Short Term Team to Peru

On December 31, three ladies are leaving for Peru, SOUTH AMERICA for a medical missions trip with Malone University.  All three are from Wooster Grace.  Jacoby Gessel, Holly Moomaw, & Sarah Roseler will be ministering from Dec 31 to Jan 9 to set up medical clinics, conduct a mini-VBS program, and help with first aid at several orphanages.

Prayer Requests:

• Ask God to give them safety and health as a team
• Ask God to work through the language barriers to facilitate friendships for sharing Christ
• Ask God to empower each to return home challenged to greater devotion to God and to faithful service to Him
  

You can read my first post about the trip "Pray for sarah."

Video from Internationals Christmas Dinner 2009

Please check out how many people were there at 6pm.  We had more come after this video was taken.  Our total number is 86 internationals from 12 different countries.

Pictures from Internationals Christmas Party 2009

What a wonderful time with our International friends! Read the exciting report.

Internationals Christmas Dinner

Tonight we had 81 people attend our Internationals Christmas Dinner.  We asked internationals to bring a main dish to share and to invite friends to join us.

Fantastic meal was enjoyed.  I tasted two Asian dishes with two different kinds of noodles.  One dish as cold but delicious.  The other dish was spicy hot. Loved it!

Eleven countries were represented.  Two internationals have just come into the USA in the past four days.  One from Brazil and the other from Sri Lanka.

An interesting question posed last night: "How many languages do you speak?"  I can only speak two, Navajo and English.  But the majority of our internationals can speak at least three languages. Amazing!

The evening included prayer, feasting, fellowship, Gospel presentation, prizes, and lots of food.  We even had a year in review of all our events.  Our team did a fantastic job getting things together.  Our Internationals Coordinator, Celeste Hodgdon, orchestrated a sensational event. Way to go Celeste!

See pictures here.

Impact Cambodia & Portugal for Christmas

From GBIM website, please pray for Kane's and Hawkins as they reach out during this Christmas season.  Check out two other places where GBIM missionaries are using this holiday to share about Jesus (link).

Greetings from our Kids at Grace Place Cambodia

Thanks to John & Bobbie Campbell.  You can watch our kids from Grace Place Cambodia sing two songs:

• O Holy Night (Khmer)
  
• Silent Night (English)
  

My favorite part is after the songs when they shout out, "Merry Christmas!"  I love the choreography too. 

Merry Christmas to you litlle ones!  We love you!

Commissioned to go

Linda Kline was commissioned at New Community tonight.  She was already commissioned by her Children's Church on Sunday, December 13.  Keep Linda in your prayers. She travels over 30-hours to get to Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA.