First Friday Fast
7 of January 2011
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
PRAYER FOCUS: Praying for Europe
Please check out our WebPages for Prayer.
http://europeprayergram.blogspot.com http://www.iphceuroprays.blogspot.com
for the Spain Churches: http://spainchurchespray.blogspot.com
Thank you Your WIN Director Rev. Nancy Berry
Pray for SW Europe
Lin and Nancy Berry Regional Director for Southwest Europe
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas
We are in the USA with our daughter who just had her baby
Praise report: mother and baby are doing fine. Born November 30… 7.11 pounds
I was able to be with Sarah in the delivery and now we are with her…
David our son and family will be arriving Sunday and will be with us for Christmas….
Pray for the churches in Spain
Pray for our travel
Pray as we visit some churches and raise our support back up
Spain:
Gary and Kathy:
Praise Reports:
1. We thank the Lord for His gift of Jesus to the world and for the love, support and prayers of our Christian family.
2. We are renting a "new" office for the ministry center. (The elderly owner of the previous office where we met passed away and her son is starting a bakery in what was our center.) The owners of the new office are friends and are Spanish and have been very kind and helpful to us. This office space is close to the previous one and just outside the entrance to our apartment building. We hope to begin activities in mid-January.
Prayer Requests:
1. For a special anointing of His Spirit to witness and share during this Christmas season. We are supporting the Madrid church during the Berrys absence so please help us pray for the outreach activities that will be taking place during this time.
2. We will have special meals and activities with our neighbors at Christmas and we pray that these contacts will consolidate some of the seekers to greater discipleship. We will invite our Jordanian and Iraqi friends who are from Catholic backgrounds to be with us on the 25th. These two ladies are married to Muslim men and we pray that they can be a witness to their husbands and their children about the life that Jesus gives us.
3. That the Lord would send us students for our January cycle of studies at the ministry center who are open to knowing and hearing the Gospel and Jesus.
4. Please, let's remember our brothers and sisters around the world who are being persecuted for their faith. Persecution of Christians has been more intense in Iraq lately. In Iran and Pakistan we have brothers and sisters who are sentenced to death for their faith.
Blessings to you all, Gary and Kathy
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Orlando & Blanca Chu… pastors in Madrid:
We were in London a couple weeks ago, to evaluate the children in their schooling. Definetely they need to be at least a year to learn a proper English. We were praying about that. So Pastor Ravelo said that why don´t we go for a year to London. So we are. The Calzada Pastors, they were in Alicante before, they are the ones who are going to stay to replace us for a year. We are leaving on January 13th. Please pray for the Lord provide with accommodation, work for Orlando to cover our mortgage in Spain and so on. Tomorrow I will turn in my resigning letter to my current job. So please pray for that.
Lots of blessings and God bless you,
Blanca
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Pray for Marty Delmon in France
I only have praise reports this time around. I've had four Uprooting Buried Lies workshops back to back this fall and a weekend with aspiring Women in Christian Media, all of which were God pouring out His love on the participants. We saw so many profound changes in people's lives. We even had a bona-fide deliverance with the woman's hands and feet becoming paws and claws, but now she is totally free. I'm so grateful God has given me this prayer process that does such deep work in people's lives.
Marc Lebrun has published three of my books in French and it is amazing how far afield they are going. People are sending them to friends all over France and French speaking countries. Readers report being healed just by reading the first chapter! Thank God His Word works everytime it is applied!
2011 will be a year of heaven. May we all find new joy, new peace, new love, new faith at a higher level than we've ever known because Jesus is our Lord!
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Pray for Marc and Annemarie in Paris, France
Praise and prayer requests:
At the end of 2010 we are thankful to the Lord for His blessings towards us:
- we do thank Him for new persons coming to the church
- we do thank Him for the strength and ability He has given us to withstand and go through every trial and battles we faced. He has kept us strong, healthy, and victorious in every area of our lives.
- we thank Him for a new group which has started at the beginning of the year in the east of France.
- we are thankful for the different missions in the world and the fruits: people coming to Christ, healings, baptims in the Holy Spirit...
We still need your prayers for people coming to help us with the building; there is a lot of work to do and few workers...
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Pray for Malta:
Please pray for:
1. people to be saved during the Christmas and New year church activities.
2. the outreach performance with the worship band at the President’s office (December 18).
3. relationships in the church and marriages
4. work for those unemployed
5. more commitment in church members
6. For a course in Leadership starting January 10, 2010.
Pastor Joseph Agius
www.wordoflifemalta.org
www.nowfeedchildren.org
flameyouths.org
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Joshua Ben King/Theresa Melissa King
www.pilgrimpotter.com
We are missionaries to Europe and the Middle East
prayer requests:
We are so excited about this great opportunity afforded to us to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to God's precious people of Europe. We are in the process of itineration right now and headed off to a great start. Please keep praying that the Lord will lead us to the right churches and people, not just for financial support but to be a blessing to them while we are there. We ask for prayer for our children while we are itinerating and that as they are homeschooled, that the Lord will help them with their studies. More churches to open and continued health for us all. Pray for the Lord of the Harvest to being working even now on the hearts of people in Europe to be open to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Peter & Beate in Germany
We celebrate inauguration of our tent in the hall.
What a powerful moment, when a dream becames real.
Also we celebrate our 10. year of being a Church in French Buchholz.
Greetings and blessings
Peter & Beate
Northwest Europe:
We are filled with joy and gratitude for a wonderful year filled with faithful friends and co-labourers, and new friends who are seeking to serve alongside us in ministry. But, just like the angels, we're more joy-filled and thankful for those that become friends by their new-found faith in Jesus Christ this year! I figure that's why I'm still down here.
Bethany and her husband Joshua will join us for Christmas this year as will Nicholas. We will be blessed to have at least that many of our kids home for Christmas!
If you want to help us in NW Europe to start the new year off right, join us in Dublin, Ireland for a day of fasting & prayer on 8 January 2011. Ask me for details.
Happy Christmas to you all.
Harold & Kathleen Presley (and Miriam)
IPHC - UK and NW Europe
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Missionaries in the UK
Willie & Tersia Downing give thanks for the blessing of being in the UK with our children Barry & Jo-Ann & our precious grandson, Arin. Feb 2011 will be three years since we settled in the UK. God faithfully continues to provide for us in our senior years. Photo shows Willie in clerical shirt, required for his Voluntary Chaplaincy & Tersia in her Voluntary Street Pastor uniform with the love of our lives
Our prayer is that the Lord will continue to keep us in good health & allow us to be sensitive to His voice to every opportunity to be His hand extended where He has placed us. May you all enjoy a Christ filled Christmas & 2011.
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Pray for Amsterdam
Dear Prayer Warriors,
Please Pray for the following individuals in my church:
Everett: For freedom from Hard Drug addiction
Marion: For healing from pain and the ability to break off from co-dependency to Everett.
Matthijs: For God to become more real to him in his daily life. May he experience God's glory.and have his wisdom in his job situation.
Griet: That she will grow in her ministry and passion and that God will also reveal himself to her as she continues to lead our "celebrate recovery"group
Anneke: For freedom and joy to follow Christ. Everything that holds her back from following God to be broken.
Pravin: Healing and freedom from depression and chains that hold onto him.
Rene: Wisdom and growth in his ministry and more intimacy with God
Riske: Growth in her prophetic gift and that she can be used to set people free.
Femke: For growth in intimacy with God. That she can grow in being a Mary and not just a Martha. Growth and confidence in her leadership and ability to hear His voice.
Matt (myself): That God will help me lead our church in growth in intimacy with God, freedom, and expansion in our region. I need God's wisdom and strategy for the coming months and years.Pray for my marriage, and family to continue to be placed before church and ministry.
Peggy and Bruno: Please pray for their financial situation to be changed around and for growth in their relationship with God.
Karen and Klas: For trust and intimacy to grow in their relationship with God and with each other.
Our children: We have a lot of kids in our church. Pray for protection and spiritual growth in their lives tha we may truly rise up a new generation of Dutch Christians who folllow Jesus.
We need wisdom in leading our church and ministry. Which programs activities to take on next year in order to help people grow and heal. Pray for our womens op weg naar herstel group (shortened version of celebrate recovery), for our weekly kid's club that we can really get to know and share Jesus with all the muslim families who send their kids to the club.
Pray for our city that we may be able to establish new wine sacks that can recieve the new wine of God's spirit. I continue to grow and train people to grow in the prophetic and gifts of the spirit. May these gifts be truly activated and used in a way to expand God's kingdom. Please don't pass this list or e-mail on to anyone unless you believe they really pray. I realize I have placed a lot of names on the list, please pray as God leads you and perhaps pick out a few names of people you can specifically pray for. Also, feel free to respond and let me know if you feel the Lord is saying anything for me or any of these individuals.
Sincerely,
Matthew Helland
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Eastern Europe:
Dave and Linda Fannin
Dear Friends,
We want to wish everyone in this prayer letter a very "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year". Once again we have all come through another year! Bless you all! Dave and I appreciate and covet your friendship. Will you please pray for us as we go through the furlough process once again. We want to connect with the churches in a relevant way that impacts them for the Great Commission. We don't want to just spin our wheels going down the itineration trail,but we want our time and effort to connect with those who are truly interested in the Great Commission and the Greater Salvific Plan of God for this world... time is short.
Another prayer request is for the healing of our granddaughter Shaelyn. She was born with a benign condition called Patulous Eustacian Tube condition. She will have to deal with putting T tubes in her ears for the rest of her life if God does not heal her; We are believing He still is in the healing business! Pray for our grandson Darian who has been diagnosed with a form of epilespy. (not grand mal) He is on medication and they will review him in two years. They say this happens with some pre-adolescent children and then they outgrow it.
Pray for our coworkers in Eastern Europe/Middle East that they will realize their part in the Great Commission and take the lead. God has given us wonderful people to work with in all these countries. We just want them to rely more on the God and His provision and not lean so much to the West for all their answers. Many have come through great trials while we were not around and they survived and trusted God, We can't help but think that perhaps we intruded on that faith they once had in Christ by being their suppliers. God has great things in store and wants to bring them back to that same faith. We know we are nothing more than facilitators and helpers, we cannot meet all the needs listed on paper. It is discouraging at times, but we know God has a bigger plans and it isn't all about finances.
God bless all of you as you labor tirelessly for Him this Christmas season! He is coming again! Be of good cheer this same baby is coming soon as the Risen King to take us home to the Father!
Dave and Linda Fannin
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Pray for Albania
On behalf of Valbona, Christopher and Kimberley I want to thank you all for everything and wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
- Pray for the staff and Alket as they look after the church and the foundation while we are away.
- Pray that we would have a safe, prosperous and effective trip back to North America and that God would give me strength as we travel and speak about Albania and what God is doing.
- Pray for Elona our first missionary and Cezarina as they are away from family during this Christmas season
- Continue to pray for the finances, for my health and for our family.
- Pray for a sovereign move of God in our church, our city and our country. We want a National Revival
- Pray for all of Albania. One of our staff had a meter of water in their home and just about everything has been ruined.
David, Valbona, Christopher and Kimberley Pennoyer
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Bob & Carol Cave OMC for Europe:
Greetings to all our Missionaries and National leaders:
It has been a great year and difficult year for many, and we praise the Lord because He is in charge in all our circumstances. Some of you were tested like never before in your ministry, while others saw some great victories along the way.
As we all know, success is not measured in numbers or money or how good we feel, but, were we faithful and obedient to all that the Lord called us to.
I am thankful for you. All of you have been faithful to what God has called you to, even when it has been a struggle. I praise the Lord for each one of you that is reading this. Doing what God called you to do is not easy and the longer I am in missions the more I realize what a "special" person He has called to do His work.
I praise the Lord that even in a tight economy, His work, through you has moved forward.
Please pray for those that are itinerating, those that are still on the front lines that God will sustain them in all areas.
Pray for wisdom that He will led us in each of the countries of our region to be able to share the Gospel, especially in closed regions.
Carol and I feel very honored to be able to work with each one of you and we wish you the VERY BEST at this Christmas season and ALL THE BEST in 2011.
Love ................................Bob & Carol
Nancy Berry
WIN Director for Europe