Never a dull moment.....

The following is a blog post from Junglemaster about Joel's recent trip up river. It is never a dull moment around here and I always have something to keep me on my knees in prayer...... Praise the Lord for His provisions!

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Building Teamwork between Missions Organizations

ALTECO CONFERENCE 2017

Getting our work done in the jungle requires teamwork between multiple missions. And yet, for many reasons, missions (foreign and domestic) don’t tend to work very well together. This is why JungleMaster is a member of a coalition called ALTECO.

ALTECO, or Amazon & Lowland Tribal Empowerment Coalition, is a group that fosters partnerships between like-minded missions. On alternate years this organization hosts conferences in either Colorado or in Pucallpa, Peru. Tom Clark had always wanted to go to one of these conferences because he felt that they were aimed right at one of the issues we face while working in this region: How can we work together effectively with other missions in the jungle?

While the conference in Peru is aimed at the local indigenous people groups, the conference in Colorado, in the off-years, is focused on equipping the member missions organizations. The focus of this year’s 5-day Colorado conference, coming up in May, will be on teaching like-minded ALTECO member missions how to partner with each other. There will be speakers sharing about the various elements of partnering, about how to assess current partnerships, and about how to lay the foundation for the practicalities of working together. Among many other subjects, there will be instruction on biblical examples of working together, on why individual missions can’t get their work done alone and on how we can become more partnership friendly. Best of all, this will be an opportunity for missions to network with each other right at the conference!

Joel McGee is planning to attend the ALTECO conference this year. He is excited for this opportunity and is looking forward to the things he will learn at the conference to make JungleMaster’s work in the jungle more effective.

The total cost for Joel to attend will be $2800.00. Many of you have asked to be informed of special one-time needs such as this. If you are interesting in helping sponsor Joel to attend this valuable training, please consider making a contribution. Thank you so much!

That's a long way.......

Please be praying today as the team leave for Dos de Mayo. This trip will be a full days journey up the Samiria river with a possible overnight stay along the route if they don't make it to Dos de Mayo by dark. Please pray for the 8 pastors from the Co-Fraternity that left yesterday to go before the team. Please pray for safe travels for everyone, pray for the villagers and pastors in Dos de Mayo that they may be encouraged and enriched by this visit. Pray for Joel, Joe, Dave, and Keny that they may see where God will have them speak and pray and share into the people the love of Christ. Also, the guys have asked for prayers for them spiritually and emotionally. This trip was planned originally with Tom Clark and they are all missing him very much. Pray that they can find peace and do the work laid before them to honor God and Tom. If you would like to follow their travels you can clink the link below:

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