Praying for Europe

May Prayer Letter
2007
First Friday Fast
4 of May

FIRST FRIDAY FAST
PRAYER FOCUS

WISDOM
"Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom." (Prov 4:7 NIV) Pray that the Lord would cut off earthly, humanistic and diabolical false wisdom from the governments of the Church, the nation, your state and local areas. Pray that He would displace envy and selfish ambition in our leaders, and that He would grant them "wisdom from heaven" which is "first of all pure, then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere." (Jas 3:14-17 NIV)

Please help us pray for Europe.

Please check out our WebPages for Prayer.
http://europeprayergram.blogspot.com/ http://www.iphceuroprays.blogspot.com/

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SW Europe Lin and Nancy Berry

Regional Ministry Coordinator for Southwest Europe

Pray for our Family: Sarah for her job and and her future. For David and Jessica. they would like to come to Spain to help us with the work. For us as we lead the Spain Conference.

Pray for our Annual Conference the 4 & 5 of May. We are expecting great things to happen. We are praying for a great move of God that will be brought back to the different places in Spain. Most of our Pastors will be there. So pray that they will receive a word from God that they will take back with them. Dr. Beacham, the director of World Missions Ministries, will be presiding and Bob Cave our Overseas Ministry Coordinator will also be with us. It will begin Friday evening and all day Saturday.

Pray as we have to travel and minister this month.

Pray for the Spain Conference

Pray for our Pastors and their churches

Nicolas and Yolanda in Madrid, Orlando and Blanca in Madrid, Jaime and Prude in Parla
Rafa and Patty in Malagón, Manuel and Charo in Barcelona, Israel and Enca in Manresa
Prince and Gina in Cáceres, Gary and Kathy in Granada, Francis in Alcalá de Henares,
Gabriel and Yolanda in Toledo, Jorge and Luz Mary in Antequera, Tomas and Vicky in Numancia


Prince and Gina in Cáceres http://missionaries2spain.blogspot.com/

Crystal Clay Spain http://www.crystalinspain.com/ http://www.galeriasintesis.com/

Greetings from Spain!
It's hard to believe that I have already been here two weeks. I am settling into life here and learning the ways and culture of the people. Thank you for your prayers this month. I have really sensed the grace of God on my life during this period of transition.

My Blog
I have a new Blog that you can use to keep up with my adventures (http://crystalinspain.blogspot.com/). You can also see some pictures I've taken on my online web album (http://picasaweb.google.com/CrystalinSpain).

Learning Spanish
Pray for: I'm having difficulty with Spanish. There's just so much to learn! So please pray that I'll have more discernment and pray as I continue to study and learn by immersion.

Apartment
Pray for my apartment in Toledo. There's been a delay in getting the key to see it, so please pray that I will be able to look at it soon. There are also several other options for apartments that we are considering.

Conference
Pray for: The annual conference for the eleven Spanish churches is this weekend. Dr. Beacham, the director of World Missions Ministries, will be presiding. It will be fun to meet all the pastors and people from the other churches throughout Spain. I will meet some other missionaries at the conference, too. I am looking forward to making new contacts and friends!

Thank you again for your support in helping me get to Spain. I pray for you each day, that God will bless you and your families abundantly. Blessings, Crystal

Gary & Kathy
Praise the Lord for His faithfulness.

Easter week was a special time with our immigrant friends, several Palestinians ate and watched the Passion of Christ with us. Easter Sunday, after church, Gary and I went on a picnic with Syrian friends where one of them read the Easter story from the NT in Arabic and we all sang some choruses with the guitar and prayed. It was a beautiful day.

Prayer requests:
A Jordanian and also a Syrian Christian friend/student who are having a lot of struggles here in Granada.

The students in this cycle of classes at the outreach center.
We've got some great students who are becoming good friends. This past week, one student from Turkey (who's been in Granada about 3 weeks), said that she had no one here in Granada. That we (those at the center) are her family and she has felt our love. Some of these immigrants are very lonely and our hearts go out to them.

We plan to go on furlough this summer. It will be very hard to leave our friends and we hope we can visit those we need to visit in the States and return to our work quickly.

Thank you for your prayers!

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Pray for Portugal Tony and Patti Guasco


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Pray for Malta Pastor Joe Agius and family



Our prayer requests for this month are the following:

The Lord is expanding our vision for the church and we are doing some re-structuring in a number of things. Please pray that the members will corporate and understand the vision the Lord gave me for His church.

I am training a small group of people principles of leadership to help understand how the church should work and have order. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will help them in their studies. It is two hour credit course spread on 12 classes not including the readings.

From those attending future leaders for the church will be chosen. In particular there are two young people that Lord called publicly to serve in the ministry. Please pray that they will also find the support from other members.
Please pray that this course will help the people how they can help me and Christine (the pastors) fulfill God’s vision for Word of Life PH Church.

Please pray for the marriages. They are always under constant attack.

Pray for new Christians. It has become a phenomenon that new Christians leave the church after few weeks they begin. There is something we may be doing wrong or simply they cannot handle the New Life in Christ. Please pray that the Lord will reveal what the problem is.

Please pray that our evangelistic efforts will bear the fruit of saved souls.

Pray for our family especially the children to keep growing in the Lord especially in difficult times.

Pray for the young people in the church to remain faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ and serve him diligently.

Please pray for a girl of nine years. She was perfectly well and healthy, but suddenly she could not walk anymore. Doctors do not know what is wrong.

Thanks for your prayers and support. God bless, Joe

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Pray for Rome, Italy Pray for Pastor Alessandro.
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Pray for France Marty Delmon

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Pray for Germany Mark and Jeannie McClung & Steve and Dawn Harper