|
|
||||
| June 2007 | ||||
| Newsletters top | ||||
| Medical Team Reaches | 50 Years | President's Desk | ||
|
|
||||
 |
||
|
As Christians in Action celebrates 50 years of ministry this year, we'll be
sharing anecdotes from our missionaries and workers, and others who have
ministered with us in past years. We hope this will give you an insight into
what God has been doing over the years through these servants of Christ. Our all-time motto "Across the Street and Around the World" set the pace for an international outreach that grows stronger every day. In many fields, national Christians have taken the leadership, reaching out to their own countrymen and expanding the ministries to other countries as well. Since 1973, we have been sending out missionaries from our overseas ministries! As we look to the future we pray that the next 50 years will be as fruitful, if not more, as the first 50 years have been. Thank you for being a part of this growing ministry. Your prayers and gifts make it all possible. Thanks be to God! |
||
|
Zenei and Mitsuko Arakaki, missionaries in their homeland
of Okinawa, Japan I came to believe in Jesus Christ at the CinA
church in Okinawa in 1961, and Zenei in 1971. We particularly remember two works from our training days. House-to-house and street witnessing—"Action Night"—every Tuesday night was for Christians from CinA and other churches. Student missionaries took part in faith treks. We got hands-on practice like Jesus' disciples in Luke 10 as we went out two or three days with no money, sharing the Gospel wherever we went! Action Night took place all over the world on CinA fields. The missionaries taught us practical things along with faith and love. There is freedom in CinA for development. We believe God will accomplish great things at the time of this Jubilee! Todd & Catherine Caplinger, Missionaries to the Philippines We have been in the Philippines for six months. Some days it feels like we just arrived and some days it feels like we have been here our whole lives. The turning point for Catherine and I was after we had been here three months and we traveled an hour outside of Bacolod to minister in a local church. That means an hours worth of back roads, rice patties, sugar cane fields, bamboo huts and the host of palm trees that make this place so beautiful. After leaving the service in that old broken-down house, we finally realized we were on the mission field…we are home! We were introduced to missions through Glenn Kennedy (Far East Director) and Asian Relief and Medical Services while serving in Okinawa almost five years ago. Since that time we have participated in over 10 short-term missions’ trips to Cambodia and the Philippines. It was during the medical mission trip in May of 2006 that we realized God was calling us to full time missions in the Philippines. The very team that introduced us to missions returned again to Bacolod this year on April 15th. We greeted the team, and incorporated ourselves into their routine as we had done in years past. Pastor Stephan introduced us to the team as "local CinA missionaries." We realized that we were no longer part of the short term mission’s team, but had graduated to be the missionary in-country hosting the team when they had arrived. We have been busy ministering in churches (refer to www.caplingerfamily.org) but have set our sights on the establishment of a local church. We anticipate church services to commence by the end of July 2007. It is good to be home and we are eager to see what The Lord has in store for us! |
||
|
|
||||
| Top | ||||
| Medical Team Reaches | 50 Years | President's Desk | ||
|
|
||
|
Home
| Ministry News |
Newsletter | Short Term |
Ministry Resources |
Training |
||