Sunday, March 27, 2011

Team going to Central Africa

Tim Harley, Dale Imhoff, & Rick Ratzel
After church I got to pray with and to encourage a three-man team leaving for Central Africa to assist with ICDI in various ministry projects from April 4-16.  This team fulfills our highest value--to develop all people into fully devoted followers of Christ.

Each departs for Africa to build relationships and to reconnect on-going relationships for the ministry initiatives that God has catalyzed over our recent trips.  The team has watched God work to provide for their prayer needs, their support needs, and spiritual and health needs. God is awesome!

Tim Harley will lead this team. Rick Ratzel returns to Africa. And Dale Imhoff embarks on his first trip to the Dark Continent.

Each covets your prayers. May the Lord use their willingness to go make disciples by ministering to the whole human with ICDI--Gospel presentations (faith-based: to show Jesus Christ's love), agricultural seed bank preparations , follow-up on wood workshop center (release from poverty in holistic ways), and development on programs to help improve the health of Central Africans through spirulina ponds so that many Africans can access protein for greater and healthier lives in the future for their families, communities, and possibly their country and continent as they get empowered to continue the work themselves.  


So stop and pray for Tim, Rick, & Dale. They depart April 4. Ask God for safety, healthy and energetic ministry, ability to make new relational contacts and to reconnect with existing connections, and stamina for travel and ministry in the country of Central African Republic.

Praying for God the Holy Spirit to use them

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