Dana Weller

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First week Sno-Glo teens set a goal of $1,000 for an offering for the Tsunami victims.  The offering taken on Saturday night was over $ 2,000!

The Board of Missions has already received over $9,000 disaster relief for victims of the South Asia quake and tsunamis.  Donations can be sent either by check clearly marked Tsunami Relief, or by Pay-pal by clicking the button below.

Jenny Palmer will be departing for Kenya January 12th. She will be in Nairobi a few months for language study before she begins her physical therapy ministry in Kajiado. Pray for traveling mercies and culture adjustment.

Caution:  Jenny received her passion for missions on her first short term missions trip.  IT is a fact that an extraordinary number of career missionaries point back to a short term trip as the time that God made clear upon their lives His call to career missions.  If you are part of a short term trip in 2005, keep your spiritual ears and eyes open to God’s leading!

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Registration deadline for the upcoming Culture Link seminar is quickly approaching.  Culture Link training for short term mission leaders is more important than their suitcase!!!  Be a prepared leader!

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http://www.bfcbom.org/culture_link.htm

The people that know me well say that I get excited about things that others find ordinary or uninteresting.  For example, I get excited about coupons, clearance sales, yard sales, underwear and sock sales, $2 shoes, rebates and the list goes on and on.  But I get really excited when someone gives me $20 for our ministry and I know that they are giving it sacrificially, or when someone that travels with us feels called to be a missionary, or when a small child comes out of their home wearing clothing we gave them two or three months before.  It is the latter list that makes the first list so exciting because one fuels the other.  Now, what makes you excited?  What gets your motor running?  Have you ever thought about it??  Make a list, I hope it is a long one because getting excited is a wonderful gift from God that we were meant to enjoy.  For me, there is one last thing that I can’t leave out, and it is taking people like you overseas on short-term mission trips.  There is just something about seeing someone experience another culture and then to see them act differently upon returning to the good ole USA..  If you are reading this you have probably been on one or more short-term mission trips in your lifetime.  This is the year for you to prompt someone new to go, and to experience, and to GET EXCITED!!  Make that your goal in 2005, help someone in your church to experience what you and I already know.  Blessings to you and yours in 2005!

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1.  Kosovo Planning Trip (in progress)

Nelson Randolph

News from the trip:  Greetings from Kosovo, arrived here safely yesterday with five bags in tow, we will be delivering Samaritan's Purse gift boxes today and flour and sugar tomorrow to needy families.

2.  Greece Trip January 20-27

Bethel Emmaus and Cedar Crest

Vision trip to plan future short term partnerships with the Kline’s and the  Sioukiouroglou’s

3.  Guadeloupe Work Team January 25- February 4

Trinity Blandon and Calvary Coopersburg

Work Team from Trinity BFC, Blandon and Calvary BFC, Coopersburg to Guadeloupe to do renovation work at the Centre Evangelique in partnership with Duane and Joetta Moyer.

4.  Thailand January 25-February 8

Dottie Sterner will work with MK children during the Pioneer Conference.

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