Prayer Focus: Summer Mission Trips

Several UBC members and regular attenders will be heading out on mission trips this summer. These include:

Autumn Foust - Cambodia

Braden Cowell - Guatemala

Bryce Coin - Ecuador

Caleb Veinotte - Salt Lake City

Chris Hile - Salt Lake City

Cole Wrigglesworth - Czech Republic

Isaac S. - undisclosed

Jenna Mailloux - Barcelona

Jim & Sandy Corbin - Uganda

Sharon Kerestes - Uganda

Pray that final preparations for these individuals and their teams will go smoothly and where COVID tests are required, that these will be processed in a timely manner and have negative results.
Pray for unity among the various teams and submission to God and His purposes for each trip and each individual.
Pray for safety in travel, overall good health and protection.
Pray that there will be many opportunities to share the Gospel and that God would open hearts and minds to receive it and be saved.

Recent Highlight:

Medical Mission Trip - Paraguay, South America

This past March, Jeff Robinson and Charity Best of UBC were part of a medical mission team that partnered with a local Paraguayan church to use compassionate medical care as a tool to reach people for Christ. During five days of medical clinics the team saw 906 patients. 179 accepted Christ as their Savior and another 188 expressed interest in pastoral visitation!

Jeff shared this story:

“Our host for lunch one day was a man who previously lived a life of drug trafficking. He was jailed for four years in Argentina, then was captured again in Paraguay and spent four more years in jail. During this incarceration he and his trafficker friends decided to attempt an escape. The plan was to meet in the pavilion where the Christians had their meetings because it would be less suspicious. He was the only one that showed up that night. Sitting in that meeting, he heard the gospel, and was saved. Praise God! He and his wife now host kids’ clubs in their house and they are planning to open a soup kitchen in that impoverished area. Local pastors are assisting him with the ultimate goal of planting a church. God is at work! It is amazing that God allows us to play a part in His rescue mission”

Pray:

For the believers the team worked with as they disciple those new Christians
For the team as they plan next year's trip and look at how they might expand this type of ministry for God’s kingdom

Anyone interested should contact Jeff Robinson robinsonparaguay@gmail.com

Ephesians 3:20: Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Spotlight:

Cole Wrigglesworth Trip to Czech Republic

Cole Wrigglesworth will be serving with Greater Europe Mission’s (GEM) Ten2 Project in the Czech Republic this summer. Cole is a student at Cedarville University pursuing Biblical Studies with a Missions focus and a requirement of his program is to complete a mission internship to acquire experience in discipleship and evangelism in a different culture.

Cole leaves on May 25th and will spend the first week receiving training in France. He will then spend the next 7-8 weeks in Brno, Czech Republic working with one of GEM’s full-time missionaries. Part of this experience includes leading a team of five other Ten2 participants. He will then spend time in Greece studying the missionary journey of Paul and will finish up the summer in Slovenia at GEM’s Annual Conference before returning home on August 6th.

GEM focuses on relationship-based ministry through activities like house churches, helping local churches with events, hosting meals for local groups, and other discipleship/outreach ministries.

For more information about GEM, visit gemission.org

Opportunity: May 14th

Miami Valley Women’s Center Walk for Life

There’s still time to sign up for The Walk for Life to support the life-saving, gospel-centered ministry of the Miami Valley Women’s Center!

You can raise funds in one of two ways:

1) Use a sponsor form (available at the Mission Table), or

2) Use an online program called FundEasy

Visit the Mission Table for more information or contact Elizabeth Hunter at Hunter16elizabeth@gmail.com

To read past Mission Updates or to get more information about UBC on Mission, visit www.ubcbeavercreek.com/mission.

UBC Mission Update - 2022, Issue 5