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… to equip God’s people to do His work and build up the church, the Body of Christ. Ephesians 4:12
Emmanuel Bible School, South India is a three-day in-house training program for rural Pastors who have never been to seminaries, have had no formal biblical training or have attended any pastoral conferences due to lack of financial resources. The only literature in their possession is a Tamil language Bible. Boarding, lodging and transportation costs for the Pastors along with the notes and other study materials are provided free of charge.
Rev Sunil Noah started this ministry in 2005 with a vision to strengthen the rural churches in South India. He is also the lead Pastor of Zion Indian Church at Austin, TX. He has planted churches in India, New Zealand, Michigan and now in Austin.
Pastor Sunil will be in South India from SEPTEMBER 13-30, 2010 to train about 300 pastors at three different locations in Madurai, Tiruvanamalai & Thoraipakkam in the State of Tamil Nadu, South India.
Since January 2005, Rev Sunil Noah has trained and equipped 1010 Pastors at eight centers in the State of Tamil Nadu, South India (Thiruvellore, Kancheepuram, Vellore, Padapai, Chengelpet, Coimbatore, Tirupur, Gobichettipalayam & Salem). Trained leaders have gone on to plant new churches.
If you or your church would like to make a financial contribution to this ministry please contact Pastor Sunil at 512-772-3795 or mail contribution to Zion Indian Church; 9501 North FM 620, Apt.#12208; Austin, TX 78726 Ministry teams are also invited to travel with Pastor Sunil. For more details, please contact Sunil Noah at 512 772 3795 sunilnoah@gmail.com.
Church Planting Partnership Opportunity
The Pathway is a brand new church plant just south of Seattle in Tacoma, WA. Centered on the gospel of Jesus and expressed primarily through Community Groups, The Pathway is seeing God's grace change lives for His glory. In order for any church plant to survive, thrive and multiply in a significantly unchurched culture like the Pacific Northwest they need committed partners to walk with them through the process.
Bobby & Kelli Higginbotham, North American Mission Board missionaries, and their family will be in the Williamson County area October 16-25, 2010 sharing about what God is doing in Tacoma. If you are seriously interested in exploring a church planting partnership in the Northwest, they would love to visit with you and your church.
For more information, contact Bobby Higginbotham at: (425) 478-6628
Are you aware that you could have a “real live missionary” speak in your church and share what God is doing in the “ends of the earth”?
The Events team of the International Mission Board would like you to know that there are several international missionaries who are, or will be, stateside in Texas throughout 2010 and available to speak in churches.
Here’s how it works:
First 5th Sunday World Hunger Day!
In Conjunction with Texas Hope 2010, the World Hunger Offering is asking that churches remember the offering during months that contain 5 Sundays.
October 31, 2010 Many advocates are needed for the state of Texas. Advocates will be contacting churches in the area to offer help with offering promotion, materials, help build database of who is promoting the offering in the churches, etc. If you know of someone you feel would have a heart for hunger ministry in your area, please contact Joyce Gilbreath at 214-828-5172 or Joyce.Gilbreath@bgct.org
The new, reusable Texas-Shaped World Hunger Banks are now available. Please contact Joyce Gilbreath and let her know many you will need.
Paperback Book Donations Needed
The Williamson County Jail is in need of Christian paperback books for its library on an ongoing basis. The prisoners do a lot of reading and the books they have do not last too long before needing replacement. The books must be Paperback.
If your church or church group would like to participate in collecting paperback books for the prisons, please contact: Tom Whorton 512-863-2736
Lori Cline
The Kitchen Magician will give 10% of the total love offering collected to a hunger relief ministry. If your church or church-related organization supports a hunger relief ministry on a regular basis then the 10% will go towards that ministry. This could be anything from a local Christian-based food pantry (even your own church's food pantry) or another ministry that exists to support the relief of hunger in Central Texas. If you do not have a ministry that you support, then the 10% will go towards a ministry of The Kitchen Magician's choosing.
For more information about the Ministry: How It Started; How It Works and Sample Menu Ideas
Of Williamson County
Your Church Can Help
Habitat for Humanity provides their construction crew with a meal on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday build days. Would your church help them honor their efforts by providing one of these meals? It’s a great opportunity for our community to support the volunteers who give of their time to build homes for deserving families.
Food providers traditionally provide an entrée, a side item and a dessert. Habitat provides drinks and paper products, so all you have to do is provide the food. Volunteers are happy to have something as simple as sandwiches, chips and cookies. It is up to you to decide the menu. You can deliver your meal to the build site and help serve volunteers or the lunch donation can be picked up and delivered to the site.
If you believe your church would be willing to support this mission with a lunch donation, please consider running the following in your weekly bulletin or newsletter.
Help Habitat for Humanity of Williamson County support volunteers. Would your Sunday school class, small group, prayer circle, or youth group be willing to provide lunch to Habitat construction volunteers on Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday?
Please contact Patricia at 512-863-4344 or email Patricia@williamsonhabitat.org for more information.
The Burma Connection A Unique Mission-Based Opportunity Reed Iwami and Gary Watkins, of Crestview Baptist Church in Georgetown, Texas have just returned from their fifth journey in two years to the Burma/Thailand area. They are prepared to share not only their personal stories, but to discuss the varied ways – orphanages, neighborhood Christian schools, mission trips, micro finance programs, refugee assistance – in which any church or church member can participate in an incredibly rewarding mission-based experience. Reed and Gary’s passion for helping the Burmese has led them to create a unique mission strategy that combines the business innovation of their for-profit company, World Wed Resources, with their non-profit 501 organization, The Burma Connection. It is their intent to help fund the humanitarian work with the net profits from their web service-related business. You can help in at least two ways:
If your church is looking for a unique mission-base opportunity, working with The Burma Connection and World Web Resources is a worthy consideration. 866.310.5730 (toll free) Reed Iwami: reed@theburmaconnection.org 512.630.3620 (cell phone) Gary Watkins: gary@theburmaconnection.org 512.413.5062 (cell phone)
Host families wanted for international students! Impact the world from right in your own home. Host families can be single or married with young children, no children, teenagers, grown children or grandchildren! Anyone willing to open their heart and home to a student can make a wonderful host family! Short term and long term students are arriving in August and host families are needed now! For more information contact Jayne Allen at 512-215-9720, info@hostAstudent.Info or visit our website at: www.HostAStudent.Info.
Note: there are many different ways you can help exchange students other than hosting - so, if it's in your heart to work with an exchange student, but you can't house one at this time, we still welcome your loving assistance.
The Teen Challenge program is successful in assisting individuals find freedom from addiction, assist in restoring broken relationships and rebuild the individuals self esteem. Graduates of Teen Challenge are living lives free from addiction, are attending church and are gainfully employed. Teen Challenge is a place where hope is born.
The trophies of grace are the men and women’s choir from San Antonio Teen Challenge. They travel to different churches and share the ministry of Teen Challenge through songs and testimonies. The students sing and share their personal testimonies of the saving grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ. The 30–40 minute service allows them the opportunity to tell about the ministry and to minister to the members of congregations who may have been affected by the drug epidemic.
If you would be interested in having one of the Teen Challenge choirs minister to your congregation, please call Nikki Hillen, choir director, at 210.624.3423.
The Volunteers Organizations Assisting in Disaster Needs Your Help! The VOAD is a network of religious and other non-profit organizations that are prepared to participate in relief efforts that might be needed in case of natural disaster. VOAD works in conjunction with Williamson County, FEMA and the American Red Cross by providing a list of contact names/churches/ organizations willing to volunteer as ‘first responders’ to help those with immediate and long-term needs as a result of declared disasters in our community and surrounding counties.
In the short term, members typically have an ability to provide temporary parking and staging areas, temporary shelter, services or supplies. Long term assistance is usually in the form of case management, help with rebuilding or supplies.
The VOAD is looking for a three (3) year commitment from faith based organizations that are willing to commit resources (personnel, funds or equipment) to meet the needs of people affected by disaster, without regard to race, creed, gender or age. A list of help and helpers, in each and every corner of Williamson County, is currently being constructed into one database. If you, your church or non-profit organization is interested in becoming a VOAD volunteer,
Contact Jim Rowan at Central Baptist Church, Round Rock; (512) 388-3408 or email Jim@centralbaptist. org
An Opportunity to Serve in Romania Following a mission trip to Romania, Stan Ray and his wife established a non-profit charity, Emanuel Agriculture Development, for the purpose of supporting the ministry of a private Christian University in Oradea, Romania. Their objective is to establish a formal college-level agribusiness and economic development program to help the Romanian people prosper in the free market economy. By teaching modern business principles and practices, but in the context of agriculture, people in rural communities throughout Romania will learn how to establish commercially-viable farming operations that provide economic stability and prosperity for their families, their communities and their country. They are currently seeking opportunities to meet with potential sponsors as well as those interested in traveling to Romania to share their agribusiness expertise. If you would like to be involved, you may contact Stan Ray at sray@agdevelopment.org or visit their website at www.agdevelopment.org.
and The Restorative Justice Ministries of North America Welcome Back Ministry connects the men and women released from prison as well as their families with churches across Texas and the United States. Every year this ministry impacts about 50,000 of the70,000 men and women released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Over the past years, it has been discovered that out of the nearly 150 men released daily from the Huntsville prison, less than 10 are connected with a local church. As volunteers meet daily with these families, they are discovering that many are willing to give a local church a chance and others are willing to start some type of Bible study group in their homes.
Click here for Volunteer Registration Form
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Vince Rowe is with Outreach Event Ministries. He and his family have served as missionaries for the past four years in New England with the North American Mission Board and the Baptist Convention of New England serving as church planters, evangelists, consultants, and evangelism trainers. Their specialty is helping churches engage the community around them through event based evangelism by providing evangelism training, event planning, assimilation training and assistance. For assistance with:
You may contact Vice Rowe at www.OutreachEventMinistries.com or by email at Vince@OutreachEventMinistries.com
TRANSFORMING APARTMENT LIVING THROUGH CHRISTIAN MINISTRY Apartment Life - You bring a heart for your neighbors.....we provide the apartment Apartment Life is a simple yet powerful and scalable strategy for reaching apartment communities for Christ. Apartment Life partners with apartment owners and local churches to place CARES Teams into apartment communities to help management build a sense of community and serve residents. CARES Teams are provided a rent-free apartment and are responsible for welcoming new residents, planning social functions and being available in times of special need for the staff and residents. These activities position CARES Teams as the "hub" of community life and provide the platform for building spiritual relationships, sharing the gospel and connecting residents to the church. CARES is many things, but the bottom line is that it is an opportunity for lives to be changed. Do you have a passion for building authentic community and sharing the love of Christ with your neighbors? Apartment Life provides free apartments for CARES Teams (married couple or two single adults) to do just that! Select communities near our church and across the city are waiting for teams. Visit http://www.caresteam.org/ for more details and to begin the process toward a life-transforming experience.
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