Grace Fellowship International Prayer Letters

Dear Missions and Prayer letter, Partners:

A Pastor from First Baptist Proctorville will be leading a group of 12-15 people on a mission trip to Houck, Arizona - August 1- 9. They are taking Wheel and Line tracts with them to hand out to the American Indians.

A prayer request came to GFI with a book order:

A doctor at the VA is even now deciding whether she will say what she must say in order for them to receive veteran's compensation or not . Your prayers that she will decide to help them would be appreciated.

Dr. Solomon had surgery on his knee this morning. He is already at home. Let us pray for his recovery and grace to allow time for it to heal...

Praise report from John Woodward

We are thankful for a good turn out at the GFI conference hosted by First Baptist Church of Powell June 26-28. The church videotaped the sessions. When time, their technical staff will edit DVDs to help us make this available as a resource.

And remember our editor, Grace, as she has been having computer problems and must retake her senior's drivers license exam...

Dear Missions and Prayer Partners:

Charles Ambaca has sent us a precious letter, of the work in Africa. He thanks Dr. Solomon for his prayer in regard to the ministry program he had at Kenyata University. He had an overwhelming service with many confessing that they were richly blessed. They had a spill over in the hall that seats over 1500 people. In attendance were students, lecturers (who included the Chaplain). Psychology students, who live on campus, were thrilled at the awesome truths of the Exchanged Life Message. He spent quality time counseling with many, with testimonies of radical transformation by the Lord. They have now put him on their mailing list for more invitations in the near future.

Charles is still in the process of applying for his visa to South Africa. He is trusting that the opportunity will give him time to plan how he and his team can reach out to other Countries in Africa.

P.P. Thomas, who works with Grace Concealing in India, writes that they are planning to have a 5-day Training Program starting on June 22.

He reports that his brother is improving. Yesterday, when he visited him, he was using a walker with assistance of helpers.

P.P. says the he, himself, is improving very slowly, not yet able to travel in Public Transport Systems.

On the 14th, there is a program for the old students and teachers of St John's College Agra. This is the first get together they are having for people from Kerala. They will meet in a hall at Kumbanad, 3 miles away from his home. About 100 people are expected to participate. A friend has offered transportation for him.

Monsoon rains have slowly started...

An email has come into Grace Fellowship, from a woman asking for prayer support for herself, and her husband. They are in the midst of a serious and grievous family problem.

Hughlene Folds sent us this email several days ago, asking prayer for a dear friend, named Dawn, who is scheduled for neck surgery in a month. She is in awful pain, thinking it is due to her up coming surgery, to relieve her pain. Her neck was swollen, the muscles were huge. Her husband took her to St. Joseph hospital were an MRI was done, finding that she has an abscess in her neck, which must be cared for before she can have neck surgery...She needs much prayer that will help her to find the Lord's loving care.

John Shepherd reports the Lords blessing of the work among the Massai, in Africa. Praise the Lord.

He reports that they are still working to get their Society recognition, meeting with lawyers and trying to schedule an interview with the Registrar of Societies, which seems to be the last hurdle, for John Rampei. Pray about this with us, it is really important that this comes about as soon as possible.

This area needs rain; the corn is up about waist high and the wheat about a foot. If rain does not come soon they will lose the whole crop. This will mean hunger and possible starvation for thousands. The dry season is soon upon the land and it appears that it may be coming early, which is not a good thing.

We have more teams preparing to leave for Kenya as the Clovis, NM team has arrived home. Jack Wiinslow will be in Kenya until the first week in July and then Blaine and Deloris Anderson will be going to work with the team from Sevier Hgts, the later part of July. Blaine comes home the first part of August and then John will go, and the "Back Packing Team" will come to work with John in the bush, camping out from Sept. 8-18th.

This will be the first time they have tried camping out, for this long of a period, and it seems to be the only way that they can get into some areas; they will be so far from their house that they would have to spend all their time traveling.  Pray about this trip for them as they experiment to see if this is a workable solution to reaching some of the remotest areas of Maasai land.

As costs are escalating, fuel is about $6.00 per gal, and their vehicle gets about 18mpg, they are still pressing on into new areas of Maasaini to reach as many for Christ as possible. It is believed their time is short before the Lord returns and this people group is so reachable, they must keep pressing on in Jesus' name.

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John writes: 

John and Linda Woodward and family will be away for a vacation trip to South Carolina June 14-21.  

The next GFI Conference will be held at 1st baptist Church, Powell June 24-26. Please pray for a good attendance and god's anointing on Chuck and John and all in attendance.

GFI USA is experiencing a shortfall financially. Please intercede that funds will be provided to cover staff salaries and develop the ministry. 

Keep praying and obeying!

  Grace 

Chuck and Sue are in Atlanta for the weekend. They will meet with the translator of the Arabic Handbook to Happiness. Let's pray for God's blessing on the book, especially as a means of outreach to Muslims. And a pastor in Douglasville, GA has expressed interest in hosting a conference. 
 
GFI staff attended a party in Maryville TN, Monday night. Eddie King hosted a surprise event to honor his wife, Wendy. Wendy received the GFI training 7 years ago and has shared the literature message with many people. God used her intercession and testimony to help Eddie appropriate the GFI counseling and thereby find freedom from a chronic eating disorder.
 
Danny Nicely and he met with two pastors from a popular church in the area. They expressed interest to get our training and bring Christ-centered counseling to the church.
 
Dominique Gallou testifies that God is providing for his family as he is being retrained for international commerce with two Christian brothers in Montreal. We need to pray for needs in their family, including healing for a troublesome skin rash on Eileen's hands.
 
John and Linda anticipate traveling to Ontario after Laura gives birth around July 8th. He hopes to have a chance to do some teaching up there and have had one invitation so far.

I will be ministering in Kenya's second largest university this coming Sunday. I kindly request for prayers. Pass our love to all.

In His Life. Charles Ambaca
 

PRAISE GOD! Barby gets it ... finally dead to her old self and new in Grace. She walks moment by moment daily. Even her voice has changed; she sounds like a preacher. WOW. PRAISE THE LORD!
 

running on her treadmill, watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio, she learned that God is inconceivably big, how he spoke the universe into being, and how he breaths stars out of His mouth that are huge raging balls of fire. He also knited our human bodies together with amazing detail and wonder. How can anyone deny a Creator who created all this? And He holds it all together with adhesion molecules. What a Lord we have!!
 

Please pray for my brother, Danny. He has prostate cancer and has to have a lot of tests done to clear him for radiation since he has a bad heart, and also something wrong with his blood platelets that is not related to the prostate cancer. As I think I have told you before, he is not a Christian

Their vehicle blew a head gasket close to the house, PTL, if it had happened out in the bush they would have had to walk out, and that could be a thirty, or a mile hike; the BMOK hauled it to Nairobi and it will be repaired by the first of the week. This meant renting a vehicle so that the team would not be down for three days without transportation Into bush. So far the team has had over 60 pray to receive Christ and started one new church.

Keep praying for rain, and for the team to find many old men in their bomas. As it gets dry, they are moving their livestock further from their homes to find grass and water. That will mean that many of the men will be gone.

This is the first team in Kenya this year and they are getting a reality check in inflation. The dollar has fallen from over 73ksh/dollar, to 61 ksh/dollar, since January. That along with the 26% increase in the cost of living per Kenya Shillings, and they are looking in some in instances to almost a 50% increase for doing ministry. This does not include the tremendous increase in airline tickets in the past year. In the future, this increase in airline tickets may be prohibitive for some volunteers to be able to go and work among the Maasai.

It was God who put them there, and it is His to keep them there if He so desires.

The teams are not cutting back, but are finding thousands upon thousands of unreached Maasai who are asking for them to come and share with them what we have shared with their fellow Maasai. The word has spread all over Maasai land, and God has opened the doors wider than ever before, for the greatest story ever told.

Dear Missions and Prayer Partners:

Dr. Solomon was so busy last week, counseling people in need of the guidance of the Lord, that he forgot it was time to send us his prayer requests, that he wanted to send. However, he is sending them this week that you may still join with him in prayer for the Lord's loving guidance of them.

He has a lady coming from Washington State who is in deep need. He will spend time with her and for need in prayer.

Chuck is counseling with a business man who is befriending an alcoholic who is draining himself dry emotionally.  Both are in need of the victory only our Lord can give. 

A lady in her mid-thirties is living in less than desirable situation and has 4 children.  Her problems and past history have resulted in the same for her children.  She entered into victory this week and needs to learn to walk in it.  All of the children and her husband need a touch from our Lord.

This week, he started counseling with a young man who has completed 2 years in a Christian university; he is a bright young man and very open to God's working in his life.  His brother came today to see Dr. Woodward.

Chuck had a call from Florida that day, and the youngest adult son of a pastor who was here for training called and told his father, "I get it! Now I know what you were talking about when you said you found victory in Pigeon Forge!"  We praise God that the message continues to go forth from one to the other.  This pastor had Chuck speaking to 7 other pastors while in FL. 

The new Chinese translation of Handbook is complete and is being read over by our representee there.  On June 6, Chuck and Sue will be driving to Atlanta, where they will have time with the translator of the Arabic Handbook, to make plans for its printing.  The middle of June the translator will be flying back to Lebanon where he is a pastor.

The French translation is being polished to ready it for publication.  The Handbook is to be completed in Malayalam in August in Kerala, South India.

Thank you for your prayer and praise God with us for His answers to past prayer and for those offered up for the above requests.

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John Woodward received an email from Hendrik and Nehlsie, in South Africa.

Thank you so much for the book (Designed to Express His Life).  We are reading it together and are so blessed by it.  What a wonderful book! When we meet with the interns next month we are going to recommend the book to them.  Can we print it and let them have it or do we order the books from you?

Please pray for our country. We are experiencing more and more violence in the informal settlements where the local people are killing and threatening people from other African countries.  These people flocked to South Africa after independence as refugees.  Most of them are not fleeing from anything.  However the Zimbabweans are truly fleeing from a desperate situation.  I think the locals are now so frustrated because our government refuses to take action against the Mugabe regime and now our people have to suffer the consequences.  It does not look good.  The army is now on standby.

We know that God wants hearts to change, all our hearts, and stop loving ourselves and our own comfort more... 

Blessing and peace of Christ be with you and your family

Hendrik and Nehlsie

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And a note from India:

Greetings in Jesus Name.

...  As I go through the website, I understand that you and team are doing God's work in a wonderful way.  Our prayers are with you.

[Giftus sent the Bengali Wheel and Line tract which will be put online at SolomonPublications.org]

I wish to be more actively involved in this Exchanged Life ministries.  I recognize very clearly that God is preparing us and settling us down here in Vellore, India, that in the days to come we will be able to do our part in this part of the country.

Tamil Wheel and Line tract is also ready.  I will send it at the earliest.  We are planning to print it. 

Closing with greetings,
Giftus and Sopna,
Vellore, India.

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Rich Moore received this prayer request from his sister, Lauretta, who is an RN in NY:

"A very close friend of mine was diagnosed with lung cancer last month.  Shirley Garrett...we have been working together for 24 yrs.  I am devastated and preoccupied about her.  It has metastasized and it doesn't look good.  She is one of the most beautiful souls I've met and has had a great impact on my life.  Please pray for her. OK?"

May we all remember Shirley Garrett in our prayers, that our Lord would bless her in this very trying time?  Let us pray that her faith would be increased, and if it is in our Lord's will, that a miracle healing would take place.  Please also pray for her friends and family as well, that they would stand strong and be a loving support for Shirley.  Lastly, please pray for the doctors caring for her, that our Lord would guide them in her treatment.

Thank you, brethren...praying for you all this day.

With love in Christ,
Rich

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John Shepherd writes from Kenya.

We have a team from Clovis, NM in Kenya now.  On their first day, Monday, they had 33 Maasai that prayed to receive Christ.  Many of the old men were gone in a meeting, but sent word for them to come back this Thursday and they would bring all the old men and young men to hear them tell stories about God.

Pray for their safety, and that many doors will be opened for the Gospel and new church plans started.

Thanks
A Shepherd Following The Lamb,
JL

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Hughlene Folds writes, I sure appreciate the Prayer Time where I can bring my prayer needs.  It is a blessing to know the prayer chain will pray for our needs.  I must leave mine with you as an "unspoken request" God knows the needs. Thank you for all of the Prayer chain for being there, for all of us around the World.

"Lord, please hold our troops in your loving hands. 

Protect them as they protect us.  Bless them and

their families for the selfless acts they perform for

us in our time of need.  Amen 

(The temp there is 120.)

Praying with you,

Grace

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