Pacific Partners Email Update
Stepping Up, Stepping Out (Tonga Project)                  05 Dec 2012

Greetings! 

  

As our disciples mature in Christ, we want to help them find new opportunities to serve and grow. In keeping with their abilities, spiritual gifts, and their developing sense of God's calling on their lives. I went to Tonga to talk this through with Loni and Willy, our local leaders.

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Mission Statement

Equipping and encouraging

the people of the South Pacific Islands 
to live 

the Christian life 
as Jesus Christ taught it; 
demonstrated it;  

and made it possible. 

Please help us 
ship the container
Our 40' container in New Zealand is full of donated building materials for the new building in Tonga (radio studio, training and accommodation).

So far, we have about half of the money needed to ship it to Tonga.

Total cost will be US$5000/NZ$6000
Still need to raise US$2500/NZ$3000

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Stepping up and stepping out
under the Lordship of Jesus Christ

Personal discipleship
Local disciples make more disciples according to 2 Timothy 2:2
As people discover what it really means to live under the
Lordship of Jesus Christ, they start to think very differently about every aspect of their lives. And the people around them start to think differently about them, too.
 
More and more, our maturing disciples are finding themselves in leadership roles within their churches and communities. Some even want to become missionaries and serve the Lord overseas.
 
How is Pacific Partners
going to help them step up 
to these opportunities and goals?
 
Our discipleship training is mostly 'hands-on' and practical. It's like an apprenticeship where the junior works and learns alongside a more experienced person. Most of our class room teaching is responsive to real life ministry challenges - we dig into God's word together, finding His answers to situations as we come across them.   
Training class
People are already serving Jesus before we give them any class-room training

So Loni, Willy and I are challenged to help local people grow into greater leadership and ministry roles in the Kingdom of God. 
 
How we do this will determine the way we use the new radio/training/accommodation building. Which means we have to think carefully about the layout.
The first container 
of building materials is ready to be shipped
40 foot container ready to ship to Tonga
The first 40 foot container stands in Auckland ready to be shipped to Tonga

Several people have made financial gifts towards the cost of shipping our first 40' container of donated building materials to Tonga. 

 

So far we have received over half the USD $5000 (NZD $6000) needed for shipping.

 

Thank you
very much!

 

We will postpone shipping the container until next year, because . . . 

(1) We don't yet have all the money we need 

(2) Our Tonga staff take annual leave until February

(3) The materials will remain in better condition stored in NZ 

 

Thank you to   

Passion Produce (Hobsonville Rd, Auckland) 
for looking after our container so far.

 
The owner of Passion Produce wants his over-flow customer car park for his Christmas shoppers. So this week we are moving the container to a new site in Auckland.

Getting ready to help the Island people
take their next step in serving Jesus 


Would you please join Loni, Willy and me 

in praying about . . . 

How to best help local people 'step up' and 'step out' as spiritual leaders in their own nation, and overseas as missionaries?

  

Graham Carter

 

I would love to hear your ideas, comments, or questions. Email me ]  

 

Thank you for your faithful help. 

May God bless you.  

Graham A Carter  

President of Pacific Partners  

         

PS: Don't forget to visit our special 
Web page | Facebook page ] dedicated to this project. We welcome your comments. 


Click to donate(If you wish to help us with the building project choose 'Project - Tonga's new building' from the Program Designation' list)