Praise and Prayer October 27, 2016

We appreciate your prayers for our ongoing building search for our church here in Saint Medard.  Since our last update, we visited a promising prospect that was well situated.  However, with no second exit doors, the building doesn’t meet code requirements for a church meeting place.  So the search goes one. 

At church, we have been blessed to see God working in the hearts of several unsaved people that are attending.  Continued interest in studying the Bible and the children’s keen interest in the Sunday school lesson encourage us and remind us to pray that God will apply His truth to hearts.  Of course we need His help to faithfully and clearly teach and preach His Word!

Praise for:

- good attendance and particpation in the English outreach club, and for help in our organization with the increased numbers.

- the good questions that we are hearing from adults and children as they try to comprehend and assimilate spiritual truth from the Bible with the things that they have been taught in a secular society.

- the good contacts with five families for Josiah’s Birthday, including some we had not met before.

- the visit of an unsaved grandmother from Reims, for her interest in what she saw and heard in our services.

- the baptismal service last Sunday at the Bordeaux center church for a teenager and a woman in her fifties, and for the Gospel announced in testimony, song and message.  Praise for the unsaved present who heard.

Pray for:

- God’s work in the hearts of the unsaved individuals that are hearing the Gospel.

- the grandmother as she returns to her town that she will pursue contact with the church there where we used to be involved.

- the annual four-plus church retreat this weekend.  They expect over 60 in attendance.  Pray that God will use the retreat to speak to hearts for salvation and for spiritual growth.  Pray for safety, good fellowship, and spiritual refreshment for believers.

- God’s provision of an adequate building to meet our growing needs as a church.

- the Central African Republic that continues to face much turmoil, both in Bangui, the capital and in other cities around the country where we have brothers and sisters in Christ serving Him.  There have been senseless attacks on some of our people, and some of our friends have been killed in the past couple weeks.