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Youth Ministry Project: Build an Orphanage
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Our 10:31 youth ministry has been raising money to pay for construction of a baby orphanage (envisioned in the sketch above). Between what the ministry gave through an offering at the May 10:31 meeting and other fundraising efforts, $9,000 has been raised to date!
A little background…
Covenant Life’s 10:31 youth ministry has been serving Rancho 3M Christian Orphanage in Guadalupe, Mexico, for the last five years. Each summer the ministry sends teams to Guadalupe to lead summer Bible camp and do construction projects. This summer’s project is building a baby orphanage on the grounds. Dean Adamek, the director of Rancho3M, has a vision to take in and care for abandoned babies from the area, and then to see them adopted into families from Sovereign Grace churches at very low cost.
While Dean is working with the Mexican government and tending to the paperwork required to become an official adoption agency, the youth will be hard at work building a nursery to house these babies. The plan is to break ground the second week of July!
The youth have shown tremendous initiative in their fundraising efforts. Examples include selling Krispy Kreme donuts in the church lobby on Sundays, selling and purchasing “Rancho 3M” bracelets, giving generously of their own savings, and participating in the youth drama production of “Pilgrim.” All proceeds from concessions sold at “Pilgrim” are going towards the orphanage as well.
I am so grateful to see the ways God is being honored through the youth of Covenant Life. Please keep the teens and parents who are going to serve this summer in your prayers.
May 13 2009 at 2:20 pm
Building in Uganda
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Here’s word from Isaac Hydoski about a prayer request from our brothers and sisters in Kiburara, Uganda:
This past January I traveled with a team from Covenant Life to the village of Kiburara in Western Uganda. There we spent about 10 days coming alongside our sister church, Kiburara Gospel Centre, to help lead a youth crusade and other outreach efforts.
While we were there we clearly saw the church’s need for a new building and learned that the children had been making crafts to raise money. God allowed us to contribute by purchasing the crafts, and later on Covenant Life Church followed up with an additional gift of $1,000.
Kiburara Gospel Centre is currently meeting in a building that holds about 100 people, but the church has grown to over 150, mainly through conversions. Even more compelling than this space crunch is Pastor Moses’ vision for the building to function as a community center. He sees the facility being used throughout the week for education classes, weekly outreaches, and ministering to the many orphans in the area. But because funds have run out, construction has been halted while the church prays for God to provide. The church does tithe and raises funds toward the project, but the people are all farmers and will need a large crop harvest in order to raise more money.
Let’s pray with the Kiburara church that God will abundantly meet the need and provide for them to complete the building! Here’s how Moses put it: “Pray with us. This is how far we have gone, and we need God to do something. Currently we are stopping here because we do not have more money, but our trust is in the Lord.”
—Isaac
Above: Photos of the partially completed church building and work taking place.
May 13 2009 at 10:20 am
Know Your Enemy
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In his message on Sunday, Eric Simmons considered the nature of our spiritual battle and how Christians can “stand against the schemes of the devil” (Eph. 6:10).
These words by John Stott from his commentary on that same passage have been helpful to me:
“A thorough knowledge of the enemy and a healthy respect for his prowess are a necessary preliminary to victory in war. Similarly, if we underestimate our spiritual enemy, we shall see no need for God’s armour, we shall go out to the battle unarmed, with no weapons but our own puny strength, and we shall be quickly and ignominiously defeated.”
—John Stott, The Message of Ephesians (The Bible Speaks Today)
May 11 2009 at 10:10 pm
Session Passes Available For Next 2009
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If you can’t attend the entire Next 2009 conference, but would like to catch speakers like D.A. Carson or Sinclair Ferguson, here’s some good news:Session and day passes are now for sale. A session pass ($35) can be used to attend any one of the six general sessions. A day pass ($65) for Sunday or Monday will get you into both general sessions as well as the afternoon breakout session.
Check out the schedule of sessions and topics. Then, visit the NEXT registration page, fill out the online order form, and bring a print-out of your confirmation e-mail as your ticket to enter the session hall.
Passes are available only as long as capacity allows, so don’t miss out!
May 11 2009 at 8:00 am
Ephesians, Part 24: Application
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Yesterday Eric Simmons preached a powerful message from Eph.6:10-12 on the battle Christians face. He asked four questions:
1. What are we fighting for?
2. Who are we fighting?
3. How does our enemy fight?
4. How do we fight against our enemy?
You can listen online or download the message here.
Application questions:
1. C.S. Lewis wrote: “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.” Eric added a third category: a Christian who believes in the devil but ignores him. What are some of your common misconceptions about spiritual warfare?
2. Satan fights by “scheming” (i.e., planning a strategy) with the intent to deceive people and oppose God.
a. How has your faith been assaulted so as to doubt God’s goodness, power, wisdom and love? How can you apply God’s Word to battle these doubts?
b. How has your Christ’s salvation been undermined by the lie that Jesus forgives most of your sins, just not the big one that is always on your mind? What truths of God’s Word can combat this lie?
c. How has the lie that you are too busy or too tired to spend time in God’s Word undermined the power, sufficiency and authority of Scripture in your heart and practice? What must you do to repent, believe and practice differently?
3. In spiritual warfare, we are fighting for the advance of the gospel. There are many in the “mission field” of your life who remain captives of the kingdom of darkness. With whom in your family, your neighborhood or your work can you be praying for and sharing the gospel?
4. Each day, how can you be strengthened for the battle by the power and strength of the resurrected Christ?
May 8 2009 at 3:41 pm
This Sunday and the Rest of Ephesians
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This Sunday, Eric Simmons will preach from Ephesians 6:10-12. This is the first of a three-part series we will be doing on spiritual warfare as we near the end of Ephesians. In this first message, “Our Battle,” Eric will focus on our battle with the devil and his fallen angels. More importantly, we will study Christ and the sufficient strength he gives us to make our stand against our powerful enemy.
On May 17: Our Armor. Braden Greer will focus on the armor God has given us for the battle (Ephesians 6:13-17).
On May 24: Our Mission. Robin will preach from Ephesians 6:18-20. This passage deals with the importance and power of prayer in the mission of the gospel.
But going back to this week, we have a full Sunday coming up. Bob will be leading with guest band Reilly from our sister church, Covenant Fellowship. We will also have several folks baptized, and will take a moment in the service to honor the mothers among us for their precious service to the Lord and their families.