We served about 40 people at City Union Missions this year. You can see Sam, Abbie and Debbie Vincent, along with Steve Reinbold, serving in the kitchen.
Steve, the Chili Master, strikes again.
This is about our 15th trip down to City Union Mission. We usually minister at the Family Shelter in the fall to celebrate and share God's blessings in our lives around the time of Thanksgiving. About a dozen families from our congregation contribute in food to feed about 40 people. The families there are very friendly and appreciative. City Union Mission has several other ministries which touch lives in the Kansas City area. You can learn more about their ministry be visiting http://www.cumission.org/. Thanks so much to Steve Reinbold, the "Chili Master," for coordinating this ministry event over the years.
Kathy Vincent with her new friend at City Union Mission.
Blaine and Carol Lemmons
with the Evangelical Free Church in Hungary.
Their home church is the Evangelical Free Church in Mahattan, KS.
Rick and Donna Burke E-Mail - Rick.Burke@efca.org,Donna.Burke@efca.org,Mission: Evangelical Free Church Mission
Assignment : Central Europe Area Director
Mailing Address: 2031 Erd Pf. 103 Hungary
Family: Ryan Lee Burke: / Wife: Mandy Burke , Erin Burke:, Ray (Rick) Burke, Jr.
Background: Rick and Donna were married in 1973. They are from St. Louis, Missouri and are from the Christ Community Church (an Evangelical Free Church). Rick graduated from Southwest Missouri State University. He and Donna joined the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ in 1974. They served on campus staff at Southwest MO State Univ. for three years, Ft. Hays State Univ. for four years, and two years at Missouri University. They left Campus Crusade staff in 1983 to work with their families' business. They also were involved with church planting as lay people in the St. Louis area. They helped plant First EFC, Christ Community EFC, and then became involved in church planting in Romania, Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia. They were invited to join the staff of the EFCM in 1993. They helped start International Network with the EFCM. Then were asked to move to Germany to be the director of Central Europe. They moved the offices in August of 1999 to Budapest, Hungary, where they now reside.
Role: Rick oversees the EFCM work in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bosnia. He is responsible to work with the national churches, which the EFCM partners with in these countries. He is responsible for the 100 missionaries and 100 children in these countries. He is responsible for expansion into new countries in this area. He reports to the EFCM board for the area.
Vision: We have a ten year vision that includes developing a stable Central Europe area office, recruiting of another 100 missionaries, building infrastructure for greater missionary training, developing better working opportunities for our national churches, developing national leadership opportunities and seeing a stable church planting movement in each country.
Praises and prayer requests: 1. We praise God for our children and their love for God! 2. We praise God for our marriage which is nearly 30 years! 3. We praise God for our calling to be missionaries!
Our church also supports:
Mark and Caronline Asp serving in Mexico with WEC International
D. & J. H. serving in Uzbekistan with the CMA Mission
