Operation Christmas Child

Last Sunday Calvary wrapped shoe boxes, filled them with gifts and prepared them to send off. Each fall, as a church we enjoy participating in Operation Christmas Child. Every November shoe boxes filled with gifts are collected around the US and sent to children all over the world. This ministry seeks to shares Jesus with children thru gifts, and the story of Christ.

Megan (part of Calvary) has a family member who actually received one of these boxes when he was a child. Below is what he had to share with us-


I remember growing up, between the 2nd and the 6th grade we would get these gifts every year. About Christmas time every all of us in our school would be waiting anxiously for the 2 large semis that would pull into our school yard to deliver the boxes. I remember being so excited because it was always such unique stuff in each box and really cool too. These boxes brought so much hope to us back then and laughter and joy were all around also each box had a little note from the person who packed it and also how to receive Jesus into your hearts.
I think that the greatest thing for me though is seeing how things changed over time and how God worked in my life and blessed me so much and being able to pack some of these boxes myself and knowing exactly how these little kids feel when they receive them. It's truly priceless and I am so thankful to God for every little thing He's done for me. Let's get packin'.

From James and JEMJ Ivory Coast

Thanks to the generous support of the Calvary Baptist Church Flagstaff and other individuals , our christian ministry ( JEMJ) was able to purchase some useful materials for the evangelization in Jacqueville, Ivory coast.
I would like to thank you all on the behalf of our brothers and sisters back there in Ivory Coast.
Your support will help bring the Gospel of Jesus-Christ to the Alladjan , Ahizi and Akouri people of Jacqueville.
Attached are pictures of the materials and JEMJ leaders gathered for a thanksgiving prayer session.
May the Lord Jesus-Christ keep on blessing the Calvary Baptist church members and leaders.

James Ahikpa

Ps:
The materials are:

1 amplifier
1 mixer
2 loudspeakers
3 microphones
micro cables
accessories

God bless you in Jesus .

Fun and Games...

A couple of weeks ago, Calvary met up at the Cogdil Rec center for a Kids game night. It was in fact "fun and games". As members of Calvary we want to each be involved in activities at the Rec. center outside of our scheduled meeting time. The purpose of the game night was to help Calvary join in to the life of our community.

Summer In Asia

Sunday Rachel shared with us about spending her summer in Asia. For security reasons this post won't have specific details but here is the short and sweet!
Rachel and her team spent 4 weeks participating in a cultural exchange with a university in east Asia. Following several adventures with thermometers (they are still concerned with the swine flu) they had the opportunity to meet students, build relationships and share presentations about culture with each other.

As always Calvary enjoyed hearing about this ministry and sharing in it thru prayer and finances.

Things Calvary has been up to the past several months...

Rach spends her spring break in St. Louis MO

Helping the Davis' move from an old home to a new!

Our friend Kelly shares about a trip to central Asia

Megan sharing about her summer trip to Asia

Saying goodbye to our friend James from the Ivory Coast!

North Africa Team

We want each of you to know how much we appreciate your prayers for our trip to North Africa! We had the opportunity to share in our meeting a couple of weeks ago.


Here is a brief recap of our trip.

We had 3 main opportunities.

1. Daily Arabic classes
We attended the school were our workers do all of their initial language study. It gave us the opportunity to learn a little conversational Arabic (although I spoke as much French on this trip as I did Arabic) and to help continued relationships with the teachers. I don't think that this was the teams favorite thing but they did learn more than they think!

2. English Class
One of our friends, teaches English at a University and we were asked to join her in class, interact with her students and help them with their English.

3. Prayer Walking
I am so proud of this team, during our time in NA we walked over 35 miles. The workers in NA have put together audio guides giving directions for prayer walking various areas of the cities that we downloaded on our Ipods, both for convenience and security. When I first learned of this project I thought it was brilliant! In fact I have been working on similar audio tracts that are for prayer walking NAU. This is what we did for the most of our stay in NA, and I received a email the other day sharing that things are already happening where we walked and prayed. If you have every had the opportunity to prayer walk for any length of time you know that it is not only physically demanding, but also spiritually demanding. The team pushed hard and covered much ground. I love that God allows us to be part of what He is doing in His Kingdom.

To see more pictures of the trip, contact Lainee for her Blog address...

Another Celebration

A few Sunday's ago, Calvary had the privilege of worshiping with Village Park Baptist Church in Village of Oak Creek. They were enjoying 10 years of serving in Arizona. We have shared a neat relationship with this sister church for the past couple of years. They have contributed financially to our "Back to School" parties at Cogdill Rec. Center, provided man power to help prepare food at some of our outreach activities, and give us prayer support. For the past year, we have had the opportunity to support them with monthly financial support...

Below are some pictures from our visit to Village Park Baptist Church