Friday, January 26, 2007

Richard in Manchester

Here's Richard in front of the Conference Center where they had the AIS International Leaders' Conference near Manchester, England.


They had great worship times and he got to connect with AIS people from all over.

At the conference Topics covered in the meetings were:a. Crisis contingency planning
b. How to finance emerging offices in Haiti, Kenya, Nigeria, etc.
c. What does an indigenous ministry look like?
d. How can the International Office help emerging offices

A plan was made for the next year for AIS Haiti. The plans include a visit by AIS's director in February, a semi-professional soccer team visiting Haiti in May and the first "TREC " (Training Resourcing and Equipping) in Haiti- training of Haitian nationals in soccer ministry.

After that he spent a few days in the Bolton office of AIS UK observing how soccer ministry is done in England.


On his way there and back he flew through Newark, NJ. On the way there he got to spend a day with Steve and Margaret Bohall (friends from Grace Church New York who have been supportive of our mission effort over all these years). On the way back he got to stay in the Crossing Community Church missionary apartment and visited with some of our friends and family in that area. Unfortunately his time was short, so he couldn't see all the people he would have liked to.

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