2008 International Missions Opportunities

If you are interested in learning more about any of these trips or would like to join one of these teams, please contact Omar Garcia in the Missions Office.

Mexico • February 14-17 — Volunteers from Kingsland’s New Ground and Cross Trainers Adult Bible Fellowships will venture south of the border for an intensive three-day house-building initiative. Our missions ministry has purchased materials for a new home to be built in Acuna, Mexico for a Mexican pastor and his family. The slab for the modest house will be poured prior to the arrival of our team. Our team will be responsible for completing the structure in a single weekend. Please pray for our team as they travel and work in Mexico, for the pastor and family who will live in the house, and for the people of the surrounding community who will witness this act of kindness.

North Africa • March 14-22 — We will venture to (undisclosed country) where minarets pierce cloudless skies and winding narrow streets teem with people who have not heard the truth about Jesus. We will work with an unreached people group with only a handful of known believers. Our team will prayer walk, lead discipleship studies, and visit the various locations where these believers are working. Estimated cost: $2,500.00.

India • April 21-28 — Pastor Alex and Omar will travel to India to speak to pastors whose churches were the targets of a recent and widespread outbreak of violent persecution against Christians. They also will speak to believers displaced by the persecution and take refief funds to help churches and families begin to rebuild their church buildings, homes, and lives.

Mongolia • June 14-25 — The Travel Channel recently rated Mongolia as the number one place on the planet to visit an ancient culture. Life in Mongolia has remained unchanged for centuries. We'll return to the steppes of Mongolia to work with Jerry and Susan Smith of Change the World Ministries in reaching out to the descendants of Ghengis Khan. Estimated cost: $3,050.00.

Student Summer Initiatives • July — Our students will venture from Houston's inner city to the ends of the earth during the month of July.
   • Grade 6 Mission Trip to Houston's Inner City — July 11-14
   • Grades 7 & 8 Mission Trip to Dallas — July 12-19
   • Grade 9 Mission Trip to Georgia — July 12-19
   • Grade 10 Mission Trip to Philadelphia — July 12-19
   • Grade 11 Mission Trip to Nicaragua — July 12-19
   • Grade 12 Mission Trip to Uganda — July 12-19

Tanzania • August 2-13 — Safari is the Swahili word for journey. We will return to Tanzania to continue our work with Southern Baptist International Mission Board doctors reaching out to the Bungu people, an unreached people group living deep in the African bush. Our 2007 team helped to start several churches among the Bungu. This is a very rugged trip. Team members must be in excellent physical health. Estimated cost: $2,900.00.

Kurdistan • October 19-28 — In the weeks prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, Heather Mercer was arrested and imprisoned by Taliban forces in Afghanistan for preaching the gospel. Our team will join Heather in reaching out to the Kurds in northern Iraq at the Freedom Center. The Freedom Center serves as a "net" for building relationships with Kurdish people, addressing their felt needs, and sharing God's love. We have an opportunity to be a part of what God is doing in this region of the world during this remarkable time in history. Estimated cost: $3,250.00.

East Asia • December 12-23 — This trip is especially for Kingsland's college students. We will venture to East Asia to work on college campuses in cooperation with Campus Crusade

Kingsland Members on Mission

January
Our missions ministry supports several Kingsland members serving with Campus Crusade for Christ and Gospel for Asia. Please pray for these young people as they serve around the world.

David Welch, who serves on the board of Living Water International, and Gary Achenbach traveled to Nicaragua with a Living Water International team to help drill a well and to participate in a hygiene training initiative.

February
Please pray for Claudia Stokes. She is one of four speakers who will address the first Russian National Aglow Conference in Moscow on February 15-17. Claudia will speak on principles of leadership and faith for the impossible.

Margie Randall served in Thailand from February 10–20. Margie and other volunteers with The Southern Cross Project distributed Bibles and copies of the Jesus Film to Chinese tourists visiting Thailand. They distributed a total of 3,840 copies of Bibles and other evangelistic material. Please pray for those who received these materials.

April
Please pray for Robin Rowe, our Music and Worship Associate, as he travels to Adana, Turkey on April 14. Robin will speak and lead worship at a Men's Conference at Incirlik Air Force Base. Robin will also work with worship teams and lead worship at Sunday services at the base. He will return to Katy on April 24.

Please pray for Janie Vergara Hodgin. Janie will be participating in a medical mission trip to Peru April 18 – 26, 2008. She is going with a group from Port Neches, Tx. from First Baptist Church—this is the church where Janie grew up. Twenty six people will take part in this medical and evangelistic mission trip. Janie will be used as a translator for the doctors as well as for the evangelistic team. We will be located in a small town two hours of Lima—it is called Huanace. We will be working with the Aymara Indians. Please pray for travel safety for all.

May
Sandy Howell will leave May 8th to participate in a mission trip to Siberia with Campus Crusade for Christ's International School Project. She will work with public school teachers and help to introduce a Bible based curriculum about drug and alcohol abuse to be used with 11 – 17 year olds. Please pray for protection, confidence, and boldness.

July
Sandra Michael begins her new assignment with the International Mission Board's Masters Program. She will serve as a communications assistant in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Please pray for Sandra as she makes the transition from retirement to full-time service on the mission field.

International Partnerships

Africa
The Kingsland Missions Ministry, in partnership with Life International, helped to launch The Comforter's Center in Uganda in 2006. The Comforter's Center is a pregnancy help center located in Kampala. Kingsland funds the work of the center and sends short-term teams to work alongside Life International to help train the center's staff and leaders in area churches. We rejoice that since 2006, 326 abortion-minded women have decided to give life to their children and 711 people have placed their faith in Christ for salvation.

South Asia (undisclosed locations) 
The Kingsland Missions Ministry financially supports the Campus Crusade team leader for campus work among Hindu and Muslim students in a South Asian country, an evangelistic work that reaches out to Sufi Muslims in two South Asian countries, an outreach and evangelism training initiative in remote areas of Kashmir, and a radio evangelism initiative and national workers in a closed South Asian country.

India
The Kingsland Missions Ministry financially supports a boarding school for boys in Orissa, India. The school is named in memory of former Kingsland member Diane Patterson who was tragically killed in an auto accident in 2006. Diane served as a Journeyman in India. This school is funded by gifts to the Diane Patterson Memorial Missions Fund.