Tuesday

You need to persevere

so that when you have done the will of God,

you will receive what he has promised.

For in just a very little while,

“He who is coming will come and will not delay.”

~Hebrews 10:36-37 (NIV)~

 

VBS – Day 2 – FBC, Kentwood – 8:30-11:30 A.M.

Dear Prayer Partners,

Please take time to pray for a very dear friend of ours. Beverly Coleman, 44, was injured in a car accident on June 6. She is currently undergoing her 3rd surgery in 3 days. She has a tear in her aorta, both thigh bones are broken, and both arms are broken. She also has a fracture at the base of her skull. Two of her daughters, Heidi (around 11), and Marta (around 7), were also injured though not as severely.

We spoke with her husband and he reported that Beverly has been alert, awake, and seems in good spirits. She is a strong Christian and has recently surrendered to the chaplain ministry. She is a hospice nurse in the Jackson, Mississippi, area.

Please pray that God will continue to use her during this time as He has used her daily to minister to those in need. Pray for successful surgeries that will allow her to continue to be mother, wife, and servant of the Lord.

Blessings,

Donna

California Baptist University Volunteers’ Mission Trip

The team got in last night and all went well on their trip. Thank you so much for all your prayers! Please continue to pray as we head for the orphanage today and later try to figure out public transportation together! That will be quite the adventure 🙂

For updates from the team you can visit the California Baptist University ISP website: http://www.calbaptist.edu/isp/default2.aspx?id=7370
This should lead you to the Romania team, but if for some reason it doesn’t, click on Romania in the left column where all the countries are listed.

Be blessed,
aura

TODAY’S PRAYER
INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD
JUNE 10, 2008

“And take the helmet of salvation,

… praying always with all prayer

and supplication in the Spirit,

… that utterance may be given to me,

that I may open my mouth boldly

to make known the mystery of the gospel,

… that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.” ~Ephesians 6:17-20~

Some of the IMB requests:

LAST FRONTIER. A worker among a Last Frontier people group writes: “God has been faithful! I appreciate your prayers very much! God has been blessing us so much by having the ‘JESUS’ film in the language of the P people. We have a P team of translators who are doing a version of the New Testament in their own language and also preparing P discipleship material. Also, Bible stories need to be recorded in their own language so that people who cannot read can have access to God’s Word. A three-and-a-half-month training session will be held in another country, and we need to send one person or a couple to that session. This training will be wonderful, because the P will then have everything they need to reach their own people–but I need your prayers. My prayer is this: That the Lord will raise up a P young man or a couple who will be willing to do this ministry for His glory! The first part of the training session will start in July, and the rest will take place in October. Please help me to pray for this urgent need.”

MISSIONARY PERSONAL NEEDS. “‘Watch for moving personnel.’ We have several in our area who are moving country to country, town to town, and street to street. This can often be a time of stress and chaos. Pray that there will be minimal distractions and that rough ways will be made smooth!”

MUSLIMS: PRAYING BEYOND THE WALL. Last summer, a 50-year-old Tatar woman made the decision to follow Jesus, and to show everyone her loyalty by being baptized! She loves the Lord and continues to be devoted even though she is the only follower in her town. While her father-in-law and her children are open to hearing the Truth, her husband is not interested at all. Ask that her devotion and understanding will grow so that her family and others who live in her town will also believe, and pray that a church will be started.

Billy Graham Rapid Response Team Newsletter Update

https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/11a6ddcf99fb03e3

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“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” (Philippians 2:10).
Mike Benson, Editor
WE WILL PUT up with things in the world that we cannot tolerate in the church…

We do it because we have been sent into the world to preach the gospel of salvation.

Jesus ate with publicans, prostitutes and sinners, not because he was greedy, sensuous or sinful, but because the doctor went to the patients.

The Corinthians misunderstood Paul’s instructions in a previous letter. Others have also read the Bible wrong and tried to flee the evils of the world in monasteries, on tall poles or lonely mountains.

The whole sense of Scripture, the whole character of God, the entire mission of the Lord, is to go after rebellious man, to pursue the fleeing sinner, to enter the fray of frantic mankind and pull him back to his original design for divine fellowship.

The direction toward the immoral and sinful is demanding. The heart breaks in the presence of distorted souls. The saint wants to shrink from the filth that flows from mouths, the degradation of sex, power and possessions.

But more overpowering than the stench of moral corruption or the decay of spiritual death is the love that wants to revive a lost person for his true destiny, the compassion to rescue the perishing, the drive to save as we have been saved.

To go out of the world was unthinkable to Paul.

Such a worldly exit is no more an option for us.

Because Jesus came into the world. Because he sent us into the same world. Though divided by millenia and separated by language and technology, the world is still the world.

And salvation still comes exclusively through the message that Jesus Christ died to give life to all. (J. Randal Matheny)

“I wrote in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world” (1 Corinthians 5:9-10 NET).

Go out into the world today to share the Good News!

Anna Lee