Joint Short-Term Missions: July 2009

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Day 5 -- Northern Lights!

prayer Items Wednesday, July 22, 2009

RENOVATION TEAM:

-minor accident while working on the ceiling. Thank you God that everyone is safe, and that no one is injured.

-The renovation team will continue to work on the electrical work in the Bible School, as well as further improve the new shower stalls, and fix newly found issues such as the leaking kitchen sink.

CHILDREN MINISTRY:

-The number of partipants in last night's program continued to grow, praise God in gathering all the children to participate and experience His love.

-The children's program has been moved back into the Church. Thank you God for taking care of our needs, making this more ideal space available to us.

-The Children Ministry will be organizing a play tonight, may God be with them, and provide them guidance and support.

TEENS MINISTRY:

-The Teens Ministry tried out their new strategy last night, breaking up into small teams, each focusing on a specific task, (eg. visitation, games & sports, music).

-Praise God for listening to our prayers, and our concerns. The new strategy has opened up many opportunities last night, outreaching to the Native teens. As described in this morning's sharing session, we had valauble communication and caring opportunites last night. Thank you Lord!

-Please continue to pray for us, as our outreaching programs usually run until very late at night and many of us are quite exhausted, from the lack of sleep.

-Please also pray for the native teens. We will need all the help from God to give them an open mind and heart, willing to open up themselves to us.

WORSHIP TEAM:

-Thank you God for giving them all their musical talents. May God continue to guide them in their upcoming performances.

GENERAL:

-Praise the Lord, we had TWO rare sightings/experiences last night.

-we spotted a small black bear outside the Bible School, looking for food in the area where we store our garbage.

-Many of us saw the Northern lights in our skies late last night, as shown in the photos above, it was indeed spectacular!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Day 3, 4 & Prayer Items - Kitchen / Cooking Team

KITCHEN / COOKING TEAM:

-Praise God for providing all the delicious food we have enjoyed so far. Thank you for providing all our brothers and sisters the nourishment we need.

-Please pray for our preparation work in the upcoming native's tent meeting "feast", we hope that everything will run smoothly.

Day 3, 4 & Prayer Items - Worship Team

WORSHIP TEAM:

-Praise God for giving our brothers and sisters their talents to play various musical instruments and their beautiful voices to sing.

-Thank you God for giving them the opportunity to participate in the Native's tent meeting worshipping God together with the Natives.

-Please continue to pray for their health, as they will be expecting to perform outdoors in the upcoming nights.

Day 3, 4 & Prayer Items - Renovation Team

RENOVATION TEAM:

-Praise God for providing our team members the wisdom to solve and work out the unexpected problems with the installation of the new shower stalls, thank you Father for giving us the unity to work together to come up with the solutions to solve the water pressure problems.

-Thank you Lord for providing all the materials we need to make these new additions and improvements in the Bible school.

-Please pray the the safety of all the brothers and sisters participating in the renovation projects, in particular, the electrical work being done presently.

Day 3, 4 & Prayer Items - Teens Ministry

TEENS MINISTRY:

-Thank you God for giving us the strength and wisdom to prepare a better plan last night, and the ability to restructure our team to serve more effectively.

-Thank you God for not letting disappointment overwhelm our hearts, affecting our enthusiam to serve. Please provide us further guidance for the challenges that lies ahead of us, especially tonight, as we try our new strategies, hoping to find the right group of people, the people God wants us to reach.

-Praise God for giving us our unity, strength, and energy. Would like to seek God's guidance and support, letting us know how we should serve Him, and how we can connect the native teens with the Lord, giving them the love and care they need.

-Please continue to pray for Our safety, health, the long hours we are devoting ourselves into, and the harsh conditions/environment we are in throughout the night.

-Our team unity as a whole, let all of us unite as one, consume us with energy and enthusiam to accomplish and carry out God's work.

Day 3, 4 & Prayer Items - Children's Ministry

CHILDREN'S MINISTRY:

-Thank you and praise God for the children's interest and active participation in our programs, responding and behaving incredibly well throughout the night.

-We had approximately 30 children partipating last night, thank you God for bringing them to us, giving us this opportunity to care for them, sharing the Gospel with them.

-Would like to ask God to continue to provide guidance and support to all the team members.

-Would also like to ask for God's help in allowing us to use the Church for the upcoming programs, as the Youth Centre we are in presently isn't very suitable.