June 3: BOWLivia Team Fund Raiser and Parish Meeting!
Big Impact. Yummy Food. Parish Meeting.
Want an easy way to make a big impact? Come eat BOWLS of yummy food and give generously to help Team Bolivia at Restoration’s Parish Meeting June 3!
When: Right after the 11am service on Sunday, June 3 in our fellowship hall.
What: A delicious lunch prepared by the 21 members of TeamBolivia18 as a fund raiser for our travel and ministry costs.
How much is lunch? Be generous! The team shares all of the donations and they are used for team travel costs, ministry work in country, and ministry donations to our partners in Bolivia.
How long will the event last? We will start serving lunch at 12:30pm. Then at 1:00pm, we will have our ‘end of spring, beginning of summer’ Parish Meeting. It will include an update on our finances, a report from TeamBolivia18, and a big cheer for Incarnation as they start Evening Prayer that night!
What will TeamBolivia18 be doing? The team has been meeting together since April. By God’s grace and good timing, the team has already had an opportunity to meet both of our ministry partners! Here is a wonderful note from team member, Stephanie Dickerson:
When I signed up to join the Restoration Team going to Cochabamba, Bolivia in August, I simply thought, “Fun! This sounds like an adventure that I get to do in community!”
After meeting our two ministry partners, Tammy Firestone, Rector of La Trinidad Anglican Church, and Tyson Malo, Director of Ninos con Valor, I realize there is so much more ahead of us.
Tammy asked that the Restoration Team provide healing prayer workshops for the people of La Trinidad– to both receive prayer and to learn how to pray for others. Then together, we are going to offer prayer to the neighborhoods around La Trinidad and their church plant in a nearby town.
“Healing prayer,” Tammy said, “is the way I believe we’ll see many, many lives actually transformed by Jesus. So many in Bolivia have heard his name, but simply add Jesus onto their other practices of worshipping idols, Mother Earth, and other Andean religious practices. Abuse, addictions, and general brokenness is so prevalent in Cochabamba– people are in desperate need of healing. Healing prayer is the key to growing the church in Bolivia.”
I am excited to see how God stretches us as a team to serve and partner with La Trinidad in seeing lives healed and people transformed by Jesus!
Tyson, Director of Ninos con Valor, shared with us about the way NCV is continually refining and improving the way they provide residential homes for vulnerable children and teens– often taking the most challenging cases from around Bolivia. He spoke of how NCV is replicating their training practices to help others provide a similar level of quality care.
I am excited about continuing and deepening our partnership with Ninos con Valor as they care for and value children who are the most vulnerable in Bolivia and have a vision to expand their reach to more children!
I am excited to have the Restoration community participate with Team Bolivia!
So…..COME! EAT! GIVE!
See you on June 3 at 12:30 in fellowship hall.
-David
