2008 Goal: $52,400
Given to Date: $36,016 |
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Hungary Mission |
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Kenya Leader's Exchange |
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Youth at Risk Center, Nairobi, Kenya |
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Hungary Mission - Working with Cooperative Baptist Fellowship missionaries, 10th -12th grade students and adults from our church will share the Gospel and extend a hand of fellowship to Roma believers in Tuzser.
In connection with the ministry that the Stocks have nurtured for the past 12 years, our group will lead day camps for Roma children, participate in community meetings with Roma teenagers, share in worship and service with the Roma Baptist church in Tuzser, and seek to encourage and promote the ongoing work of the Roma ministry in Hungary.
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Special Offerings - The Unified Mission Offering provides a mechanism for Vestavia Hills Baptist to promote and gather gifts to cooperative mission offerings throughout the year. In 2008, we plan to give to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Southern Baptist Convention, and Alabama Woman's Missionary Union. The monies given to these offerings are used to support missionaries and their work throught the world.
Offerings include: Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, CBF Global Missions Offering, and Kathleen Mallory Missions Offering.
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Kenyan Leaders’ Exchange |
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Our church has been enriched by a mission partnership with Kenyan Baptists in recent years. In 2007, we launched a two-year partnership with the Institute for Quality Christian Leadership Africa to exchange ideas and support leadership development in Kenya and east Africa. One component of the partnership was last year's mission trip, made possible primarily through gifts to the Unified Missons Offering. A team of sixteen persons from our church journeyed to Kenya and invested 12 days in mission service alongside new friends in "the uttermost parts of the world." Our group led leadership seminars and conducted a variety of ministry projects in and around Nairobi and Nyeri, Kenya. |
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This year we have the opportunity to continue this mission partnership with our friends in Kenya. Vestavia Hills Baptist, Samford's Resource Center for Pastoral Excellence, and The Global Center of Beeson Divinity School will work together to bring 3 to 6 Kenyan pastoral leaders to Birmingham in July and August of this year. The pastors will attend the Beeson Pastors School July 21-25. They will also have opportunities to connect with the Kenyan Christian community in Birmingham as well as interact with students at Beeson Divinity School . In addition, the pastors will have occasion to visit and speak with several church groups. The intent of the Leaders' Exchange is for the Kenyan pastors to learn from us even as we learn from them. When they return to their places of ministry in Kenya , they will return enriched mentally, spiritually and emotionally as a result of their time in Birmingham. |
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Youth at Risk Center, Nairobi, Kenya |
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In November of 2007, we
welcomed to our Wednesday
night program Reverend
Euticauls Wambua
Nzengu, the director of the
Youth at Risk Center located
in the Korogocho
slums of Nairobi, Kenya.
Pastor Wambua became a
friend to many of our members
during last summer’s
Kenya Mission trip when our
mission team visited with
children and teachers at the
Youth at Risk Center. What
we saw and heard during
that visit touched our hearts,
as did Pastor Wambua’s testimony and appeal to our
congregation.
In response, we have
pledged to the Youth at
Risk Center. The funds
will be sufficient to cover the
center’s expenses for one
month, thus providing education,
a daily meal, and the
love of Christ to some of
Nairobi’s poorest children. |
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