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Special Announcement from Brian Alnes
I never imagined that when the board and I decided to begin dreaming about the future of Lake Beauty Ministries, including my position as Executive Director at Lake Beauty Ministries that it would mean traveling to the Middle East (Jordan Specifically) and become a part of starting a new Bible Camp in the land. That is however what looks like might start to happen.
Last Summer at the Covenant Annual Meeting in Detroit, I was asked if I would stay an extra week after the Solid Rock Israel trip (January 2018) and head to Jordan to meet with the Bible Society of Jordan who had been in conversations with the Covenant Church about help in starting a Bible Camp.
Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) is a new missions area for the ECC. It was started just over a year ago. Since then, there have been several missionaries who have been in the country and working to build relationships. A relationship was built with BSoJ and it has continued to grow. NancyJo Hoover who has been a career missionary in the Covenant for many years and I spent a week with the staff at BSoJ. Their passion to share Jesus with the people of Jordan and with the Syrian refugees is infectious. We traveled around looking at properties, all the while talking about life in Jordan.
There are lots of questions and details to figure out. We are partnering, but not underwriting anything on this. There has been no expense on our part at this point. MENA and some donors outside of LBBC have committed monies to assist in getting some of the staff here for this Summer. We are planning to have several of the Staff from BSoJ available at camp for Staff Training and then the first two weeks of camp to see what we do. Culture and Context may be different between the two countries, however the things that we do with people to meet needs is the same anywhere we go.
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