Saturday, January 26, 2013

1/26/13 Update




The Ingham Update - CO Mobilization
January 26, 2013



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Thanks for being a part of this journey with us. We really can't imagine doing life without the joy of your partnership. (Philippians 1:3-5)


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We just wanted you to know how this month is wrapping up and how to pray for us! We just visited Chattanooga, TN last weekend to do some preliminary work on setting up a partner church (New City Fellowship, below) to receive a team of our CO grads upon them finishing school. This team would launch to Chattanooga in the summer/fall of 2014. Lots of exciting things are going on up there. We are pumped to be able to potentially partner with other believers advancing God's kingdom!
Also, be praying for us as we will be traveling for 6 days over the next week and a half. We will be in ATL for a mobilization summit with all the other mobilization directors for CO regions around the country. After 3 days of that, we will head to Clarkston, GA (which is a refugee processing center for the US). It is one of the most diverse square miles in America with over 1 million foreigners. To give you a picture of what life is like there: the local high school has students from 54 countries with 47 different languages. We are looking into Clarkston (top pic below: of temple next to Subway) being a mobilization site for us in the future as well. The end of our trip will be 2 days in Nashville, TN. Our friends (some former CO staff) are a part of a church plant (South City Church) that is just starting up there. The work is very new and they need lots of help. We are praying about sending a team of our trained graduates to be a part of that church plant. All of this is very exciting, but we need much more than excitement - we need prayer and God's favor in all of these plans we are making! Please join us in praying!
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

1/15 Update




The Ingham Update - CO Mobilization
January 15, 2013



  Life - on - Life
   With the Ingham Family

Thanks for being a part of this journey with us. We really can't imagine doing life without the joy of your partnership. (Philippians 1:3-5)



2013 is getting off to a fast & exciting start. Our mobilization track here (Vision Pathways Augusta) is entering into its 2nd half and we are very excited about what God can and will do in the lives of our grads. Some things we are doing with them:
  • We are starting (this year) to place an emphasis on integrating their faith and work. We have so many mentors in the church who are helping us do that. Also, we are working through a book in our discipleship groups entitled, "Every Good Endeavor" by Tim Keller. It is a great resource - check it out.
  • We are also assimilating them deeper into the life of the church by having them join community groups with other young adults and an older couple in the church.
  • One of our grads, Dave Jackson, is going to get to share (Feb 17th) about God's work in his life and his experience in Vision Pathways with the whole church. This will be great for everyone to have a deeper glimpse into Vision Pathways.
  • Our VP staff team came up with some prayer requests (specific to VP) that we want to trust God to answer over the course of this Spring (see below). We are asking the grads to pray these with us because we know that God listens and acts on behalf of his children when they pray.
  • Lastly, we have started a blog to document and update all that is going on in the Vision Pathways world on a day to day basis. There are consistent updates on things that have happened as well as personal blog posts by the grads themselves. To see or follow that blog, click here.
Dave Jackson is a recent graduate of Georgia Southern University. I (Mike) first met him at a roadside clean-up that we were doing and we struck up a friendship. He came to our weekly evangelistic meetings and eventually surrendered his life to Christ. Now as a graduate, he lives downtown as a part of the Vision Pathways community and works as an admin at Paine College. God is already using him in exciting ways there to be a witness for Christ!
Answered Prayers
  1. A new friend of mine just told me that he and his wife want to be a part of our work through financially supporting us and praying for us. God has been so kind to affirm what Corrie and I are doing through the loving faithfulness of his people who believe in this vision of "mobilizing laborers to the lost world."
Prayer Requests
  1. Join us in praying through our trust God list for the spring!
  2. Continue to pray as we travel during February and March for site visits to future mobilization tracks and for other Campus Outreach responsibilities. Traveling often has a way of throwing our routine off. We want to walk deeply with God as we are going about the business he's called us to.
  3. Corrie and I are still raising support to continue on in his calling for us to advance the kingdom in a very strategic way. We need at least $200 a month in personal support. If you know of anyone who would be interested in hearing about our work, let us know as we would like to give them the opportunity to be a part of this huge, God-sized mission!
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So... we haven't posted on this blog in quite a while. We have been keeping people updated through emails, Facebook, etc. But i want to do a better job of keeping this blog current. So my aim is to have our email updates that we send out post on to here as well.

Wish me luck in figuring that out. Thanks for your prayers and encouragement!

Mike and Corrie