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On the Mission Field
ON THE MISSION FIELD: tIMBERVIEW MEMBERS
COLUMBIA: Bogota, FM VISA MINISTRIES
Jacob Grady, a short-term VISA missionary has been ministering in Bogota, Columbia since the fall of 2006. Please pray for him and the girls at the orphanage to feel at home and that each one’s needs’ will be met.
Tom and Sharon Murphy are planning a trip here in early November.
Our church can serve to minister in Bogotá in the following ways and are organized by priority:
1. Carpentry
2. Children’s ministry
3. Potential vocational skills
4. English skills
Mission teams are needed to work on construction for classrooms for interior work: Masonry, carpentry, framing with blocks, and tiling. Another mission at the orphanage would be for care, one-on-one time, VBS, and outings for children. Both teams can operate simultaneously. In January or February a team would be useful for outdoor construction doing concrete form work to get the 4th floor of the orphanage poured and children’s ministry work. The weather to complete this type of work is optimum at that time. Teams of 12-15 members would be ideal.
At the July 08 missions meeting, Jacob presented us with information regarding the need and potential for future mission teams. He explained that the demographics and target age group were displaced girls who had been sexually abused between the ages of 5 to 9 with a few exceptions existing. The orphanage currently houses 16 girls, but the house has room for 20. Jacob explained that attempting full custody of these children is a very long term process. The current children have been willing placed by a relative who retains visitation rights. In the long term Jacob sees the ministry as purchasing land outside of Bogotá and becoming a self-sustaining ranch type ministry.
ETHIOPIA: Arbegona, FM VISA MINISTRIES * The EDEN Projects
A division of Continental New Life International
Deforestation is a global environmental concern. However, in Third World Countries, it’s an immediate matter of life and death. In the last three years alone, an estimated 250,000 people have died of starvation in and around Ethiopia. In the last two years, with the help of Timberview members and the indigenous people, the goal was accomplished to do a planting of apple trees in the Awasa nursery and working on a well to provide irrigation for their productive growth. The fruit grown on these trees will become continuing sources of both food and revenue in addition to reversing ecological disaster, while breaking the cycle of poverty.
Future involvement: In the spring of 2009, Ken Thayer and a small crew will return to Ethiopia and continue supporting the above goals. Additional goals are to incorporate a water purification system and to help the people to gain larger profit margins for their Ethiopian grown coffee.
SOUTH AFRICA, Cape Town INDEPENDENT MINISTRY * YWAM (Youth With A Mission)
Andrea Newton has returned from South Africa the end of October 2008 due to an illness. She is continuing her studies at home. (an inductive study of the entire bible where they will go through and study the bible line by line in order to better equip her to teach church leaders in areas of the developing world where they do not have access or financial means to receive this type of training.)
Email Update: See below.
Website at: http://www.dirtonmyfeet.com/
Email at: dirtonmyfeet@live.com
Blog: http://www.dirtonmyfeet.com/www.dirtonmyfeet.com/my_blog/my_blog.html
PHILIPPINES: Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro INDEPENDENT MINISTRY * YWAM (Youth With A Mission)
Andrea Newton has completed her mini-medical school this August 08. She has been trained as a primary health care worker for the developing world. She is a full time missionary and she encourages you to see her latest newsletter highlighting some of her experiences and how she saw God working in the Philippines this summer! Check her website on the newsletter page.
Website at: http://www.dirtonmyfeet.com/
AFRICA: Cameroon, INDEPENDENT MINISTRY
Kumbo, NW Province, Cameroon: Norm, Terry and Eugene James are currently here doing a medical missions project. Norm is a surgeon working at the Banso Baptist Hospital and they all arrived there safely on August 18. See updates below. tenjjames@gmail.com
Natalie Luse returned from this internship in July 08. She stayed with the Abbott family who are stationed with the Baka pygmy tribe in Cameroon. She was a team member creating dramas and games to teach biblical truths to the Baka people. This is a church planting in the early stages of language development, evangelism and discipleship, using holistic approaches like medical aid, agricultural development, and literacy to reach the people. Email at: nluse@eagles.ewu.edu
India: Mumbai, INDEPENDENT MINISTRY
Don Hoener and CaRon Christenson attended the Asia Pacific mission congress August 8 - 23, 2008. They received training through workshops regarding missions in this area, collaborated with leaders in the area, and developed liaison relationships for future mission's activities. Following the conference they toured active FMC mission fields and traveled throughout India to become familiar with the most prevalent and active mission fields including a hostel, a hospital, a leadership training facility and several aids service centers. Additionally they used their teaching expertise in a day school in Andheri. Their specific purpose of the trip was to bring the what, when, and who of the Asia Pacific region back to Timberview to provide future productive mission opportunities.
GREECE: Athens,
INDEPENDENT MINISTRY * Hellenic Ministries
Jake Wadsworth, Justine Marcy and Doug Pettis have all returned from this mission trip in August 08. This camp offered a Christian camp experience for all age ranges of children and also included a refugee camp, a leadership camp, and camps for people from other countries. The hope of HM is that the camp will be a tool to bring young people to Christ, who can then go out and make an impact in Greece. In addition to the camp, Jake, Justine and Doug will be participated in “Operation Joshua”, an effort to get bibles into the hands of all Greek people. Greece is 98% Greek Orthodox and evangelical Christians and several other religions make up the other 2%. Justine states, “My experience at PA last summer, even though it was only two weeks, literally changed my life. There is something about this place that I have never experienced before; no electricity, running water, not even a road to get there. In the middle of 120 degree heat this place and this ministry is filled with people who are passionate to serve no matter what. To see the work the people are committed to and the way the Lord is moving was awesome!
Hellenic Ministries http://www.hmnet.org/
Doug Pettis dlpettis@gmail.com
Blog: pasadenadoug.blogspot.com
Jake Wadsworth jwad04@yahoo.com
Justine Marcy jmarcy07@gmail.com
NEWS FROM OUR MISSIONARIES (Current emails)
******** Oct. 2008 Andrea Has Returned from Capetown, South Africa:
Read what Andrea Newton has to say:
November 5, 2008
********* Cameroon, Africa: Read What the Jame's family has to say: November 11, 2008
hi everyone!!
i have updated my blog. you can view it by going to www.dirtonmyfeet.com and clicking on "my blog".
thank you so much for your prayers...my dad is now out of the hospital and cancer free! bwana asafiwe (praise God)!!
i will probably not be sending out blog update emails as frequently now that i am not overseas. i will be updating my blog periodically with what God is teaching me through this intensive bible study i am doing and with any news or plans that God brings forth..so if you are wanting to keep in the know.. you can check my website here and there!
thank you again for all of your prayers and support! it means more than you know!!
Just a quick update - things are going fine -- we're busy and well. Norm had a scalpel cut during a surgery on a pt who was HIV positive, so he has been taking drugs to prevent HIV which have a reputation for being very difficult to live with - PTL he is tolerating the drugs fine, with no apparent side effects! We also had the difficulty with our visa worked out - with a minimum of cost, so that is also an answer to prayer. Eugene is doing very well at school - most days he is doing his school work, and he is enjoying his three "chicks" - actually teenagers - he loves to feed, water, and search for grasses and fruits that they like!
yesterday, we took a 6 mile (one way) trip up to 7,000 ft mission vet station at TakWae (tock-we) -- I rode a "bike taxi" up - picked up Eugene half way there while Norm and our friend Hilary, a nurse from England, treked the rest of the way up (there are some incredible "downs" on the way also! We headed back about 4 pm -- thought we'd catch a taxi home, but we found no taxi or bike taxi to help, so we hiked all the way home!!! In the words of our neighbor here, "I thought I was going to die!!" -- I'd been having difficulties with my right hip, and some sciatic trouble with it -- but I seem to have "walked it out"!! My leg muscles were unhappy today, and I'm a bit stiff, but I really tolerated it well, considering I was leaning on Norm the last couple miles! The last part of the trip we did in the dark (it gets pitch black at 6:30 after the sun sets at 6), which was also an adventure!! Eugene had a great time - he was even singing the last mile!!! The first mile he collected and carried a pile of sticks!! When we got home, he unloaded his pockets, and I discovered he was carrying about 20 rocks!!!
It seems impossible that we're in the last 6 weeks of our time here -- we've only managed to touch the edges of the OR store room I'd hoped to get organised!! Norm will be busy this month - Dr Okorie leaves for his annual leave ( 1 mo here in Cameroon), so Norm's call will be every other day or so -- please pray his strength continues as he takes the ARV drugs!
I leave at 6:30 am to visit oone of the outlying clinics with a team tomorrow - it will be a busy time seeing patients - but I enjoy these trips to see the smaller health centers!
We pray the Lord is touching your lives - we see his work in so many ways here!! God bless -- Terri
Last Published: November 10, 2008 2:4 AM
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