Dear Friends of Mission Surge,
2014 has started with a bang! God has already honored so many prayers and efforts just in this first week of the New Year. He has given much vision and put many possibilities before us. If the rest of the year continues to be as rapid and rewarding as the first week, I am convinced that God is going to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we could ever ask or imagine.
As 2014 begins, I wanted to update you on what is happening…as briefly as I can. These issues are so important to me I will be posting them in various forms in various ways so please don’t grow weary if you see them more than once.
1. Please pray for me as I travel to the Dominican Republic February 24 through March 6. I will be training church planters and pastors in Santo Domingo on February 25-26. On Thursday the 27th I will be speaking at an all- day prayer and fasting event in Santo Domingo. Then I will be traveling to Sabana Perdida on February 28 and March 1 to train pastors and church planters. I will speak in one of the churches on Sunday March 2 and then travel to Santiago in order to train another group of church planters and pastors on March 3-4. On March the 5th we will meet with some of our key pastors that we support. It will be a busy time! Please pray for me, the pastors and church planters, and Mandy as she manages the 5 children and home in my absence.
If God spurs your interest in this work, and would lead you to give to help cover the costs of this training, the projected budget for the entire work is $2500. We estimate training 100+ pastors and church planters! That means that we are feeding and training each pastor for roughly $25 each. If you are moved to help this project, just mail your tax deductible gift to our NEW ADDRESS
Mission Surge
c/o Kevin Ivy
1126 Tanyard Road
Crystal Springs, MS 39059
2. Please pray for us as we continue to gather footage for the DVD tract I shared with you about in the last update. We are in the process of videoing the documentary, the gospel tract is written and waiting to be published, the study book is in process, and the sermon is already recorded. We hope to be able to release this entire outreach project in April! Please pray for this endeavor. It will cost between 2500 and 3000 dollars to complete. We want to make this product available free of charge (as we do everything at Mission Surge). If you feel led to help make that possible by giving financially to help cover this project we would greatly appreciate it. We believe this product is going to be extremely helpful in attempting to communicate and spread the gospel here in the buckle of the Bible belt and beyond.
3. I am excited to announce our first ever Men’s Conference to be held on Friday April 11 and Saturday April 12 in the Jackson, MS area. We want to invite and encourage all men and their sons 12 and older to attend this event. This is going to be an in your face look at the church in North Korea followed by an in the mirror look at ourselves! We are going to have with us Tim Dillmuth from Seoul USA http://www.seoulusa.org/ as one of our speakers, some powerful videos, break-out sessions, and vendors. More details such as exact location, cost, etc., will be coming soon. We are going to make it as low-cost and accommodating as possible. For now, just know that it will be a weekend you will not want to miss! Please go ahead and pencil it in on your calendar and plan to attend: April 11-12, 2014...and spread the word to the men in your churches!
4. Mission Surge Website: Our goal is to have the website www.missionsurge.com rebuilt this year to be more up-to-date and easily accessible...and finally get that "Pay Pal button several of you have asked about working." In the next few weeks you should be able to listen to new sermons every week on the Mission Surge website and at kevinivy.com. Please check it out.
Finally, if you have not signed up to follow the Mission Surge blog, like us on Facebook and to follow us on Twitter, please do so right now! You can do so here:
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In Christ,
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