Thursday, February 5, 2009

A Family for All Nations


We have been blessed since July of 1998 to be the directors of Friends of Internationals at the University of South Alabama. It has opened our hearts and home to thousands of students from nearly all the nations of the world. We love what we do! Soon we will add another component to our life which though not for everyone will serve a number of international students and families in the area who are looking for a multi-cultural family of faith. Our lives are open to people from every nation and religion. Some of our friends are interested in finding out more about the Christian faith. We have decided to mover towards establishing a community of faith with an an emphasis on reaching out to people from different cultures. There is an interesting portrait of heaven in the last book of the Bible which describes how Jesus Christ had by his sacrificial death as an innocent enabled people to have eternal life. Our desire is to establish a family of believers and seekers of Jesus who will share their lives, their faith and their cultural heritage with one another in a beautiful mosaic of vibrant life. How can we do this? Only God is capable of building something like this. So we choose to believe and have faith in God and in his desire to draw together a faith community from every nation/ethnicity in the Mobile, Al area. Will you pray for God to help us as we move forward in faith toward God? We know you will!
Jim

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