MATT AND CHARLA COOK
OVERSEEN BY THE ESTES
CHURCH OF CHRIST
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IMPORTANT
DATES
The Time is Here!
 December
After years of planning and
30th: Move
praying, the time for us to
to Dallas begin the “official process”
that will lead us to Peru is
 June 30th:
finally here. We will be mov-
Move to be
ing on December 30th to
with the Es-
Dallas, Texas to begin our 6
tes congrega-
tion months of training with Con-
tinent of Great Cities (See
 October:
the following page for details
Depart for about our training).
Cusco
All three families, the Kizer’s,
Reaves and us, will be living
in the same apartment com-
plex in Carrollton, a suburb
INSIDE north of Dallas. This com-
THIS ISSUE: plex is located less than a
6 Months in 2 mile from Continent of
Dallas—
What For?
Vision 2 Farewell Stantonville
The Stantonville congrega-
Monthly 3
tion has been such a blessing
Supporters
to us. Although we are ex-
Prayer Re- 3
cited about our future, it is
quests
difficult to leave this incredi-
ble group of people whom
we love. On December
13th, they threw a surprise
going away party (and roast)
for us. Our families
(including Matt’s all the way
from WV) and friends from
all over were invited for
what was a fun evening of
The Cusco
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Great Cities’ office com-
plex.
We are thankful to all of
our supporters who are
“investing” in the future of
our work by supporting us
The offices of Continent of
while we go through this
Great Cities, where our training
important training. will take place, are located on
Our new address will be: the 7th floor of the Wells Fargo
building in Addison, TX.
3560 Country Square
Drive, #811
Charla—731-645-0293
Carrollton TX 75006 Our email addresses will
We can be reached by remain the same:
phone through our current mattcookwv@hotmail.com
cell phones:
charla_elaine@hotmail.com
Matt—731-645-0286
fellowship and reminiscing,
much of which came in the special to us.
form of “roasting” Matt.
We were very surprised,
especially when we walked
in and unexpectedly saw
our families! Our last Sun-
day with Stantonville will be
December 28th. We are
thankful to God for blessing
our lives with almost five
years with our wonderful
church family at Stanton- Our family surprised us at the
ville. They will always be going-away party.
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6 Months in Dallas—What For?
“We are in (We printed this in our
September newsletter,
for a busy, but we assumed that
some of you will still
educational, wonder what we’ll be
doing during our time in
and exciting Dallas.) This is a fair
question that we’ve been
6 months.” asked several times over
the past few months.
After our retreat in Dal-
las (September) we are
able to answer this ques-
tion more specifically. As
you’ll see from the list
below, our time at Con-
tinent of Great Cities
will be a blessing from
God. The following is a
list of classes and activi-
ties that will be a part of
our 6 month internship.
Classes:
 Team Missions
 Team and Church
Leadership
 Urban Evangelism
 Team Vision and
Strategy Develop-
The doors to the ment
Continent of
Great Cities Of-  “One Another”
fice Complex
Our mission team desires to establish a growing, maturing body of believers in the heart
of Cusco, Peru. We are committed to working in Cusco for a minimum of 5 years. It is
our goal from the very beginning that this congregation will eventually become self-
sufficient, with its own leaders, and financially self-supporting. Our vision is to plant a
congregation that will grow to a point that it will be capable of planting other churches
throughout Peru. It is our prayer that God will allow us to plant and water in Cusco,
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Workshop  Visa Preparation
 Evangelism Training Outside the Classroom
Training
 Family on the Mis-
sion Field  Team Building Retreat
with Drs. Terry and
 History and Culture
of Latin America/ Jennifer Lawson in Fa-
yetteville, AR
Peru
 Interpersonal Rela-  Evangelistic Intern-
tionships ship—one night a
week.
 Managing the Transi-
tion and Cross Cul-  Culture Night—one
tural Adaptation night a week
 Team Survey/Research
 Spanish Language—
Trip—2 to 3 weeks in
an hour and a half
May
daily, 4 days a week
 Spiritual Enrichment  Weekly Meeting with
Seminar Mentor
 Overview of Specific Typical Daily Schedule
Religious groups Per-  9:00-9:30 Spiritual En-
tinent to the Work richment
 Maintaining Sexual  9:30-11:30 Class
Purity  11:30-12:30 Lunch
 Finances, Legal Is-  12:30-2:00 Class
sues, Personal Fi-
 2:00-3:30 Spanish Class
nances
 Activities and Classes
 Conflict Resolution
at least 3 nights a week
 Maintaining Healthy
As you can see, we are in
Relationships with
for a busy, educational, and
Supporting Congre-
exciting 6 months!
gations
Our Vision
while He gives the increase (1 Cor. 3:7).
 Organization
Matt and Charla Cook
(Until Dec. 30th)
8186 Hwy 142
Stantonville TN 38379
(After Dec. 30th)
3560 Country Square Drive, #811
Cell: 731-645-0286
E-mail: mattcookwv@hotmail.com
Check out our blog at
www.cuscoandthecooks.com/news.htm
We hope to keep it updated fairly regu-
larly once we get to Dallas and begin
our training.
Please send all monthly support checks
to:
Estes Church of Christ
c/o Richard Taylor
464 Crook Ave.
Henderson TN 38340
Prayer Requests
 Please pray for the lost of
Cusco and that God will al-
ready begin to open hearts
to the Gospel.
 Please pray for our physical
and spiritual health.
 Please pray for the Estes
church as they oversee our
work.
 Please pray for our transition
from small-town Stantonville
to BIG city Dallas.
Thank you to all of our monthly supporters!
 Estes church of Christ (overseeing church) (Henderson, TN)
 Antioch church of Christ (Ramer, TN)
 Camden Ave. church of Christ (Parkersburg, WV)
 Christian Chapel church of Christ (Wildersville, TN)
 Cypress Tank church of Christ (Ramer, TN)
 East High St. church of Christ (Springfield, OH)
 Finger church of Christ (TN)
 Oakhurst church of Christ (Farmington, WV)
 Oakwood Rd. church of Christ (Fairmont, WV)
 Pumpkin Center church of Christ (Fairview, WV)
 Stantonville church of Christ (TN)
 Union Hill church of Christ (Benton, KY)
 West 7th St. church of Christ (Columbia, TN)
 Dwain and Golden Meek
 Gaylon and Teresa Moore
 Derald and Courtney Swain
www.cuscoandthecooks.com
 Please pray for our entire
team (Barton and Allison
Kizer, Gary, Jennifer, and
Logan Reaves)
 Please pray for our Spanish
Language preparation in Dal-
las.
 Please pray for our families
as they make this transition
with us.