Upcoming missions trip adjustments and update

Ron, Tall Mark, Don, Dave, and I met in Woodinville last Saturday preparing for a PFC short-term missions trip to the Congo and Rwanda.  Now, we are scheduled for November 2 through 13 in order to save $750 for airfare per person and facilitate specific arrangements to enter the Congo. 

Don, in the middle with the blue shirt, is the team leader.  Ron, on the far left, and I are the PFC short-term missions first-timers.  Our team has met together three times to encourage one another.

I continue to serve regularly at the Regional Justice Center in Kent.  On September 10-12, I am leading a PFC concert and worship service trip with five others to Walla Walla, Pendleton, OR, and Wapato at the Standing Stones Ministry site.  I'll write more about that trip in my next post, soon.

For the Congo-Rwanda trip, I am almost at 50% in fund-raising which is a huge answer to prayer.  Many wonderful people are already participating with us as they are very sacrificially and lovingly supplying their earned finances in a very challenging economic season to support this trip.  

Even in our own home church, the status of church finances clearly argued for not taking this trip. There are always reasons "not" to go.  Those arguments are all the more reasons to "make disciples of all nations" by going to all the nations, baptizing and getting saved sinners identified in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and teaching the people groups of the world to obey Jesus, Matthew 28:19-20.

The change in schedule from late September to November shows us the Lord's sovereign hand is actively involved with us in the details of this missionary outreach to the men and women in the prisons and others with hearts to reach them in the Congo and Rwanda.  

We have five very clearly established goals for this short-term missions trip through PFC using a "TIBET" acronym.  We will be:

• Teaching to reach the lost and encourage followers of King Jesus.
• Inspiring the inmates with humanitarian aid.
• Building up the established chaplains and supporting churches.
• Encouraging those already serving to persevere in faithful outreach.
• Training faithful workers in churches to establish and continue serving.