Phoenix that lost their pastor. He has been preaching there for over a month and he and Ruth have been discipling people there all summer long. He is getting antsy to start the Spanish service here at MVBC and we are praying that all of the pieces will come together to start this service in mid-October. We also will re-starting ESL in late September.
Lastly we talked about how we could let people know the amazing things that God is doing in our midst. Should we send a letter? Should we make videos to show in the lobby? Should we have announcements in church? Should we use e-mails? Should we use phone calls? What do you think? This blog was started as a result of that discussion. We look forward to you comments and other posts by guest bloggers God bless you as you seek to serve Christ and the people He puts in your life.
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