In the past couple months we have received two
advertisements in our mailbox and one phone call that are both heartbreaking
and alarming at the same time.
While they appear and sound harmless and even rewarding, each gives
evidence of the spiritual darkness in this country and why the Lord has sent us
to labor for Him in this part of His harvest. Each was a promotion for the services of a psychic/medium “healer”
who for a fee was “capable” of revealing the future, restoring a marriage,
guaranteeing professional success, and removing spells among a myriad of other
services. While receiving this
type of ad is offensive it is also disturbing. Buying into Satan’s lies many of the people around us have a
false sense of comfort and security while they race toward the precipice of a
Christless eternity in hell.
Thank you for the interest you have in us and in
the spiritual welfare of this country.
Please join us in praising the Lord for the ways He is working as well
as in praying for these concerns.
Praise
for:
- God’s work in the hearts of the R family, and
for two in the family recently putting their faith in Christ!
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| The French and German BMM teams along with our speakers and their families. |
- God’s help with our recent annual Bible
conference and team meetings. We
were blessed by the messages from BMM European coordinator Ken Houghten and the
children’s ministry of the VanDussen family.
- recent visits from two families from the US
who encouraged and blessed us with their gifts. One of them was the VanDussens, some of our own church
family from Grand Rapids, MI.
Besides providing an amazing VBS experience for our children at
conference, they also made it possible for us to hold a Baseball game with
Caleb’s friends in honor of his 11th birthday, which provided a
great bridge builder with a number of families.
- the opportunity that God has opened up
recently to reconnect with one of Jonathan’s Middle Eastern classmates from
language school 20 years ago.
Seeking help with English, he has requested regular meetings over Skype.
- God’s help for Adrianna as she homeschools and
for the encouraging results of her annual examination by the acadamic
inspectors..
Pray
for:
- Pray for the salvation of those who are
hearing the Gospel through the English club and our services and Bible study at
church.
- God’s help for the church in Pessac as it
seeks God’s direction and provision of a pastor and a building after the recent
loss of its pastor.
- God’s continued care for the displaced family
that was with us for several months who recently moved away.
- our church plant to receive the necessary
authorizations from City Hall for us to rent the building that we have
found. Pray that God would speed
up the process and that we wouldn’t lose the building to someone else, if He so
wills.
- our brothers and sisters in Christ in the
CAR. They country is largely in
rebel hands, and our people there face great difficulty.
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that God will raise up new support for this ministry from churches and
individuals. We learned this week
that God has called Home another of our faithful individual supporters.
