Matthew is starting 2025 off by traveling to Portugal. He will be serving our West Africa missionary team while they are there by ministering to the missionary kids!!!! Pray for safe travels and divine appointments. Pray also that Matthew can use his experience as an MK to be a blessing and encouragement to those MKs still living on the field.

1. A Reliable Vehicle 2. Health of our Family 3. Understanding at School 4. Miracles in our Community

Only 0.01% of the Mandeni people are evangelical christians. Pray that the word of the Lord would go forth swiftly and the love of the believers would be contagious, drawing those who are lost to the foot of the cross. https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/16120/GV

“For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and His ears are attentive to their prayer.” 1 Peter 3:12a Please praise God with us and pray with us: *Max’s trip to Cuba was cancelled due to the lack of consistent electricity because of problems with the grid on the island. Please pray for the repairs needed and for the people’s needs. *The students of Theological English have completed the course work and exams. They still need to complete the required project of teaching one colleague the reading strategy they learned to read three theological articles. Please pray for them to complete this well by January 31. Thank you! (Spanish version) “Porque los ojos del Señor están sobre los justos, y sus oídos atentos a sus oraciones. 1 Pedro 3:12a Por favor, alaba al Señor con nosotros y ora con nosotros: *El viaje de Max a Cuba fue cancelado debido a la constante falta de electricidad. Por favor, ore por las refacciones que se necesita hacer en la red eléctrica a través de toda la isla. y ore por las necesidades de la gente. *Los estudiantes de Inglés Teológico han terminado las tareas y los exámenes del curso. Todavía les falta hacer el proyecto requerido de enseñar a un colega la estrategia de lectura que han aprendido para leer tres artículos teológicos en inglés. Por favor, ore para que ellos terminen bien el proyecto para el próximo 31 de enero. ¡Muchas gracias!

There's are donors (churches) that made commitments and either didn't start giving OR have stopped. Also, there are those who increased their commitments on paper and didn't start sending in increased amounts. Following up with these!

We need God to send angels to protect us as we travel to and from the office. We pray at the start of each trip as well!

Understanding of how to write the Children's Ministry lessons for the oral learners. We're now working to understand and research the other lessons that have been written for OLBI (oral learners Bible Institute).

Praise God that He gave us creativity for our speaking assignments at the Children's Ministry training in Bangladesh. There were 100 attendees from the churches all over the country and the current Bible school students. Good feedback from the missionary & translators.

Pray for a new church building! Pastor Pierre has been looking for a new space as the church continues to grow. We want to continue partnering together and hope to open a cafe in our new space. Along with my young adults we are dreaming about opening this cafe together. The dream is to provide a safe space where students and nonbelievers can come to study, have coffee, work, enjoy events and even be a meeting place for our group. For that we need finances and the location! 

pray for me as I travel for itineration. praying for connections and ways to come alongside pastors and churches in this season.

My leaders have stepped in to lead the group as they are mentored and championed by Pastor Pierre. My heart for the group this year is that they would double in depth with the Lord and with one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. Would others be attracted to what God is doing in and through our group. 

Debbie's mom is now in her 90s with failing health. It is a deep burden for us all as she deals with possible transition to full time health care. It is difficult being separated so far away.