Jim Pack
Missions Director
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As I write this year I am so grateful for all of you who consider Restoration's International Outreaches an important part of your life. Without your faithful support we could not have had the presence in the Nations that we have had these last twelve years of my tenure as Missions Pastor. There have been so many great things that have happened, many of which we will only see from eternities perspective.
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In last year's letter I told you I would be departing immediately for
Nepal and the opening of Nations Training Institutes (NTI) School of
Leadership Development (SLD). There are now 50 pastors and leaders from
the eastern part of Nepal that have already completed the first year of
training. Other great achievements over the past twelve months include:
- adding a 70' x 25' building to Ruach International Christian Academy in Comayagua, Honduras...this school has about 150 students who are impacted by wonderful Christian teachers on a daily basis...beyond the local teachers this school is led by Annette and Lance Turner and is where Carol Amar and Stephanie Price serve as missionaries involved in the lives of these children through teaching.
- worked with the mayor of Acuna, Mexico's wife to build a playground for the children of Acuna...this has given great exposure for John and Dorothy Novara's work with churches in Acuna and the ministry school, eye clinic and feeding programs that they operate around the city.
- were able to get the new home for Paula and Mark Colbath almost ready for them to move into...this home is located on Hope Farm, an Orphanage for Boy's, and is rapidly becoming a light house to this mountain community with a plethora of Christian led activities that are overseen from this location in Honduras...we have been privileged to help cover medical expenses for Gerardo, one of their boys, that has just gone through kidney transplant surgery. As of mid October he is recovering well but there is a long road ahead.
- provide significant support to our senior pastors ministry, NTI, as it continues to write the 100 hours of lessons that make up the curriculum of the School of Leadership Development...all lessons must be translated and interpreted into the various languages and then duplicated for each student to have a copy...an expensive and laborious process, but one that will produce results well into future generations...see article inside
- continued support for numerous other Missionaries located in countries around the world...China, Cambodia, Nepal, Thailand, Haiti, Kenya, Southern Hemisphere of Africa, and India
" As we enter 2010 we find ourselves in days of critical economic challenge. These days will call us to be a people of unflinching courage, conviction, compassion, and commitment. A truly successful life is measured not by its duration but by its direction; not by its parties but by its purpose; not by what is amassed but by what is dispersed; not by the embracing of things but by embracing One thing- to love Jesus and to make Him loved by people everywhere." *
2010 promises to be a banner year in our continued outreach to the Nations as the Stoltzfus' and other potential families move out to take their place in God's story of reaching the Nations with the gospel of Jesus Christ. As we are becoming the Hands and Feet of Christ in the Mid Cities let us continue to be His Hands and Feet in the Nations!
Jim Pack
Missions Director
*Statement made by Dr David Shibley at his recent Missions Conference for Global Advance
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