February update

Thank you for your prayers for us this month.  Though we live and work in a part of the world with very little Gospel light shining, we can see God’s hand at work.  This month marked the completion of our first mailbox campaign to the homes in Saint Medard en Jalles, and the beginning of our second campaign now using our new church flyer. 

Jonathan was invited to speak at the Valentine’s student banquet at our sister church in Pessac (another suburb of Bordeaux) on February 20.   God brought out a number of unsaved visitors, with a total of 43 served.  The Gospel was presented in various ways (song, skit, message) and everyone was invited to come back for church on Sunday. 

Our family traveled to Malta for the European Enrichment Conference Febrary 9-13.  Along with a number of the other missionaries, our family was hit by the nasty flu that is going through Europe, and several of us had to miss some of the sessions and fellowship.  However, God restored our strength and we were refreshed by the good fellowship and the excellent Bible messages on the life of King David and on Dealing with Soul Litter.  The children were blessed by the ministry of the special team from Grace Baptist Church in Winston-Salem and the contact with the other kids who have many of the same challenges that they have.

Praise for:

- C, the visitor that attended our services last Sunday, her first time in an evangelical church.

- the unsaved visitors at the Valentine’s banquet in Pessac.

- God’s care for Timothee through these 8 months of chemo treatments, and that he finished the last of the intensive treatments last week.  He now enters the second phase of treatment, which lasts 2 years.

- the pending sale of the Christys’ home in Lormont.

- the arrival of John to assist in our church plant while he takes three months of intensive French studies at the Alliance Française.

Pray for:

- God’s work in C’s heart and that she will keep coming to church.

- relationship building with unsaved contacts and for various evangelistic efforts (flyer distribution, English Connection, Film outreach in March).

- the Christys as they work through the sale of their home in Lormont and as they continue the search for a new home in Saint Medard en Jalles.

- Cherith’s sister Hadessah who will be travelling home from Southeast Asia for home ministry, and spending a week with us here in Bordeaux.

- all of the details concerning our two month mini-furlough this summer, including God’s provision for our transportation needs.