Hi
all, just a note to update you on my news and to ask for your continued
prayers. Please find all my news enclosed.
Thanks so much for your continued support and prayers love Charis xx
More Changes are Coming:
My colleagues (Daniel and Inge) will be leaving Ireland to go back
to The Netherlands sometime between Christmas 2015 and summer 2016. This has
been a big decision for them to make and it has implications for the church
here in Tramore (Daniel is an Elder) and it has implications for me as I will
then be on a team of 1! I have had several meetings to start discussing
what I might do next, there are a few options to consider but I need wisdom and
guidance from God to work out what is best for the church, for me, and what God
wants me to do next. Please pray for me at this time of change and for my
colleagues as they think about leaving and what they will do next too.
Foundations Course :
I was in Albania
at the end of March to go on an ECM course called foundations. It is for
missionaries within their first 2 years on the field and it is based on the Five
Foundational Pillars of ECM :
1. Language, Culture, History
2. ECM International Structure and
Procedures
3. ECM International Church
Planting Ethos
4. Personal Well-being,
member care and training
5.Team Dynamics
There
were 10 of us on the course and as well as learning lots (or being reminded of
lots) it was great to get to know these
fellow ECM missionaries.
Schools Work - Amazing
Journey
In November I borrowed/rented
the Amazing Journey (AJ) equipment from Baptist youth and offered the
presentation to the 4 local schools in Tramore. We went into 2 of those local
schools over 3 days and over 600 kids went through the Bible presentation. It
is such a GREAT opportunity to be able to get into schools to share the Bible
message and we were well received by the teachers and kids. It was also great
to see a lot of the kids that come to kids club and that they were eager to say
hi and ask when club would be back on too! We also offered the kids a free
Amazing journey book (for the younger kids) and a New Testament (for the older
kids) and about 10 kids took up these offers. I hope to do more schools work in the future,
using both the Amazing Journey and Bible
Explorer, and I think both these schools
would be open to us coming back in. Please pray for more opportunities to get
into schools in the Waterford area.
Saint Patrick’s Day:
We did free face painting at the parade in Tramore again this year
to help raise the profile of the church and we also gave out Saint Patrick ’s
Day booklets (for kids) which told the story of St. Patrick and the gospel
message. It was lovely weather and a
great day was had by all.
King’s Kids:
The Kid’s club had to stop for a few
months as I wanted to focus on some schools work and there were not enough
helpers to run it. We were not sure if we could re-start the club but
thankfully we have some new helpers and we started back in March but we are now
only running the club every second week. We are thankful that many kids came
back after the long break.
Prayer
and Praise Points:
# Praise that the Saint Patrick’s day
face painting went well
# Praise for the opportunity to get into
local schools and pray for more opportunities to get into more schools in the
future
# Praise
that kids club is back and running every second week
#Praise for a good time had by all at the foundations course
# Please pray me
as I think and pray about what to do next , pray for wisdom and for God’s clear
guidance
# Pray for Daniel and Inge as they think and
pray about what to do next too
# Pray for the
church as they will have changes to face in the future
# Pray for a new
girl who came to club before Easter, she had been asking her mum a lot of questions
about God but her mum couldn’t answer her questions, she was invited to come to
club for answers by a mum (from church) as her daughter and this girl are in
the same class at school.
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