Thank you for your prayers for us and for the people of this land. As you would imagine, Christmas is a
big event here in France and the stores and shops are bustling with business. We appreciate seeing manger scenes for
sale in stores and hearing Christmas Carols sung over store loudspeakers. Just today we heard “The First Noel” in
a huge shopping center.
We as a
church have been preparing for a Christmas outreach this Sunday with a showing
of the film “The Nativity”. Nearly
1000 people have received invitations and a number of neighbors and friends
have said they plan to come.
Continue to pray for the Lord to lead and provide us with a building
where He would have us – in His perfect time. As we gathered information to determine whether the
buildings up for sale could work, someone else came along and offered cash for
them. There were some factors that
had raised questions, and now we have the Lord’s answer regarding those
buildings. We will continue to look
for a building as we work on church documents that will permit us to seek
official status.
Praise
for:
- God’s directing regarding the buildings that
we were looking at for our church.
- renewed contact that God has given us with the
family of one of Jonathan’s unsaved classmates from French language study in
Nancy – after losing contact for 13 years!
- the good attendance of our English club and
for a new parent that approached us about having their son start coming to our
club in January.
- some good contact with one of Josiah’s former
teachers resulting in her expressed desire to attend Sunday’s film outreach.
- the wonderful week that Adrianna had at the
Missionary Teen Retreat in Spain, and for God’s helping us to survive a week
without her here (her presence and help was missed greatly at home and at
church!).
Pray
for:
- the unsaved family that has been attending our
church as they move to a house in Saint Medard this Saturday – we will be
helping as a church and providing meals.
Pray that God will make His Word clear to them as they study it with
interest.
- good attendance at this weekend’s Christmas
outreach (film and refreshments) and for good contacts with those who attend.
- God to use the goodies and especially the
Gospel calendars that we share this year with teachers and neighbors.
- peace and security to return to the Central
African Republic which has seen a number of rebel attacks in the past few
weeks, including churches burned and one Bible School destroyed. Life is very difficult for Christians
in our former home of Bambari.
- God’s leading and provision of a new building
for our church.
- us as parents to be able to faithfully teach our children to love God
and put Him first in their lives.
