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EGC has a long history of supporting local organizations, ministries, and missionaries by providing infrastructure and technical assistance to help them grow. While a few organizations are best served with a long-term commitment for an indefinite time, EGC supports others during their start-up phase, offering capacity building services to help them grow to a point where they are self-sustaining. In this issue of Inside EGC, we highlight a few of the dozen or more innovative ministries now in a fiscal conduit relationship with EGC.

MICHAEL DOTTIN MINISTRIES

Early in 2006, Michael Dottin began to sense the Lord leading him to launch a new ministry that would equip worship leaders, worship teams, and pastors with biblical teaching and training in music ministry. Encouraged by his friend Crystal Dixon, the director of EGC’s Boston Education Collaborative, Michael approached the Board of EGC about his ministry goals and Michael Dottin Ministries was welcomed in FY 2007 as a fiscal conduit ministry. Michael writes, “In June of 2008, we hosted our annual ‘See His Glory 2008 Worship and Music Ministry Conference.’ The Spirit of God met each attendee as they worshipped the Lord and heard the Word of God taught in an interactive setting.” Earlier in the year, on April 12, Michael and his team held a teaching forum on “Unmasking Spiritual Abuse In The Church: How To Recover from The Inside Out.” “We had the opportunity to counsel a large group of believers that came out of a very abusive church,” Michael says. “After much prayer, they decided to form a new church and structure it according to biblical standards! They are now meeting in a school auditorium, experiencing renewal, and seeing the Lord rebuild their lives."  www.michaeldottin.com

ANTIOCH INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES - BOSTON

We believe that Christians ought to seek reconciliation in community. We believe in missional community. We are missional community. We are Antioch Intentional Communities.

Learn more at www.iantioch.org.

TRADUCTION DE LA BIBLE EN CREOLE HAITIEN

EGC supports the ministry of Rev. Daniel Telfort in Haiti. Daniel, the brother of former EGC staff member Jorave Telfort, is translating the Old Testament into Haitian Creole from the original languages for the first time. He is also a seminary teacher and preacher. He recently wrote about his work since his return to Haiti from the U.S. in June, “By God’s grace I finished translating the book of Ruth, that of Jonah, and Psalms 1-10. I am looking forward to translating Song of Songs, Genesis 1-25, and from there I will follow the biblical order until completion of…the entire Old Testament into Haitian Creole from the Hebrew and the Aramaic texts.… I am in the process of moving to Jacmel to teach at a theological seminary that Pastors Pierre-Pierre, Dieupie Cherubin, and I are starting this year. It is a very challenging work, but the Lord is with us and we believe God will help us do the work…. This year I am (also) teaching two courses at STEP, the theological seminary in Port-au-Prince…. Please pray for wisdom and strength from the Lord, as I am undertaking all this by faith.”

QUINCY STREET MISSIONAL CHURCH - YOUTH PROGRAM

Rev. Ralph Kee, pastor of Quincy Street Missional Church and missionary with EGC’s Greater Boston Church Planting Collaborative, explains that the church’s youth pastor, Bobby Constantino, secured a grant to support the youth ministry. Quincy Street asked EGC to conduit this resource as a one-time project. “The church is working hard to perfect its financial skills,” Rev. Kee says, “and our hope is that in the not-too-distant future the church will be able to handle such financial things on its own.”

BOSTON FAITH & JUSTICE NETWORK

Christians  seeking God’s justice as an expression of his faith and love

Learn about their programs, such as their September Fair Trade Training Days, at their website:
www.bostonfaithjustice.org.

[published in Inside EGC, September-October, 2008]