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."

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

One Step Closer...

Rupees (Indian currency) 
It's so hard to believe that we leave in 6 days for India!  The time came up so quickly.  We just wanted to share that we all have our passports back with our India visa stickers adhered to one of the pages inside! Yay!  Team India GPS is a go!!

We are very thankful LORD for all the provisions You've supplied to make this trip happen.  We've had many obstacles and even some frustrations to overcome and we know that if it weren't for You, we wouldn't be able to get through them all like we have.  Thank you to all who have been praying for us, for the people of India, and for the ministry that we will be a part of over there.  Thank you all who have so unselfishly given of their financial resources to make this trip possible... and to those who may not have been able to give money, but were able to give us some items (like sports equipment & foodstuffs) to take to India that will help us interact with the young adult students and the children that we will encounter.

We have some prayer requests if you would like to know how to be praying for us:
-Mercy in our travels (for both departure teams --> on the 10th and 13th & our arrival on the 2nd).
-Health for each one of us... that our bodies would quickly acclimate to the new foods, the hot and muggy weather, and the pungent smells.  All of our senses will be on overload and we'll need God's strength to carry us through. 
-The students we will be teaching English to need copious amounts of wisdom to grasp the language in 7 weeks time! That's a feat that can only be accomplished with the one, true, active and living God! Please pray that we are effective in this process of helping them learn English so that they can attend and pass all their seminary classes & continue to spread the Gospel and plant churches in their hometowns.
-Blessed interactions with each person we meet along the way and for some long-lasting friendships to sprout from our time in India.

Thank you for covering the team in prayer.  Spiritually, India is very dark, comprising of about 80% of the population are Hindu and only 2.3% are Christian (Culture Smart! India. pg 11).  We will see idols everywhere we go... please pray that we would remain in constant prayer to fight Satan's grip on this country.

Thanks again... keep watch, we will try to update this blog as often as we can!
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