Outreach Prayer Update

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OUTREACH Prayer Update
October 2015

Our church planters depend on the prayers and encouragement of God's people. OUTREACH NORTH AMERICA provides this monthly prayer letter to inform you of some of their specific needs and praises so you will know better how to pray for them. Thank you for your prayers and the interest you show by your phone and e-mail responses. Your prayers truly encourage your church planters. (See the bottom of this e-mail for a summary of all the mission churches included in this update.)

In general

Praise for a great Korean pastors retreat in September.
Prayer for the Church Planter Assessment Center (CPAC) this week. We are assessing four candidate couples.
Prayer for our church planting training.
Prayer for all the presbytery meetings over the next few weeks.
Prayer for the churches involved in Dare to Dream initiatives in their churches.
Prayer for churches seeking pastors.
Prayer for the refugees fleeing persecution and war.
Synod encourages each presbytery and congregation of the denomination to participate in an Annual Day of Prayer Against Oppression, to encourage other Christian congregations and denominations to join with our congregations in the same private and/or public undertaking. ONA would encourage you to join us in praying against oppression on Sunday, October 18.

(photo from Korean pastors retreat)

Search by Presbytery:
Canadian Presbytery
Catawba Presbytery
First Presbytery
Florida Presbytery
Northeast Presbytery
Second Presbytery


Canadian Presbytery

HOPE Presbyterian Church, Kingston, Ontario
Kevin and Joanne Carter kdcarter63@outlook.com
Pray

For the work of outreach and evangelism. One man from our church now has a weekly Bible study going with a few un-churched men studying Romans; I am striving to meet people to witness of God and Christ. Pray the Lord will bless these to his glory.
Pray we do not become discouraged in dealing with people. Disinterest, rejection, and lack of commitment from people have all been experienced even in these very early days, and we do not want these things to dissuade us from continuing the effort of reaching people in Christ.
Pray for the Lord's grace to accomplish the sale of the Carter's house in New Minas, NS. May he release this burden from us.

Praise

Praise God we have begun our Sunday worship services. Thus far we have had two families other than our core family attend. Pray we remain encouraged in these early days as people do check us out; and that we do not lose focus of God's glory in worship. Though we are few, the Lord in his wonderful grace is with us.


Catawba Presbytery

King’s Parish, Dallas, Texas
Rev. David and Margaret Winburne david@kingsparish.com
Pray

For our neighborhood movie night. We deeply desire to be a church that does good things to and for our community.
Pray for wisdom concerning whether or not the church should be organized (a presbytery term that means a self-sufficient, locally governed body).
Pray for our funding during this up coming year.
Pray for our ladies' and men's fellowship groups as they seek to gather and perfect the saints.


Shem Creek Presbyterian Church, Mt. Pleasant, SC
Charlie and DJ Phillips and Ben Carver charliephillips6@yahoo.com and btcarver10@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/shemcreekpres
Praise

We held our first Sunday morning worship service last month, and we've had a number of visitors come out since.
Our Sunday night community group study of the Heidelberg Catechism has been well attended, and we continue to garner interest.
We are gaining traction with the baristas and staff of the local Starbucks.

Pray

Pray that God would regenerate the hearts of those we've shared our faith with during the past year.
Pray that God would help us to gather people looking for a church emphasizing reformed worship, communal discipleship, and Gospel outreach.
Pray that God would lay it on people's hearts to give to our church-planting work as we have many needs and opportunities.
To receive our monthly email newsletters please contact Charlie Phillips at charliephillips6@yahoo.com.

First Presbytery

Brookside Presbyterian Church, ARP, Boone, NC
Rev. Larry and Joyce Young drlarryyoung@msn.com
www.BooneBrooksideChurch.org
Praise

For recent visitors.
For the good spirit of fellowship.

Pray

For the Lord to send some new faces to Brookside.
For those who come to return regularly.


Christ Coastal Church, Southport, NC
Rev. Walt and Val Shepard waltshepard@gmail.com
Pray

Please pray for our leadership retreat this Saturday, October 3. May the Lord use this in a big way to get us to think strategically, with a Kingdom focus.
Our people need prayer for all sorts of things. One of our company is facing a serious surgery on October 5 at Chapel Hill Medical Center. One of our ladies has been battling cancer bravely-- and she and the Lord are doing well with it.
Our women's Bible study begins again this week. Pray for our leader and the material to get into hearts. Our manly Bible study and prayer meetings always needs prayer too. Pray with us that both the men and women's groups can engage some neighbors from outside our circles.
We have two neighborhood outreach groups with un-churched folks coming. Please pray that these may be effective to reach many for Christ's sake.
Thank you for praying with us!



Faith Chapel ARP, Pleasant Garden, NC
Rev. Terry and Mary Crahen reformedalive@earthlink.net
http://faithchapelarpc.com
Praise

Join us in giving thanks for a couple that has come our way and continues to worship with us.

Prayer for

Our continued progress in the study and cultivation of Christian disciplines.
Our continued efforts to master an evangelistic method that we have been studying.
Opportunities to present the Gospel to people we have gotten to know already.
Guidance and empowering for some "cold call" evangelism.
Preaching of the Word that is concise, well structured, faithful to the Scriptures and strong in application.


Grace Reformed Presbyterian Church, Clayton, NC
Rev. Ken and Laura Kunkel ken@gracereformed.church
www.gracereformed.church
Praise

For visitors who have worshiped with us in recent weeks.
For the start of a second women's Bible study.
For the faithful prayers and giving of our supporters.
For new members serving on our music ministry team.

Pray

For a pianist to assist with music in our worship services.
For an inquirers class starting in October, for those considering church membership.
For the response to recent outreach events.
For additional financial support from individuals and churches.


New Beginnings Presbyterian Church, Smithfield, NC Rev. Percy and Allyson Coleman arpcpraise@gmail.com
Praise

For the faithfulness of God throughout this ministry.
For five visitors last Sunday. Three were returning for a second or third visit.
For our first infant baptism. What a blessing this little baby has been to the congregation!
For faithful tithers who make the work of the church possible.

Pray

For more young families to join our fellowship.
For the upcoming sanctuary roof replacement.
For spiritual growth and fruitfulness in us all.

Florida Presbytery
Christ Community, Apollo Beach, FL Rev. Charlie and Coco Lewis Charlie@christcommunityfl.com www.christcommunityfl.com
Pray

We have several families with young children who have started attending our church recently. We ask that you pray that they would become connected and involved at Christ Community Church.
We ask for pray for our Small Group Ministries. We pray that God would raise up leaders and that more people would become involved in small groups.
We ask for your prayers for our youth group. It has grown under the leadership of our Church Planting Intern, Brooks Pipher, but his internship is complete and we pray that the youth group will continue to be healthy and growing with new leadership.
We ask for your prayers for our worship service. We will complete our transition back to one worship service in October. We previously had two different worship services with two different styles of music.

Praise

We are grateful for Brooks and Amanda Pipher, who did a great job ministering at Christ Community Church during their Church Planting Internship.
Leaders for ministries are emerging and God is working in the hearts of his people.
For God's continual faithfulness!
Thanks so much for allowing us to share these prayer requests!


Renew Church, Fort Myers, FL
Rev. Steve and Rachel Reynolds sc_reynolds@centurylink.net
Praise

We have 9 people, not including Rachel and me, who have begun the discipleship process that we use called X-cell-erate. What a great group of people. This is a high-commitment process and we are already seeing some changes and results!
We are seeing people move from simply attending to being strongly committed and in leadership roles. This means our vision for reaching and changing the community is beginning to take root in attenders!
We are highly encouraged by stories we hear of people engaging their neighbors and others with the Gospel – this is what we are praying would begin!

Pray

Our funding from ONA and Florida Presbytery will officially end December 1. We are not at a point where we can sustain ourselves. We can pay for part-time staff (worship), facility rental, and ministry needs but not me. We are looking at contacting several people about stepping up individual support for one year. The other option is for me to secure employment, which I would be fine with, but it would divert my attention significantly.
We are seeing the enemy step up attacks against some of our leaders. As they have become more firmly committed, events and circumstances – from health to family issues – have seemed to become more distracting and intense. Please pray with us that our leaders will know Christ’s protection in every area of their lives!
We are doing what we can to bump momentum at Renew Church – mailings, website “tweaks”, social media, etc. Pray that God will bring people in whom He is at work!

Northeast Presbytery
Good News Presbyterian Church, Gilbert, AZ
Rev. Charles Roberts (supply) revdrcr@gmail.com
www.goodnewspres.com
Praise

Rev. Charles Roberts will begin supplying at Good news on October 4.


Second Presbytery
Travelers ARP Mission, Travelers Rest, SC
Walker Suits wrsuits@gmail.com
www.travelersarpchurch.com
Thanksgiving

We have had a smooth transition to the YMCA and have already seen a few new visitors from the move.
We have two couples looking to possibly join the church.
"I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God." Deuteronomy 32:3

Pray

For Heather and Walker Suits as they are at CPAC.
Pray for Walker as he goes for his presbytery exam in October.
Pray for more outreach opportunities and boldness to faithfully proclaim the gospel in our community.
Pray for Walker as he preaches the Word of God; that he would stay humble and feed the sheep on the bread of life.


Canadian Presbytery
Faith Church, Tilsonburg, Ontario Rev. Steve Richardson
HOPE Presbyterian Church Kingston, Ontario Rev. Kevin Carter

Catawba Presbytery
Hill City Church, Rock Hill, SC Rev. Daniel Wells
Iglesia Biblica Latinoamericana, Columbia, SC
King’s Parish, Dallas, Texas Rev. David Winburne
River Crossing ARP, York County, SC Rev. David Stover
Shem Creek Presbyterian Church, SC Ben Carver and Charlie Phillips

First Presbytery
Bethesda Presbyterian Church, ARP, Johnson City, TN
Brookside Presbyterian Church, ARP, Boone, NC Rev. Larry Young
Christ Coastal Church, Southport, NC Rev. Walt Shepard
City Church of Asheville, Asheville, NC Rev. Duff James
Faith Chapel ARP, Pleasant Garden, NC Rev. Terry Crahen
Grace Community Church, Black Creek, NC Rev. Randy Jenkins
Grace Reformed Presbyterian Church, Clayton, NC Rev. Ken Kunkel
Hyo Shin Korean, Greensboro, NC – exploratory work Rev. Byong Han Son
New Beginnings Presbyterian Church, Smithfield, NC Rev. Percy Coleman
Northside Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, NC Rev. Paul Traub
Peace Korean ARP, Charlotte, NC – exploratory work Rev. Eung Chu Lee
Pinecrest Hispanic Mission, Hendersonville, NC Rev. Juan Carlos Unda
Rodam Korean ARP Church, Pineville, NC Rev. Eun Joo Kim
Wilkes-Covenant, Millers Creek, NC – exploratory work Student Josh Feimster

Florida Presbytery
Christ Community, Apollo Beach, FL Rev. Charlie Lewis
Renew Church, Fort Myers, FL Rev. Steve Reynolds
SonLife Church, Jacksonville, FL Rev. Bob Hovey
Tampa Chinese Presbyterian Church, Tampa, FL Rev. Jeff Liu

Mississippi Valley Presbytery
Havana ARP Church, Havana, AR Rev. Moises Chan
Redeemer Community Church, Murray, KY

Northeast Presbytery
All Nations Mission Church of NY, New York City, NY Rev. Bongkyun (Andrew) Bang
Christ Presbyterian Church, Glenside, PA Rev. Iain Duguid
Global Vision ARP Church, Flushing, NY Dr. Peter Tae Mun Lee
Good News Presbyterian Church, Gilbert, AZ
Holy Covenant, Lancaster, PA Rev. Jong Chul Kim
Holy Trinity Presbyterian Church, Grand Rapids, MI
Iranian Christian Church of Washington, D.C. Rev. Javad Pishghadamian
Jesuwon Community, Horsham, PA Rev. Seong Jong Yoon
New Covenant, Chantilly, VA Rev. Hae Gaph Lee
Tri-State Community Church, WV Rev. Rick Anderson

Second Presbytery
Clemson Korean Presbyterian Church Rev. Jae Park
Travelers ARP, Travelers Rest, SC Walker Suits


Tennessee/Alabama Presbytery
Hanmaum ARP, Madison, AL Rev. Soo Young Kim

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