Breaking Ground

Cornerstone Community Bible Church (EFCA), Sugar Land, TX recently voted to move forward with building their first permanent building. They expect to break ground in July.

Pray for Pastor Brent Burckart and the leaders as they forward with the church building project.

VBS: The Boomerang Effect

60+ dedicated workers and directors facilitated an exciting Vacation Bible School at Highland Park EFC, Columbus, NE. The week started with 23 children participating who were not regular attendees of the church. Thursday capped the week with the highest level of attendance--142 students. Wednesday, Pastor Lynn Kent delivered the Gospel and the teachers followed up the presentation in Bible study, clearly sharing the Gospel again in smaller groups. Twelve children indicated they wanted to receive Christ and made a profession of faith in Jesus!

And, God opened up a new opportunity for Highland Park this year. The Heartland EFC, Central City, NE and Evangelical Free Church of Aurora, NE are conducting the Boomerang Express VBS in the next couple of weeks. Highland Park EFC passed forward their VBS decorations to help those churches influence their communities.

Please be in prayer for those two events this month.

No Strings Attached

First Evangelical Free Church, Colorado Springs, CO, will join 35 churches and an estimated 1,000 people participating in "Project We Care" from June 7 through June 28. With the goal of serving and loving the community in tangible ways, the churches will complete a variety of projects. First Evangelical Free Church will clean up the Manitou Springs skate park.

For more information see The Gazette article on Project We Care:

http://www.gazette.com/articles/church-55819-churches-help.html

Christ EFC Hosts Damaris Carbaugh

Christian artist Damaris Carbaugh will perform at a no ticket concert at Christ EFC of Saegertown, PA, on June 26. Admission is free and a love offering will be taken at the performance.

Multiplying Cross-Cultural Church Planting

This week 35 students are participating in Cross-Cultural Church Planting school at the EFCA national office in Minneapolis, MN--some attending from other missions organizations. With the theme "Church Planting that Equips and Multiplies," 5 veterans of international church planting will impart their knowledge to the new church planters.

Pray for stamina, energy and joy in the Lord for the participants, teaching and preparation teams.

Growing Vista (Community Church)

Vista Community Church in San Antonio, TX, is praying and praising the Lord for:

1) 15 people baptized on June 7, 2009!

2) Sending out their first international missions team to Honduras with an EFCA District team the week of June 8.

3) Preparations to host their first Vacation Bible School in July!

Pray with them for continued growth in their community.

Asian-American Ministry Needs

Over 40 pastors, seminary students, and leaders met to focus on English ministry to Asian-Americans on June 3, 2009. The event was facilitated by retired pastor Wayland Wong. That same day, Daniel K. Eng noted in his blog post a reflection on the recent English Ministry Pastors' Fellowship hosted at the Chinese Evangelical Free Church in Monterey Park, CA.

Eng said, "It was a great time for me to network and connect with some guys that I’ve only known through the web, as well as many local Chinese-American pastors or those ministering to English-speaking Chinese-Americans. Also, it was a time to talk about and discuss different issues pertaining to Asian-American ministry today."

For key insights read the full blog post at: http://danielkeng.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/reflection-from-todays-english-ministry-pastors-fellowship/