THE FOUNDRY CHRISTIAN CHURCH

   

Stan And Christine- WHAT WE DO!

Pastoring the Embassy of Hope Church in India.

• Training and Sending Church Planters
• Traveling India to Strengthen EOH Cell Churches
• Domata India School Teachers
• Curriculum Translation: Kannada & Tamil
• “Encounter of Hope” Weekends
• Mentoring for Multiplication - G12 cell plan
• School of Leaders for lay members to reach India
• Children’s Ministry - Training and Outreach

On May 7, 2007 the Times of India reported that an estimated 11 million children are abandoned in India, and of these 11 million, 90% are girls! God has been speaking to us to open up a girls home—-THIS YEAR! After months of prayer, research and development, we are so thrilled to announce to you this new project from our ministry base here in India! Sometime this fall, we will be opening an Embassy of Hope Home just for ophaned girls.  We chose the name Abigail to give each Hope Home a personal touch associated with a biblical name.  In Hebrew, Abigail means “The Father rejoices!” Abigail’s Embassy of Hope Home will take in girls between the ages 0-8 who have lost both parents or are motherless.  We will care for 9 girls in a rented house and will staff 3 full-time caretakers.  The long-term vision is to duplicate this home for children in many more places throughout the nation of India! Please remember us in prayer.

ONGOING and PLANNED PROJECTS

Partners needed for the following:

• More Antioch church planting - sending out more church planters, next will be Calcutta
• More establishing of churches - Barnabas ministry to strengthen over a dozen churches that exist.
• Curriculum translation - Hindi, Telagu, other languages
• Land purchase for Domata Bible School
• Educational needs for Boyd children
• Monthly partners in prayer and finance

THE PARKS FAMILY 

Mike and Sheri Parks have three beautiful children — Carlos, Ilana, and Josiah.  Mike is a disaster relief strategy coordinator with a humanitarian aid organization, Global Hope Network Int’l.  Since helping repatriate refugees from the Kosovo conflict in 1999, Mike and Sheri continue to seek out the unreached and least reached people in crisis.  They believe in demonstrating the love of God to those who are hurting and have never heard of His love.  They go to regions where people are often isolated from receiving help and are suffering from man-made and natural disasters, oppression, persecution and war, to bring them help through compassionate relief.  By bringing dignity and respect to these people, they are able to build a bridge of trust that brings hope to the lives of those who have no hope.  Please remember them in prayer as they continue to press forward in areas such as Sudan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.

 Prayer request from Mike:

I do appreciate your prayers.I began another intensive time of travel to some very needy regions and ask that you would cover my family and my travel/projects/team in your prayers. I leave for Indonesia tomorrow. I will meet up with our team in Jakarta and fly to the Island of Sulawesi where we have an on going program training people in community health education.  The team has developed amazingly good relationships with the community and its leaders. I will be heading up a Disaster Response Training on the 5^th or 6^th for the local governmental leaders focusing in working with NGO’s in a disaster.Pray for our wonderful Indonesian and Philippine staff as they work in a very strenuous environment physically, emotionally and spiritually.
On the 10^th I go solo to Sri Lanka.

We have wonderful people doing wonderful work and I ask that you keep each of them in prayer as they press on, working in a place that one moment is so peaceful and the next so violent and deadly.

Please pray for Sheri (my wife) as she is pregnant and now has caught a really bad flu that is attacking her lungs giving her a bad cough and making her sick to her stomach again. It is hard for her when I leave, and being sick makes it worse but we know God has called us to this and He will and is bless(ing) us.  Thanks so much for your prayers.  These are strenuous days that are ripe with opportunity to honor God thru acts of compassionate love…so take a chance…step out of the boat to walk on water… radically love Jesus then go do something about it.FOLLOW-UP The situation with the government of Afghanistan continues to hinder us from bringing food, seeds and plants that could save lives and change entire regions thru the introduction of better food, markets, and health.But, the government so far has persisted in requiring a 3 year growth, harvest, and replanting period to observe the seeds and plants.  But we have been bringing these in, with their permission, for over 3 year!  And we even taught some of them in our community training center. So we are perplexed but not in despair.    God bless you, Mike