Kids Kamp
Posted by brad in Association Team on June 16th, 2009
This week the Association Team is at Kids Kamp at Webster Conference Center in Salina. This 4th-6th grade camp includes churches from three associations.
The interns won’t spend time teaching this week, except for teaching the moves to the silly songs they’ll sing. However, they will spend a great deal of their time building relationships with the kids, and looking for opportunities to love and encourage.
Pray for endurance, as the interns have many long and hot days ahead. Pray for God to open the hearts of the kids, and adults, so that he can do his work in their lives.
VBSing!!!! woohoo!!!
Posted by victoriahilen in Hispanic Team on June 13th, 2009
So there’s this huge group (49 people) that came to Iglesia Bautista Buenas Nuevas, Good News Baptist Church, that have not only taught the children of the community that Jesus loves them, but used their lives to do so as well. I’ve been interpreting like crazy all over the place and have seen how God is using each person’s individual testimony to impact the children.
This morning I helped one of the team leaders present the plan of salvation to two boys who had gotten there early… let me tell you he gave it to them straight up, when one of them turned away a bit disturbed and looking ready to cry. The message had gone through alright, now we’re just waiting for the Spirit to finish convincing that boy of Who he needs.
Next week we’ll have another VBS and I can only hope and pray that God brings another group as intense as this one. That’s what the Planeview community needs… intense people, ready to go all out for God.
Our Story with God
Posted by brad in Association Team on June 10th, 2009
Beginning this week, the Association Team will be working through Listen to My Life together. The work required in going through this workbook, and sharing our life stories together, will hopefully bring a better understanding of how God is directing our life, and the special ways which God has made us. The exercises include working through different “maps” that help us to examine “My Life Now” and “My Life Story.”
When I was in seminary I worked through Robert Clinton’s, The Making of a Leader. Because Clinton was an engineer, his approach to looking at our life story resembled more of a machine schematics than a map. Still, the exercise was valuable. Some of my classmates went through the Listen to My Life workbook together, and recommended it.
Please pray for the interns and me as we explore how God has made us, how God has used us, and how He is using those two things to guide us towards what he has in store for us.
indescribable beauty… amazing grace
Posted by victoriahilen in Hispanic Team on June 8th, 2009
It feels as though I was born just today… When going into the ministry one has plans of reforming at least their whole country, and then the world, for Jesus. What I have lived these few weeks in Kansas has shattered my own point of view as far as that, and more or less rearranged my cosmovision regarding evangelizing.
We’re helping Dani Diaz, former seminary classmate, evangelize in the Planeview area and had all but given up when today Hadis told me that the membership at his church seems to be expanding. It’s amazing how the Lord has used a former “metalhead” (I use the term loosely), whom Dani told he was going straight to Hell if he didn’t change soon, to bring in another family who has become a treasure in my heart. As of today i see that the world can only be won for Jesus one heart at a time.
God’s Good Work
Posted by Cody in Association Team on June 4th, 2009
The past two days we have been walking around neighborhoods promoting Victory Baptist Church and telling them about Christ. Yesterday we led 3 people to Christ and had a lot of good converstations with people and today we spread the good news even more. We are very blessed to have Eva and Tatyana in our group. They had to talk in Spanish all day, because most of the community is Hispanic.
Keep us all in your prayers. God is doing some great work right now.
Hello!
Posted by tatyana in Association Team on June 4th, 2009
Hi this is Tatyana Cristobal. I’m working with the Association Team. It’s been a great experience and I know God will bless our time serving him even more! It’s been a blessing being able to use my Spanish to speak to the Spanish inhabitants of the areas we are handing out fliers for Victory Baptist.
Our fearless leader at the time is Loren Phippen. He is a great person. He has taught me many things in these past 3 days, like the Evangecube, and how to share the Gospel in a variety of ways door to door.
Starting Out
Posted by brad in Association Team on June 3rd, 2009
Even though the Association Intern Team has been in Wichita since Friday, Monday was their first day at work. Saturday night they gathered with the Hispanic Team and the HOKSBA staff for dinner at Loren Phippen’s house.
On Monday, Loren spent about three hours with the interns going through personal evangelism techniques, and having each one share their testimony. No evangelism training with Loren would be complete without the Evangecube.
After lunch Loren took the team over to Victory Baptist Community of Faith where the team handed out fliers and invited neighborhood kids to Victory’s Vacation Bible School next week.
In the coming days, the interns will share stories from what has been happening.
Over the Rainbow
Posted by brad in Association Team, Aviator Team, Hispanic Team on May 20th, 2009
We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of those who will be serving in the Heart of Kansas this summer. Over a dozen high school and college students from Wichita, and a half a dozen other states will be arriving in the next couple of weeks. We have made plans for these students, but only God knows what the summer really holds. There will be three different teams of interns serving in the Heart of Kansas this summer.
The first team is made up of four Sojourners (high school seniors or graduates) and one college student that will be working with many different churches assisting with Vacation Bible School’s. They will also spend time working in our Good Neighbor Center’s and one week at Kids Kamp in Salina.
The second team consists of four Hispanic students from Rio Grande Bible Institute. These students will be working alongside Abraham Arevalo, our Hispanic Church Planter Strategist.
The third team is made up of nine college students, local and from across the country, that will primarily be working with Aviator Church.
Besides these teams, nearly 30 different groups will be coming to the Heart of Kansas for mission trips this summer. These teams from Arkansas and Mississippi will be working with church plants and existing churches.
There’s lots going on this summer, and we would appreciate your prayers as we join God in what he is planning to do.
