Please be in prayer as I prepare to travel to Beirut, Lebanon April 26 - May 2 to work with Camille Melki and the Heart for Lebanon staff as they minister to Iraqi refugees, victims of the 2006 war in Lebanon and other needy people groups in Beirut.
I will be traveling with Rev. Bob Moss, the Sr. Pastor of Salem Church of God, Dayton, Ohio. Many of you will remember Bob as our former State Minister here at Indiana Ministries. Bob has a long-standing ministry with Heart for Lebanon and at the Mediterranean Bible College in Beirut. We will be going with some specific purposes and goals in mind:
1) To help me connect with the ongoing ministry of Heart for Lebanon and return home as an advocate for the ministry and needs they are facing in Lebanon. Some of you know that I attended college with Camille Melki and have known him for many years. I have been burdened to connect with the significant needs he and his staff are meeting and facing as they carry out the Great Commission in a difficult part of the world!
2) We will spend a couple of days teaching and ministering to the Heart for Lebanon staff. We hope to encourage, refresh and edify them as they carry out the important work they are doing each day in Beirut. Please pray that we will have wisdom to know how we can best teach and encourage them during these sessions!
3) To help me learn and understand the unique challenges and opportunities of doing mission work in this part of the world. I hope to bring mission teams back to Beirut in the future and I hope to learn the best practices in preparing and leading teams in the Middle-East countries.
4) Please pray that God will use this trip to instruct and inspire me as I carry out my leadership and ministry at Mooresville Church of God! I have sensed God's leading to be a part of this trip and I know if God is in this that He will use it to challenge and change me in ways that will benefit the work and ministry He has called me to lead right here in Mooresville!
Thanks in advance for your prayers for a productive and powerful experience as we minister and serve in Beirut! I deeply appreciate all of you and your partnership with me in this mission endeavor!
In His Grip,
Pastor John
I will be traveling with Rev. Bob Moss, the Sr. Pastor of Salem Church of God, Dayton, Ohio. Many of you will remember Bob as our former State Minister here at Indiana Ministries. Bob has a long-standing ministry with Heart for Lebanon and at the Mediterranean Bible College in Beirut. We will be going with some specific purposes and goals in mind:
1) To help me connect with the ongoing ministry of Heart for Lebanon and return home as an advocate for the ministry and needs they are facing in Lebanon. Some of you know that I attended college with Camille Melki and have known him for many years. I have been burdened to connect with the significant needs he and his staff are meeting and facing as they carry out the Great Commission in a difficult part of the world!
2) We will spend a couple of days teaching and ministering to the Heart for Lebanon staff. We hope to encourage, refresh and edify them as they carry out the important work they are doing each day in Beirut. Please pray that we will have wisdom to know how we can best teach and encourage them during these sessions!
3) To help me learn and understand the unique challenges and opportunities of doing mission work in this part of the world. I hope to bring mission teams back to Beirut in the future and I hope to learn the best practices in preparing and leading teams in the Middle-East countries.
4) Please pray that God will use this trip to instruct and inspire me as I carry out my leadership and ministry at Mooresville Church of God! I have sensed God's leading to be a part of this trip and I know if God is in this that He will use it to challenge and change me in ways that will benefit the work and ministry He has called me to lead right here in Mooresville!
Thanks in advance for your prayers for a productive and powerful experience as we minister and serve in Beirut! I deeply appreciate all of you and your partnership with me in this mission endeavor!
In His Grip,
Pastor John
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