Grace Community Church responds

Dear Kenya Mission Trip Team,

Ed and I have just had a conversation with the Kenya Crisis Team Leader, Barry Rodriguez, and below in Barry's email is a summary of what each of us on our team can do individually to help our brothers and sisters in Kenya. It includes who to contact for each item. This is the information that will be announced this weekend, which Phil mentioned in an earlier email. Hopefully everyone on our team can pray and help to some degree, whatever church you are from. Faith Church has taken a collection for our brothers and sisters in Kenya. Grace Community Church sent money (which had been set aside in the Imagine Campaign) for crisis like these. We are not sure exactly what College Park is doing, but maybe Brian could let us know?

If you want to see the Grace website section on Kenya, you can click on http://gracecc.org/kenya. If you want to see the Navigator insert for March 12th weekend (pdf file) on this, then click on the link on the right side of this Kenya page.

Nairobi Chapel's website is http://www.nairobichapel.org/pages/index.asp. We were told that there is a way to donate money direct with a credit card, but I can not find it?

Chet Wood has sent us an excellent pictoral summary of their situation in Kenya (attached PDF file below).

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Judy Parker's on Friday, March 10th. We will meet at 6:15 and eat at 6:30. Regarding to food at the pot luck, if you have not contacted Judy yet, please do so. We will wish Polly a Happy Birthday from a distance (she will not be able to attend). Chet Wood will speak more about "Justice and Jesus." There will be breakouts of the Drama team to practice and the computer team to discuss issues. We plan to end the evening by 8:30 PM.

Blessings,
Phil & Ed


-----Original Message-----From: Rodriguez, Barry [mailto:barryr@gracecc.org]Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 1:58 PMTo: Arnold, Phil & KathyCc: Chester Wood; Fischer, EdSubject: How your team can help...
Phil,

Here is a basic rundown of what we’ll be doing.

1. This weekend we will be handing out fabric prayer ties (to go along with our week of prayer and fasting) at each of the doors of Grace Main and Sojourn. We need lots of volunteers to make this happen. If your team is willing, that would be great!
2. We also need a lot of help cutting the prayer ties before the weekend. There are bags in Grace’s mailroom with instructions on how to cut them. Alicia McClure is heading up that project (marcandalicia@sbcglobal.net).
3. We are setting up a kiosk in the lobby as a source of information for people interested in praying for/learning about the crisis in Kenya. We need people who are interested in manning the booth after each of the services. Chuck Easton is coordinating that for the next few weeks (chuckeaston@gmail.com). Contact him with your availability if you are interested.
4. Finally, we will be having prayer sessions during all four services in the choir room for the month of March (starting March 8). There will be a short presentation of a specific issue each week (tribalism, Kenyan politics, etc.), then prayer over that issue. Would love to have you! I’m the contact person for that one.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Barry Rodriguez
Work: 580-2749
Cell: 797-5185
barryr@gracecc.org