Praise and Prayer for April 11, 2011

Your thoughts and prayers are much appreciated during these full days. Preparing and planning for our team conference next week is one of our focuses. This includes planning for the song services, preparing our annual report, baking conference goodies, and preparing to welcome and host our special speaker, Pastor and Mrs. Roger Rosenau, as they arrive from northeast PA where they minister in our sending church.

Individuals and groups from church are preparing for their involvement in our Resurrection Day celebration in two weeks. Our involvement is through choir practice before service Sunday morning (left), memory verses and songs with the children, a special number in Sango with our group of Central Africans from our Sango outreach and working with our children to prepare a song in English and French. We were thankful for good attendance in the morning service and in the Sango service, with a record 27 in attendance.

There were four at our English Encounter for the first time this past Thursday. God blessed our time together, and there was some good discussion during the Bible study. Two of the foreign students indicated that this was the first time that they had been able to comprehend the study of the Bible since they arrived in France. One was French and has thus far not been to our church. This Thursday we will be having a special EE with a showing of the film “Facing the Giants”.

With our conference beginning next Monday, we will not be able to update our blog next week. Thank you for praying.

Praise for:

- a good EE with good attendance, and for this opportunity to study the Bible with Christians and others who are interested.

- the good Sango Outreach Sunday evening with 27 present.

- the Lord’s help for Jonathan leading the prayer meeting and preaching Sunday evening.

- S and her family being back in church Sunday and their testimony of God’s sustenance through this difficult time.

- the children’s progress in verse memorization – only four weeks left to quote verses before the contest is over.

- the improvement in Jonathan’s Mom’s kidneys, and that she has not needed to be hospitalized.

Pray for:

- the visitors that have come to services and to the English Encounter.

- the special EE this Thursday, and that God would use this outreach to draw people to Himself.

- preparations for our team conference and for Pastor and Mrs. Rosenau as they begin their trip to France on Thursday. Pray for their ministry Sunday in our church here, then next week in our conference.

- preparations and then for our Resurrection Day celebration and outreach on April 24.

- good health for each of us.

- Jonathan’s mother, that her kidneys would continue to improve.