Extra! Extra!! Read All About It! Missions is Happening ALL OVER
MONTGOMERY!
What a summer it has been!
To God be the Glory for seeds planted not only through our local
churches neighborhood outreaches but through those who “came to” Montgomery to
serve.
*Sister churches from all over the United States partnered
with MBA local ministries sharing the gospel through word and deed.
*Summer missionaries Clint Knight (Eastern Hills)and
Angelique Hilliard (Gateway)worked hard at Community of Hope and Forest Park
Ministry Center sharing with kids and their families. They are now preparing to
go back to college this fall with a different view of their city!
* The Mixteco Task Force heard from two missionaries from
Mexico who work with this people group there, in fact, they work in the area
that most of our Montgomery Mixteco’s are from. New direction and vision for
that outreach is forming. More to come later….
Jesus continues to work in the lives of so many hurting
people. Despite high crime rates and other issues greater Montgomery faces
every day, God keeps working in the hearts of individuals across our great area
through Christians who are open and willing to serve and love the way Christ
loves us.
One project that I would like to highlight is our Mission
Serve Week, July 20-27th. Mission Serve is a group out of GA that brings
together churches from all over the U.S. to work on local mission projects both
in construction and ministry. Two churches from North Carolina and Phenix City,
AL came to work that week! They worked not only with Forest Park Ministry but some of our partners such as Community of Hope, Family Promise, Urban
Trec, Friendship Women’s Shelter and Inner City Evangelism. They did block parties,
Backyard Bible Clubs, pizza and hot dog cookouts, cleaning, painting and sorted
donated clothing. We are so grateful they came to work alongside the ministries
here.
I want to thank in particular our LOCAL churches for hosting
them, feeding them and praying for them. Here are the MBA churches who stepped
in and did a GREAT job showing GREAT hospitality!
THANK YOU to theses churches
for contributing lunches and snacks
Capitol Heights Baptist
Church, Dalraida Baptist Church, Eastern Hills Baptist Church, Eastmont Baptist
Church , First Baptist Church , Gateway Baptist Church , Heritage Baptist
Church , McGehee Road Baptist Church , Mt. Zion Baptist Church , Snowdoun
Baptist Church.
A BIG thank you to Ridgecrest
Baptist Church for housing and hosting these teams!
Thanks also to individual
volunteers from Gateway, Ridgecrest and Eastern Hills for transportation,
serving meals on the weekend and running errands!
Thank you most of all to
Sharon Myers who organized and prepared our churches for their arrival!
Looking forward to seeing how
Christ will work in the Greater Montgomery area this fall through YOU and I as
we continue to open ourselves up to service.
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