Last week concluded our youth camps at MSR Camp & Retreat Center. Our schedule stays fully booked year-round with youth and family camps, conferences, Christmas in the Country and all sorts of small group retreats, volunteer projects and reunions that all support the greater mission of World Impact. Our women’s retreat last spring hit record numbers and we are gearing up for the men’s conference in October—it promises to be equally large. Churches from all over the region come to MSR for a real sense of Christian family and togetherness.
Our TUMI classes are continually expanding. We have classes in multiple prisons around the Midwest and in all our ministry cities of Dallas, Denver, St. Louis, Topeka and Wichita. The inmates in the Hutchinson (near Wichita) and Lansing (near Topeka) Correctional Facilities are working toward beginning their own church plants within the prison walls! We even have TUMI satellites in Cuba, India, and South Africa that began through relationships here in the Midwest.
Our 17 Associates are already fully engaged in missions and it is our joy to come alongside them in whatever way we can. Through their partnerships we are able to:
start more TUMI satellites (one of which recently began in Fort Worth, TX)
plant more churches in urban areas (Iglesia del Maestro recently partnered with Mount Moriah)
minister inside more prisons (Associates in Denver are expanding our presence in local prisons)
increase our reach within the city through evangelistic outreaches.
In Wichita, our mobile medical clinic travels to five different sites each week to offer acute medical care in the name of Jesus and offers a monthly dental clinic as well. Each site is a partnering church with volunteer church members ready to talk and pray with each patient. Our World Impact Thrift Store continues to be an affordable place for clothing and home goods in the city. We have seen increased gang activity in the neighborhood surrounding our store, but we continue to be an outpost of the gospel in a troubled area.
The Midwest is home to many of our senior level staff members including our newest member, Reverend Dr. Alvin Sanders. Alvin will serve as our national team leader of ministry mobilization and implementation, overseeing processes of greater faithfulness and fruitfulness in World Impact’s four focus areas and the ministry initiatives within them. Welcome to the World Impact family, Alvin.
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