Pray Without Ceasing [1 Thes 5:17]

As the Impact Team begins preparation for our Fall 2014 Mission Trip, we pray. 

     God’s grandeur plan….  

          for the people of Hosanna, Ethiopia

               for the Hosanna-to-Hosanna ministry

                    for this team and this Impact Trip 

We invite you to prayerfully consider.... **We invite you to join us.**

A few simple questions…. Is this your time to go? Is this part of your journey ~ with Him? Are you wanting to grow in your walk with Christ, open to serving God’s purpose, willing to surrender your ‘self’ ~ for Him? When you consider the possibility of traveling and giving as a member of the Ethiopia Impact Team, does your heart answer ‘maybe’ or even ‘someday’?

Pray into those promptings for God’s perfect guidance. Maybe your ‘maybe’ is *yes*, perhaps your ‘someday’ is *now*…. Listen and receive.

“Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning; For I trust in You; Teach me the way in which I should walk; For to You I lift up my soul.”  [Psalm 143:8]

Trust and believe.

Participating on the Ethiopia Impact Team is simply (and amazingly!) bringing His Kingdom to others; being the love of Christ to people who enthusiastically embrace your outreach and give boundless love and joy in return. Your *yes* becomes God’s answers to prayers as He transforms you and touches lives, continuing the momentum of His ministry. 

The 2014 Ethiopia Impact Trip remains open until September 5th for additional applicants. 

Dates:         November 1 – 10, 2014

Cost:           $2,500  

Apply at:     http://www.hosannalc.org/impact/global/trips/ 

Vision for the Trip:

Children

• Our main focus is to love our sponsored children; continuing to build and lift them in relationship and trust in their walk with Christ. *Our continued and consistent presence in their lives is incredibly important to this affect.*  We will be the hands and feet and hugs and kisses from their sponsor families. 


• In partnership with our in-country HopeChest Staff, we’ll assess needs of the children and the Care Point in order to establish vision for future trips.  

• For the first time, we’ll complete home visits with many of our sponsored children and their families. God is calling us to bring them home-ministry of prayer, encouragement, and personal connection.

• We’ll visit the site that will become our second sponsored Care Point, praying blessings and favor for the Pastors, the Church, and the Kingdom partnership that is developing.

“When he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.”  [Acts 20:36]

Women

• We will worship together and encourage the women who were rescued from the streets. They remain steadfast in their walk with Christ and continue to grow in their understanding of the depth, breadth, and heights of His love for them.

• Our hope is to again go into the women’s prison and be a glimmer of Jesus' light and love for the ~52 women there, speaking truth into their lives as God leads.

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”  [Phil 4:6-7]

Leaders

• God’s transformation of the city of Hosanna, Ethiopia engages civic and religious leaders. We’ll continue to encourage and promote this building of community and grow in our connectedness as we are led – with the Mayor, the Police Department, and Heads of Seminary. God has gifted these leaders and blessed their vocations. As they are partnering together and serving Him, incredible progress is occurring.

“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”  [Luke 11:9]

God’s glory will be known as we continue to offer our ‘yes’ to His calling and guidance; as we lift up His prayers in Christ. We go forth with great expectancy that amazing progress will be realized in God’s grandeur plans for His people. For God who is faithful will answer these prayers ~ “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.” [Ephesians 3:20]  

     As we pray....

          

          without ceasing....

In Christ,

~ Jodi 

on behalf of Impact Team 2014