Dear Friends and Family,
I pray that you are all doing well. Two years ago my church started on a journey towards partnering with the Evangelical Free Church of Congo. We sent a team to do a vision trip. After hearing what the team came back with, I was excited to see if there was a way I could help partner with the Congo Free Church. After praying about it with Tomina I felt like God was giving me the green light to go. Now all I needed was a reason to go. Well, I talked with the leaders of the Congo trip this coming April. There is an opportunity for me and one other youth pastor to meet and partner with the director over youth ministry in the Congolese Free Church. We would be going over there to learn the culture, assess the ministry that they are doing there, and then work with the director to think of ways to do ministry more effectively in the Congo. We are not going over there to tell them how to do ministry. We are going to partner with them as fresh eyes to look and come up with a plan together. This is exciting to me. The trip is from April 25th – May 10th 2009.
There are two big hurdles at this point. The first of which in God’s economy is not that big. The cost of the trip is going to be about $5,000. This will include everything I would need, but it is an amount that is bigger than my family has. Please prayerfully consider partnering with me as I partner with the Congolese Free Church. If you want to give to this ministry opportunity you can send a tax deductible check to Elim Evangelical Free Church, 9421 128th St E, Puyallup WA 98373. The second hurdle is, this is a big scary trip for me. I am away from my wife and my two little girls. I know that God has opened the door for me to go. I just need a team to support me in prayer. If you are willing to be a prayer partner please email me at bsharpe@elimefc.org. I would love to be able to update you so that you know exactly how to pray. Thank you for your time. I look forward to partnering with you as we partner with the Congolese Free Church. I thank God that he has placed so many people in my life all over the country that are such an encouragement to me.
In Him,
Brian Sharpe
UPDATED INFORMATION
To this date God has provided $2000 of the $5000 that I need.
The trip dates have been changed because we cannot fly into Kinshasa Congo. Now we have to fly into the Central African Republic. The dates are from April21-May 8th.
The training we will be doing for youth workers will be in large group sessions. They leader of the youth workers said we could have more than 800 youth workers we will be training. Doing the training will be myself, another youth pastor and one of his college students. This is CRAZY please keep myself and the other youth workers that are going to do the training.
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