We recently opened the Common Grounds Café on January 22. The purpose of this coffee shop is to provide an innovative way to fund ministry in Southeast Asia and to create further ministry opportunities. In starting the café, 20 local Khmer people were hired: cooks, cleaners, waiters, and cashiers.
The Asian Seminary of Christian Ministries (ASCM) recently had a retreat at the Rizal Re-Creation Center. The relaxing atmosphere and sumptuous food was a welcomed treat, but the real blessing was the way the Lord weaved the messages together to create continuity and flow, as if the speakers had discussed their messages with each other prior to the retreat.
Lee University chose the Hogar Agape orphanage in Nicaragua as their Missions Week project. In December 2007, several students had the opportunity to visit Nicaragua. The following is one student’s account of the trip:
Kathy and I thank you for your prayers during this time of transition. In many ways, moving to Manaus has been like starting all over again, and bears many similarities to 1984 when we first arrived in Brazil.
(A recent testimony from Church of God missionaries Neil and Jennifer Lawrence)
The Lord of the Harvest has given us this time to push forward into the fields which are ripe. Now is not the time to shrink back from the plow; it is the time to press forward and win the prize. Kenya is a country on the edge of the 10/40 window that is about 7 percent Muslim.
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TURKEY — My first stop was the home of my friend and dear brother Hal. While there, we prayed together and visited with his family. The most remarkable event of my visit was an encounter with Hal’s sister-in-law.
