Sunday, June 28, 2020

From Outreach Foundation ... "Reaching Out Further" for June 2020

• An Update on Hope for Syrian Students

A “holding pattern” is a concept I am too-well acquainted with, considering how much time I spend on airplanes because of my work with The Outreach Foundation. Given the fact that my “hometown airport” is Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta it is not uncommon to hear the pilot come on the sound system in our approach to the world’s busiest airport to apologize for being in one, sometimes, because of storms in the area, but, most often, because the “traffic” for landing has backed up. Recently, we were stuck in one of these weather-related holding patterns for so long, that we had to bop over to Nashville to get gas – before coming back to Atlanta to land.

In much the same vein, schools all over the world, from Boston to Baghdad, from Denver to New Delhi, from Peoria to Paris have gone into a “holding pattern” because of COVID-19 and such has been the case with the schools for Syrian refugee children run by the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon ...

Read more about hope for Syrian students ...

• How your gifts to the COVID-19 Appeal are being used

Your gifts to Outreach's COVID-19 Emergency Appeal have already been sent to many of our partners around the world because of your generosity. We've received updates on how those gifts are being used to help the people of Kenya, Iraq, Brazil, and more ...

Read the updates ...

Click here to learn more about Outreach’s COVID-10 Emergency Appeal

• The History of Outreach's Partnership in Egypt

For the last several months, Jeff Ritchie has been chronicling the history of The Outreach Foundation in Egypt.

This history is primarily a story about the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Egypt and how it has developed a vision for mission and evangelism from a “mustard seed” at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo in 1999 to the present explosion of new churches, churches undergoing revitalization, and mission beyond Egypt. There are many other aspects of this story that can be told ...

Read more ...

Thank you!



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