Always a popular guest speaker at MCC is Kingsley Armstrong - founder
of 'The
Joshua Project', a training course based on the book of Joshua
designed to help people discover what their 'land' or 'ministry' was.
Members of Mossvale benefited greatly from the teaching, and also
participated in a second course based on the book of Judges, known
as J.P.2. Most recently God has directed Kingsley and Cathy
in a direct way serve their brothers & sisters overseas.
STRETCH
is 'Sharing The Resources, Extending
The CHurch' -
for churches in the UK to stretch out to churches overseas.
Co-ordinated by Kingsley, there are opportunites to twin up with churches
from Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Romania, and Guatemala,
where Pastors have limited resources but do an amazing work. The pound
is so strong that it stretches to so much in these lands.
We have
built a fruitful relationship with a Pastor in Ghana. Pastor Osmond
is a man called by God from a Moslem background, now helping to reach
the poor and needy, building an orphanage and school for the kids
and with a vision to reach the West of Africa for Jesus.
Osmond has visited MCC in 2004 and 2006, and we have taken teams to
Ghana twice. We are now very excited to be planning our third and
largest trip yet to for October 2007.
The challenge
goes out - will you as a church or individual grasp the vision
and S T
R E T C H your borders?
('The Joshua Project - Leading people to inherit the land' has now
been published and can be purchased by clicking
here.)