BARCELONA TEAM 2017 SUPPORT LETTER

Michael Ryan

Dear Church Family,

Four of our church members will serve on an 18 person team in July this summer in Barcelona, Spain. This mission trip is part of a developing partnership with several other SBC of Virginia churches to work with two IMB personnel in Barcelona. Those workers serve with North Africa and Middle Eastern People groups. That is four SBC personnel seeking to reach 250,000 North Africans living in the area. They have asked for our help.

In Barcelona we will:

  • Hold a weeklong basketball sports camp for children in one of the neighborhoods near the ministry center.
  • Distribute gospel materials at the Barcelona port to families traveling on a 24 hour ferry to North Africa.
  • Distribute gospel materials in marketplaces near the ministry center.
  • Prayer walk.
  • Other direct support to the work through their ministry center.

We plead with you to begin praying for our team now. The work there is difficult. We need strong prayer support beginning now and continuing through the trip and beyond. It is not unusual for participants on such trips to experience significant spiritual warfare when they return.  Also, some may wish to help bear the financial cost of the trip. The cost per person is $1800. Every effort has been made to keep costs low. If more is given than is necessary, the funds will be held for our next international missions effort through Bethany Place.

Such trips provide critical help to permanent workers in the field as well as stir a greater heart for the world in those who go and help to raise the fervor for missions and evangelism in our local church body. This work also is a part of our making disciples who make disciples of the nations. It also reflects the heart of Acts 1:8.

If you choose to assist financially, your gift will be tax deductible.  You can make a check out to Bethany Place Baptist Church but do not write Barcelona trip on the check. You can either mail in the check in an envelope marked Barcelona 2017 or place in an envelope in the offering or hand deliver to the office. You will be sent a receipt from Bethany Place Baptist Church for tax purposes.

Gene Y.

Bethany Place Baptist Church Elder Chairman