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Rejoice with us!
1. The launching of our updated and completely revamped website: Check it out for yourself! www.fhlglobal.org
2. Thank you to our sons, Tim and Dan Geoffrion, and Tim's new wife, Stella Wang, who generously underwrote our new website!
3. At long last, a complete audio version of our 20 session, core course: "The Spirit-Led Leader" is available on our new website.
4. Several sessions of Tim teaching on the Spirit-leader material, filmed at a pastors retreat in Nebraska this past spring, are available on our new site in a video format.
5. A God-honoring, love-filled weekend of festivities surrounding the marriage of Tim and Stella. (You can see pictures on Tim Sr.'s Facebook page: Wedding Photos. If you have not yet "befriended" Tim, you are most welcome to do so.)
6. Preliminary reports from Jill on her 30 day retreat are ecstatic. Allowed to speak with others on rare occasions, she called Tim to tell how much she has been experiencing God's presence and working in her life in life-changing ways.
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Pray With Us
1. We are now searching for part time staff and/or volunteers to provide critically needed infrastructure support to free Tim and Jill to focus on teaching, coaching, writing, and preparing presentations. (See Help Wanted! in the right hand column for details.) We need to have people in place for these roles before Tim leaves for the fall semester on September 9.
2. Safety for our brothers and sisters and resolution of the political crisis in the Congo as the rebels continue to threaten Goma and people in the countryside of Eastern Congo. To find out more or to make a contribution to an emergency fund created by trustworthy leaders within Goma, DRC, please visit the website of HEAL Africa Emergency Fund.
3. Cambodian leaders will be finishing translating The Spirit-Led Leader into the Khmer language as a resource for Christian leaders and for FHLGM's future ministry there in 2013. Next up is beginning to prepare to teach pastors in Cambodia in 2013.
3. $21,500 is needed by September 5 for immediate ministry expenses related to financing travel, lodging, and other program related costs for the upcoming semester in Myanmar.
4. Course preparation for 3 semester long courses to be taught in Myanmar, beginning this fall.
5.We are still praying for complete healing for Jill and relief from constant pain emanating from bulging discs impinging on nerves in her neck.
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Tim's Latest Essay
Delivered as the Charge to the Couple during the wedding of his son, Tim, to Stella Wang
July 8, 2012 |
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Explore The Spirit-led
Leader for yourself!
Read the first couple of chapters online at Tim's Books and Essays site.
Options for purchasing The Spirit-Led Leader
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Meet with Tim
Tim is in the the Twin Cities for the summer. He is eager to meet with you if you are interested in becoming more involved with Faith, Hope, and Love Global Ministries, or simply if you are interested in hearing more! Send him an email to set up a time to meet.
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Faith, Hope, and Love Global Ministries Board of Directors Rev. Dr. Cheryl F. Dudley Mr. Thomas Erickson Rev. Jill K.H. Geoffrion, Ph.D. Rev. Timothy C. Geoffrion, Ph.D. Board of Advisors Mr. Jim Deanovic Mr. Ron Hoffman Mr. John March Mr. Mark Thompson Staff 
Timothy C. Geoffrion President and Teaching Minister 
Jill K.H. Geoffrion Artist and Minister of Hospitality 
Andrew J. Lonsbury Assistant to the President We deeply appreciate your prayers and financial support. We need your ongoing participation to both sustain and expand this important leadership development work. Thank you!
  
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." (Romans 15:13) |
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Greetings!,
Summer is an important, but different kind of time for Faith, Hope, and Love Global Ministries. The season provides a good chance to step back from the front lines, regroup, and prepare for fall classes. We get to spend time with supporters, our church, and friends--people we hardly get to see throughout the rest of the year when we're on the field. We also connect more personally with our families, to care for them, and to be cared for by them. The highlight of the summer, by far, has been the wedding of our son, Tim, to Stella Wang. Jill and I had the privilege and joy to officiate at the ceremony.
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Our New Website and Online Resources Summer is also a very good time to finally tend to important infrastructure and development needs. Now, after six months of work, we are very excited to announce that we have launched our new website this week. On it you'll find our new three minute informational video that includes footage and recorded testimonials from Africa, Eastern Europe, and Myanmar. You can also see video recorded teachings, filmed this past May when I taught several sessions of The Spirit-Leader at a leadership retreat for American Baptist Churches pastors of Nebraska.  | | Check out the new website at fhlglobal.org |
As part of the new website package, we are now able to supplement our in-person teaching ministry by providing audio recordings of all 20 sessions of The Spirit-Led Leader curriculum online. These sessions were recorded live in Yangon, Myanmar, when I taught faculty members from various Christian colleges and seminaries in collaboration with the Association for Theological Education in Myanmar (ATEM), in October 2011. In addition, over 65 essays that I've written on Christian living and leadership can now be found in one place organized by categories. You can read them on line, or copy and print them out to share with others. Thank you to all of you who are standing with us by praying, by donating, and by advocating for the work we are doing. We need you in order to fulfill the mission with which God has entrusted us. Serving Christ with you, Tim Geoffrion President and Teaching Minister "What you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well." -2 Timothy 2:2, NRSV |
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HELP WANTED!
As we look to the fall, we are actively recruiting volunteers and possibly additional staff in the Minneapolis area. We need:
* A volunteer to help with social media, enewsletters, and communications
* A volunteer to update our website on regular basis
* A volunteer to help with receipting, record keeping, and other administrative tasks
* A part time development officer, who can represent Faith, Hope, and Love in the Minneapolis area all year long
If you think you can help with one or more of these roles, or know someone who can, please contact me by email (tim.geoffrion@fhlglobal.org)! Thank you.
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Ministry in Minnesota
Summer provides some good opportunities for teaching and ministry for the benefit of local leaders and ministry groups here in Minnesota. As God so leads, we hope to increasingly offer to Christian leaders and ministers in the U.S. what we has been so well received abroad.
This past month, for example, Tim was invited to return to TreeHouse, where he served for 10 years, first as Program Director and then as Executive Director. He spoke to 30 TreeHouse staff and summer interns on how to be a more Spirit-led leader in ministry to troubled youth and their families.
Tom Richards, TreeHouse Program Director, wrote us with his words of appreciation and praise for the experience the same day: Thanks again for spending time with the TreeHouse staff this morning. They we're blessed through you! Tim connected extremely well with our TreeHouse ministry staff. He taught on a topic that could have been intimidating and complex and presented it in a way that was simple to understand. Tim created a safe environment for learning and related to the group as a pastor, teacher and friend. His Spirit-Led Leader lesson was equally insightful and empowering.
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A New Season Ahead
Will you help launch the fall semester?
For many of us, August is a thrilling month of last-minute adventures and one last 'hurrah' for summer. We begin to number the days of warmth and value what time we have left before the new routine of fall sets in. At Faith, Hope, and Love Global Ministries we, too, are hoping that August is a month that caps off a great summer of developing the ministry and laying a solid foundation for the upcoming months abroad.
We have wonderful ministry opportunities ahead beginning in September. Specifically, the semester-long courses offered in Myanmar will provide teaching and training for up to 125 theological students at the seminary. Another 30 faculty members will participate in four day Spirit-Led Leader workshop in Kalamyo, in the northern part of the country.
In order to fund the travel, lodging, food, and participants' costs for these events, and to purchase air tickets for ministry in Myanmar and Cambodia right after the new year, we need to raise $21,500 by September 1. By giving to Faith, Hope, and Love you are helping pastors and Christian leaders gain the training and skill-set to more effectively serve Christ and their communities.
Will you consider making a financial gift this month to support the upcoming work in Myanmar and Cambodia?
Click the "donate" button below to be linked to our donation page where you will more information on why to give as well as how to give either by mail or online.  Your tax-deductible donations to Faith, Hope, and Love Global Ministries are both needed and greatly appreciated. Andrew J. Lonsbury Assistant to the President |
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For Your Reflection
Take a moment to contemplate this photo.
What comes to your mind?
What speaks to your heart?
What prayer comes to your lips?
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Tim and Jill were invited to participate in the dedication of the new, five story Global Education Building, Myanmar Institute of Theology
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Tim and Jill officiating at their son's wedding this summer. Jill created a beautiful metaphor from the centuries old oak tree that provided a canopy for the wedding party. Tim gave the "Charge to the Couple" on "What Kind of Love Makes a Marriage Flourish?"
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