Dear Family and Friends
I know I joked about January seeming like it would never end, but February literally flew by! I can’t believe we are already in March.
February has mainly been a month filled with teaching and preaching as well as my normal monthly meetings with people across Europe.
On 12 February we had a Campus Friendship Event in place of Valentine’s Day for our University students. It was an evening of food, fun and discussion on what it’s like to make friends, friendship boundaries and God’s perspective on friendship. Here’s an Instagram clip from the evening: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGL94n0uFAL/?igsh=dnNybHMzYmV3OWJl
On 16 February I had the privilege of going back to our Slough congregation where I served for 1.5 years. I preached on Mary Magdalene as part of our series on The Cross. It was so good to see everyone and see how the church is doing!
Teaching on mentoring is one of my favourite things and I got to do this with our interns on 18 February. I’ve already heard from one of our youth leaders how implementing some of the tips has made such a difference in the mentoring relationship he had with one of the boys he is meeting with.
Our Every Nation School of Ministry had a residential week this past month. One of the teachers for our Campus Track was unable to attend so I was excited to step in and join Aoife on Zoom to teach a few sessions on 20 February.
And finally, on 24 February I taught on Going to Make Disciples on our Follow Two Course.
Our Every Nation Europe Build Conference is coming up at the end of March which means people will be flying into Prague from all over Europe. Many of those people flying in will need to get visas to travel because they live in Europe but hold passports from outside of Europe.
One such person who needed a visa was my beautiful friend Romona. Romona and her husband Euan pastor our church in Glasgow, Scotland. Romona needed to come to London to get the visa and I was delighted to get to host her for night!
I fly to Prague, Czech Republic on 22 March and will be there for our Build Conference as well as our ENC Conference until 30 March.
I then fly to America for the month of April to see friends and family and raise my monthly support.
If you live in the States and would like to meet up on Zoom or in person, please message me to set a date by 31 March so we don’t miss out on meeting up. I will be mainly in Florida for the first 3 weeks in April and then Georgia the last week.
Please pray for a significant increase in my monthly support. I am trusting for new partners here in the UK and also in America. This month I have received so many notifications of all my bills going up in April. I know the cost of living is going up everywhere so I am trusting all of us will experience God’s provision.
Thank you SO MUCH for all your prayers! I need them! Thank you also to everyone who has been giving to me financially. I really couldn’t do what I’m doing here in Europe without you.
Lots of Love
Traci
Dear Family and Friends
I can’t believe we are already into our second week in February! There were a bunch of memes going around that January had 479 days in it haha. It did feel like January would never end but we were able to do loads of things in those 479 days!
As I mentioned in my last newsletter, we dedicated a week for praying and fasting for this new year. Prayer seems to be increasing across the globe, and it is evident as we are beginning to see God move through sparks of revival and an increase of hunger for Him in so many areas of the world.
After our week of prayer and fasting, some of our campus workers and students joined together to do prayer walks on a few of the campuses here in London. Here are two pictures of our groups that joined together in prayer on Imperial College, London School of Economics and Kings College.
Also, on the 31st of January, students gathered in 14 different cities across the UK from different college universities as well as churches of different denominations to pray for revival. This is a group of our students that joined in that prayer event here in London.
As part of my Europe role in Campus Ministry, Aoife (our European Campus Director) and I flew to Prague for 3 days. From the 28-30 of March we will have over 100 students and campus workers and volunteers come from all over Europe for our annual ENC Conference in Prague! Aoife and I ran through the city at temperatures of -5, getting all of the details we needed to make this weekend happen. Here we are catching a quick pic to prove we were there!
After I returned from Prague, I had the privilege of preaching at our West Congregation in London. We were doing a series on how different people’s lives were impacted by the Cross. The sermon I preached was on Mary Magdalene – Sinner to Witness. You can watch it HERE.
Thank you SO MUCH for your prayers! These last few months have been FULL ON and I have really felt your prayers and need them to continue!
Please continue to also pray for my monthly support. The cost of living has gone up so much making finances tight, so I am really trusting for new partners.
Please also pray for my upcoming dates of ministry:
- 18 February - Teaching interns on Discipleship & Character and Integrity
- 24 February - Teach at our Follow Two Course
- 24-30 March - in Prague - Every Nation Europe Build & ENC Conference
- 1 April -In America to raise support
These are just a few of the things on my calendar at the moment that do not include the regular mentoring that I do in London and throughout Europe.
Thank you again!
Traci
PS – I thought I should clarify that when you see me travelling to other countries in Europe for ministry - this is paid for by Every Nation. My monthly support specifically pays for my personal monthly costs to live here and what I need personally.
Dear Family and Friends
Happy New Year! I hope that you had a wonderful time celebrating Christmas and bringing in the New Year!
December for us was filled with social gatherings and Christmas services throughout the month. It’s a wonderful time to invite people who usually don’t go to church or maybe even for the first time (like so many of our Chinese students) – and giving them an opportunity to hear the true reason for the season- Jesus!
As I was thinking about what to write in this month’s letter, I remembered a few pictures that I took a few weeks ago of Dina and me in Windsor Park. It’s been quite cold in London but on this day, we wanted to get out and get some fresh air. Our original plan was to go somewhere a little further outside of London, but the fog was too thick to drive there so we ended up in this park.
It looks clearer in the pictures than it actually was – you could only see a little ways in front of you but as you can see, there was a path to follow that made it easy.
This week is our Every Nation Global Prayer and Fasting time where we set aside five days of prayer and fasting to humble ourselves before God, consecrate ourselves for Him for the upcoming year and corporately believe for breakthroughs.
If you are like me, as I think about many of the things that are coming up in 2025, I can only see so far into the what, how, when and where – just like in the fog Dina and I were walking in.
If you haven’t set some time aside yet for this year, I encourage you to take a few days to seek God for direction. I am trusting that this week of prayer and fasting will bring clarity and discernment on the many things God has in store for me in 2025.
As Dina and I were walking through the fog we had peace because we were confident of the direction we were going even though we could only see a few steps ahead of us. I am confident that even though I might not know what the end results are of the things God has ahead for me, that He will guide my path and give me peace.
Please pray for me for the next coming months as I am involved in the following things so far:
- Launching a new term of ENC (University Campus) ministries
here in London
- Launching a new term of our ENC Cluster groups across Europe
- 20- 22 January in Prague for preparations for our
ENC Conference in March
- 26 January - Preach in our West Congregation
- 24 February - Teach at our Follow Two Course
- 24-30 March - in Prague for our Every Nation Europe Build &
ENC Conference
- April -In America to raise support
These are just a few of the things on my calendar at the moment that do not include the regular mentoring that I do in London and throughout Europe.
Thank you again for all of your prayers! I need them!
Lots of Love
Traci