PRAYER UPDATE NOVEMBER 2014
Taking the greatest love story ever to the lost (John 3:16)
Happy Early Thanksgiving!
We praise God for each of you and give thanks that we have a wonderful team of people laboring alongside us. God uses your encouragement and prayers to sustain us here.
We are so excited to be able to come to the states for the holidays and for the Denton Bible Church Missions Conference (see below). We had some frequent flyer miles, so we will be taking separate flights to the US on December 10th then returning to Vienna on February 6th. Our plan is to visit with as many of you as is humanly possible while we are there. Watch your inbox for times and places where you can catch up with us.
God has been at work here, it is hard to put everything into words - but we will try.
We are so excited to be able to come to the states for the holidays and for the Denton Bible Church Missions Conference (see below). We had some frequent flyer miles, so we will be taking separate flights to the US on December 10th then returning to Vienna on February 6th. Our plan is to visit with as many of you as is humanly possible while we are there. Watch your inbox for times and places where you can catch up with us.
God has been at work here, it is hard to put everything into words - but we will try.
Evangelism Symposium
We mentioned last month that our team has thinking through how to do evangelism in our context here – both with long time Vienna residents as well as with the immigrant population. We invited people from several churches and denominations to join us for a time of open discussion on the topic.
Jim Brosch, along with an Austrian believer with a similar gifting and heart for the lost, shared with us. They did a wonderful job reminding us the real work of evangelism belongs to God. We are commanded to participate and receive blessing from that, but we should feel no pressure to perform because it is God who is responsible for the results, not us.
We then broke up into groups and discussed what personal blockades each of us might have that keep us from sharing our faith with those around us. We had around 20 people in our apartment, from 6 or 7 churches and probably at least that many nationalities and many of us gave the same primary reason. We fear we will be ridiculed or looked down on, we value the approval men over the approval of God.
Jim Brosch, along with an Austrian believer with a similar gifting and heart for the lost, shared with us. They did a wonderful job reminding us the real work of evangelism belongs to God. We are commanded to participate and receive blessing from that, but we should feel no pressure to perform because it is God who is responsible for the results, not us.
We then broke up into groups and discussed what personal blockades each of us might have that keep us from sharing our faith with those around us. We had around 20 people in our apartment, from 6 or 7 churches and probably at least that many nationalities and many of us gave the same primary reason. We fear we will be ridiculed or looked down on, we value the approval men over the approval of God.
Russia!
Last month I (Lori) had the opportunity to travel to Russia with my teammate Brenda to participate in a Women Serving God trip to help encourage and build up women in leadership in their churches. This was a fruitful time and was also incredibly encouraging and inspiring to me. Russia holds a special place in my heart as this is the first place Tim and I went on a mission trip together, and God has broken our hearts for this place.
The team (Janis Saville, Hayley Myers, Brenda Brosch, Dee Ann Reed, and myself) provided women’s seminars for women of all ages and from many different evangelical churches. It was a joy to see their hearts for the Gospel, their desire to grow in their walks, and to share their knowledge with other women. We began in Moscow and traveled by overnight train to Pskov and also to the nearby village of Strugi Krasny. |
PHOTOS FROM RUSSIA
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While there we also met with leaders of several churches as well as directors at Moscow Theological Seminary to discuss how we might assist them in their ministries. We were able to leave them with materials in Russian that they can begin using with their women. We hope you enjoy the slide show to the right depicting the trip in pictures. Pray with us that God will open the doors for us to do more of this type ministry throughout Central Europe.
Men's Prayer Time
Over the coarse of the last year, I (Tim) have been leading a Men's prayer meeting at our church. We meet every other Wednesday at 6:30 am. God is doing great things, we have opened up with one another in authentic ways and we have seen many answered prayers. We have also had some great discussion regarding how we should pray and what our motivation for prayer should be.
This time has been incredibly encouraging to me and to several of the guys. I recently started Tim Keller's book on Prayer and an excited to be able to share what I have been reading with this faithful group of men.
This time has been incredibly encouraging to me and to several of the guys. I recently started Tim Keller's book on Prayer and an excited to be able to share what I have been reading with this faithful group of men.
Save the Date for the 2015 DBC Missions Conference!
We will be traveling to the States mid-December and returning to Austria in mid-February. We would love to see each of you individually and/or at the conference.
We will be traveling to the States mid-December and returning to Austria in mid-February. We would love to see each of you individually and/or at the conference.
- Pray God will be glorified as we highlight what He has done around the world.
- Praise God we have a place to stay and a car to drive. He is good!
- PRAISE GOD we are learning more about ourselves and our God.
- PRAISE GOD we have both passed the language test needed to receive our Residence Permit next March!
- CONTINUE TO PLEAD WITH GOD that we find a way for Jim and Brenda Brosch to stay here in Vienna long term. They have such great ministry here!
- PRAISE GOD for the Evangelism Symposium we had last month and that we would find ways to continue to encourage the churches here to reach out to the city.
- PRAY as we start recruiting a team from DBC for the 2015 Children's Camp at our church in Vienna.
- PRAY we can continue our relationship with our new Iraqi friends we met in language school.
- PRAY for creativity as we seek open doors for Church leadership development throughout Central Europe.
- PLEASE PRAY we would continue to have faith in his sovereignty as we seek to honor him in our ministry activities
As always, we can not thank God enough for you!
We praise Him for your love and friendship.
We praise Him for your prayers.
We praise Him for your financial support.
Even though we thank and praise God, please know .......
YOU are each appreciated.
We praise Him for your prayers.
We praise Him for your financial support.
Even though we thank and praise God, please know .......
YOU are each appreciated.
Please let us know via email how we can be praying for you.
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