PRAISE
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Yes, another successful workshop as people were taught, and practiced how to hold a Discovery Bible study with seekers and new born Christians. Many of them thanked Abe for giving them such an excellent tool, although Abe did not do the actual teaching. He had a man lead it who has already quite a few experiences with Abe’s training and with starting a church and leading these Bible studies. Delegate, delegate! Pass it on! Pass it on!!
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Praise for regular reports of people finding salvation through the Centers of Hope—which are only starting to function.
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Praise for the many people who are supporting this ministry. We see names cycling through and feel helpless to be acknowledge all these gifts. But we praise God often for you! We are so very grateful. We are not “campaigners”. At some point I hope we can give each person a personal acknowledgement. But please know that the Lord sees those gifts and honors you as you share His resources in this way.
Practicing Discovery Bible method of Bible study. Not just listening!!!
PRAYER
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Abe is going over the details of the next “workshop” which will be a Celebration of Prayer—Feb 28-Mar 1. People all over the country will be invited to attend—superintendents, pastors, evangelists, as well as our “established” people. This will be an actual prayer time for a day and a half. Dynamic prayer. Interacting with God and His Word. Abe will lead it hour by hour. Pray for him to be sensitive to the Lord’s leading as he prepares the schedule, power points, pass outs, etc. that it would come together in a beautiful and inspirational way as people focus on our Powerful God Who DOES want to answer our prayers as we honor Him.
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Pray that people would respond as invitations go out. The whole Baptist leadership is behind it and is helping to spread the word. Praise God! Pray that the Holy Spirit would move mightily in the hearts of each one.
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A more personal prayer request. Priscilla (our daughter) discovered that her passport will expire in 4 months. Unfortunately some airlines require that your passport be valid at least for 6 months, and they are flying to Australia with one of those airlines. She submitted her application in the American embassy in Kyiv last week, but that has to be processed in Poland, and it can take a month! There are no guarantees of when it will come in. but they did give her hope in that they said the last time they sent applications out, the passports came back in 10 days. All of the travel arrangements will become very awkward if Priscilla cannot travel with the family. We cannot fly in and out of Ukraine so you have long hours of travel to another country, as well as the fact it will take them more than two days to get to Australia just with the flying and layovers! It would be so gracious of the Lord to answer with her passport being processed rapidly so she can be with Dan and Ellie on this long journey.
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Dan and Priscilla have received more refugees again. Only 6. More were scheduled but despite the fact that the battle front is only 25 miles away people are reluctant to leave, for fear that their homes/apartments will be destroyed by theft or army forces. If you are there—the thought is you can protect your place. So, so difficult. And it is thought that come spring there will be a new offensive thrust from Russia on the frontlines where Ukraine has managed to hold them at bay, sometimes reclaiming territory. Pray for these new people. None of them are believers so they don’t know the comfort of Christ in the midst of this chaos. Pray that the Lord would draw them. That the church there would open their hearts to them and show the love of Christ.
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There were missile strikes during last night. More infrastructure hits across Ukraine. And now they are using weapons that Ukraine cannot detect. 36 were launched and 16 shot down. But 20 getting to their targets is 20 too many. And they expect a much larger missile attack Feb 23-24. That is the anniversary of the start of the war.
And so we pray on. A year is a long time to be at war. To live in uncertainty. To see thousands of people killed. It’s a long time for the world to stay tuned into the evil that is happening. We live in a time of short attention spans. A time of compromise. But there is no compromising with Russia. Whatever promises they might make, they will never keep if they don’t feel like it.
And so we come before our mighty Warrior God and pray that He will fight for Ukraine, that He will unleash His mighty hosts in defense of Ukraine, even that He will pour out His wrath on Russia.
But our greatest desire is that through all of this suffering and destruction He would receive glory and honor, that His Church would embrace His love and share it with their communities, and that His Kingdom would grow. Amen and amen
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