PR - March 16, 2009

"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age according to the will of God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever." - apostle Paul in Galatians 1:3-5

Dear prayer partners for the PB peoples,
Over the next two weeks, I would like for us to pray over the following three requests:

1. We are hopeful that three new Bible Study groups will start up in the next few weeks. Two of the groups are new believers that will be gathering to study God's Word together. The other group is a number of unbelievers that will gather and explore who is God and what does faith in Jesus look like. Please pray that these groups will begin and will not be delayed. Pray that the new members of the groups will consistently attend. Pray that God will bless the leaders with godly wisdom. And ultimately pray that the Holy Spirit will work in these groups and grow the new believers in their faith and convict and draw unto Him those of the group that have not yet believed.



2. Please pray that our PB team (inluding nationals and ourselves) and other Christians that live in the PB province, would have a burden for the lostness of those around us... for those enslaved to Islam, animism (spirit worship), an apathetic heart, and something like pluralism (where people believe there are many paths to God and each should have their own right to believe whatever they would like, and no on should encourage them otherwise). Please pray that God will remind the PB team of the urgency of His Gospel for the PB peoples here that are perishing. The Scripture is clear when Jesus said,"I am the way, the truth, and the life and no one comes to the Father but through me." (John 14:6).

and lastly...
3. Mrs. Lane. Some have asked of how Mrs. Lane is doing these days. Our national partners continue to spend time with Mrs. Lane and her husband, sharing truth with them. Pray that for Mrs. Lane, the time with the national partners would be a discipling time where she can learn from other followers of Christ, learn and begin obeying Scripture that is storied with Mr. and Mrs. Lane, and she will grow in her faith as a result of these times. For Mr. Lane, he still has yet to place his faith in Jesus Christ and follow Him. Please continue to pray for his salvation. Please continue to pray that God will use Mrs. Lane to draw Mr. Lane to Himself.

Thank you so much for your prayers. We so appreciate your partnership in the Gospel. Yes, you are our partners. Prayer is an important part of our ministry, and we want you to know how much we value your partnership and prayers. May God bless you.

PR - March 3, 2009

An Update on the Update
Last blog I told you about how excited we were to find out that 2 RuJohn men heard the Gospel message in our last farmer training session. We are excited about that AND also the 4 other RuJohn men that heard. So in fact there were 6 RuJohn men who came to study. Sorry to misrepresent the facts. The last farmer training time we had 17 men altogether learning our ag techniques and hearing the Bible chronologically storied. The other 11 men are from another UPG (unreached people group) in our area that we also minister to but they are not numbered in our 13 people groups that we target. They would actually be a 14th group. So this is an exciting time indeed. Please pray for these 17 men that the Gospel Truth will lay heavy on their hearts and minds. Pray that God will draw them into His Kingdom. Our next farmer training begans March 11th. Please pray that God will draw in MORE of our PB peoples to the training.

A Repetitive Request
Regularly we ask you to pray for our national partners. Again remember, a national partner is a citizen of this country who follows our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Thus they are a national and a partner in the Gospel. Hope this is clear. These national partners are able to go deeper into conversations, villages, and walks of life with our PB peoples than often the foreign face. Our partners are very dear to us and we believe crucial to see the PB peoples come to faith in Jesus Christ. We believe that God will use them to spread the Gospel in this dry and dark area. So pray for these national partners. Our prayer for them, and we pray that it will be yours as well, is for these partners and evangelists to grow deeper in their faith. We pray that they will have deep desire to know and understand God's word. We pray their lives will be founded upon a Firm Foundation, Jesus Christ. And we pray that they will boldly proclaim the Gospel to our PB peoples and thus become Church Planters... by God's power and grace through the Holy Spirit leading PB peoples to faith in Jesus Christ and gathering the new PB believers in small churches.



On that Note...
We long to see our national partners move from their comfortable lifestyle into new areas where we do not yet have a Christian presence... into the heartlands of many of our PB peoples. Please join us as we pray for God to lead some of our partners into those new areas. Pray that we would encourage, train, and help them go. And lastly pray that they will be faithful to be obedient to God's call on their life.

Lastly
As I was reading God's Word a few days ago, the Father blessed me through this passage:

Psalm 22:27-28
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD,
all the families of the nations shall worship before You.
For kingship belongs to the LORD,
and He rules over nations.