Praise and Prayer March 2015

What a month this has been.  We are so thankful for the grace and strength that God promises and provides for each day’s particular needs.  Your prayers and concern for us, and for God’s harvest field here in France where indeed the laborers are few, are necessary and very much appreciated.  Thank you for standing with us in this ministry.

At church, we have been pleased to have C return several times.  She continues to express real interest in our Bible studies and has had some pertinent questions.  Despite the weather being rather wet and cold these past couple of weeks, we were able to distribute more than 2000 flyers inviting people to attend our Easter film outreach last Saturday.  We are thankful for three young people from our sister church in Pessac that came one day to help us.  God answered prayer Saturday in bringing 26 people to the film, including a number of unsaved people.  This is a new record for us for a film outreach, and we are grateful.  We were encouraged to see N again, who had come to our Easter outreach last year, this time with her high school age daughter.  Eight people took a copy of Josh McDowell’s “More than a Carpenter” and some took Bibles.

SPECIAL NEED: Please pray that the Lord will provide us with a vehicle for our home ministry trip this summer.  If you know of anyone near the Grand Rapids area who would have a vehicle for a family of five (a minivan would be ideal) that they could loan or rent to us during the time we are home, please contact us by email (jteachout2@cs.com).  The dates of our trip are June 20 to August 27.

Praise for:

- C’s continued search for spiritual truth and for those who attended our Easter film outreach.

- two new children attending the English Connection, and for A’s interest and good questions during the Bible story. 

- God’s healing of Cherith who has come through a painful case of conjunctivitis (pinkeye) in both eyes.

- a wonderful week with Cherith’s sister Hadessah, and for all of the help she was to us as she got involved in many facets of our lives and ministry!

- safety in travel for Jonathan as he travelled to and from Paris to meet some dear friends who have been partners in our ministry for over 20 years as they took a whirlwind tour of Paris !

Pray for:

- opportunities to share the Gospel with T who is atheist and has advanced cancer.  Pray for T’s heart to be tuned into his need for Christ.

- healing and God’s grace for our BMM teammate and dear friend Bonnie Bixby (and her husband Bob) as she has undergone a bilateral lumpectomy for breast cancer here in Bordeaux today. 

- God’s provision and guidance for our teammates, the Christys, in their search for a house here in Saint Medard from which they can minister more effectively in our church plant.

- our French team as we meet for business and refreshment April 27-30.  Pray for our preparations on top of all of our regular ministry responsibilities.

- God’s provision of a vehicle for our family to borrow or rent for our two-month trip to the USA for home ministry this summer.