News Release
Dated: Oct-09-2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Connie Wragge, Ministry Team Leader & President
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PHOTOMISSION MEMBERS CONTINUE PARTNERSHIP WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CHURCH GENT (ICCG)
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, USA - Four Christian photographers from PhotoMission recently traveled to Gent, Belgium, where they met university students seeking to make new friends and a church where they could worship God. Many of the students who are citizens of Asian and African countries first learned of the International Community Church Gent (ICCG) through informal gatherings and conversations that included the members of the PhotoMission missions team.
Since February, the team individually prepared for the outreach and prayed and fasted together on a monthly basis. The PhotoMission team arrived in Gent September 19th at the start of the academic year in order to assist ICCG Senior Pastor Leo Proot and ICCG cell group leaders in demonstrating God's love to the students. Some 60,000 students attend Gent's universities.
Each day the team served the Church, there was a time of praise and worship led by Pastor Proot. The balance of the day was invested in a study of God's Word and its application to the students and God's people worldwide. Additionally, the missions team prepared food for hospitality and helped move the church office to a new location. PhotoMission team members are Jim Rogers, Daniel Walentowski and Connie Wragge from the United States and Anton Beukes from Australia. A fifth member of the team, Mash Cody, upheld the outreach in prayer from his home in Accra, Ghana.
The International Community Church Gent first began meeting in 1999 with a mission to establish a multi-cultural, city church with four sites and different ministries. The purpose of the church is to ignite a church planting movement that so fills the city of Gent with the Gospel of Christ that the people of the city are changed in every dimension - spiritually, socially and culturally. The ICCG website is found at www.iccg.be.
PhotoMission is a worldwide community of Christian photographers serving Christ through their lives and their talents. This is the ministry's third missions trip, with the first one being to northeast India in 2004 and the second one being to Gent in 2006. PhotoMission presently has 226 members living in 37 countries. Its website is found at www.photomission.com.
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