Across the World is our month-to-month rundown of stories briefs, hyperlinks and quotes from Church buildings of Christ everywhere in the globe. Bought an concept for this column? Electronic mail Erik Tryggestad at [email protected].
Featured picture (above): Residents of Ton Pao, Thailand, stand exterior their flooded dwelling.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
NEYBA — Political unrest and gang violence make mission work in Haiti unsure as of late, so a crew from Alabama-based Liberté Ministries, which has labored with Church buildings of Christ in Haiti since 2010, traveled as a substitute to the nation subsequent door, the Dominican Republic. There, 13 U.S. church members helped full buildings for church buildings in Neyba and Postrer Rio, which meet close to rising communities of Haitian refugees. The crew additionally constructed 40 pews to be used within the buildings.
The journey “stands out as the starting of a big growth within the Haitian ministry,” stated Arvy Dupuy of Liberté Ministries. “Dominican church buildings on this space have invited us to assist them set up new locations of worship for Haitian and for bilingual congregations.”
Employees with Liberté Ministries worship with fellow Christians within the Dominican Republic.
ISRAEL
JERUSALEM — Within the midst of rocket assaults and brutal conflicts on a number of fronts, a rooftop gathering within the Holy Land could not look like a good suggestion.
However members of Netivyah, a ministry for Jewish followers of Jesus, didn’t let the warfare hold them from observing Sukkot, the Pageant of Cubicles. The seven-day pageant commemorates the Exodus, when the Israelites lived in tents. Netivyah members constructed a succah (a short lived hut) on prime of the ministry’s constructing.
“My boys and I slept within the succah,” stated workplace supervisor Daniel Stern, and “the congregation had 80 individuals for the night celebration and 150 individuals on Saturday morning within the succah on the roof.”
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NEW ZEALAND
Rotorua — About 30 Christians from New Zealand, Australia and nations across the globe participated within the annual Males’s Problem. Longtime Australian minister Stuart Penhall taught classes “on how God makes use of damaged, imperfect males to attain his will,” stated Johnathon Atchley, a member of the Otumoetai Church of Christ in Tauranga, New Zealand.
Geoff Fairest has organized the camp since 2008. “It’s a time after we can come collectively to share the blessings and struggles that God has allowed us to expertise within the 12 months simply handed,” he stated, “and to encourage each other to battle the nice battle for the 12 months forward. We wish God to vary us in order that we will exit into the world to assist change others.”
“It’s a time after we can come collectively to share the blessings and struggles that God has allowed us to expertise within the 12 months simply handed and to encourage each other to battle the nice battle for the 12 months forward.”
SWITZERLAND
GENEVA — On this world hub of finance and diplomacy, a Church of Christ hosted a convention for about 40 church leaders from French-speaking congregations. Missionary Arlin Hendrix and his spouse, Pamela, lived in Geneva for 2 years earlier than shifting to Lyon, France. They toured the church’s new, state-of-the-art facility. “We have been flabbergasted,” Arlin Hendrix stated, “after we noticed certainly one of their lecture rooms named after Pamela.”
The church’s attendance is about 50, and the brand new facility permits it to higher serve refugees. The congregation rents a part of its facility to different nonprofits, “which helps the church financially and makes the church extra seen to the general public,” Arlin Hendrix stated. “What a blessing, immeasurably greater than we might have requested or imagined!”
THAILAND
Ton Pao — Waist-high water flooded almost each dwelling on this city in northern Thailand after a number of rounds of report rainfall. Residents have been unable to work as they waited for the floodwaters to recede. Members of the Chung Doi Church of Christ and the City Mild ministry offered reduction provides. Church members changed linoleum flooring in 5 homes with funds from the Highland Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas.
Residents of Ton Pao, Thailand, stand exterior their flooded dwelling.
ZIMBABWE
GWERU — 5 baptisms resulted from a latest marketing campaign within the southern African neighborhood often known as Nashville — to not be confused with that different Nashville in Center Tennessee.
Ishmael Mutichu, minister for the Church of Christ at Nashville, joined fellow Zimbabwean evangelists Tapiwa Madamombe of Kwekwe, Tinashe Moyana of Zvishavane, Nashville missions minister Ovius Kufa and Tafadzwa Manjeya, a pupil minister from Bear Valley Bible Institute Worldwide. The ministers knocked on greater than 50 doorways locally.
Zimbabwean ministers conduct a house Bible examine.
“One of the exceptional facets of this marketing campaign was the instrumental function performed by our present church membership,” Mutichu stated. “Their established friendships and connections inside the neighborhood proved invaluable in facilitating our outreach efforts. These relationships, constructed over time by means of real care and interplay, opened doorways which may in any other case have remained closed to our evangelistic message.”
