Weekly Update- 08/12/2013

Greetings Friends!

Our family praises the Lord for all of your love, support, and encouragement for our family and ministry!

As members of the Mobilization team now, we work to help fill critical positions both internationally and domestically to be sure that the Gospel is sent out to every nation, tribe, and tongue.  It excites us, and hopefully you too, to be able to send people to not just one nation, but multiple countries across the world.

This week, Brie and Ali are preparing to travel back to Texas to see friends and family, while I stay in Greenwood and learn the ropes of my new position.  Please pray for their safe travels and quality time with friends and family.

At church this week, we heard a challenging sermon about how our faith is a vital component in our Christian walk, and how it is a gift from God, but it's a gift that can be grown.  Join us as we ask God to increase our faith and try to live our our faith in the strength of the Lord.

Currently, we are actively looking for a treasurer for our Mozambique field and for a Church Multiplication Facilitator for India.  Here's a link for a better definition of a Church Multiplication Facilitator and here's a link to more info about the treasurer role in Mozambique.

The harvest is ripe, but the workers are few.  Please join us as we plead to the Lord to mobilize missionaries into the mission field.  Not for our glory, but for His.

We can't begin to thank you guys enough for your prayers and support!  Have a blessed week!

The Morrell Family

Story from the Field

Here's a story from a person we helped mobilize on a short-term trip to Haiti.

http://www.onemissionsociety.org/blog/

TWIST: 07/15/2013

This Week In Short-Term Missions:  Week of 07/15/2013

Caribbean

• We have a team of 9 in the Caribbean from July 1-30, 2013 doing Bible training for church planters.

Ecuador

• We have a family serving at Camp Pallatanga From June 11-July 21, 2013.

Haiti

• We have a family serving in Cap Haitien from May 29-July 22, 2013.
• We have a team of 12 women going to Cap Haiten doing evangelism from July 13-July 20, 2013.
• We have a team of 8 going to Port-au-Prince for the Homes for Haiti project from July 13-July 22, 2013.
• We have a team of 10 traveling to Port-au-Prince also working with the Homes for Haiti project from July20-July 27, 2013.

Ukraine

• A team of 12 are working an English camp in Kiev from July 13-July 27, 2013.

Colombia

• A team of 8 is traveling to Medellin to participate in the Saturation Antioquia evangelism project from July 20-July 27, 2013.

Asia 

• We have a team of 3 going to various Asia countries as they teach and encourage church workers from July 20-August 7, 2013.

Please join us in prayer for this teams as they serve overseas.  Pray for them, the people the come in contact with, their families they left back at home, and the good works they are preforming.

July Email Newsletter

Below is a link to our July Email Newsletter.

Click Here

TWIST: 07/01/2013

This Week In Short-Term Missions:  Week of 07/01/2013

Costa Rica

• We have a team of 28 (18 of whom drove to Costa Rica) working at a camp outside San Jose and helping to raise funds for the Caribbean (Country name is hidden for security reasons) Saturation project.

Caribbean

• We have a team of 9 in the Caribbean from July 1-30, 2013 doing Bible training for church planters.

Ecuador

• We have a family serving at Camp Pallatanga From June 11-July 21, 2013.

• We have a team of 10 women putting on a Beautifully Broken conference until July 3, 2013.

Haiti

• We have a family serving in Cap Haitien from May 29-July 22, 2013.
• We have a team of 20 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti from June 29-July 6, 2013 helping with our Homes for Haiti project.

Please join us in prayer for this teams as they serve overseas.  Pray for them, the people the come in contact with, their families they left back at home, and the good works they are preforming.

TWIST- 06/03/2013

This Week In Short-Term Missions:  Week of 06/03/2013

Trinidad

• We have a Field Hockey team of 19 from Houghton College serving in Trinidad in sports ministry from June 1-9, 2013.

Haiti

• We have a girl traveling to Cap Haitien from May 14-June 4, 2013.

• We have a family serving in Cap Haitien from May 29-July 22, 2013.

• We have a team of two traveling in to Cap Haitien from June 1-5, 2013.

• We have 1 guy going to Cap to work on the Petit Anse wall from June 3-10, 2013.

• We have 3 men from Columbus, IN going to Cap to work at Petit Anse from June 5-27, 2013.

Please join us in prayer for this teams as they serve overseas.  Pray for them, the people the come in contact with, their families they left back at home, and the good works they are preforming.

TWIST: 05/20/2013

This Week In Short-Term Missions:  Week of 05/20/2013

Caribbean

• We have a group of 5 working in the Caribbean from May 4-22, 2013.

Ecuador

• We have a team of 19 from the University of Indianapolis serving on a medical team in the city of Yantzaza from May 8-23, 2013.  So far, this team has seen 452 patients (236 of those were under 18 years old).  The dental team cared for 58 people and the pharmacy was filled 1,321 prescriptions.  But the best news is we now have 235 new brothers and sisters in Christ! 

Haiti

• We have a girl traveling to Cap Haitien from May 14-June 4, 2013.

• We have a work/medical team going to Cap Haitien from Olney, IL traveling May 25 - June 1, 2013.

Please join us in prayer for this teams as they serve overseas.  Pray for them, the people the come in contact with, their families they left back at home, and the good works they are preforming.

Amazing Ministry Results!

Below is an email I received from a leader of a team that took a 9 people to share the Gospel in Haiti.  Thank you for your prayers and partnering with us to make ministry like this possible!

This team was made up of 8 young adults, 30 yoa and younger plus myself.  There was one 15 year old youth on this team.  They had gone through evangelism training with me prior to the trip.  I met the team in Miami and accompanied them to Haiti.   We did  4 days of evangelism and radio distribution.  One of those days was in a prison.   This team did an outstanding work.

There was at least 61 precious souls who were reconciled to God on this trip. We shared with about 450 prisoners.  There was no way to determine and count commitments made there.

There was at least 702 people who heard the Good News of Jesus Christ face to face.

We distributed 294 radios and connected at least that many families to the minsitry of 4VEH.  If we figure 5  people in a family, that is 1230 people.  If we figure 10 to include a few neighbors that is almost 3000 people who have access to the Haitian New Testament and the every day ministry of 4VEH.  WOW!!!  Praise the Lord.

As for the team -  We all fell more in love with the Lord and His Good News for others. We all gained passion and confidence for sharing that Good News.  We grew in our love for God, for Haiti and were all touched and changed by the Lord in different ways.   To borrow some words from a Haitian who was thanking me for something - My mouth is too small to really express how God worked in our hearts through Haiti and the people of Haiti.

TWIST- 05/13/2013

This Week In Short-Term Missions:  

Caribbean

• We have a group of 5 working in the Caribbean from May 4-22, 2013.

Ecuador

• We have a team of 19 from the University of Indianapolis serving on a medical team in the city of Yantzaza from May 8-23, 2013.  (I have posted some pictures from this team below.)

Haiti

• We have a girl traveling to Cap Haitien from May 14-June 4, 2013.

Please join us in prayer for this teams as they serve overseas.  Pray for them, the people the come in contact with, their families they left back at home, and the good works they are preforming.

Pictures from our Ecuador Team:

Always Be On The Lookout!

Below is an account from a team we sent to Haiti that got stuck in the DFW airport because they missed their flight due to weather.

Well we were all disappointed when we missed the flight and had to spend the night in Dallas and so was I.  Buttttt God had other ideas. While setting at the computer bar to plug in the i-pad to charge and look at pictures I had the chance to visit with this young girl. Megan goes to school in New Mexico where her father lives, her mother lives in New York so a broken family. As we visited I could feel an empty heart and we visited a little on her spiritual live. Megan had attended a Catholic school and taken all the right studies etc but had no idea that God wanted her to be His child. I had a Gideon New Testament that had been given to me just before leaving home. I am a Gideon but didn't have a testament with me. I used this little New Testament to show her several verses of God's love and plan for her. She then asked if I had another that she could have. I told her that I didn't but she could have that one and she just smiled. I then asked her if she would  like to take Christ as her Saviour.  She said "I don't know why not". It was very touching to hear her pray a very simple but from the heart pray asking Christ to forgive and to fill her life. 

Megan was alone in the airport and staying the night as she had missed her plane also. I asked her if she wanted to sleep with our group as we had a girl in the group with us and an extra cot. I didn't want to see her alone all night in a large airport. She smiled again and said sure. Please pray that her life will be changed and her walk with God will glorify HIM.   Guess it wan't so bad to miss the flight.

Thank you for your prayers for this team and the many other we send out on a weekly basis.   Isn't it cool how God works in mysterious ways?  Always be on the lookout for opportunities to share you faith.