August, 2011 update!

The things that summer teams do!

Well, they mostly worked very hard to get homeowners back into their homes that were damaged during the floods that followed Hurricane Katrina almost 6 years ago. One such family is Dave F. and his family.  (pictured below and with staff of crisis response ministry)  Our teams started on his home a little over a year ago and just a few short weeks ago, our team was able to celebrate with Dave and his family the goodness of God’s grace in allowing the teams to finish his home and for him and his family to move back into their home. Please continue to pray for this family as they move back and adjust to a new life.  Pray too that God will provide work for Dave as he seeks to provide for his family. 

Teams over the summer have also been on numerous prayer walks in the neighborhoods where they were working as well as in the neighborhood of a new   EFCA church plant in the Magazine St. area in uptown New Orleans.    Crisis Response is partnering with Eric H. and his family who have been called to New Orleans to establish a new EFCA church.  Our teams are bathing the projected area in prayer with Eric H.   We are praying for the hearts of the people in the city to be open to the light and truth of our Heavenly Father through His son Jesus Christ. 

EFCA TouchGlobal Crisis Response Mission Statement

We exist to develop, empower and release the Body of Christ  to show His love  in times of crisis to multiply healthy churches among all peoples

SPECIAL PROJECT!!!

Support Team Building &/or Ministry Partnership Development

Before I became a missionary with the EFCA (Evangelical Free Church of America) the above terms were like foreign language to me.  Since then, I have had a little training and loads of conversations concerning both.  These terms refer to the process of developing a partnership with individuals, churches, and companies who are like minded missionally with TouchGlobal Crisis Response Ministry and who would like to partner with me in ministry.  Ministry Partnership Development is not unlike what Jesus called the disciples to do when he sent out the twelve disciples in Matthew chapter 10 and what John refers to in 3 John vs. 5-8. 

So from now until the end of the year, I am on a special project—one in which is going to involve me “Broadening my Horizons” way more than ever.  My goal is to be fully supported by year end, which means that I need to meet with as many people as possible to seek your partnership with me in my role as finance manager for TouchGlobal Crisis Response Ministry.  This is going to be an all out “ask” to join my financial support team. 

If you feel led to join the team, then please let me know.  If I ask you to join my team and you can—all Glory to God!  If you can not or do not feel led to partner in this way, that’s o.k. and again—all Glory to God!  You see, I have to believe and hope in the fact that if I have been called to be a part of this ministry, then the financial resources exist to support those efforts. 

How about it?  Are you up for the challenge?  Are you in this with me and TouchGlobal Crisis Response Ministry?  Call me and let’s talk  - 985.705.2416  or email me and let me know that you want to learn more ( here’s my email)dorinda.bogran@efca.org  and in the midst of it all, let’s give all Glory to Our Mighty and Awesome Father in Heaven through His son, Jesus.   

 Would you like to be a part of Crisis Response ministry by partnering with me?  Here are some ways:

Prayer -I believe in the power of prayer, and knowing that you are praying for

             the ministry is a continued source of encouragement.

Send -    Get a team together to come help serve the people of New Orleans, Peru, Haiti, Japan and Alabama or become an intern with the ministry for 3-6   months.

Give -   Become a part of this ministry by partnering with me as a Missionary with the EFCA (Evangelical Free Church of America).  Send tax deductible donations to my IMA (individual missionary account)              #1566.   

Checks should be made payable to EFCA .

Please write “#1566” in the memo line on your check. (#1566 is my Individual Account number).

            

Please send to:                 Dorinda Bogran c/o Trinity Church

                                       EFCA TouchGlobal Crisis Response Ministry

                                       19380 N. 10th St.

                                       Covington, LA 70433

OR: Give online at  www.efca.org/give-now.  (Please reference #1566)

For more information on EFCA TouchGlobal Crisis Response please visit www.touchglobal.org/crisisresponse.  Also, keep up with the most recent happenings with the ministry at www.crisisresponse.blogspot.com.  We are on Facebook, too!!! 

Thank you for partnering with me in this ministry through prayer or financial support.  If you want more information, just email me (dorinda.bogran@efca.org) or call me at 985.705.2416.

PRAISE & PRAYER

*Praise God for answered prayers!!!

*Prayer for a calm

Atlantic hurricane

season

*Praise for interns and  their servant hearts they had all  summer

*Prayer that I can be fully supported by year end

*Praise that we are starting to receive team applications for Spring 2012

*Prayer for our annual ministry meetings in September

This is a sign on a street in Minneapolis.  Now this is something you never see in Louisiana! 

EFCA (Evangelical Free Church of America) National Office in Minneapolis

June 2011 newsletter

It’s Official!!!
I spent 8 days this month in Minneapolis with 15 other potential long-term missionaries
to complete the long-term process with EFCA to determine if I could
continue to serve with TouchGlobal Crisis Response and….I was approved!!!
These new missionaries will be going to France, Lebanon, Asia, Germany and
the U.S. and I can continue to serve as the Finance Manager for Crisis Response
Ministry. I can continue to fulfill the vision that our Lord has given me (through
a fellow missionary) in Ephesians 4:16 which states that the whole Body of
Christ grows and builds itself up in love as we each do our own part and are held
together by every supporting ligament. That’s what God has allowed me to be—
a supporting ligament doing what I can in the strength of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
to work behind the scenes to support and encourage our staff and the volunteers
in all that they are called to be in the Body of Christ. I am humbled and amazed
that God would choose me to serve him in this way. Thank you Jesus for this
opportunity you have given me and thank you all for supporting these efforts
with your prayers and your financial support. Together we are in a ministry partnership
that is called to bring God Glory. Praise Him!!!!


Interns are here!!!
Katie H. has worked really hard to bring 4 interns here in New Orleans and 3 in Haiti for the summer. Join
me in welcoming Chelsea, Ronnie, Keri, Dustin, Brandon, Justin and Jane. Read more about the interns
and the program in Katie’s blogspot at http://www.hookedonhelpingnola.blogspot.com/.

That’s multiplication!!!
At this point in time we are hosting teams in five locations on three different continents! WOW!!! Teams now can serve in New Orleans for Katrina Relief, in Haiti and Peru for earthquake relief, in Alabama, for Tornado relief and in Japan, for Earthquake and tsunami relief. This has only happened with God’s Grace in
His Power and in His Perfect Timing. We can praise a God who is all mighty (psalm 46), who is Great and is worthy of praise (psalm 146), who is faithful forever (psalm 146), who is mighty in power (psalm 147) , who knows the plans He has for each and everyone of us (Jeremiah 29:11), and who’s plans are meant to
prosper us and not to harm us, plans to give us a hope and a future. Jesus is the Christ, The Son of the Living God (Matthew 16:16) He is bigger than our problems and worthy of our supreme trust and obedience.

  Would you like to be a part of Crisis Response ministry by partnering with me? 

Here are some ways:

Pray -    I believe in the power of prayer, and knowing that you are praying for the ministry is a continued    source of encouragement to me and our team.

Send -   Get a team together to come help serve the people of New Orleans, Peru, Haiti and Japan, or become an intern with the ministry for 3-6 months.

Give – Become a part of this ministry by partnering with me as a Missionary with the EFCA (Evangelical Free Church of America).  Send tax deductible donations to my IMA (individual missionary account) #1566.

Checks should be made payable to EFCA . Please write “#1566” in the memo line on your check and send it to the following address:

Dorinda Bogran c/o Trinity Church

EFCA Crisis Response Ministry

19380 N. 10th St.

Covington, LA 70433

OR: Give online at  www.efca.org/give-now.  (Please reference  #1566)

If you don’t already, will you consider receiving this newsletter by Email? Please let me know at by email to dorinda.bogran@efca.org or call me at 985.705.2416. Visit www.touchglobal.org/crisis response for more information on TouchGlobal Crisis Response Ministry and the (EFCA) Evangelical Free Church of America.