Hi everybody.
Wow, what an incredible week we had with our Candidate Orientation.
Thank you for your prayers. We had a group of 17 candidates whom we were able to approve for service to Ireland, France, Germany, Portugal and North Africa. It was an amazing time with group of people who love the Lord, have come from varied backgrounds and who knit together as a group in an incredible way.
It was a long week and exhausting but the Lord had His hand on it. On Wednesday we did a prayer walk through a residential area of Monument. It was amazing to listen as we walked and prayed for the people of our town. One of our groups eve had the opportunity to talk to someone who was out in the yard and working.
We feel as a Mission that we need to be involved where we are as much as the work overseas.
That all took place two weeks again. Last week Tim took some time off to work around the house. Besides gathering and cutting several quarts of wood for the Winter, Tim and the children cleaned up a ton of branches that needed moved to a space in the garden where we can chip them later. Jennifer has been working hard on her Strings class and violin lessons. She is in fact gaining some notoriety in Monument. She is really loving being engaged with her violin again.
A prayer request. Please continue to pray for Sabse, she is taking the next day or two to really seek the face of God and seek a deeper relationship with Him. Please also continue praying as some of our friends in Germany locate a fellowship of believers that she might get connected with.
Please also continue praying for our friend Hadschi in Austria. He is facing some very difficult decisions right now. He found out that his wife has been cheating on him for years and everybody knew it but him. Sadly he is looking for solace with another woman himself now. Fighting his own demons. Our co-worker is working to connecting up with Hadschi to serve him and stand by him. Please be in continued prayer for the family, with their two young children and this huge mess.
For His Kingdom, Tim, Jennifer ad the Kids
Monday, June 29, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Hello all.
Just wanted to send out a quick note.
Please be praying for my friend John. He is a sheriff’s deputy. I met him at the church where our children attend AWANA. The church has a police presence there for security purposes. At any rate I’ve been able to talk at length with John. He has had some pretty bad experiences with churches through break ups and other. But he has graciously allowed me into conversation with him. He also served as a translator in Germany for the army, so we have found a good common ground. He’s a great guy. Please pray as we are planning to catch coffee together in the next week or so. I am thankful for the relationship that is building and pray that the Lord will open his heart to the possibility of a real relationship with Christ rather than seeing the painful relationships inside of some church contexts.
Also, be in prayer for Jennifer as she finds her way into the strings community in Colorado Springs and area. Many of you have been blessed by her playing and so know what a blessing it is that she is getting connected here. In order to help our family make ends meet in our support shortage, Jennifer will begin teaching a strings class the summer and the fall, through the school district. It is an opportunity that God has provided through relationship and we’re thankful for.
Please also pray for a new friend Sabse. She's a German gal (early 20’s) who contacted me over Facebook a while ago. Initially she contacted me because we have a mutual friend in Austria. Then one day she saw I was on-line and she texted me and asked if I had walked with the Lord for a long time. I knew immediately where this was going. Since then we have been texting on Skype every week as I counsel her. She is the only Christian in her town outside of Stuttgart. She is alone and trying to figure out how to walk with the Lord in addition to dealing with a number of other issues. Her family is hostile toward her faith and her friends don’t altogether get it. It has been great to see her move from a place of hopelessness to joy in just a couple of weeks. We are also moving toward engaging her friends a little more on faith issues. I also have friends I Germany working on finding a Christian community to plug her into. Please pray with us that her family will see the incredibly irresistible light of Christ and be drawn to it and that she will get connected with other believers in Germany who can become her family and support structure.
Thanks
Tim for us all
Just wanted to send out a quick note.
Please be praying for my friend John. He is a sheriff’s deputy. I met him at the church where our children attend AWANA. The church has a police presence there for security purposes. At any rate I’ve been able to talk at length with John. He has had some pretty bad experiences with churches through break ups and other. But he has graciously allowed me into conversation with him. He also served as a translator in Germany for the army, so we have found a good common ground. He’s a great guy. Please pray as we are planning to catch coffee together in the next week or so. I am thankful for the relationship that is building and pray that the Lord will open his heart to the possibility of a real relationship with Christ rather than seeing the painful relationships inside of some church contexts.
Also, be in prayer for Jennifer as she finds her way into the strings community in Colorado Springs and area. Many of you have been blessed by her playing and so know what a blessing it is that she is getting connected here. In order to help our family make ends meet in our support shortage, Jennifer will begin teaching a strings class the summer and the fall, through the school district. It is an opportunity that God has provided through relationship and we’re thankful for.
Please also pray for a new friend Sabse. She's a German gal (early 20’s) who contacted me over Facebook a while ago. Initially she contacted me because we have a mutual friend in Austria. Then one day she saw I was on-line and she texted me and asked if I had walked with the Lord for a long time. I knew immediately where this was going. Since then we have been texting on Skype every week as I counsel her. She is the only Christian in her town outside of Stuttgart. She is alone and trying to figure out how to walk with the Lord in addition to dealing with a number of other issues. Her family is hostile toward her faith and her friends don’t altogether get it. It has been great to see her move from a place of hopelessness to joy in just a couple of weeks. We are also moving toward engaging her friends a little more on faith issues. I also have friends I Germany working on finding a Christian community to plug her into. Please pray with us that her family will see the incredibly irresistible light of Christ and be drawn to it and that she will get connected with other believers in Germany who can become her family and support structure.
Thanks
Tim for us all
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