There is lots of coming and going this week in Bangui. Please pray for the Mike Taylor medical team as they finish up their work and return to the States. Pray for both spiritual and physical healing for those who received care.
Please pray as well for Mark and Joy Sims, GBIM staff (formerly France) who arrive in Bangui tomorrow. Pray that their efforts would have lasting results as they minister from January 7 to February 5. Joy will teach a quilting class to the wives of seminary students and Mark will teach in the seminary, and at the Bible Institute in Mbaiki."
Please pray also for Tim and Ginger Hock as they return to Bangui on the same plane as Sims, after four months of Home Ministry. Ginger is Team Leader for Project Hope and Charite’s Hand in Hand project for orphan schools (currently numbering at least 18) and Tim is responsible for maintenance on vehicles and buildings on the Bangui station, as well as being involved with the Bayaka Pygmy work down in the forest region.
A Family Project: The Jesus Storybook Bible
Monday, 05 January 2009 16:25
If you are still looking for a perfect little gift for small children or grandchildren, The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones might be an answer. This is an easy read children's Bible that beautifully tells how each story of the Bible points to the Grand Narrative of redemption in Jesus. It is professionally done with good illustrations and will allow your kids (4-12) to do the reading if and when they are able. The translation of this Children’s book into French was a family project for the Greg Burgesses, GBIM staff, France.
Kevin and Holly High (GBIM, Argentina) are in the midst of a week of camp, January 4-9th, where they are counselors to 60 adolescents, many of them from their own neighborhood in Corrientes. Please pray for a break through of the Holy Spirit to bring many of these youth to trust and surrender to Christ. Pray for stamina and wisdom and a demonstration of grace as Kevin and Holly will be stretched in many directions. Pray for the entire Corrientes team as they work and minister in an area resistant to the Gospel.
Taylor Medical Trip to C.A.R. Aids Mboi Andre
Monday, 05 January 2009 12:29
On December 30th Mike Taylor, GBIM Director of Operations, led a medical team including three physicians and three high school students to the Central African Republic. They are working alongside African doctors and nurses to provide free health care to everyone who goes to the clinic.
It was a great joy for us to return home to CAR after ten weeks of visits to USA churches, the ministerium, and a Focus Retreat. For us it was a blessed time; we saw how the blood of Jesus unites us in spite of the differences of cultures, continents and color of skin. Claire and I sensed a brotherhood and enthusiasm in the partnership of the ministry of Jesus in Central Africa by our brothers and sisters in the USA.
Cecil and Debbie Odell, GBIM staff located in Long Beach, are involved in fostering the discipling, training and equipping of new Japanese believers. They are grateful for their partnering organization, Japanese Christian Fellowship Network, which continues to share in the Long Beach Japanese Returnee Ministry, and is a great help.
They will be hosting the annual Japanese Returnee Equippers Conference which will attract more than 350 Japanese Returnee Christians from all over the U.S.A. to equip them to be strong Christians back in Japan when they return. Please pray for the empowerment of the Spirit for this conference which will take place at the end of the year.
Good Report From Riverside Church Portugal
Tuesday, 23 December 2008 13:25
Bill Mason, founder and lead elder of the International Church in Porto, Portugal is pleased to report that the number of regular attenders has grown to 35-40 people. Bill states that the best news is that “At the same time as the numbers have grown, so has the commitment and the spiritual maturity of our regulars. Deep and long-standing issues are being resolved and God has clearly been working in the hearts, minds and spirits of people."
GBIM staff in Porto were deeply involved in the beginning days of Riverside and they rejoice to see this fruit which has come as a result of intense prayer and dedication.
Pattons to Return to Brazil
Monday, 22 December 2008 12:35
Wayne and Ellen Patton, GBIM staff Brazil, having been detained in the States for many months, are packing up household goods and preparing for their return to Belem, Brazil on January 5th. Praise God for this answer to prayer. Pray for their transition back to Brazil after this long absence. Pray also for continued healing for Ellen's eye, following cornea transplant. They write, "Please pray that God would lead us to lost people with whom we can develop relationships and share the stories of the Bible as Jesus did."
Kevin and Holly High (GBIM, Argentina) are in the midst of a week of camp, January 4-9th, where they are counselors to 60 adolescents, many of them from their own neighborhood in Corrientes. Please pray for a break through of the Holy Spirit to bring many of these youth to trust and surrender to Christ. Pray for stamina and wisdom and a demonstration of grace as Kevin and Holly will be stretched in many directions. Pray for the entire Corrientes team as they work and minister in an area resistant to the Gospel.
