2010 Annual Missions Team Brief
Last year brought natural disasters and a struggling economy. Peachtree City Christian Church responded faithfully working with our Missions Team to bring relief, hope and evangelism to people near and far. We are supported by your giving and the churches commitment that 10% of every dollar goes to the mission field. The work we do is vitally important and makes a B.I.G. impact in so many ways. We invite you to celebrate in the success of our outreach efforts, and we challenge you to meet more needs in 2011.
Fayette Samaritans found a growing demand for food to feed families in our area.
In addition to monies and volunteers, we hold a semiannual, Can-Do food drive which
provides hundreds of boxes and canned goods. The students also contributed 3000 cans
during November. You can bring in food items to the church at anytime and leave it at our
Mission Drop Spot.
At Christian City some of you personally and through groups within PTC3 supported
individual children. Southwest Hospice assistance is given to those in need of care
during their final days.
We support Atlanta Christian College and Milligan College as well as four Christian
Campus Fellowships - Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, Emory, and West Georgia
University, so that students can connect with other Christians.
At Woodland Christian Camp our youth are given exposure to the Good News in ways
that often last a lifetime. Our youth will be given an opportunity to attend this summer.
Jesus Place is an inner city ministry for homeless men. We support them by collecting
clothes, shoes and backpacks and taking a team to distribute items one Sunday a month.
Haiti is still reeling from the effects of an earthquake and flooding. Through direct support
to SonLight Missions and IDES, you responded with food and other needed relief supplies.
Your support contributed in so many ways including helping to bring a planned school
nearer to completion, (classes begin in 2011), and a nurse has been able to complete her
education, and begin serving at the school and planning the building of a medical clinic.
Christian Campus Fellowships have been planted in Pueblo, Mexico where the McDades
are working and in Birmingham, England where the Bradens are working.
In Hong Kong the Polings are reaching out locally and into mainland China through home
churches. China now has the largest population of Christians in the world.
The Turners are involved in church planting, teaching, summer camp, and evangelism
in Japan.
Indonesia. The missionaries we support used funds to respond to earthquakes and
flooding from typhoons. They also developed a business that employs converts and transports
evangelists throughout the country. They will be visiting in February and teaching a class.
Philippines. You support Christian education for many attending the International Christian
College of Manila preparing for the ministry and other Christian vocations. The money also
provided relief support to those effected by flooding from a typhoon and evangelist
outreach work.
India. Your support fed and educated children, helped the blind to
see, educated and sent to the field ministers and evangelists, provided
flood relief for those in north India near Pakistan, where some of the
worst flooding in their history occurred, and sent evangelists out to
portions of India, southeast Asia and the Soviet Union.
Bill Drake works with Operation Mobilization. For more
information visit www.billdrake.com. Bill is on stage with our worship
team when he is not conducting musical evangelism at various venues
around the world. Brett King, our Worship Minister, joined Bill in 2010.
Ghana. Through the Nadors and their missionary organization,
Ghana Christian Mission you helped plant churches, train students for
the ministry and put them on the field.
David Halm, one of our members, answered a call and used his
talents to assist ICCM in the Philippines by teaching project
management. You are assisting him on going back at ICCMs request
in 2011.
Clint Nolder, Chris Mathis and Betsy Watkins challenged the
youth and others to reach beyond their grasp. In response, a search
team was sent to Ghana last summer. You helped fund it, and we will
be sending a team of 16 to Ghana this summer. We will be collecting
items for the trip and calling on our members to assist with contributions
and prayer. We look forward to the opportunities in 2011!
Mission News October 09
Missionary Reports from the flooded PhilippinesWe personally, and ICCM, are OK. The floodwaters on campus were just a result of the SIXTEEN INCHES of water that fell during typhoon Ondoy in just EIGHT hours. It was a record, of course, like the Georgia rains have been.
Some relief money is coming in from Australia today or tomorrow to feed those who have nothing and lost everything in the churches. We have some requests already coming in from our brethren in the area. One place where Ross visited yesterday received food. The people had had no food since Saturday and were desperate. One of the neighboring churches provided for them and Ross was the delivery boy!
PRAYER REQUEST: Please pray for fair distribution of the relief funds that we receive, that it reaches the truly needy and hungry, and also for safety of those who will distribute the relief. There are now stories of "holdups" of the goods trucks which are delivering aid. People are desperate and therefore normal morality is out the window in a crisis. There are threats of looting of damaged homes and businesses as well. We need prayers for distribution safety in such a difficult urban environment. Many remain stranded in floodwaters which have not yet receded. One church we know if here in Metro Manila remains inaccessible. We are waiting for a report from them.
Also, we are aware that many churches have lost ALL their Sunday school materials, and preachers their libraries. Many Filipino churches have the Sunday school on the ground level, and the chapel above, to conserve space in the urban environment. Of course the preachers' office on the ground floor will likely be flooded, too. Cheryl and Andrew visited one church yesterday where EVERY Sunday School item had been destroyed by the six foot flood.
If PTCCC wants to accept a "hands-on" project, I would recommend that you start assembling NEW Standard Publishing or College Press Sunday School materials, which could easily by shipped from Atlanta. In this way you would bless the churches here practically, and your church family could see the box growing full. It's just my current suggestion after seeing roomfuls of materials destroyed. It's so sad! Most Sunday Schools cater for ages 3-12. Of course, youth materials for teenagers could also be included, and replacement books for the ministers' libraries. We recommend the Christian Church/Churches of Christ publishers as they are the most trusted by our ministers here for their doctrine.
If you decide to contribute these boxes (I think the standard size is 24x18x18?), could you include some transport donations in cash so that we can travel to the churches to deliver them? It will take some time to get the materials to the right people.
Here is a shipping company, or ask your Filipinos in the church. They will know!
http://www.merchantcircle.com/blogs/MMW.Logistics.678-389-8607/2009/8/Packing-and-Shipping-Balikbayan-Boxes-What-to-Expect/346795
MMW Logistics
2775 D Bankers Industrial Drive
Atlanta, GA 30360
866-573-0748
These companies are wonderful because they pickup at your door, seal the box, and it goes through customs unopened and lands at ICCM securely. It's the most safe way I know. The companies deal with customs, and the price is always good. If you want the street address for ICCM, do let me know and I will provide it.
I'm sorry not to have more pictures personally. I am forwarding another email from a friend who was in relief work this past few days, who has many photos available. His name is Doug Cunnington and he was an intern with us last year. He is currently attending a Manila university.
Please use pictures from my Facebook page or pictures from
http://inquirer.net/
and
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/
if you want to follow the news as it's presented here. BBC, CNN and Australian Network also contain reliable information. The media sites will have much better pictures than we can take. We try to avoid being in dangerous situations. Several of our students ended up wading through chest high water over the weekend. The possibility of deadly diseases is very real for those exposed, as raw sewage was mixed with the flood water, as bodies yet unrecovered continue to decompose.
Ross has written a request for IDES for more relief from the US, but we haven't had any results yet. The Australians have come through with initial food relief funds.
I hope this helps you get started. God bless you for your care, concern, and prayers.
Serving Christ here on your behalf,
Ross and Cheryl
Cheryl Wissmann
Kingdom Ambassadors, Inc.
P.O. Box 3033, Fairview Heights, Illinois 62208
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