Testimony and Opportunity

Hello Friends
One of the teams in Central Asia has a small urban community. A few months ago one of them noticed a Uighur (Muslim Ethnic Group from North West China) playing violin in the market and asked him if he needed a place to stay. The man said that he did and began to live in the House of Peace. He was there for several months observing and sharing in the community. One evening he heard a voice say, "These people who are serving you are my people. Listen to them." He listened and became a follower of Jesus and was recently baptized. His testimony is, "This is what I have been looking for all my life!"

This particular team has a circle of house churches and houses of peace all over that area and has been saving for their own vehicle. Would you help us raise $2,000 to match their funds so that they can purchase a decent vehicle?

Another of the teams has been visiting the capital punishment ward of the prison system of their country. Muslim extremists on death row there would stand outside and chant trying to disrupt the meeting. Then some began to come closer and listen at the door. Over the Christmas season the friends there put on a meal for those on death row and the extremists came to share the meal.

In another country our friends are receiving a significant number of brothers released from prison. Each brother needs proper papers and clothes at a cost of $100. Proper papers are a necessity since they get released from prison with "wolf papers" which are identity papers showing that they are released convicts. The police are always checking papers and when they see wolf papers the often simply rearrest that person and charge him with an unsolved crime and he goes back to jail- unless, of course he can pay the bribe! Plus they cannot get a job or get housing with the wolf papers. Would you help us by being one of ten folks who will each provide $100 so that 10 brothers can get proper papers?

We have had questions about our prophetic word for 2010 and I had thought to send out the same piece as last year which was the same as for 2008 which was our most forwarded piece ever. Never read it? It is on the website, "A Prophetic Word for 2009" and still relevant. However, we did write out a comment on prophetic words for 2010 which you might like to read. It is posted on the website as "Break Through- a Prophetic Word for 2010?"

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Thank you for your friendship, prayer and partnership in 2009
Every blessing in 2010
Steve & Marilyn

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