Please keep our church in your prayers as we look into the possible purchase of a part of an office building right in the center of our town. Several properties were recently put on the market for very interesting prices. We visited each one last week and are seeking information that will either confirm that the building would work for us as a church or that it wouldn't. The location is great and several are priced at under 100,000 euros. Some work would need to be done, however, in order to turn the former offices into a church. Please pray that if one of these properties is what God would have for us, that He would hold that property for us, open the doors before us to be able to go through in His time and in His order, and that He would provide the finances necessary for the purchase and renovations.
Please continue to pray for the unsaved people that are attending our services and English outreach clubs including a recent visitor to our Sunday morning service. We continue to see hunger for spiritual truth, for which we praise the Lord. Pray for God to guide and help us in our preaching and teaching ministries, as well as in giving encouragement and counsel. Pray too for our members that God will continue His work in each individual. The past two Sundays there have been some refugees from the Middle East that have attended our services. They were saved in their country before fleeing to Europe where they stayed for the past year. Recently they were moved and are still in temporary housing. They immediately sought out a Baptist Church and were able to make contact with our teammates. Please pray for them with all of the hardship they have known and pray that God will use us to minister His love and grace to them.
We will be having a special Christmas outreach at 4 p.m. on December 18. Flyers have been ordered and we will be inviting a number of our friends and acquaintances. Pray that God will bring people.
Please pray for Adrianna this week as she will be participating in a Missionary Teen Retreat December 1-7. The stated purpose of this retreat is "...to challenge missionary teens with practical teaching on the truth found in Luke 12:48: TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN MUCH SHALL BE REQUIRED. We want to direct missionary teens' hearts to their unique privileges and responsibilities, and away from the largely mistaken view that they are somehow missing out by not being able to live in America. We believe that being born or raised in a missionary home is a privilege of the highest order and -- at least during the years at home -- constitutes a calling from God all in itself." This will be her first time and she is excited about this opportunity. We will be taking her tomorrow and then returning to Bordeaux. We won't be home in time to pick up the boys from school, so our good friends the Bixbys will be picking up Caleb and Josiah and taking them home to wait for us. Thank you for praying for each of us tomorrow, and for Adrianna's week at the retreat.
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