Team (from left): Chad Kohler, Natalie Kohler, Matt Carter, Sarah Carter, Jillian Moomaw, Pastor RAD, Sonia Spires, Jim Roe, Sue Peters, Jana Slater, Dave Slater, Pastor Tom Peters)
Picture in your mind a village of 4,000 people with no hospital, no adequate school facility, no sanitation, no t.v., no Internet connection. Now imagine hundreds of little kids running through the dusty roads, coughing, sneezing, their skins covered with sores, their bellies bloated from malnutrition, their hair turning orange, many of their Moms and Dads gone from AIDS.
Welcome to PAMA, Central Africa Republic, where our young adult team will be serving from July 31-August 17.
The reason this trip is so important is that it will be the first team we are sending to the actual village our church is partnering with in this three year partnership that we started this year. Our goal is to be Christ's light in the midst of a place covered to despair as thick as the red dust that sticks to your body in that part of the world. We go as servants of the Risen Lord to bring the hope of Christ into the lives of "the least of these."
Would you pray for our team?
That God will protect them and give them complete unity as a team;
That they will not hesitate to serve the people of the village of PAMA and go out of their way to bless them;
That the weather will cooperate so they can finish the school building in the village;
That God will change their lives in a radical way for the Kingdom and that it will reverberate throughout our whole church;
That relationships will be built that will result in people coming to Christ.
Over the next several weeks, I will be posting entries in this blog. I hope you will check in daily, but please, don't be disappointed if you don't find something new every time. Remember the description of the village above. I can only put in what the team sends me and they are relying on a satellite phone, and will be very busy. They have, however, been warned, to send those stories daily, or else... Smile!
Pastor Ivanildo Trindade
Welcome to PAMA, Central Africa Republic, where our young adult team will be serving from July 31-August 17.
The reason this trip is so important is that it will be the first team we are sending to the actual village our church is partnering with in this three year partnership that we started this year. Our goal is to be Christ's light in the midst of a place covered to despair as thick as the red dust that sticks to your body in that part of the world. We go as servants of the Risen Lord to bring the hope of Christ into the lives of "the least of these."
Would you pray for our team?
That God will protect them and give them complete unity as a team;
That they will not hesitate to serve the people of the village of PAMA and go out of their way to bless them;
That the weather will cooperate so they can finish the school building in the village;
That God will change their lives in a radical way for the Kingdom and that it will reverberate throughout our whole church;
That relationships will be built that will result in people coming to Christ.
Over the next several weeks, I will be posting entries in this blog. I hope you will check in daily, but please, don't be disappointed if you don't find something new every time. Remember the description of the village above. I can only put in what the team sends me and they are relying on a satellite phone, and will be very busy. They have, however, been warned, to send those stories daily, or else... Smile!
Pastor Ivanildo Trindade
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