Sunday and Travel...

Pastor David preached at Trincomalee - a message about the ways that children protect themselves and how we as the church, can play a key role in reaching out to children who are hurting and vulnerable. His message is also a chance for people in the congregation to look into their own life and receive healing for hurts they have endured. So we finished the service with a prayer and ministry time for anyone that came forward. Shanthi and the local team also ran the children's program for the morning, and we spent some time praying with them for various needs such as healing and help with school work. After packing up and realising that we really needed to hire a van to get all the luggage and bookstall to our next location, we grabbed lunch and headed off - about a six hour journey to Batticaloa.

It was long dark by the time we arrived and we grabbed a quick bite to eat at the hotel restaurant before crawling into bed...Batticaloa conference starts first thing in the morning.

Sri Lanka Mission Trip 2009... Here we go!

Welcome back to the KidsReach blog for the latest mission trip to Sri Lanka.

Basic facts about the trip that we know so far...

We will be away from 15th August to 1st September.

The trip will include 4 Conferences, 1 Children's camp as well as a number of other speaking and ministry opportunities in churches as we go.

Conference 1 - Live Out Conference - Colombo (1 day conference for 150 leaders) 17 August
Conference 2 - Children's Ministry Leaders Conference - Puttalum. (Residential conference for 100 leaders) 18-19 August
Conference 3- Children's Ministry Leaders Conference - Kandy (2 days/150 leaders) 21-22 August
Conference 4 - Children's Ministry Leaders Conference - Badulla (2 days/150 leaders) 24-25 August
Children's Camp - National Camp for Children suffering from Abuse. 25-28 August

You can see a presentation of what is going to happen on YouTube also...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmumy-xdXt8

As the trip progresses we will keep you updated via this blog and also emails. Generally - the text of the blog will be what gets sent via email, the blog will have photos where and when we can upload them. If there is a chance we will send more personalised emails as we go, but you never can tell till you get there.

The one thing we would ask at this stage is to pray for the success of the trip. We want to impact the lives of the people in Sri Lanka, and to bring encouragement and hope to children and children's workers all across Sri Lanka.

Please pray that we would be safe and healthy as we go.

Please pray for unity as most of us will meet each other for the first time at the beginning of the trip.

Please pray for Shanthi and the local team, that they will be encouraged by our visit and spurred on to continue doing the work
that God has for them in Sri Lanka.

Please pray that God will begin and continue to do a mighty work in the lives of children and people in Sri Lanka.

That's it for now... I will post more as we go and photos as well.

Regards - The KidsReach Team 2009.

Sarah's first Blog page

Hi Everyone,

This is the first post of the 2007 Tour of Sri Lanka.
There's not much to say - I haven't left home yet. The 2007 Odyssey has begun and over the next three weeks and more I will be posting updates as to what is happening as we travel around and photos too...

I'll give you some prayer points too because for those who are reading this back in Australia, New Zealand and anywhere else in the world, that is the most important thing. Just Keep Praying! Just Keep Praying!

It is our hope and prayer that God is glorified in all that we say and do while we are in Sri Lanka.

Talk to you all soon,

Sarah