The Gathering, EFCC @ India: June 2012

Mission

This summer, a handful of young adults from EFCC will be leaving San Diego and heading to the Andhra Pradesh province of India for a three-week, short-term project in July. While there, we will be helping an Indian organization by way of teaching English to college students on campus. These students have joined church planting teams so they can go out all across India to plant churches and assist in certain needs of many different communities (social work). In the first year, the students (called Freshers) come to campus for two months to learn English (by the way, all of their classes are taught only in English), and take other Christian courses as well (i.e., Spiritual Development, Penteteuch, Discipleship, SMS- research & citation, etc). If, after four years, they pass all their classes they will graduate with a degree in either theology or in Christian Studies which will help them in their church planting ventures.

Mark 16:15-- He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."

Friday, June 8, 2012

We've got tickets!

Praise the Lord! We finally purchased tickets on Tuesday... our next biggest hurdle is getting our Visas. We need to mail in our passports in order for us to get our Visas. It could take 2-3 weeks before we have them back in our little hands. Which would be right before we leave for India... nothing like cutting it close! We know it is God that has provided so far and will continue to so...

Just wanted to share with you that there was a two day church garage sale where all the proceeds from the sales were divided up amongst the high school, college, and post-college summer mission teams. We still need to raise an additional $4000 in less than 5 weeks to meet our goal. If you feel so led to give to our team please follow this link: India GPS for online giving. Please continue to pray that all the details are worked out for our trip, that our hearts would be focused on God, that we would be culturally sensitive to others in India and whoever else we may encounter along the way. Please pray for safety and our health during our stay (hopefully no one has any tummy issues) and that we would be able to bless the Dalit children when we interact with them. Please also pray that we can hit the ground running and that we would not be affected by jet lag.

Thank you for praying...