May 2020 Missions Sunday focus: Phil & Maretta Barr, missionaries to Spain
Sunday, May 10, is the 2nd Sunday of the month. That means at Oak Dale we highlight one of our Partners in Missions, so this month we’re doing that via social media. Our focus this month is Phil & Maretta Barr, missionaries to Spain. Following is info on the call on their life, the current ministry, and how you can support them in prayer. First, here is a link to a virtual peek into their life & city:
Barr Mission Work in Spain for Oak Dale_20200510
The Call
Phil served as a teacher at Rosedale Bible College from 2004 to 2013 during which time he and Maretta led three cross-cultural study terms in the Malaga region of southern Spain with groups of RBC students. Having seen the great need for the understanding of the gospel and the teaching of God’s Word in Spain, Phil & Maretta explored the possibility of ministering long-term in the country. The opportunity opened up in the fall of 2013 through Rosedale International’s new Operation Birthright approach. Phil & Maretta were sent out by their home church and have been serving in southern Spain ever since.
Current Ministry
Phil & Maretta are working cooperatively with a recent church plant in a suburb of metropolitan Malaga encouraging its outreach, mentoring the church leadership, and teaching in the congregation. They are also supporting another church planting effort from this same congregation in a region of the city of Malaga in which there is no evangelical church. They also support a Farm School Project which is designed to connect school children in the secular state schools with the outreach efforts of the local evangelical camp.
Prayer Needs
We appreciate the faithful support we have enjoyed for the past six years of service here in Spain and would appreciate your prayers that the support would continue into our next four years. Please pray that the Bible Doctrine class Phil teaches will continue to be used to strengthen the believers in their faith in the Lord and their ability to live and witness for him in the wider society. Please pray that Phil’s mentoring with the church’s leadership will continue to be useful to them and their ministry. Please pray that the Farm School Project will be a success and that school students will get connected to the opportunity to attend the camp’s summer evangelistic events. Please pray that the church planting effort in the city of Malaga will yield fruit.
Contact and Support
By Mail:
Rosedale International
2120 E 5th Ave
Columbus OH 43219
Tel. (614) 258-4780
Online: www.rosedaleinternational.org
~Please designate for Phil & Maretta Barr
Missions, inviting our world to worship Jesus, is what Oak Dale does, all the time. Whether it’s for our children, our neighbors, or other people groups, we want our hearts to beat with God’s heart, who does not want “anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3.9
Our continual prayer to our Father is, ” Let your glory fall in this room, Let it go forth from here to the nations.”
Local Mission
Oak Dale Community Groups are involved in sharing God’s love through service projects and helping others in practical ways.
Foreign Mission
Oak Dale supports those from the congregation going on short-term mission trips.
Oak Dale supports Rosedale Mennonite Missions and is also a supporting church for the following
- Phil and Maretta Barr, serving in Southern Spain.
- Amos, serving in Africa.
- Lynae Byler, serving with Because Justice Matters, a ministry to women in San Francisco who experience isolation and exploitation.