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Generosity :: Feeds

Pastor Ron Klabunde,  President of Replenish Community Foundation, is a great friend of ELI and Cultivate. He shared this Replenish initiative with us:

Many new churches are looking for missional opportunities to engage both Christians and pre-Christians in Jesus’ mission, while creating an environment of discipleship.

Formed from the creative missional expressions of a church plant in Northern Virginia, Generosity::Feeds has grown into a nationwide collaborative effort with church plants and their local communities, to ignite new discipling relationships while addressing the food insecurity of children in their area.

 

http://youtu.be/J0YZ5OVofTo

 

You can work with Generosity::Feeds to engage your church and community to package 10,000 or more meals in 2 hours! These are then given to your local schools to distribute to children who go hungry outside school hours. Learn more at www.generosityfeeds.org/churches.

 

Laughter Escapes

We received this video from Toni Mello, a church planter from Brazil who is part of ELI’s Cultivate Church Planter training. And, by the way, stay tuned for some exciting news about Cultivate, coming in the next few weeks…

 

The project Escapa Riso (Laughter Escapes) takes the gospel to the pediatric ward of a big city hospital through creative evangelism. It is an initiative of the Igreja da Cidade (City Church) in Salvador – Brazil. The team consists of counselors and clowns making jokes, doing magic tricks, and speaking of the love of Jesus in a manner sensitive to the reality of suffering of those children and parents.
Everything came from the desire to be missionally active, in a way compatible with the possibilities of  a small church plant. Since then, the team has continued to grow and now has developed training and workshops, and we have been invited to go to other hospitals.

 

Jaxton’s Story

Exponential is running a really helpful series of stories on sifting.
A recent post featured ELI Cultivate planters Josh and Lisa Husmann.  God
has used them to  plant a great church, Mercy Road, in the
Indianapolis area.

In the process God also gave them Jaxton, whose very
short life was used in very unexpected ways.  Josh and Lisa’s faithfulness is
a great testimony.  You can read the story here and watch the video
below.