CTR Students Serve Refugee Families

In June, teens from CTR’s Student Ministries traveled south to work with Envision Atlanta. For a week, they served refugee families who have been resettled here in the USA. These families come from hard stories, and face many challenges as they learn to navigate a totally new language, culture, and details about daily life.

For our student trip participants, it was an opportunity to be part of cross-cultural missions within our own borders. Over the years, Clarkston, Georgia has received over 40,000 refugees. Within just a few square miles, about 90 unreached people groups are represented.

During the trip, the CTR team helped lead a Vacation Bible School for children of refugees. They led worship, taught Bible stories, helped children with craft projects, prepared and served lunch for the children, and had countless opportunities to make God’s love tangible for these children. Our students also helped at the Envision Acres Farm. Along with the fun of seeing animals, our students helped with practical needs, such as painting a barn.

We are so proud of the way these students stepped into an unfamiliar environment, gave up a week of their summer vacation, and served each other and the residents of Clarkston with selfless love. Please join us in praying that this experience fuels a lifelong passion to bring the Gospel of Jesus into every area of their lives, to everyone they meet, to make disciples of Jesus Christ.

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Peru Construction Team Builds Home for Pastors-in-Training

Our Peru team is back stateside! This trip was a construction trip focused on building a home in a very hard-to-reach area of Peru’s Amazon River basin. The team from CTR traveled by plane and boat to meet up with volunteers and staff from RiverWind Inc., our ministry partners in Peru.

The CTR team transported tools and materials, and had to anticipate needs they might have. When you’re working in such a remote location, there is no Home Depot or Lowe’s to run to! The project location was in the wilderness near Nueva Italia, where they were building a house for pastors who are receiving training by RiverWind.

RiverWind Inc., is run by Richard and Ruth Hidalgo de Robinson. RiverWind’s  mission is to equip and educate indigenous pastors to share the Gospel and establish churches in remote locations, reaching out to people groups who may never have heard the name of Jesus previously.

We are so thankful to this team for bringing their creativity, problem-solving skills, and construction knowledge to serve others. We are also grateful to everyone at Christ The Rock — your generosity and love for people you may never meet made this trip possible. Please keep Dick, Ruth and the pastors they’re equipping in your prayers as they carry the Good News of Jesus Christ to remote places, and please also pray for people who may be hearing about Him for the first time.

 

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