2011 Friends of Grace Thanksgiving Dinner
You are cordially invited to our 2011 Thanksgiving Dinner on October 8, 2011.
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Friends of Grace is an inter-denominational, non-profit, Christian organization with the goal of spreading the Gospel through funding evangelical works and short-term missions.
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Upcoming Mission Opportunity
Upcoming July 2011, there will be an opportunity for YOU to join a short-term mission trip to teach English in Asia. This project opportunity has been made available to us since 2005 where we were able to use the bible as our basic teaching material/guide. Each year, the attendance of the local students has increased.
In 2010, 51 teachers from 15 churches served our Lord together in this project. Over 700 students attended this 2-week program and more than 300 students accepted Christ. We look forward to working together again in the LORD’s harvest field in 2011. Would you be willing to prayerfully consider joining this opportunity?
The 1st mission training is scheduled for:
Date: April 30, 2011 (Saturday)
Place: EFC of Orange County, 10750 Lampson Ave., Garden Grove, CA 92840
Information regarding the English teaching mission trip in Summer 2011:
Dates: July 11 to 22
Cost: $1,800 (including visa, airfare, room and board, and teaching
material)
Under His Grace
TEE Training in Cambodia
After the medical trip in Bangladesh in February 2011, Pastor Stephen traveled to Cambodia to teach a Theological Education by Extension (TEE) Course to the local church leaders and seminary students. This is an 18-month course commitment for the instructors and the people taking the course. Please continue to pray for us as we will travel back to Cambodia again in May, July, and September this year to continue the TEE training.
Feburary 2011 Medical Mission Trip to Banglasdesh
In February 2011, our medical team of 8 coworkers from the United States, together with 5 physicians from Kenya, and 2 local Bangladesh surgeons performed free medical mission for cleft lip palate and maxillofacial surgeries in a small village in Bangladesh. This was our 2nd medical trip in Bangladesh since March 2010.
Praise the Lord, over 100 patients received surgeries without complications.
There is a one-minute video on YouTube about our Bangladesh medical trip last month. You can watch it from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzf-Z9cqGP0.
More pictures can be viewed in here.
Myanmar August 2010 Mission Update
This mission team originally planned to go to Kenya. However, there was a constitutional referendum in Kenya during our visit. We were urged to cancel our trip there in the last minute due to potential political unrest and religious conflicts.
While one door is closed, our Lord opened another door for us to serve in Myanmar. Our team of 11 members, including 6 adults and 5 youths, served in Myanmar for about 2 weeks. We provided free medical and dental services in 3 seminaries and 3 orphanages. Anita Liu, who is a seminary professor in the U.S., became a well sought-after speaker there, conducted many seminars. We also distribute toys and hundreds of reading glasses in Myanmar.
Please see select photos here.
Kyrgyz Republic/Russia Mission Photo Posted
Our mission team just arrived safely back to the U.S. on May 31. Some of their photos there were posted. Click here to see the photos.
Report from Philip Cheung:
This has been a two-country mission trip (Kyrgystan and Russia), consists of a team of 6, from May 21st to 31st, 2010.
We have seen and experienced the grace and glory shines through Kyrgyzstan, a country from a region known for corruption in the open and large scale. We have learned first-handedly the dedication of cross-cultural Chinese visionaries and missionaries that have permanently (and rather long-termed for some) uprooted their families to migrate to a place of drastically different in culture and ethnic background, for the sake of gospel and God’s kingdom. Education ministries (ranging from Elementary to University) have been established throughout the decade. We are fortunate to visit some of these facilities of what Mercy Foundation has built through the merciful hands of our Lord.
In Moscow, Russia (the second of this two-country mission trip), we have seen how our Lord amazingly leads among a dedicated and faithful team without a pastor, that serves many non-residence Chinese business communities and University students. For people from Chinese or English speaking nations, because of the dominant Russian language in daily lives, these countries present a challenge and yet an opportunity to rely more on our Lord. We have seen both the faith and joy from His servants here, who are eager to serve and learn to do better.
We are also very grateful especially to the prayerfully support back home to keep us safe and miraculously rather smooth passing through the custom check, with the amount of medical supplies brought in. Thank you Lord Jesus!
Bangladesh Mission Photos Posted
Friends of Grace medical team traveled to Bangladesh to help with a medical campaign to provide free facial corrective surgeries to the poor.
Please click here to see the new photos.
Myanmar Mission Picture Posted
Please click here to see the new photos.
Missions of Love in San Vicente Ferrer, Mexico
San Vicente Ferrer is a small town in Mexico of roughly 2,000 people 120 miles south of the US/Mexico border. To the north are mountains and the south are flat plains dotted with fields and plantations
Wealthy ranch owners hire workers to cultivate these fields whose crops are imported to the US and allow them to live on the plantations. Some camps accommodate up to 3,000 people during peak harvest seasons. Since many workers are Native Indians who are minorities among the Mexicans, the government does not provide adequate housing or medical support for them. Subsequently, the demand for aid to these migrant farmers increases each year.
We came to know Max Hashbarger and his ministry and Rancho Santa Fe in 1993. Since then, we have come to learn of Mexico’s need for medical and dental care among the migrant farmers and their families along the countryside.
We have been going to the surrounding migrant farmers camps four times a year, brining the gospel to people who thirst for it. At camps such as Los Caballos and Triqui, we provide medical and dental aid to the needy, crafts and games to the children, and most of all, the love of God to people that yearn to be filled with the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are a group of caring individuals who bring hope and joy through the teachings of the Lord to others around the world. Some of the missionaries who reside in Mexico are described below.
Max Hashbarger: Max started Ranch Santa Fe in the early 1990s, and has continued to serve there as God’s disciple and attendant. He aids them in acquiring faith and skills, while teaching the gospel to the people
Rudy, Dioselina (Diosy), and Elisheva Lopez: Their dedication and courageousness have made themselves role-models in the community. For many years, they have been visiting labor camps, orphanages, and drug rehabilitation centers, to educate the masses about Christ Jesus through songs, Bible lessons, as well as feed the children a nourishing meal day after day.
Stephen Tang
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