I am so excited about partnering to impact around the world with HIS love! I LOVE the connection we share at Indian Creek Community Church that to advance His Kingdom and push back the darkness all over the world!
We are passionate about reaching people with the Good News and living that love out around the neighborhoods and around the globe! Recently, this is a brief overview of the countries with whom we partner!
In China through partnership with Project Partner we send teams of students to teach English as a second language to Chinese students in morning and evening classes. On the breaks and over the weekend they build relationships and earn the opportunity to share their stories.
In Germany we partner with a vibrant and passionate young couple, David and Katherine Baertz, who are planting a church in Hamburg. The church is now one year old. This couple has such a heart for the city that they moved to the “city center” so that they might be able to influence other young adults for Jesus Christ!
In Mexico we have a 15 year partnership with YouthFront to build homes in Monterrey.. For years we took teams of students and taught Vacation Bible School in area churches, teaching the love of Jesus Christ to the children. Then we got a burden for housing and began to construct housing for the poor. We began in a small village just on the outskirts of Monterrey. And now there is nowhere else to build homes in Croc! The need has been filled! So this year we will be teaching English as a Second Language classes. That’s what can happen when we partner over a long period of time with others to accomplish great things for God!
In Africa we partner with Dave and Kristi Fair of Oceans of Mercy to resource the city of Kwadic in the Transki region of S. Africa to provide education, food, Aids awareness. Last year we also bought shoes for an entire village of children! Of course, those children will continue to have needs as they grow we will continue to respond to the current needs of that village. We send teams twice a year so be present to build relationships and live out the love of Jesus in a personal way.
Last but not least we partner in India. Since 2001 Indian Creek has sent nine teams of women to train the leaders of leaders in India in partnership with the India Gospel League. There we support women’s conferences in nearly all of the 16 states of India and Sri Lanka! Women from Indian Creek Community Church have bravely traveled, told their stories (some for the very first time), led worship, shared leadership experiences, and loved women to life, literally becoming the arms of Christ around His daughters who sometimes have had no other arms to hold and encourage them! These women have trained and encouraged thousands of women for the advancement of His kingdom and beyond! We know that when you train, encourage and help women, you train the next generation of families and churches!
Through our partnership with India and the India Gospel League, we also love out God's love in the island country south of India, Sri Lanka. I will never forget the call I received on the day after Christmas in 2004 when my sister called wondering if I had heard the news. When I said NO she began to cry and tell me that what later was deemed the DEADLIEST tsunami in the history of the world! Rev. Samuel Stephens the president of the IGL was overcome by the need and devastation and knew that he could not respond alone. So in Feb. of 2005 he invited friends in a Presidential Delegation to travel with him to survey the devastation and to distribute basic necessities to survivors! Because of the network of the pastors and churches of the IGL they were able to know where the need was and respond faster than even the Salvation Army. I stood on the train tracks where a train packed shoulder to shoulder with people had been pulled into the ocean and heard the story of a young man who lost his entire youth group and his family, save for his three year old daughter who was clinging to his legs as he told his story to other pastors who had lost many from their own families and congregations. Three years ago Indian Creek agreed to adopt one of the villages destroyed to help to rebuild the structures and lives of that village. It is a five year partnership designed to get the village up to a level where it can sustain itself.
At Indian Creek we are passionate about helping people to find their way back to God all over the world. I hope you will support the Global Cause with your finances, prayers and service as we change the face of the world for Him!
I encourage you to prayerfully consider what God would have you give and do: maybe go on a trip or sponsor someone else on a trip. He is able to do more than we can think or imagine! What a partnership!
