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2008 - Vol. 19 >
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An Open Door for
Mission, continued
Members of Comunidad Cuerpo
de Cristo (Body of Christ Community) in Santo Domingo
welcome the ICM participants
with song
Retreat Center where the ICM
was held near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
265 coordinators and mission
leaders, from 64 communities and 22 countries, attended the ICM in Santo
Domingo.
View of historic church bell
tower in Santo Domingo. Bartholomew Columbus, brother of Christopher Columbus,
founded Santo Domingo in 1496 and named it after Saint Dominic. Santo Domingo
is the oldest European city in the New World.
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Impressions
from participants
Jaime
Soto was the overall organizer for the ICM
For
the Ibero-Americana Region it has been a tremendous blessing to host the
International Coordinators Meeting and the international assemblies. The
comments of many Spanish-speaking brothers who participated in the events
is that they have been strongly renewed to serve the Lord and the mission
of the Sword of the Spirit.
Jaime
Soto
Regional
President
This
was a great time to seek the Lord both as disciples and coordinators representing
our diverse communities all over the world.
I was
personally overwhelmed by a fresh breeze of vision for greater unity and
mission.
My
prayer for us and myself is for the ability to obey the word which the
Lord spoke to us during this time together, and to take it back to our
communities for immediate action.
Krikor
Elmayan
Illuminator's
Lamp, Beirut, Lebanon
Worshipping
and praising God together with brothers from diverse branches of orthodox
Christianity (Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox), and diverse cultures,
languages, and countries, allowed me to experience in the flesh the reality
expressed by the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans that all Christians
are called to worship and glorify God in unity and harmony. In the
midst of our diversity at the ICM, we experienced the call to accept one
another as brothers in Christ. In that reality we can stand together and
praise God with one voice, mind, and purpose (Romans 15:6). It was great
to experience at the ICM not only the vision but reality of this gift of
unity.
Bob
Sabean,
Tree
of Life Community, San Jose, Costa Rica |
