World Overcomers Christian Church Launches Mentoring, Library Project In Kenya April 15-23

First Lady LaShawn Thompson And Her Pastoral Team At Local Church Traveling To Limuru To Empower Adolescent Girls Through A Four-Day Camp. End Quote

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC (1888PressRelease) April 11, 2012 - Senior Pastor Andy Thompson, founder of World Overcomers Christian Church (WOCC) (http://www.wocconline.org), a nondenominational church serving worshippers in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park community, has announced that First Lady LaShawn Thompson and her pastoral team will leave Sunday, April 15 and return Monday, April 23 from a missions trip to Limuru, Kenya, where they will host a four-day camp to empower adolescent girls. The Christian and community-based "Thrive Girls Camp," being held in collaboration with Global Ethos and the Limuru Ministry of Education, will bring together 100 girls at the Kinyogori Primary School from April 17-20 to share Gospel-centered Bible studies and teach life skills lessons, character/self-esteem building, and healthy living education. World Overcomers Christian Church will also work to create a school library during the mission trip.

Each day, the WOCC missions team will mentor the girls, coordinate arts and crafts activities and prepare meals for participants. WOCC and Global Ethos, a Cary, N.C.-based organization dedicated to mobilizing Americans for global missions in support of social justice are partnering for all activities during the camp, including stocking the library with books. Through the trip, The First Lady and her team seek to place the needs of individual girls at the heart of their efforts, as well as help them achieve life in Christ in all its fullness.

To make an online contribution and learn more about the trip, visit http://www.wocconline.org/africa-missions.

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"This is one of the most ambitious efforts our church has sponsored, and we are placing the needs of these girls at the heart of our mission," said Pastor Thompson. "At World Overcomers Christian Church, we aim to provide for both the physical and spiritual needs of God's children, and this is what we want to do on our mission trip to Kenya. We appreciate the continued prayers from around the Triangle community."

"We want these sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who live in the Kinyogori Village in East Africa to be empowered and transformed in spirit, mind and body through our ministry," said First Lady LaShawn Thompson. "In addition, we want to equip these girls to inspire and empower others. I and the rest of my pastoral team are eager to meet with the students, look at the world from their perspective and share the message of the Gospel with them."

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- Through April 4, WOCC collected donations by mail and at the church. Items requested included pencils, toothbrushes, sanitary napkins and children's gummy vitamins.

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ABOUT WORLD OVERCOMERS CHRISTIAN CHURCH:
World Overcomers Christian Church (WOCC) serves worshippers in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park community and beyond by creating a spiritual experience that is powerful and positive for participants. Since 2003, WOCC has offered a casual, contemporary, dynamic service ministering to people of all ages and backgrounds. Under the leadership of Senior Pastor Andy Thompson ("Pastor Andy"), WOCC provides quality community service as well as Biblical ministry as part of its mission to create a balanced victory with a God-designed life. The church believes that God is as concerned about your life on earth as He is with where you will spend eternity. Its charitable activities include the annual Thanksgiving food drive, Angel Tree donations and volunteer work throughout the year in local shelters and schools. Located at 2933 S. Miami Blvd. at the intersection with TW Alexander Drive in Research Triangle Park, WOCC has more than 10,000 members attending its non-denominational services on Sundays at 8 a.m., 10 a.m. and noon and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m., and its services air daily on WRDC at 6:30 a.m. and are streamed weekly on its website. For more information, visit http://www.wocconline.org.

Jennifer Fair
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