Dear Friends,
Dawn & Brook are going on a missions trip to Kenya August 16-30, and we invite you to be part of the team!
We will be travelling to the other side of the globe to equip leaders in the Diocese of Mombasa in Kenya for the work of the Gospel. This is a people deeply committed to the Lord Jesus and they prove faithful to him by reaching out in His name to their cities and communities. Mombasa as well as all of Kenya is increasingly Muslim, and desperately in need of the Gospel to go forth both for the sake of their current living situation as well as their eternal destiny.
We have been specifically invited to be a part of a small, select team organized and trained by an Anglican missions organization called SOMA (Sharing of Ministries Abroad - see www.somausa.org for more info). SOMA was recently invited by the Bishop of Mombasa, The Rt. Rev. Julius Robert Katoi Kalu, to bring a team to train the clergy, lay leaders, and their spouses to minister to those God has placed around them through the transforming grace of the Holy Spirit.
How can you join our team?
We have several ways...
The Prayer Team is our first and greatest need
Going to a third-world country is cause for prayer itself. It is a long way from home and our 3 precious daughters (who will also need to be lifted up in prayer). Moreover, we will be on the front lines in the battle raging even now for the souls of men and women, and expect there will be spiritual and real resistance to our efforts to teach, train, and refresh other pastors and leaders. We will need prayer for numerous areas, including:
being thoroughly prepared for this mission
all the logistics - including funding, passports, shots/inoculations, travel, etc.
safety
our family at home
that God would lead us, giving us wisdom, insight, and power to do all he is calling us to do
Would you join our Prayer Team? We have a coordinator that can keep you appraised of our prayer needs and who can collect and pass on to us your encouragements, impressions, and guidance as God gives it. Currently our prayer list is on our Kenya Mission website at https://sites.google.com/site/dawnandbrookgotokenya/pray-for-us. If you’d like more information, let us know and we will include you on this most important Team! Remember: - The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]. - James 5:16b (AMP)
- Prayer can transcend geography;
- Prayer can transcend the laws of nature;
- Prayer can dispatch angels; and
- Prayer can activate the very will of God on earth as it is in heaven.
The Supply Team is another way to join us on this mission.
Some are called to give financial gifts and these are part of the Supply team, as are those who provide for other special needs (ethnic clothing, Bibles or books to give away, etc.) We have a very short time before we leave, and are already making purchases and preparing for the trip. We need to raise a combined $6575 to cover the expenses for both of us, and we have a month to do it!
Donations are tax-deductible, and can be made to Holy Cross Anglican Church via our secure web-donation site (https://www.holycrosspodcasts.org/donate?nologin=true) or by sending a check with “Kenya Mission” in the “For” space to Holy Cross Anglican Church; PO Box 776; Loganville, GA 30052.
We very much look forward to joining with you, our friends and family, in this Mission. We thoroughly expect that we will, by the grace of God, sow good things in Kenya, and that we will also be changed by those we serve there. The faithful in Kenya are rich in faith, and confident in the Lord. May we be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith (Romans 1:12).
Faithfully,
Dawn & Brook Batchelor
