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PRAISE AND PRAYER
March 2008
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MTW Czech Republic team
Monthly Praise and Prayer
Report*
Sid
and Louise Anderson,
Hans and
Gretchen Deutschmann,
National workers:
Rene
and Renata Drapala
(click on a name to send an e-mail to that
person)
Praise the Lord, all you nations;
Extol him all you peoples.
For great is his love toward us,
And the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord.
~Psalm 117
May this exhortation be our passion, and may the Lord bring it to pass as each
of us yields to the working of the Holy Spirit in our lives so that God’s
sovereign purposes might be accomplished in us and through us.
Here is the list of prayer items for the month of March. We continue to be
humbled by your commitment to the work here by means of this crucial channel of
God’s grace. Thank you so much!!
1&2 Praise God for the ongoing opportunities to share the gospel.
3&4 Pray for the English classes that the Andersons and René
Drápala are leading. Pray particularly for one lady in Sid’s class who declared
herself to be an atheist but listened intently as Sid explained the Christian
faith to her.
5&6 Praise God that He continues to provide for our financial
needs in light of the plummeting U.S. dollar and the surging Czech crown. We
praise Him for the faithful support of His people.
7&8 Pray for a good friend who has a Catholic background who
doesn’t usually attend church. Recently he asked Sid Anderson if he could go
with him one Sunday morning when Sid preached in a town about 40 miles from
Zlín. Pray that the Lord would continue to stir his heart and bring him to a
full understanding and embracing of the gospel. .
9&10 Pray for Sid Anderson as he assists a Reformed work in a
section of Prague called Modřany. Sid will spend several days a month there
helping the Farniks who are serving in that work. Pray for Sid’s protection as
he travels and for the Holy Spirit to use him in the lives of the folks there so
that the church would grow spiritually and numerically.
11&12 Praise the Lord for the engagement of Paul Anderson, Sid and
Louise’s son.
13&14 Pray for wisdom as Paul and his fiancée plan their wedding that
it would fit in well with the Anderson’s many responsibilities for the summer
camps in July and early August. Pray also that God would be glorified in the
lives of Paul Anderson and his fiancée.
15&16 Praise the Lord that plans for the camps are progressing very
well. The two established camps are full, and we are having to turn many people
away.
17&18 Pray for wisdom as we try to decide what to do next year
regarding the camp situation. We need to decide whether to offer yet another
camp or whether to look for a larger facility.
19&20 Praise the Lord for the teams from the U.S. who sacrifice and
work so hard to make our summer camps such wonderful times for our Czech
friends.
21&22 Pray that the Lord would prepare the hearts of our Czech campers
as we seek to grow in our friendships with them and as we seek to live and share
the gospel.
23&24 Praise the Lord for the willingness of a church from the Atlanta
area to come and help with a third camp. .
25&26 Pray that this camp would be instrumental in seeing our
testimony and our work locally grow since this camp is only for people from the
Zlín and Slavičín area
27&28 Praise the Lord that Sarah Ingram has found temporary full-time
employment. It is not a church position as she desires, but please pray for the
Lord’s peace to fill her heart as she works in this position and waits on Him to
lead in the future.
29&30 Pray for us as we face the daily separation from our families
that the Lord would give us daily joy and a deep sense of gratitude in and for
our work here. It is truly a privilege.
31 Praise Him for His unending mercy and faithfulness in saving
us, and in helping us to understand more fully our total weakness and
inadequacy, in light of His total sufficiency.
If you would like to regularly receive this prayer and praise update
monthly, click here to send a e-mail request to
mtwcz@volny.cz
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