THIS WEEKS PRAYER ITEMS
Thank you for praying for the people and work of GC3.
Prayer is critical to all we and our mission partners do in our ministries so thank you in joining us in praying through the items we provide each week. The task of presenting the Gospel is far from over; there remains vast number of people globally who have yet to hear of God’s love.
Marion (Day 6)
Please pray for our Kids programme on Saturday 21st September. Pray that more will bring their friends. We will be having Amakawa san from Kyushu up for the weekend of 27th & 28th. There will be gospel outreach in the main city hall, and in our own hall locally. Please pray with us. Our present Prime Minister is visiting the president of Sth Korea this weekend. He is stepping down. Please pray that his successor may maintain the same good relations. There is quite a lineup of hopefuls eager to be elected as Prime Minister at the end of this month. I received a letter today from the New Life Ministries that prints Bibles and literature for Japan and countries around the world. Roald Lidal shared that they have for the first time been granted permission to place Bibles in Japanese prisons. Give thanks.
Ester (Day 28)
Praise God for new websites created during an online website workshop! Pray for God’s provision of a team director for the website software development team and for sufficient time to hand over to the incoming team director. Pray for travelling mercies for our team as we meet for the biennial team meeting at the end of the month.
Andrew & Patrizia (Day 10)
Life continues to be challenging in Fondi with high humidity levels and practical challenges linked to our 21-year-old station wagon no longer being functional. We are also encountering challenges linked to our landlady making life difficult for us in various ways. Regarding outreach, Andrew plans to be involved in Gospel proclamation in both Rome and in Naples (Naples reaching Bangladeshis) during the coming weeks whilst Patrizia, Marco and Alan must study and prepare for their parts in the Mark Drama to be staged in November here in Fondi. Our boys resume high school this Wednesday. Thanks for praying.
Allan & Marven (Day 1)
We continue to settle into our life in Bundaberg (Queensland), overall having experienced an enjoyable and relatively stress-free few months since we made the move in mid-January. Settling into a new church community, establishing much closer and regular links with our family members, and finding areas for service has been encouraging – and, we hope, mutually so. We recently visited Singapore/Malaysia, to catch up with friends and colleagues, and (for Allan) to participate in an AGST Alliance colloquium for doctoral students. So much to be grateful for, indeed!
Ben & Rebekah (Day 5)
Please pray for us as we continue to get used to being a family of four. For our daughters Lucia and Rosa that they would grow up to be close friends. Play for the university of Thai Chamber of Commerce. It has recently allowed our Christian group back on campus, pray that our work there would be fruitful.
Graham & Cynthia (Day 21)
We give thanks for God's faithfulness through this year. Cynthia will travel to Malaysia and India this month. Please pray that the vacant educational positions in our projects will be filled. We are grateful for God's provision for the work of the projects and for us.
Benjamin (Day 11)
Hannah and I are enjoying living near to one another and are cooking together a lot. I'm also thankful for good progress on my independent study project. My aspirational goal is to finish the bulk of all the reading, thinking, analysis, and planning by the 12th of October, so that I have a good amount of time left to get the draft done before I head off to Vietnam to get married in December. I've been told that, considering that I had to change topic halfway through, as well as the preparation for marriage and the wedding I am also doing, I shouldn't hesitate to extend my length of study by one semester if necessary. Please pray that for the awareness and good decision making to take that option if I come to the point where it is needed.
Bill & Angela (Day 17)
Angela and Cedric arrived safely in NZ to spend a month in the Tauranga area with her parents. Meanwhile Bill made it back to Colombia with no problems despite arriving at the end of a tense week with strikes having shut down most of the roads in and out of the capital. Things seem back to normal now. Please pray for our church to have much wisdom for helping the very needy families of the Kids' outreach club, and wisdom for running the club itself.
Andrew & Greer (Day 7)
This Friday we're going with Peter and Karen Brookes to visit CMCT in Tamil Nadu (our neighbouring state) so we're really looking forward to seeing their different ministries. If you could pray for our safe travels and good health that would be much appreciated.
David & Meike (Day 10)
Meike has “stille Tage” this week. That is, she has the week away to get away from the weekly routines and work, to be able to have more focused time to connect with God. This leaves David and the boys at home to continue the daily routines, with school, kindergarten and David doing a little bit of office work each day (as well as everything at home). Please pray for Meike’s time, that she will be refreshed, and pray for David and the boys at home. Please also pray for Meike’s return trip this coming Saturday, that it goes smoothly. As she left, her five hours of travel turned into almost 12 hours, with technical problems, train cancellations and then a forest fire.
Brian & Vicky (Day 29)
Deputation is an import part of the work. We have been through our land many times over the years. We meet with the Lord's people and the Lord lays the burden of Israel for Christ on the hearts of some and they pray for Jewish people to receive Jesus as their Messiah. Recently we received an email from a brother we met on deputation some years ago. He said "We received a text from an Israeli that came to our farm about 10 months ago. I think it must mean we should pray for him...he flew drones in the army." We were most encouraged that a brother in the Lord was being challenged to pray for his Israeli friend. We have immediately added him to the prayer list. The young man had been witnessed to and awakened to the many Scriptures he had learned. May his eyes be opened to see Jesus in such verses and come to Christ Jesus.
Craig & Darlene (Day 1)
The Taste of Translation workshop in Santo went very well. We had nine participants from two language groups. They were really interested as we guided them through the full translation process on a short gospel story. At the end of the workshop, they were excited to be presented with booklets of their translated passage. One of our new expatriate families is preparing to move to one of the villages to learn the language and mentor and guide them in translating the New Testament. We were grateful for good weather and smooth flights and truck rides there and back.
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