This year has started with another Salvation! I’m so excited! Last month, I shared with you how a young lady that I have started meeting with became a Christian right before Christmas. She’s doing well and growing in her relationship with God and is now attending our Follow One Course.
This Sunday I received a text from another student I have been walking with saying she just shared the Gospel with her brother and prayed with him to become a Christian! He told her he feels like he has a new life now! She will now begin walking with him as I have walked with her helping him to get established in his relationship with God. Yay!!!
As a church we have really felt like the word OPEN is for us this year. Open to God, and Open to others and believing that many others will open their hearts and lives to our gracious heavenly Father. Look out 2016!
I can’t wait to see what God is going to do in and through us as we are taking hold of this word. We’ve even asked our congregation and our Connect Groups to find a scripture with the word OPEN in it that speaks to them as well as beginning a sermon series in all of our congregations.
I am also praying for myself to be open to all that God has for me in the coming months. I would appreciate your prayers as I will be teaching at our Follow One Course on the 15th of February. I will also be flying to Ukraine from February 20-27th for a Pastor’s Conference with pastors and ministers from our Western and Eastern European churches. I will be doing a short presentation at this conference as well as receiving lots of input for myself. Please pray for me to communicate clearly at both events and above all for me to speak on exactly what God wants me to share.
You are amazing and I so appreciate all that you do for me! The nations are being touched because you are sowing into what God has called me to do here in London. Thank you for investing in me!
Love,
Traci
"Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord." JOEL 1:14
Happy New Year! As we start this New Year let’s press in to what God has planned for us in the coming days, weeks and months of 2016. I know that some of you might have even started 2016 with pain and disappointment. I have already started the year mourning with more than one family due to losing loved ones and I have also started the year standing in agreement with others as they face battles against disease.
One thing I know, that I know, that I know – is that our God is a Good God! I don’t understand everything but I know that He is loving and He is good.
This week our Every Nation Churches around the world are coming together to pray and fast to:
• consecrate ourselves, families, and ministries to God
• thank God for His faithfulness, mercy, and grace
• believe God for victories and breakthroughs in every area of our lives this year
If you haven’t had a chance to set aside some time at the beginning of this year to seek God for 2016, I invite you to join me! We even have a Prayer and Fasting Guide that you can use to follow along.
Thank you for all of your prayers over the holidays. I had a wonderful Christmas and New Year!
Right before Christmas I received the best Christmas gift! A beautiful young lady that I recently started meeting with became a Christian! I’m hoping to share more of her story with you in the coming months as we start establishing some Biblical Foundations.
This month we start up our Connect Groups and our Follow Course. We are trusting for deeper relationships with God and others this season!
Please pray for me as I prepare for this year that my ears, eyes and heart would be open to all that God has planned for me and that I will be bold, diligent and sensitive to stepping out into those plans!
Love,
Traci
“I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power.” Ephesians 3:7
I am so thankful for God’s gift of His one and only Son – Jesus! Let’s remember the reason for the season this month as we celebrate the birth of our Saviour!
Last week I sent out Aoife’s letter to you sharing a bit about what happened on our European Student Weekend. It was a fantastic weekend with powerful teaching and worship and an incredible time of so many countries coming together to have fun, build relationships and praying for the nations.
One story that I am excited to share with you is that we had a few non-Christians come on the weekend. All of them loved being there and I know experienced God’s love in an overwhelming way. One of the students that came along was Ruffy. He has actually been coming to our church and small groups for a while but had not come to the point of becoming a Christian. Well, I am so happy to say that on the weekend Ruffy surrendered his life completely to God! He is a natural leader and I am looking forward to seeing what the Lord is going to do in and throughout his life and lives of his friends as a result of his relationship with Jesus!
Here is a picture of Ruffy in the moment he surrendered his life to Jesus and the group picture from the weekend.
Merry Christmas! And thank you so much for all that you do for me to spread the love of Jesus to the nations!
Love,
Traci