Pray for our church planter... Leonel Ortiz

Since 2007, SRC started to develop a relationship with Pastor Leonel Ortiz from Colombia. His son-in-law Pastor Matt Dubocq is our church planter in Miami. Through Matt we got to meet Pastor Leonel and now we've been working in Colombia since 2008. SRC has planted 2 churches in that country so far, in Villavicencio and Cali. Pastor Leonel is training many leaders (see pic below) for the work of the gospel through church planting in Colombia. He and his wife Belgica, as well as his children are very involved in ministry. Please keep them in your prayers this week. Pray that the gospel can advance in Colombia and that many people can find Christ through the ministry and leadership of Pastor Leonel Ortiz.

Pray for our church planter... Khen Tombing

Our movement leader in India (Myanmar area) is Rev. Khen Tombing. SRC has been involved with church planting in India since the early 1980's, and so far we have partnered with Khen to plant 16 churches in India. Khen and his wife Rith are very active in the ministry of the gospel to the Hindu communities in India. Khen has recently lost his sister to a car accident and was not able to attend our GO Conference in April. Please lift up Pastor Khen and his family in prayer, as we continue to serve our SRC church planters by praying for them every week.

Join us as we pray for our SRC church planters

During the weekend services at SRC, we have been highlighting the work of our church plants and lifting up a particular church planter in prayer. This is a great way for the SRC family to continue remembering our church planters. We thought it would be a good idea to do the same here in our GO blog, this way people can continue to pray during the week.

This week we will be praying for Pastor Clinton Cesar. Clinton and his wife Juliana are planting Libertas Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the famous Copacabana beach. They are in their 3rd year of work and plans are to dedicate the church towards the end of 2010. They attended the GO conference recently and brought great news about the new location that they secured for their meetings. We are supporting them in prayer and also financially with the remodeling with the new building. Join us in prayer for the Cesar family and for Libertas Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Special thanks to all the GO Volunteers!

We had an amazing Global Outreach Conference this year. The weekend services were so intense and covered with great stories of God's work. We went around the world in 60 minutes and we discovered that "we've got to do this" and "we get to do this" together! It's about the gospel and it's about changing lives here in the US and around the world.

The GO Expo was the best ever. We had more than a hundred volunteers involved in making it happen. It was a great time for our church family to come together and celebrate the fruit of their investment (time, talents and treasures) into church planting. It was also a great opportunity to visit with our church planters and to connect with the work that God is doing in their churches.

 The conference sessions also went very well, with time for our church planters to meet together, connect and share experiences. On Tuesday we had a special speaker, Randy Pope, who provided great teaching and a time of interaction for our church planting partners and friends. We closed our conference with a communion service where we had a time of thanksgiving and great fellowship.

None of the above would be possible without the faithful and joyful dedication and service of our GO volunteers. We are grateful for them! We have a great family at SRC, the family of God, and the fruits of our efforts here is impacting the whole world.