Here we go: N. Ireland trip

[Kyuboem Lee]

(Sorry if you are getting this email twice; it's because you gave to the N. Ireland trip and you are on Friends of G.Hope list--double the love!)


Dear friends:

Well, the time is almost upon us. All the passports are in. The plane tickets have been bought. Rides to and from the airports have been arranged. This Saturday evening, our N. Ireland team will leave from John F. Kennedy airport in New York City and will arrive in Dublin on Sunday morning. From there, we will travel to Portadown where the team will help with Holiday Bible Club at First Presbyterian Church of Portadown (http://www.firstportadown.org/) first week, then participate in a youth community service project called Xpressions the second week. The team will return Sunday, August 23.

Thanks to your generous financial support, partnership, and prayer, this trip was made possible. As we enter into the actual trip phase, we are very much standing in the need of your prayers for the next three weeks. Here are some specific ways that you can pray for the team:

• Travel: For safety and smooth transitions, especially for our two young boys, Amoz and Theo.
• Work: That the team would dive into our tasks eagerly, that we would learn quickly, and that we would work well with others and as a team.
  
• Crossing cultures: For a deep fellowship and friendships among Christians from very different backgrounds, that demonstrate the unity that we have in Christ.
  
• Discipleship: That our teenagers would grow by leaps and bounds in their Christian walk and in their maturity through this trip.
  
• Adult leaders: For wisdom, for love, for patience... for everything that we need to pastor our team well.
  
• Host families and host church: That they would be blessed as much as they bless us through this trip.
• Families of our team members: That this trip would be an opportunity for the Lord to demonstrate his kingdom to them.
  

We will update you "from the field" via email and blog posts (over at our family blog, The Q Chronicles Online - http://qchronicles.blogspot.com/) and report on what the Lord will do with us and through us, what kinds of challenges we will face, and how you can continue to pray for us. If you haven't already done so, I encourage you to join us at Friends of Germantown Hope (http://groups.google.com/group/GHope-friends/) to get regular email updates and prayer requests for not only the N. Ireland trip but other ministry and life events going on at Germantown Hope.

Thank you for your friendship. We will keep you updated!

Shalom,

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Kyuboem Lee
Germantown Hope Community Church
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