We're official!

Having already listed the Guatemala mission trip worship service this past Sunday as one of the occasions in the last month during which they felt God’s presence, elders currently serving on the Crescent Hill church session this evening approved with little discussion the partnership and partnership plan between Crescent Hill and the Q’eqchi’ Estoreño, Izabal Presbytery. We’ll share news of this – and the content of the information given to the session (text below) - with our new partners.

March 29-30 discussions between members of the spring 2009 Guatemala mission team (Perry Chang, Ellen Dozier, Jane Larsen-Wigger, Ben Langley, Lowell Linder, and Luke Van Marter) and leaders of Guatemala’s Q’eqchi Estoreño, Izabal Presbytery produced a partnership plan that include:

Regular prayer for each other.
- At least monthly e-mail communication, with sharing of celebrations, prayer concerns, and news (possibly supplemented by telephone conversations).
- Joint scripture study – this spring, of the second chapter of Acts, leading up to Pentecost Sunday, May 31.
- A Saturday morning, September 19 Crescent Hill church prayer vigil and fast, timed to coincide with the start of the Estoreño Presbytery annual meeting.
- Additional travel and visits as possible.

In May we’ll be praying for the following Estoreño Presbytery churches:
- La Union mission church, pastors Pablo Sacul Chub, Antonio Tec, and Robert Caal, and worshipers there (on Sunday, May 3 and during the week that follows).
- El Chupon mission church, pastors Gerardo Ich Pop and Antonio Tec, and worshipers there (on Sunday, May 10, and during the week that follows).
- Arca de Noe church in central El Estor, Pastor Gerardo Ich Pop, and church elders, deacons, and members (on Sunday, May 17 and during the week that follows).
- Altar de Noe church in the Los Cerritos neighborhood of El Estor, Pastor Raul Contreras, and church elders, deacons, and members (on Sunday, May 24, and during the week that follows).
- Espiritu Santo church in the San Marcos neighborhood of El Estor, Pastor Jose Domingo Xo Ical, and church elders, deacons, and members (on Sunday, May 31 and during the week that follows).

-- Perry