At this point it appears that the primary purpose of this year's outreach will be to empower the current leadership in Pavlodar and help them know how to lead a missions team. We will be spending a few days training and working with the current leadership and then, (the best part) spend time with them and their church on outreach - although this concept is familiar to them, "sending out" missions teams is a new concept for them. Although we will be doing lots of "hands-on" ministry, our team's primary role will be to coach and guide the "new" leadership and their missions team in Kazakhstan.
The three of us have begun saving and are strategizing on how we can raise the money for this trip. Looks like it will cost us about $3,000 per person - that's roughly $9,000 for all three of us and well over $50,000 for our entire team. We need God's provision!
