On Wednesday and Thursday, The Outreach Foundation’s team visited the border of Ukraine and Poland with faithful friends from Kyiv (Ukraine Evangelical Theological Seminary) and Lviv (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church). This visit has left us stunned and still processing so much.
Read MoreWe visited 4 churches today, reconnecting with 3 churches I had visited before. Worshipping with them is like getting a glimpse into the Kingdom of Heaven. Even though I did not know all of the songs, somehow it did not seem necessary. Watching the faces of the congregation told me all I needed to know about the words. By the expressions on their faces, and the raised hands, I could tell they were deep in praise and worship. And that was all I needed to find myself in the same place with them – our God is an awesome God! I found myself humming along and praising God.
Read MoreWe spent the day driving from Warsaw to the Medyka border, a 5-hour drive against the backdrop of the cold and fog of Poland – a metaphor for life in Ukraine – a cold, harsh reality with a future that is hard to see. This visit would take us as close as we are permitted to get to Ukraine.
Read MoreWith our last two arriving in the wee hours of the morning, The Outreach Foundation team in Egypt was complete: Steve Burgess, Kimmy Briggs, John and Judy Daniel, Morgan Sentas and Jason Sentas, Linda Bowman, and Casey Wood. Grateful to God for safe (and uninterrupted!!!) travel, our jet-lagged and sleep-deprived (but eager!) group headed out for our explorations in Old Coptic Cairo.
Read MoreThis week The Outreach Foundation will be in Poland and Lithuania to visit church partners who provide spiritual, physical, and emotional support to people displaced due to the war in Ukraine. Joining Tom Boone, Associate Director for Mission, are Dan and Jill Gilbert (Columbia, GA), Susan Montoya (San Diego, CA), Stephanie Olivero (San Diego, CA), and Outreach trustee Amy Petrenko with her husband Vic (Mooresville, NC).
Read MoreWarm again! It was another warm day in Nuremberg with the high temperature reaching 70 degrees. Following breakfast, Mehrdad stopped by to share his current ministry as well as his vision for the future.
Read MoreWe have been blessed with calm beginnings to each day as we visited over breakfast at our hotel to prepare for the day’s events. Each evening has afforded us the rich company of our new friends in Christ along with great hospitality. As we head into our second full day in Nurnberg, we have much to still see, learn and experience together.
Read MoreThe Outreach Foundation is on a week-long visit with our Persian friends in Europe. The second leg of our visit brings us to Germany. I have heard of the abundant hospitality Persians shower upon their guests but wow! Don’t ask me to tell you what I ate, but it was delicious.
Read Morehe Outreach Foundation is on a week-long visit with our Persian friends in Europe. Our first leg has taken us to The Netherlands where we have been visiting with Dariush and people within his ministry, Safehouse. This leg ends tonight as we fly to Germany to visit with a dear friend, Sargez, and his Persian-speaking congregation.
Read MoreThe day began with prayer and reflecting on what we heard and saw the previous days. Our team leader, Tom Boone, Associate Director for Mission with The Outreach Foundation, read a testimony from Mrs. Deborah Plumb Cochran, one of the earliest Presbyterian missionaries to the Nestorians in Persia (1847).
Read MoreThe Outreach Foundation is on a week-long visit with our Persian friends in Europe. Our first leg has taken us to The Netherlands where we are visiting with Dariush and the people within his expansive ministry, Safehouse.
Read MoreIt was a typical windy and gray October day in Amsterdam yet spirits were glowing! Following months of planning, The Outreach Foundation’s intrepid team from Grace Presbyterian Church in Bethlehem, PA, gathered in Amsterdam for a week of visits with our dear friends from Iran.
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