News from Missions Development International
Dear friends:
MDI is leaving for Ukraine, January 23-February 8, 2009, and we would love to have your prayer coverage. The team consists of Steve Lorenz, Jeff McCandless, Marti Scudder and Terry Warren.
We have a very eclectic and exciting agenda for this trip. We are starting out this journey by spending three days with Loza, a ministry that MDI has been developing with Ben and Tanya Robinson to reach out to seekers and believers to understand how the fullness of the gospel touches all of our lives and those around us, bringing integration and cohesion in our increasingly fragmented and frenetic times. We are gathering with Andrew Fellows, the director of L'Abri in England, Marsh Moyle, the leader of Citygate, leaders from Innovista, YWAM, CBN, and others from across Ukraine and Belarus to network as like-minded people and see how we can better partner and share resources/experiences in "filling in the gaps" at this time and place - to be more creative, holistic and integrated in our teaching and living out the gospel - and to discover ways how together we can be a deeply connected and authentic community and serve the church in Ukraine and Belarus. Please pray for wisdom and discernment as MDI seeks to know how we should serve as well as lead in this gathering and for Loza.
Then we will be spending 4 days with Radooga Ministries meeting with the staff and continuing with our work of consulting and mentoring with the leadership of this ministry. Terry is the new Chairman of the Radooga Board (and he is also on MDI's Board) and wants to get an up close and personal view of Radooga.
We are also meeting with the women's ministry leadership team at New Life Church as we prepare for a large women's conference at the end of March 2009 to serve 300 women. MDI has been busy preparing the team in Nashville to teach and lead this conference as well as conferences in Odessa and Belgorod D'nestrovsky. Please pray that we will prepare that conference in such a way that all that is done will deeply impact the women who will attend.
After meeting with others in Kiev we will travel to Odessa to meet with Tanya Baranova who is MDI's newest full time staff. She is starting a new ministry called Journey to Freedom. It is a ministry that deals with life-controlling issues in people's lives. It tackles everyday issues that affect all of us and also includes alcohol, drug, and sexual addictions. Pray that we will be able to communicate clearly with Tanya and that the Lord will guide the Journey to Freedom team towards the goal He intends for us. MDI will also be doing all of the pre-trip planning for the conferences that will be held in March and April.
We cannot do the work of MDI without your prayer coverage. You are our partners in Ministry. We thank you for praying for:
"I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken." Psalms 16:8
Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Thank you,
Marti Scudder for the MDI team
MDI is leaving for Ukraine, January 23-February 8, 2009, and we would love to have your prayer coverage. The team consists of Steve Lorenz, Jeff McCandless, Marti Scudder and Terry Warren.
We have a very eclectic and exciting agenda for this trip. We are starting out this journey by spending three days with Loza, a ministry that MDI has been developing with Ben and Tanya Robinson to reach out to seekers and believers to understand how the fullness of the gospel touches all of our lives and those around us, bringing integration and cohesion in our increasingly fragmented and frenetic times. We are gathering with Andrew Fellows, the director of L'Abri in England, Marsh Moyle, the leader of Citygate, leaders from Innovista, YWAM, CBN, and others from across Ukraine and Belarus to network as like-minded people and see how we can better partner and share resources/experiences in "filling in the gaps" at this time and place - to be more creative, holistic and integrated in our teaching and living out the gospel - and to discover ways how together we can be a deeply connected and authentic community and serve the church in Ukraine and Belarus. Please pray for wisdom and discernment as MDI seeks to know how we should serve as well as lead in this gathering and for Loza.
Then we will be spending 4 days with Radooga Ministries meeting with the staff and continuing with our work of consulting and mentoring with the leadership of this ministry. Terry is the new Chairman of the Radooga Board (and he is also on MDI's Board) and wants to get an up close and personal view of Radooga.
We are also meeting with the women's ministry leadership team at New Life Church as we prepare for a large women's conference at the end of March 2009 to serve 300 women. MDI has been busy preparing the team in Nashville to teach and lead this conference as well as conferences in Odessa and Belgorod D'nestrovsky. Please pray that we will prepare that conference in such a way that all that is done will deeply impact the women who will attend.
After meeting with others in Kiev we will travel to Odessa to meet with Tanya Baranova who is MDI's newest full time staff. She is starting a new ministry called Journey to Freedom. It is a ministry that deals with life-controlling issues in people's lives. It tackles everyday issues that affect all of us and also includes alcohol, drug, and sexual addictions. Pray that we will be able to communicate clearly with Tanya and that the Lord will guide the Journey to Freedom team towards the goal He intends for us. MDI will also be doing all of the pre-trip planning for the conferences that will be held in March and April.
We cannot do the work of MDI without your prayer coverage. You are our partners in Ministry. We thank you for praying for:
- Traveling mercies as we travel to and throughout Ukraine
- For our families
- For good health
Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Thank you,
Marti Scudder for the MDI team
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