Developing Healthy Missions Partnership

Pray for wisdom for Jerry, ReachGlobal personnel on the CONNECT team, as he helps facilitate the Healthy Missions Partnership course on April 18. Pray for those who have enrolled in this course to have clear insight and understanding so they can implement what they have learned into developing mission partnerships in their churches.

CONNECT Planning Retreat

Pray for the CONNECT team as they meet for their planning retreat September 6-8. Pray for the missions strategy workshops that several CONNECT team members will be facilitating with churches around the U.S. this fall. Ask God to multiply the global missions outreach of these churches with whom the CONNECT team is and will be working.

Online learning

Pray for Linda, ReachGlobal personnel with EFCA CONNECT, as she begins facilitating a six-week online course, Kingdom Expansion 101, July 6. Pray that God will bring together the right blend of learners and that it will be a valuable experience for them as they study basic missions. Pray for Linda as she develops new modules for the live training curriculum for short-termers preparing to minister cross-culturally.

Curriculum for volunteers

Today pray for Linda, ReachGlobal personnel with EFCA CONNECT, as she works with the short-term task force to complete the new curriculum for volunteers who serve cross-culturally for up to one year. Several individuals from Virginia will soon be going through the online portion of this training, and the first live training is scheduled for August.

Training in Chicago

Pray for several EFCA CONNECT team members who are receiving training in Chicago May 10-11. The purpose of this training is to learn how to use a new missions coaching tool, Your Focus on the World. Ask God to give the team members understanding and creativity of mind in implementing what they learn as they work with our EFCA churches in the area of missions.

Advocates for Europe

Pray for Rich and Joyce who serve as Advocates for Europe with the CONNECT division of ReachGlobal. In their advocacy role, they help connect U.S. churches to cross-cultural ministry as ambassadors and mobilizers, consultants and trainers, and initiators. As catalysts for missions, they help open doors of opportunity for believers of all ages, to be released for Gods service in multiplying healthy churches among all peoples. Ask the Lord to bless them with strength and grace as they help establish long-term relationships between U.S. churches and Europe city teams through partnerships.

TESOL Convention

Pray for Linda, ReachGlobal member of the CONNECT team, who is in New Orleans March 16-19, to attend the annual TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Convention. Pray that God will lead her to good connections there and that He will guide her in choosing workshops that will be most beneficial in ministry. Connections and workshops from past conventions have proven to be very valuable. Pray for the training curriculum currently under development for short-term missionaries who go to serve cross-culturally for up to a year. Linda leads the task force working on this project. It is now in the editing and refining stage, with plans to begin the beta test for the online portion March 21.

Teaching online course

Pray for wisdom and clear teaching for Linda, EFCA CONNECT Team, as she facilitates the online course Kingdom Expansion 101 from February 2 to March 15. Pray that God will encourage and challenge each participant in outreach, both locally and around the world.

Missions Pastor Network

Pray that the CONNECT Team will engage effectively with many churches this year. Ask God for 25 churches in 2011 to use the missions strategy workshop (resource tool to become more intentional in developing an outreach/missions ministry) with our facilitators. Pray for Craig, ReachGlobal Mission Network Director, who is leading the EFCA Missions Pastors Network event January 10-12, in Charlotte, NC, and is also facilitating two missions strategy workshops this month.

Team meetings

The EFCA CONNECT Advocate Team Retreat is underway in Cumberland, WI, October 5-7. Pray for this time of prayer for ministry, discussion of strategic issues, team building and annual goal planning.

Short-term teams teaching English

Pray for Linda, EFCA CONNECT team member, who is in California July 31 to August 2, training a short-term team to teach English in Indonesia. Ask for the anointing of the Holy Spririt on her as she teaches on spiritual warfare this evening.

Pray for God's blessing on the team that begins English classes in Macau on August 2. Pray for Ron, Linda's husband, as he prepares presentations for his short-term ministry in Ukraine.

Seminar on Missions Strategy

Pray for Nick, ReachGlobal staff with EFCA CONNECT, who is conducting the seminar Developing a Missions Strategy that Fits Your Church for leaders of the Charter Oak EFC in Battle Ground, WA, June 4-5. Pray that the workshop will be a blessing to this church as they identify the strengths of their congregation and consider how to build on those assets to develop effective outreach ministry.