August Prayer Letter 2010

First Friday Fast 6 of August
PRAYER FOCUS: Praying for Europe
Prayer 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 Ministry Coordinator for Southwest Europe
Prayer request:
· Pray for the Mustard Seed Institute... we are praying we will have 12 couples to graduate from the school
· Lin will be traveling to France to do a conference in the church in Paris(12-15)
· Pray for our yearly Spain Conference/ camp-meeting (Face of Revival) we have on the 18- 22 of this month
· Pray for our family
Praise report
Thank you all who have been praying for Rafa, our pastor who had the liver transplant… he is recovering very well
And his church seems to be doing some better…. One of his leaders is in the Mustard Seed Institute


Prayer for Dave & Kathy Glover in Bristol, UK
We praise God for Dave's improvement in health, his feet have healed, the doctors are amazed, he now needs new shoes. He now needs to regain strength in his legs after so long on crutches & in a wheelchair
Please prayer for the work in Southmead, Bristol, as we continue to reach people through our weekly coffee morning also for the kids off the estate who come to our youth groups and Sunday School.
A young couple connected to the church are expecting a baby, doctors have warned them his kidneys & bladder aren't fully formed but they are trusting God to do a perfect work in this unborn babe.
Dave & Kathy Glover

Pray for David & Valbona Pennoyer en Albania
Thank you for your prayers.
- I David, am on my way home to Albania from Canada where I had 2 stents put in my heart. I have 3 other partially blocked arteries but we are trusting the Lord for complete healing. I’m about half way through my treatment for sarcoidosis so covet your continual prayers.
- Valbona has done a wonderful job with the children, the church and foundation while I have been away but is stressed to the max and needs a good rest and lots of prayer.
- We are always praying for a financial breakthrough
- We need some good help to come and work together with us.
- Pray for the camps this summer
- Pray for the 3rd annual United Youth for Christ conference coming in September that the youth will register early and we would have a move of God
- Pray that the fellow working on our web site will finish it soon.
Thank you again for your prayers and encouraging words.
David, Valbona, Christopher and Kimberley


Prayer for Ronnie & Margaret en Romania
Ronnie and I want to thank everyone who prayed for Ronnie during the time he was being tested for cancer. God has answered those prayers. All test results came back negative. PTL. Continue to prayer for Romania....we are claiming the city of Oradea, the people and the Nation for the Kingdom of God. Pray for the youth camps...God is doing wonderful things with the young people of Romania. Pray also for the work at the soup kitchen. Pray that we will have success in here in Romania....and that many doors will began to open for ministry. We are looking for greater things to happen. Blessings to all of you....Love and Prayers.....Ronnie and Margaret Turner, Missionaries to Romania.


Larry & Deborah Mininger: Eastern Europe
Please pray for travel mercies as Larry and Debbie fly back to Estonia from USA. They will fly on August 10th.
Keep the church in Tallinn, Estonia in prayer that they will experience new growth and can soon get their own building to worship in.
Pray for time and finances to go through the open doors in Finland, Estonia and Sweden that the Miningers have opened to them.
Together we make "World Changers".


Pray for Joe & Christine Agius in Malta
Greetings from Malta. I pray you and Lin are well. We are very bust this month as it is full of evangelistic activities between churches. I pray all will be done for the glory of God and that God showers us with saved people.
Please pray for:
1. The evangelism programs we have in August. This is a joint effort between a number of churches in Malta.
2. The Holy Spirit to continue make His presence felt during our worship services. A significant number of people in the church are being used during the service with the manifestations of the gifts of the Holy Spirit
3. For George Bonello who was about to start building the church extension. He fell 6 meters at work. He was not injured much except his elbow which he tore and broke.
4. Simone Camilleri who was severely burned with burning cooking oil which fell on her legs. She is in great pain.
5. William Mangion to have work.
6. Relationships to remain strong in the Lord.
Thank you so much for praying.
Pastor Joseph Agius

Prayer request from Mark, Jeannie & Jack McClung:
We are currently in week 6 of Outreach with our DTS Team (Discipleship Training School) in the Middle East. We have had opportunities to share the Gospel and pray with many here.
Currently we are in a capitol city and having outreaches each evening. We are excited at the openness and response of our outreaches here. Please continue to pray for us!
Jeannie and Jack will return to Germany on Friday, August 6. Jack starts school on August 9th. Mark and the rest of the team will return on August 21.
Thank you for your love and prayers! It means so very much to us and makes the difference for the ministry in Germany and also abroad with the students.
Love, Mark & Jeannie

Pray for Ginger Simmons
Just want to update everyone a bit. We now have our sponsorship number for the missionaries to be able to obtain visas to serve the UK!! We are believing God for favor in obtaining the Visas now! Thank you Lord!!
I am so humbled to work in Healing Rooms - London! God is blessing people with miracles of healing for their soul, mind and body.
We have the privilege of leading people to Christ as well as praying with them for healing!
Thank you for your continued prayers!!!
Blessings,
Ginger Simmons


Pray for Marc & Annemarie in Paris
France Praise report: - we want to praise the Lord and thank all of you for your prayers about the time we had together in the camp for 5 days.
The Lord has worked in our relationships, love and grace flowed, we had great times together, of fellowship, prayer, the Word, and also leisures.
Our prayer requests: - our seminars, this week with Pastors Marc and Annemarie Lebrun and next week with Pastor Lin Berry.

Thank you so much for your prayers for Europe.
Rev. Nancy Berry
WIN Director for Europe

praying for Eastern Europe Feb 2010

Pray for Eastern Europe: Pray for David & Linda Fannin(RMC): http://www.iphceuroprays.blogspot.com
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Praying for Romania: Pray for Bishop of Romania Teodor Bulzan
Greetings from Romania.
As we started this year we had 2 weeks prayer and fast in the church, at the end of it, we were challenged to make declarations by faith and we did. Most of the church members did that. We pray God will answer all those steps by faith we made. It is about seeking more of God's face, winning more people for Christ, financial breakthrough in the families and the church. God also spoke to us thru the Book of Joshua 17th, that both, valleys and mountains will be ours because He is given them to us.
Teo Bulzan

Pray for Ricardo and Shadely Salazar
Pray for Ronnie & Margaret Turner in Oradea, Romania
We are still in the states and raising funds for building projects...God has already blessed in many ways...continue to pray that we will be able to raise the funds for the Mangalia building project....this is a project that we want to see completed. Also pray for our safe travel back to Romania at the end of Feb.
Ronnie and Margaret Turner
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Pray for Samuel Ruiz as he and his family are preparing to return back to Macedonia.

Pray for Larry & Debbie Mininger in Estonia: www.llim.org
We would like to show you how prayers are being answered for missionaries.

One night we received an alarming cell phone call from our daughter Tammy. She could hardly breathe and had terrific pain in her abdomen. A friend was driving her to the hospital as we spoke. Deb and I instantly emailed some of our prayer team and asked them to pray for God to intervene. Within 1 ½ hours, the doctor diagnosed an ovarian cyst that had burst. That was the cause of her extreme pain. Shortly, she was on her way home and doing well without any surgery or treatment. Yes, for her it was still painful. For Deb and I, we still felt helpless. But the Holy Spirit immediately prompted us that it was not the crisis that it appeared to be. Tamara, Deb and I want to thank you for real prayer. We are so grateful that Jesus intervened as we requested.”
Larry & Deborah Mininger

Pray for Ben and Marianne Janssen
Pray for Albania: David & Valbona
Pray for Turkey Ismail and Angela
Jerry & Terry,
Randal & Dorothea
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Rev. Nancy Berry WIN Director for Europe and the Middle East

Praise Letter for January 2010

Praise Letter for Europe       January 2010

 

I thought it would be good to begin this year with praise of what God has done  for us working here in Europe.

We ask for prayer which we all need but sometimes forget to tell you what God has done.

We truly want to thank you for all your prayers, God has answered......

So in this prayer letter I have asked the different ones to give their praise report.

 

Thank you   Your WIN Director for Europe   Rev. Nancy Berry

 

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From Bob and Carol Cave       Overseas Ministry Coordinator for Europe and the Middle East

 

Praise Report:  I praise the Lord for what He has done in the past year and the past decade as we move to a new one. I'm so thankful we were able to have our first all European Conference in Oradea Romania, and that the WMM board could come to Toledo Spain for a board meeting. That our missionaries could spend a week together in Kusadasi, Turkey. I'm also thankful to see the progress on almost all our fields over the past decade.

In 2000 we were active in 14 countries in Europe and the Middle East with 12,000 plus members. In the past decade, that saw decline in the "Christian" Church of Europe, we grew. Our latest figures are only up to the end of 2008, but even there, we are now in 23 countries with 344 Churches and 29,000 members. PRAISE THE LORD. That is not just statistics, those are individuals that YOU probably had a big investment in their lives. You are one of 47  of the BEST missionaries in the world serving in our region.  

Is Europe and the Middle East tough fields? Yes, BUT God, is moving and growing His Church "and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it"  I believe the future for us in Euro/ME is NOW and as Bishop Carpenter said in his General Conference address    "we are NOW POSITIONED to do what He has called us to do......STEP INTO IT"

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From Lin and Nancy Berry    Regional Ministry Coordinator for Southwest Europe

 

Praise Reports:  We have seen God do so many things in our lives even with all the tragedies. We had started last year with the death of the 5 year old daughter of Nicolas & Yolanda... to my wallet being stolen to the flood where Lin lost a lot of his work.  BUT God saw us through it all and has shown HIMSELF Faithful.......He has healed, He has delivered and supplied all our needs. Even in the crisis  Our churches have grown, we have paid all  our bills and even gotten handfuls of blessings from HIM. We had a outreach in Toledo in the gallery where people who have never heard the gospel stayed and listen to the message in music and in form of a short devotion.  Our daughter Sarah fully recovered from malaria. Our second Grandson was born with no difficulties. I had the chance to be with my mom when she had eye surgery and be with my mother in  law helping her redo her bedroom. Yes God has been good to us this past year. We look to Him as the life giver, our help in time of need, our healer our deliverer, our ALMIGHTY  GOD

Goals for this year:

1.     My goals or plan for this year is to have a WIN Conference for all of Europe in the spring

2.     Also to have a WIN Director for each Region, each Country and each Church

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From Gary and Kathy in Granada, Spain

 

Praise Report : 

We thank the Lord for:  God's faithfulness and our supporting churches and friends that remember us with their prayers and finances! We are so grateful.

 

The ministry done through the outreach center and one on one to students, immigrants, neighbors, and Spanish people in your community. It looks like the Kid's Christmas Club will now continue as an Easter Club since the kids want to continue and Easter is the next big religious event most Spanish people here relate to. Also, a friend has said she'd like to study the women in the Bible with me and I pray this will be the beginning of a women's cell group. Please help us pray that these activities will begin and bring fruit.

The foundation that the Lord is laying for a church here and those who visit with a heart for those in closed countries.

Protection for our son in Afghanistan and for us in the travels we've done this year.

 

Our great leaders, their vision and encouragement and the team that works so hard to help keep us on the field. Our brothers and sisters around the world!

 

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From our work in Malta: Pastor Joseph Agius 

Greetings from Malta.

On behalf of Word of Life, I want to praise the Lord for the opportunities we had this year to preach the gospel, and to study God’s Word. It has been a difficult year, but a victorious one. This link takes you to the outreach we had at the President’s Palace http://www.wordoflifemalta.org/Evangelism/President%20Activity/President%20Palace%20activity.htm. You will a find a short report there.

Yesterday we had the last outreach of the year. It was in an elderly home. They were so blessed even when they knew we are not Roman Catholics. They urged us to go back to them. I am so surprised as I was not too diplomatic in my preaching J. At the end of the outreach I gave an altar call, and many said the prayer with me. I also spoke on God’s forgiveness. After the outreach, an elderly man came to me and said he believed God forgives all our sins, but with one condition, that is we must first forgive others…. Wow!!! He urged me to mention this during my messages.  

I wish you a blessed New Year.

A New Year’s Prayer.

Dear Father, Let Christ's peace rule in our hearts. Let us be at peace in his one body. Fill our hearts and mouths with overflowing thanksgiving. Let Christ's word dwell in us richly. Let us teach and admonish each other in all wisdom. Let us impart grace through the songs flowing from thankful hearts. May we do everything, whatever it is, in the name of our Lord Jesus. We give thanks to you, our God and Father, through his name. Amen.

Pastor Joseph Agius  www.wordoflifemalta.org

 

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From Marty Delmond in France:

 

 I am grateful that my children and grandchildren are all doing well and going forward with the Lord.  I am grateful for the new writing streak in me!  In 2009 I wrote a 300 page novel and three 90 page teaching books, plus the monthly radio stories.  RPJ Publishing did the honors for me with the three teaching books and Tate Publishing is working on the novel.  Marc Lebrun of Christ Light of the Nations just outside of Paris is publishing the three teaching books in French.  I am so grateful for all the great publishers the Lord has provided for me.  I know He sent them because I didn't go out and find them!  They found me!

 

From the church in Paris, France (Marc & Annemarie Lebrun) web page: http://www.clnm.org

Here is our praise report for what the Lord has done for us in 2009:

- we are now able to worship and meet in our building,

- as a church, we are still alive and kicking!, which is very important,

- 2 pastors have been ordained in our midst,

- Love relationships are growing stronger and stronger,

- more people attend the prayer meetings on Wednesdays’ evenings,

- missionary travels of Pastors Marc and Annemarie, all financially met by the church. Great work accomplished in all the visited nations, especially in Africa, recently.

 

Blessings, Pascale, CLN France.

 

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FROM THE McCLUNGS IN GERMANY

 

PRAISE:  We give thanks with a grateful heart for all God has done! We are grateful for the Father’s love and for the calling He has placed on our lives.

Praise God!...We arrived back in Germany on September 16th. We started 2009 with the enormous task of raising our missionary budget. 

We praise God for pastors and churches who welcomed us as we itinerated sharing our vision and calling.  We are thankful that they, along with family and friends love the World and missions enough that they will pray for us and generously give so we can “Go!”

 

The Discipleship Training school is going strong. The fall term just ended with over 70 students.  Young people are being discipled and sent out.  Today the first team left for their 3 month outreach in Kenya. Other teams will leave this week and will be going to Nepal, India, China, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia.

 

ANTICIPATION: We look forward to welcoming new students for the next Discipleship Training School which starts on January 16th. Every three months a

new school starts. We have been praying for direction and have been “spying out the land”

for future church plants.  We ask and believe God will reveal his plans concerning this soon.

 

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From Harold & Kathleen Presley    IPHC - UK and NW Europe  http://www.nweuropeiphc.blogspot.com

 

We are grateful to God for His goodness to our family in 2009.  Kathleen and I are blessed that all of our children are faithful disciples of Jesus Christ.  Our one grandchild, Levi, will have a sister by March 2010.  Our daughter Bethany seems to have adjusted well to life back in the USA, and marriage to a youth pastor!!  :o)  We are also thankful to the Lord for adding Joshua Bridges (Bethany's husband) to our family.  And we almost adopted another daughter, Jasmine Crilly, from Perth, Australia!   Jasmine will complete her internship with us in London in June 2010.  During the almost 2 years now that she has served with us, we have grown to love and appreciate her as a young protege and a very faithful servant of the Lord. 

And what an honour and privilege it still is to serve with the missionaries of NW Europe and with the local pastors of the UK.  They are the best!  In 2009 we increased our level of prayers and team-effort outreaches.  May God help us do more of the same in 2010.

NW Europe is gathering for a day of prayer in Wales on 16 January 2010 and again somewhere (tba) in Scandinavia in July 2010.

 

 

Rev. Nancy Berry

Your WIN Director