Praise and Prayer November 30, 2017

Psalm 103:1,2 says “Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.”  For Thanksgiving this year we joined several other missionary families from both France and Spain at Bonnie Bixby’s for a special time enjoying good food, warm fellowship and celebrating God’s faithfulness and goodness with singing and testimonies.  We miss our family greatly on special occasions like this, but we are so grateful for the spiritual family that God has blessed us with. 

Our family has continued to fight sickness over the past several weeks, and we are finally seeing some increase in health and decrease in illness in our bodies.  We have been to the doctor multiple times in the past few weeks, and he has been working with us to find a treatment that will knock out this terrible bronchitis and sinusitis infection.  While we have lacked energy and had some miserable days, the Lord has provided us with the strength necessary to be where we needed to be and to fulfill all of our responsibilities.  We are so grateful for our prayer warriors who bring our family and this ministry faithfully before the Lord, and for the help God has provided. 

Praise for:

- God’s blessing of the multi-church Retreat November 3-5, for the strength He gave each of us for the various responsibilities as the hosting church, especially for Cherith who spent many hours each day in the kitchen!  Praise for messages both edifying and evangelistic, for the good children’s program, and for good fellowship.  There were 68 of us present, including the R family and Jessica who came all the way from northern France just for this Retreat.

- the healing that God is giving to our family after fighting sickness for the past two months.

- God’s blessing of the Reformation Exposition outreach this past weekend (November 25-26) here at our church, for the 1500 invitation flyers given out and for the 19 people that came by, including neighbors and unsaved friends. 

- a family who brought their son, one of Josiah’s friends, to the English club last week for the first time. 

Pray for

- all of those who came to the Reformation Exposition, that they will think about the things that they heard and saw, read the literature they received and open their hearts to Christ.

- God’s help with special opportunities for outreach during the Christmas season, including preparing a small program with our English club for the parents to attend.

- God to work in the hearts of several visitors that have come to our church recently and for lost souls to be saved and discipled.

- God to open up a door for us for a new building soon.

- complete healing from the acute bronchitis that our bodies have been fighting for so long. 

- new churches to join our support team, for God’s continued provision for our needs.