First Christian Church, Flora, Indiana

In January, Rick Spleth, our Regional Minister, shared with our congregation in morning worship and combined Sunday School the global ministry partnership of the Christian Church in Indiana and the Mbandaka District of the Community of Disciples of Christ in the Congo. Last summer a delegation of disciples from Indiana traveled to the Congo to establish this partnership. This summer Rev. Ilumbe and Rosette from the Mbandaka District will be spending the month of July in Indiana visiting congregations and sharing the Good News of our partnership.

Rev. Ilumbe and Rosette will be in Flora on Thursday, July 23, 2009. They will be hosted by members of Flora Christian Church and seeing firsthand the agricultural industry of Carroll County.

That evening our Congo mission partners will be introduced and welcomed at Vacation Bible School. This year’s United Vacation Bible School has adopted the work of the church in the Mbandaka District of the Congo as their offering project. The children’s offerings will be used to purchase motors and canoes for transportation of pastorsin the Congo. You areinvited and encouraged to attend the VBS Opening Assembly on Thursday evening at 7 p.m. to meed Rev. Ilumbe.