Here are praise reports and prayer requests for this week.
Praise Reports:
- Praise the Lord: The Lord helped us to get a replacement car!
- Praise the Lord: Celebrate Recovery continues to be a blessing. Cindy taught a lesson on 'Gratefulness' that sparked meaningful discussion.
- Praise the Lord: For
God is in total control of our lives - nothing catches Him by surprize
and "in Him all things 'are kept from unravelling'" (Col 1:17)
- Praise the Lord:
The Lord is working confidence and growth in our people (at church) as
seen by two ladies who prayed publicly for the first time at the
BHOP prayer retreat this weekend, which went very well, by the way.
Thank you for praying for the following with us:
- Pray
for the future direction Celebrate Recovery (CR) in Ballymena as it will
be coming to an end this May. We want to continue our involvement with a
recovery ministry and we've been talking with some people in other
churches about continuing the program. Please pray for the Lord to
direct us and open doors to make a way, showing His will.
-
Pray for Pastor Leo and Cheryl Rose of Inverness Bible Fellowship (our
visa sponsor). They just received word this afternoon that their appeal
of the government's decision to not allow them to remain in the UK was
denied. They have 14 days to file a 2nd appeal in an upper court, but it
would require £15-£30k ($25-$45k) which they do not have. If they do
not file within 14 days from today, they have been informed that they
would likely be deported within the next 30-60 days.
-
Inverness Bible Fellowship (IBF) is the actual sponsor of the visas.
Pray that they will be able to continue to exist as a church and be able
to retain their visa sponsor license and continue and even grow in
fellowship together in Inverness through these pending changes.
- Pray
that the recent audit of IBF will be acceptable to the Home Office.
"Immigration" is a political hot button issue and the officials are
looking for any excuse to void sponsorships.
- Pray that church members keep growing in confidence to be able to witness for the Lord.
- Women's study will begin a 4-week study through the book of Philippians
to take them up to summer. There has been even more interest from the
community of ladies wanting to participate in the studies. Praise the
Lord!
Thank you for your faithful prayer support
God bless you,
Rick & Cindy Johnston
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