Praise and Prayer

The lights and decorations that fill the streets and stores at this busy time of year remind us who have received God’s precious Gift that most of our friends and neighbors do not celebrate the coming of our Savior to earth.  Our prayer is that the distractions of the season would not become our focus, and that God would use our family and our church to help others to focus on God’s Gift to the world.

As you pray, the Lord continues to work in Saint Medard.  An elderly woman showed up one Sunday morning for our service and has been coming for several Sundays now.  Mrs. R. is a believer from a neighboring town who found us on the Internet; happy to find a church like ours much closer to her home than the one she was attending.  Distribution of flyers, Gospel booklets and Scripture calendars has continued, including 1000 invitations to our Christmas film outreach that we held last Sunday afternoon.  One visitor for the outreach who had been burned by a false cult was touched by the film and took several pieces of literature.  We see the devastation caused by the JWs in our town.  God is greater and able to break through the chains to release spiritual prisoners.

One of our sister churches held a conference December 6 and 7 on the Bible and Science in the 21^st century, which our church family was able to participate in.  Evidence is everywhere for a Creator and the scientific soundness of the Bible, stark contrast with the “wisdom” of this world which is taught and believed as truth. 

Praise for:

-  this special season to celebrate God’s Gift of a Savior, and for many opportunities to share Christ’s love and message this month.

- the recent arrival of Mrs. R. in our services, and for the unsaved women who came to our Christmas film outreach.  Praise for the children who have come to our English Connection outreaches.

- the successful surgery that our teammate, Ed Christy had, and for good progress in his recovery.

- the accord we have received to meet in a downstairs room rather than upstairs where we have been.  The new room is larger, nicer and closer to the bathrooms, and much easier to get to for our people.

Pray for:

- the friends and neighbors that we have given goodie plates and devotional picture calendars to, including to a few new contacts. 

- the salvation of F. and her family.

- a family we have recently become acquainted with whose son is one of Caleb’s friends at school.  The father is battling cancer but is an atheist.

- Ed Christy’s complete recovery, and that we will all be able to get a little rest this Christmas.

- God to provide us with just the right place for our church to rent full time, at the right time and for the right price.

- the sale of the Christys’ house in Lormont and that the Lord will lead them to the right place in Saint Medard.