Are you interested in learning about the Arabic gulf region? Come and learn about the need for gospel in the Arabian Gulf region. Hear about what God is doing to reveal His glory to the unreached through the vision and calling that God is putting on His people.
If you are interested in learning about how to love and serve Muslims in this region, this is a great place to start!
For information contact: Steve J.
This group will meet for the first time on Tuesday, Nov 10 at 7:30 PM
Location: Round Rock, TX (contact Steve for details)
Partners: check out this email from a local missional leader in Austin regarding a conference that might be of interest to you in Austin in September.
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After months of planning and preparation, and in partnership with PerspectivesAustin and local area churches, we are excited to announce that the 2nd bi-annual Middle East Awareness Summit is coming to Austin, TX on September 18 & 19.
The purpose of the Middle East Awareness Summit is twofold. First, it is intended to elevate the participant's awareness of the extraordinary things that God is doing among Arabs across the 22 countries of the Middle East (including N. Africa, Arabian Peninsula and African Horn) from the unique perspective of indigenous pastors and laypersons currently at work there. To this end, challenges and opportunities will be presented and discussed in general and specific to several different countries. Second, it is intended to provide strategic networking opportunities for Western churches to explore ways to partner with indigenous Arab Christians to efficiently and effectively complete the mandate of the Great Commission among some of the least reached peoples in the World. To accomplish this, several networking opportunities will be provided during and after the Summit.
This Summit will feature guest speakers from various countries in the Middle East. These are indigenous, Arab Pastors and ministry leaders who are engaged in full-time church planting, pastor [KEEP READING]
Roger and Karen Farrar will be hosting a gathering for all of the people at The Austin Stone that may have an interest in hearing how God has used Leadership Development Incorporated (LDI) to bring people to Christ.
LDI has several phases of it business. It does business consulting to CEOs within China. They consult utilizing Christian world view business practices with a goal of discussing God's plan for business and personal relationships that stems from His love of us and His precepts of how to conduct our lives and interactions. The purpose is to share God's good news with all. Second they have Christian world view schools throughout China, 6 different cities, where children of expatriate business people can receive an excellent education. These children, K-12, receive an excellent education, but embedded in the excellence is God's world view, which is centered around His perfect creation, plan for this world and love of us all. The third aspect is English language schools where young business people come to enhance their English skills so that they may compete more effectively in the business world.
Over the last 7 years this ministry has had a greater and greater investment of Chinese nationals participating and leading in these aspects of the ministry. This is a sign of a healthy ministry where the Chinese people start overseeing the ministry to their fellow Chinese.
LDI now feels lead to open similar ministries going west, or back to Jerusalem. They will [KEEP READING]
For five weeks this summer, recent UT graduate Chelsea Marcum will serve in the Middle East. Here’s what she has to say before boarding her plane.
God’s Plan, Not Ours
Thank goodness we are not the ones who decide what God will do in our lives and how he will work! In a week I will be in the Middle East helping an Austin family who now lives and works there. This, I promise you, is beyond anything I could have ever planned or even expected for my summer.
It’s unexpected, but it makes such beautiful sense when I consider all of my experiences in these past two years. From one afternoon Sophomore year, when I closed Don’t Waste Your Life (Chapter 5: Risk is Right—Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It) and felt my heart burn and tremble like it knew things that my mind didn’t yet, to holding a Perspectives certificate weeks before college graduation and asking God, “Why am I still plan-less? Why are doors closing?” I see a glimpse of how God uses everything, from major experiences to minor details, for the purposes of His perfect will.
As the story goes (and it has always gone, even before my story), God blessed me with that perfect will. Now I’m packing light for a trip across the world where I will encounter even more things that make my heart race and my mind go, “What?”
How Change Happens
I have a naughty habit of expecting my future (both immediate and long-term) to pan out exactly the way I decide it should. Nothing’s formulaic, but the cycle [KEEP READING]