Relationships

Lord we ask that you would give us relationships in this city that would serve your purposes. Help us to make connections with people that would serve to become a catalyst for sharing our lives together and for people to come to you and fall in love with you. We ask for grace for both of us that in the next few days at work or home that we would have specific opportunities to go deeper in relationship and love with people around us.

Grace for our city to see the light

Father, we thank you so much for all the blessings you have poured out on our lives, you have given us hope in city where there are literally millions of people who either have not heard of you or have heard such lies about you that they do not want to have anything to do with you. God I ask that you would increase our ability to speak truth into the darkness of this city, that people would have an opportunity to see you as you are, and they would come and be saved.

Relationships and small groups

Pray for us as we continue in the day to day relationships with people we know and as we look forward to doing small groups. Our desire and prayer that you can pray along with us is that we might grow more and more infatuated with God and that we might proclaim the good news of His kingdom in both intentional and unintentional ways.

we need a miracle

Praise God! We both have jobs!!! I (Sara) started my job two weeks ago at Paper Source. It is this amazing paper/stationary store in Beverly Hills. You can look us up at www.paper-source.com, I really enjoy the people I work with and am starting to feel more confindent in the procedures of the store. It is fun to be able to use my experience from my last job in helping customers with invitations and things like that.
Jonathan started at Starbucks this week and is enjoying it. All his old knowledge is coming back easily and he will start shift supervising next week. We are so thankful for God's provision in this area.

WE NEED A MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are asking that you all would pray with us as we need a finacial miracle by the 1st. As most of you know, we moved out here with only about 50% of our monthly support, as we felt God saying He would provide. And He has every step of the way! Only, we are still at about 60% and need a couple thousand dollars in order to pay rent next week. We feel God's peace. We know that He who called us is faithful and will provide for all of our needs according to His riches in glory. We covet your prayers in this time as we need God to come through.

Thank you so much for your prayers.

Jobs, support and team

Well a couple of quik prayer points that you can be praying for us:

*Jobs-- pray for us as we begin to look for the right jobs, aside from the obvious need for finances our three priorities in a job are proximity to our neighborhood, relational in nature and not all consuming so that the church can be our number one priority.

*Support-- We left Waco in faith in the area of finances as only 50% our monthly goal was reached. Obviously we will be making up half our income through our part time jobs, but it is crucial that we end up with 100% support in order to be able to have jobs that fit the three priorites we mentioned above.

*Team-- Pray for our team as we get settled that we would have unity and common vision, as well that we would be forming deeper relationships with eachother. Our official "kick-off" is July 15th.

Our Team

Here is our team. I thought you might like to have a picture to pray with.

This is a huge transition time for everyone on our team. Here are a few things you can be praying for.

1.Safety as everyone travels across country to move this week.
2.Grace to say good-bye to Waco and get settled in LA
3.Provision as most of the team still needs to raise more support and will begin looking for jobs soon.

(from left to right) top: Emily Reynolds, Steve Herman,Ty Denney, Jonathan Martin
bottom:Natalie Camper, Jeanne Herman, Erica Denney, Sarah Bodie, and Me 

Our Team

Here is a picture of our team. So that you can have faces while you pray. Ty and Erica(in the middle) who are our team leaders have been out here for a month, the three single girls and us move out this weekend, and the Hermans move out late next week.
You can be praying for

1. Safety as everyone travels
2.For everyone to be able to leave Waco well and get settled in LA quickly
3. For provision as most of us our still raising support and will begin looking for jobs soon.

(from Left to Right) Top- Emily Reynolds, Steve Herman, Ty Denney, Jonathan Martin
Bottom-Natalie Camper, Jeanne Herman, Erica Denney, Sarah Bodie, Sara Martin

 

God is providing!

Praise God! We found an apartment adn we will move in sometime in the next several weeks.
(You can read more on "The Journey" about our aparment)

We are now looking for jobs and trying to raise the rest of our support. So you can be praying about those two things.

!. That we would find the right jobs in the right places that pay the amount we need.

2. That we would raise the remainder of our support within the next month.

(We are currently at approx. 50% of our monthly need and 60% of our one time need.)

May 10th 2006

So many things that you can be praying for with us. Most of these things revolve around our big move coming up here in less than 3 weeks. The major things you can be praying for us are:

- Pray for our schedule that we can "end well" here in Waco doing everything we want to do and connecting with everyone before we go
- pray for our finances as we are currently at about 25% of our monthly and 50% of our one time. We know God will be faithful, pray for us to walk in peace and not anxiety in this area.
-Pray for our housing situation, we found a house that would be perfect with everything we are looking for, though the landlord seems to be very concerned with who he rents it too, and missionaries on support, and part-time jobs doesn't seem "stable" enough. I understand where he is coming from, but pray for favor and that God would lead us either to this house or another.