Vision: To Serve the Lord in the year 2010 by reaching out to Hoopa
with the Love of Jesus Christ by using our Hands, Feet, Minds, and
Hearts as a means of reaching the unsaved.
Who: The Team is definitely taking shape!! One by one people are adding to
the Team as the vision is shared with others and the mission takes hold in
the hearts of those willing to serve. If you are in middle school to adult
come with us!
When: July 4-9, 2010, will travel on the 4th of July
Plan: To Develop a team to serve the Hoopa Mission Field in 2010
The Challenge in forming our team is to help you discover:
Who are you... a leader or a team member?
What is a good fit for “who you are” on our team?
What skills and talents do you have to offer the children
and people of the Hoopa community?
If you want to join us in making a difference come join us in “Hoopa
2010”
1. Please print and fill out the enclosed application and return to:
Caprice Egloff, PO Box 79, Yorkville, CA 95494 or give it to me at church.
Please include a deposit of $50, make all your checks payable to
Crossroads Christian Church, Memo Hoopa. We are still forming our
budget although the projected cost for this trip is $300.
2. Please plan on being at the meeting on March 21st. We will meet
every first Sunday of the month, adding meeting as we get closer to
our trip
MISSION: VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA, 2011
A Partnership with IMB Far-East Russia Regional Director Rob Thommarson
Why consider a mission trip?
Individuals: Tremendous personal spiritual growth as we put heart,
hands, and feet to the gospel in an area of Russia that has virtually no
evangelical presence. Experience the power of the Lord in fresh ways. You
will see lives radically changed; one of them will be your own.
Pastors: Encourage the spiritual energy that flows through such
efforts to help the members of your church unite in an effort outside the
walls of the sanctuary. Whether your church engages as a sending church or
a going church, you will see fresh enthusiasm for serving that will spill over
into all the rest of your church's ministries.
Why this mission?Because this mission is to fallow ground. Paul said, "It has always
been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that
I would not be building on someone else's foundation." (Rom. 15:20) My friend
Rob has been in Russia as an IMB missionary the last five years, to an area
(Ekaterinburg) that he developed a partnership with when he was a pastor in
Northern California. IMB has now moved him to a new area, with new
responsibilities. Far Eastern Russia is an area with only a small handful of
SBC missionaries to cover a huge area. It is not just that there are only a
few SBC missionaries—in fact, there is virtually no evangelical presence . .
. and people there are desperately spiritually hungry.
What is the task of this mission? To take the gospel to the far side of the earth. There are unlimited
ways to do this, depending upon what your own skill-and-gift sets are. I will
be going to this area in the late spring of this year to assess needs, and to
develop a construction project. There will also be many opportunities to
develop parallel projects within the overall mission. There will be a fully
developed proposal for a 2011 project by fall of 2010.
A personal message: I've done this five times in the last eight years – it has gone very well
and been life-changing each time. Please pray about how God might use
you in another country and culture. If you are so moved, you can contact me
at:
shepherd@h-hconst.com or cell 707 322-2985.
Pastor/D.O.M. Greg Holmes
FBC Upper Lake & Mendo-Lake Baptist Association
