Yes indeed, they are there.  Palestinian and
ethnic Arab Christians want the world, and especially the Western world, to know that they are there.  Our Family.  Our Body in the heart of the Middle East.  They love God and they believe in the mission that Christ has given them to win their nations.

Many of them come from families that have been Christians for many generations.  Others of them have discovered faith recently.  Together, they represent the best opportunity for bringing the hope of Christ to a desperate land, and a desperate region.  But, unfortunately, they have remained a largely neglected partnership within the Kingdom.  That must change.

Through generous partnerships, we have begun to develop a fund for the support of church planting and ministry development within the Palestinian territories and among Arab-Israelis. This area, while still representing a difficult and tenuous environment, also represents a tremendous opportunity to present the gospel of peace to people who are questioning everything about their purpose and place in life.  Reports of piqued interest among the young people of these territories, especially, are motivating our partners to reach out now!  And they believe that they may be the key, or at least a major contributor, to bringing an unprecedented end-time movement to the region (and world!).

We are blessed to have contact with some key leaders for the region, and it is our intention to build this fund to a level that would allow participating local churches within the region to apply for matching funds to enhance their own evangelistic efforts.  In this manner, the churches themselves will be the front end motivators and the keepers of the effort, while investing sacrificially themselves to ensure the quality of this partnership.  This current generation of their churches will provide the energy and enshrine the vision.

Help EME to impact this desperate area.  At a time that the world looks to geo-political tragedies, we look to a people that need to hear the call of Jesus bidding them to come to the Father.  A key, prophetic time is available to us, and we can partner with our Family there to see a great work accomplished!

   Since its inception, Gail Stathis has been serving as the primary administrator for the school.  In that time, she has raised up and trained other leadership, including Trudy Antonellos, who has been serving as the Principal of the school.  As it has grown, however, there has been a constant recognition that a piece of the puzzle was missing.  Gail needed to be freed from many of the tasks of administration, and the demands of the student body became such that someone was needed, an educator, to help move the school to the next levels of development.

   It seems that this time has arrived!  As of May, 2008, the GCA staff will be joined by Craig Sexton, formerly the President of Laverne University in Athens.  Craig has a tremendous heart for ministry, and a desire to see young people trained and groomed to become a force for the Kingdom!  His background as an administrator in the field of education will undoubtedly prove its worth in the coming days.

   We are thrilled to be welcoming Craig to the team.  He will be serving as the Director for the complete K-12 program, while Trudy Antonellos continues as the Principal of the Elementary school.  These two will be much in need of your prayers.  And, of your support.  This is a move made in faith, and while we believe that God will indeed provide for this needed expansion, He may desire to use you to help that become a reality!

   Additionally, we are encouraging the teachers of the school to solicit help in their own missionary placements.  Indeed, each one of these is serving sacrificially to develop not only the school as an institution, but more, the lives of the students and their families.  Each of them is indeed a missionary to this school and nation.  If you would like to help support a teacher or staff worker, or help provide much needed scholarships for children, we are anxious to hear from you.

WE NEED TEACHERS!  SPEND A YEAR, OR TWO, OR A LIFETIME ON THE MISSION FIELD IMPACTING CHILDREN AND REACHING THEIR FAMILIES!  Both the Glyfada and Athens Christian Academies are intesely and anxiously seeking new teacher-recruits!  Some (partial) support may be already supplied.  Contact us today for details at gails@gcacademy.org!

For the last many months, we at EME Ministries have watched sadly as our company vehicles (2 nine passenger vans) have become completely un-useable.  Indeed, we have been lamenting the slow decline and rising maintenance costs for some time.  Not as a complaint, however, because these vehicles have served valiantly and vibrantly through the years in helping us to perform so many different kinds of ministry.   Mission trips and mission teams, humanitarian deliveries and child busing, refugee pick-ups at the bus stops and guest drop-offs at the airport.  Over literally hundreds of thousands of kilometers, these work horses of the modern era have served the ministry well.  But their day is done.  One is gone- sold for spare parts.  The other has just returned from the repair shop for the last time, and is to be sold in the coming days.  And we will be left without at one of the least desirable times to be so.

The summer is coming.  That means summer teams and outreaches as well as promotional and introductory tours.  Part of what we do is help people experience Greece by doing the "footsteps of Paul" tour, while letting them get a taste of the ministries taking place here.  Historically, we have served as well to help the efforts of other ministries in town that, like us, can not afford to rent such transportation when it is needed.  So, we are in need of new (meaning "adequate") transportation that is central and necessary to the ministry.  Wouldn't you help us replace our lost partners?