Greetings from beautiful Winona Lake, Indiana!!!

I cannot believe three years have past and my days at Grace Theological Seminary are coming to a close! They have been extremely busy but have also flown by. It feels like it was just last week that I was sitting down in my first seminary class on the topic of prayer. I have learned a lot, but more importantly I have grown even more.

Right now I am in the midst of finishing up my final classes for this time of seminary training, but there is one more requirement I’ll have after finishing the classes, and that is an internship. My degree is focused on ministering in a different culture, and so the internship requirement is that I travel somewhere where I can minister cross-culturally. Because of this, I have the opportunity to do an internship with some missionaries in the Republic of Ireland.

The details are not fully established yet, but the plan is to leave in the early fall for approximately 14 weeks. I’ll have a number of requirements to complete for school which are focused on learning the culture and developing appropriate sensitivities when ministering cross-culturally, but in the midst of completing these requirements, I’ll be learning the ropes of the day to day life of a missionary. This means I will be developing relationships with the Irish people, showing them the love of Christ and as God provides the opportunity, sharing the Gospel. I also will possibly be doing some teaching, preaching, administrative type duties, and anything else you can imagine happens on a mission field.

To do this though I need your help; I need your prayer support. I am a firm believer that for ministry to be successful, it must be bathed in prayer. This trip will not be possible without it, so I ask that you consider becoming a partner with me in praying for the Irish people and for this ministry internship I will be going on.

I also will need to be raising support. Again the precise details are not yet figured, but we do know it will cost around $7500. This includes housing, food, insurance, airfare, and other expenses that typically come up during trips like these.

If you would like to know more, feel free to drop me an email. I will also be updating a website with news and information about the trip as I learn it as well as sending out the occasional letter. The mission board I will be traveling through is called CrossWorld Mission. If you feel led to pray for this ministry, please feel free to let me know. If you desire to participate in this ministry through finances, you can send a check to CrossWorld (the address is below), just be sure to write my name in the memo line. CrossWorld also has a way to give online if you prefer to use that method.

Again, thank you for your prayers and support.



Ken Hurne


For information on the mission agency and if you would like to give:

CrossWorld
306 Bala Ave.
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004

CrossWorld's website


If you would like to contact me for any reason:

Ken Hurne
phone: (574) 253-2696
email

Brief Intro

Hello to family and friends.

Why another blog? In the quest to find ways to keep family and friends updated on my world endeavors of ministry, I thought it best to create a blog that I could use to post regular updates on my status. I will be going on an extended short-term missions trip soon and as we know, the occasional prayer letter just is not good enough for many people seeking to pray and follow what is happening. Then email entered the world and updates became more regular, but that takes huge amounts of time out of the mission worker's schedule; creating email lists, writing emails and letters, etc. Instead, it may be better to have a blog site where even short blibs of what is happening can be easily posted and read by all. So that is this blog's purpose.

Shortly I will begin raising support to go on a short term mission's trip / internship to complete my Master's degree I am working on. After that I may continue my international ministry endeavors and it seems this site is a good way to update people on those endeavors. Here is where all will find the most up-to-date updates on these trips, as well as copies of the more general letters. It is my hope this site will help my supporters feel more involved in what is happening, as the more traditional methods of updating supporters tend to be more infrequent.

So within a couple days this blog will be updated with my first support letter. Thanks to all who plan to check this site regularly. I look forward to your comments on how I can improve the usage and feel of this site as well as your support in my ministry endeavors.