Wednesday

God did not give us a spirit

that makes us afraid

but a spirit of power

and love

and self-control.

~2 Timothy 1:7 (NCV)~

 

 

 

. . . . I would also like to see if you would add our new Church plant in Amite, LA to the prayer link. We are being sponsored by NAMB, Louisiana Baptist Convention, Two Rivers Assoc., and First Baptist Church of Amite, LA. Starting a new church has many challenges. We ask that our friends pray for us and view us as missionaries because our purpose is to seek and let Jesus save those who are lost. You can post my address and phone number on the link. . . .

Heath Rohner (985) 517-3303
Cross-Point Church
PO Box 4
Roseland, LA 70456

 

WEDNESDAY WINDOW ON THE WORLD

October 15, 2008

JAPAN’S CENTRAL MEGACITIES. A few months ago, you prayed for a new missionary family who would be moving near a train station on the southern end of the Osaka Loop Line, a major train line in the city. When the missionaries arrived on the field and moved into their new home in an apartment building, the first person they met told them that she was a Christian. With less than 1 percent of the population being Christian, that seemed amazing. Since that time, the missionaries have learned that the woman calls herself a Christian because her parents are Christians. She attended church as a child, but she resents the fact that her mother seemed to “make everything be about God.” However, once a week now she and her husband and elementary school-aged daughter are meeting with the missionaries to read the Bible, talk about what God is saying through His Word, sing Christian songs, and pray together. Her husband asks many questions. Praise God for this encounter so soon upon arriving on the field, and pray that this couple and their daughter will become true believers in Jesus Christ. This family has many contacts in the apartment building and neighborhood, so please pray for them to share what they learn and experience through God’s Word with others in the area.

ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES. The church in Overland is small and its members are not wealthy. Most of them are subsistence farmers, as is their bi-vocational pastor. Yet these devoted and faithful people want to start a new work in a nearby village. Please pray for wisdom and discernment for the IMB missionaries as they seek to teach the concept of planting self-sustaining, multiplying churches. They write: “Join us in praying that the learners will be open to the possibilities of planting churches using lay leadership and very little material resources. And please pray that God will provide a ‘person of peace’ in each area where He wants a new church planted. Ask Him to send workers into the harvest, and pray that that He will prepare the hearts of the people to hear and respond to the gospel.”

DINKA OF SOUTHERN SUDAN (DINK-ah). Though many hearts in Dinkaland do not acknowledge it, the rainy season declares the praises of God as the lush shades of green spring forth, concealing patches of red dirt and alleviating the sun’s intensity. However, the rainy season is also the time when sickness and disease spread most rapidly. With rancid mud puddles, disease-carrying mosquitoes, and poor sanitation methods, many Dinka people are in search of a healer. Some turn to the few medical facilities available, but more turn to witchdoctors and spiritists whom Satan uses to keep people bound in fear. Pray for the people of Southern Sudan, asking that they will put their trust in the Great Physician and be freed from fear by His perfect love. Pray that this season, God will display His power to heal diseases, both physically and spiritually. http://sudansouth.org/

Thank-you for praying today. You mean so much to so many. Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Anna Lee