Happy New Year!

Before January ends we would like to wish you and yours a blessed and fruitful New Year as you serve our great God with His enabling and as He provides His love, comfort and grace for each day and challenge you face this year.

Though evidence that Satan is alive and well abounds in our world today, evidence of a powerful, wise and loving God is so much greater.  What a privilege (and responsibility) it is to have the words of Life that the world needs if people will only listen and allow God to draw them to Himself.  On January 18 our church had a fellowship dinner after the morning service followed by a planning meeting in which we discussed the church calendar, projects and finances.  There were 12 adults present to participate and the fellowship was indeed sweet.  Besides being responsible for church finances, I had also been working on revising/updating our church flyer.  We have now distributed close to 8000 church flyers (besides special event flyers).  Everyone was able to have input into the new flyers, which have been ordered and should arrive Friday. Our hope is that this flyer with some of life’s questions, (“What is the purpose of life?” “Who is God?” “Is there life after death?” etc.) would point people to the Bible and to our church which exists “to know Jesus and to make Him known.” 

Praise for:

- the way God is leading and blessing in the Saint Medard church plant.

- opportunities that God has given us to reach out to the family of one of Caleb’s friends whose atheist dad has advanced cancer.

- the good contact with two Moms and for the two girls that attended the English Connection January 23.  We also had a good opportunity to invite another Mom to bring her son (from Caleb’s class) and were encouraged by her very positive response.

- some good interaction that Adrianna has had with several of her friends, despite her homeschooling.

Pray for:

- God to use the new evangelistic flyer in a mighty way in Saint Medard, as we begin to canvas the town for a second time.

- the salvation of F and M, T who has cancer and his wife V, and of M and her family.  Pray for the English Connection to grow and that these children will understand more and more about God and His salvation.

- young Timothee Letellier who is once again in a period of intense chemo, making him very susceptible to any virus, of which there are many going around at this time.

- the Christys’ house in Lormont to sell soon so that they will be able to move to Saint Medard.
- our family as we will be participating in the European Enrichment Conference in Malta February 9-13 (the last one was held in 2012).  Two pastors from the USA will be preaching several times each, and a team from one of our own supporting churches will be providing the children’s ministry.