Dear Prayer Partners,

We are sending this out a bit early as we know the Christmas season can get very busy. It is also this period of December/January that many give a special end-of-the-year gift. These special gifts help us gain altitude for our many projects and the many countries in which we minister. A list of Stocking Stuffers can be found at the bottom of this email.

We truly want to thank you for all your prayers and support and hope you have a very merry Christmas.
Dean and Joan Chollar and staff

Prayer Calendar for January 2012
Dean and Joan Chollar with CrossWay International
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January 1 – Pray for our new year that the Lord is giving us to reach out to the lost and hurting world.

January 2 – Pray for our upcoming Pastors Conference and the 11 person-team headed to Nicaragua later this month. We have a lot of details to handle to prepare for this trip.

January 3 – Pray for Francisco Caldera, our Field Director for Nicaragua as he oversees and arranges our Pastors Conference, oversees the water well drilling ministry, the feeding center for needy kids, etc. See his brochure here.

January 4 – Pray for Melaku Abebe in Ethiopia. He is working on getting our license to open our medical clinic in this country and they keep adding things for this approval which is frustrating us. See his brochure here.

January 5 – Pray for Isaac Zoedah, our Field Director for Liberia. He is working on our NGO status in this country and overseeing the care and feeding of some of our orphans and needy kids. See his brochure here.

January 6 – Pray for Bruce McIntosh’s mission trip to Ethiopia. He will be teaching, visiting our Medical Clinic in Meki and overseeing some other aspects of our ministry in this country. See his brochure here.

January 7 – Pray for Lorenzo Alfaro in Nicaragua who is working with the youth and will be involved in our upcoming mission trip later this month.

January 8 – Pray for Robert and Ann Messier. Robert serves as our American Director for Nicaragua and part-time as our General Manager here in the USA. He has been suffering from a health issue in his inner ear causing vertigo. And he oversees the work in Nicaragua. See their brochure here.

January 9 – Pray for Ken and Winnie Gatithi. Ken is the General Manager in Kenya and oversees our water well drilling ministry and the care of our blind orphans and needy kids.  See his brochure here.

January 10 – Pray for Merle Admire. He serves as our Regional Director overseeing all our water well ministries in Nicaragua, Kenya and Liberia where we are now actively involved. See his brochure here.

January 11 – Pray for Joe Shepard, our Overseas Financial Manager as he makes plans to visit the various active countries where we are ministering. He works along side of Robert Messier to keep all our books updated for our overseas ministry.

January 12 – Pray for greater boldness as we each have opportunities to share our faith. (Eph. 6:19, 20)

January 13 – Pray for Jefferson Zeon who cares for many of the orphans we help to feed and clothe in Liberia. He has been sick for over a year now and the doctors can’t figure out what is wrong. Please pray for his recovery.

January 14 – Pray for more workers around the world. Right now we are looking to take on 2 nurses and a lab technician for our clinicin Meki, Ethiopia but we will wait on the Lord to provide the income needed:  Senior nurse for $200 a month, $100 a month for a Junior nurse and $100 a month for a Lab Technician. (Luke 10:2)

January 15 – Pray for Ali Rojas in Nicaragua. He serves as our Financial Manager and Advisor in this country and is helping us with all our various ministries in Nicaragua. See his brochure here.

January 16 – Pray for more opportunities for each of us to share our faith in Christ. (Col. 4:3)

January 17 – Pray for JMT (Jeugd Met Toekomst = Youth With a Future).  This is the youth organization we helped to start many years ago in Belgium and it is still ministering to the youth of this country. Pray for Kristof Thijs and his wife Sarah who are leading it.

January 18 – Pray also for Francois Thijs, Dean’s good friend from Belgium and faithful translator and coworker who had his hip replaced last November. Pray that he fully recovers.

January 19 – Pray for Fernando Diaz, our coworker in Spain and for a time for Dean to visit him. He is involved with evangelism with a radio station and church planting near Madrid.

January 20 – Pray for the clear presentation of the gospel of God’s grace and that unbeliever’s might grasp the free grace of God’s love and salvation.

January 21 – Pray for our former Administrative Assistant, Anna Ochoa (Anna Cabana), who is entering her acting career and will be on commercials for Taco Cabana soon.

January 22 – Pray for Danielle Ware who is replacing much of what Anna Ochoa used to do for her. She is a quick learner and there is much to learn.

January 23 – Pray for our Coffee Ministryas we evaluate how to proceed and also for Sherry Zule who works hard in this ministry.

January 24- Pray for our 11 member team leaving on this date for Nicaragua. We will be holding a Pastors Conference, evangelizing in several locations, holding children’s and women’s meetings and working on the water well in Las Velasques and future sites such as San Benito for wells.

January 25 – Pray for all the logistics regarding the various locations we plan to visit: Masaya, Managua, and Matagalpa in Nicaragua.

January 26 – Pray for Dean as he lines up his travels for the coming year. He hit over 100,000 miles with one airline last year and he isn’t getting any younger!

January 27 – Pray that the Lord might raise up the right person to assist Dean more in the ministry.

January 28 – Pray for Joan and Rita who handle so much of the office work. Joan is also facing possible surgery for some bone spurs in her shoulders.

January 29 – Pray for the spreading of the gospel through the various platforms we are building for the purpose of gaining a hearing for the gospel

January 30 – Pray for the safety of those on the mission trip to Nicaragua and around the world too.

January 31 – Stop right now and pray for someone you might know who needs Christ and a concrete step you might take to connect with them in a loving manner.

Stocking Stuffer suggestions for the lost and hurting of the world:
1 chick = 60 cents
1 CrossWay Gift Cube = $5
1 piglet = $30
1 goat = $50
1 cow = $350 to $700

We are trusting the Lord to help the lost and hurting in Nicaragua, Liberia, Kenya and Ethiopia.

Also, to finish paying off just the drilling of the well in Las Velasques, Nicaragua, we are looking to the Lord for an additional $6500 as we had to go down to 410 feet. Ouch! Then we will need an electric pump and water tank on a tower to provide clean safe drinking water for 200 families of this community.

Merry Christmas to all,
Dean

Dean Chollar
c/o CrossWay International, 14 Fabra Oaks Road, Boerne, TX 78006
Office: 830 249 2322; Cell:  210 326 3190; Fax: 210 892 6363
Email: dean@gocrossway.org
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Prayer Calendar for Dean and Joan Chollar, with CrossWay International
November 2011
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November 1 – Pray for Dean, Bruce McIntosh, and Joe Shepard as they will be traveling to Nairobi, Kenya and should arrive late tonight on this date.

November 2 – Pray for Merle Admire as he takes a greater role in overseeing our water well ministry and lines up teams to visit the mission field. Pray, too, for his needed prayer and support so he can be more available for our ministry and God’s calling in his life.

November 3 -5 – Pray for Dean, Bruce, and Joe as they teach 50 pastors at the Pastors Conference we are sponsoring.  Pray that the pastors will be receptive and that our lessons will be practical and well received.

November 6 – Pray for us as we three head back home to the “good old USA” and that we might have opportunities to share our faith in Christ during this travel time.

November 7 – Pray for Bruce McIntosh, our Member Care Director, and the vital roles he has within CrossWayInternational. Pray for his prayer and support needs, too, that God might touch hearts and raise up his monthly support to allow him to be more available to carry out more fully the work of his ministry with us.

November 8 – Pray for Robert and Ann Messier, who are both heavily involved in our work in Nicaragua. Robert is overseeing various aspects in this country such as: our water well ministry, lining up mission trips for the upcoming pastors conference and Ann is doing the same with the lady’s and children’s ministry in Nicaragua. They also face some challenges regarding their prayer and support needs.

November 9 – Pray for Joe Shepard, our Overseas Financial Manager. He is semi-retired and giving a great deal of time and teaching in the whole area of finances with a biblical view as applied to different cultures. It is a complicated task and he is doing a great job.

November 10- Pray for Danielle Ware who is replacing Anna Ochoa as our Executive Assistant. She is learning her job quickly and well. Pray too for Anna as she becomes more involved in the Creative Arts department of her own church.

November 11 – Pray for the CrossWay Coffee Ministry and for Sherry Zule, the manager over this ministry. She is gearing up for orders for gift baskets as the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays approach.

November 12 – Pray for Joan who oversees much of the office work and especially for the pain in her arms. Pray that we might find out exactly what is causing this and how best to treat it.

November 13 – Pray for Rita Chapman who takes care of our books here at CWI. She continues to do a great job with all our financial questions in a very professional manner.

November 14 – Pray for our water well ministry in Kenya as both Ken Gatithi (our General Manager) and Geoffrey Ndungu (our Drilling Director) continue to do a great job. And a special thanks to all who prayed for Geoffrey recently who was robbed while out drilling one of our wells and for the laptop and camera given to replace what he lost.

November 15   - Pray for Isaac Zoedah, (our Field Director) and Josephus Gersinee (assistant) in Liberia who are setting up our ministries to provide wells and care for orphans in this war-torn country. Pray too for their support needs, especially for Isaac who wants to be full-time with us.

November 16 – Pray for the ministry of Francisco Caldera, our Field Director in Nicaragua, as he learns to carry out and lead our various ongoing ministries in this country. Pray too that his prayer and support base will continue to grow and thanks to those who have recently taken him on for support!

November 17 –  Pray for the water well ministry in Nicaragua and our first water well in the Las Velasques community. Pray for follow up on the 70 new believers we were able to lead to faith in Christ alone, on Dean’s last visit there.

November 18 – Pray for our Board meeting and the various issues that must be decided and keep these 11 individuals in your prayers.

November 19 – Pray for Lorenzo Alfaro, who is heading up our youth outreach efforts in Nicaragua. He is just getting started with us and we are looking to God to touch hearts and raise up his needed prayer and support. He has 30 teenagers right now learning evangelistic type skits to work with our teams on mission trips.

November 20 – Pray for Ali Rojas, who is also new with CWI and is hoping to come full-time with us to work alongside Francisco. He works in a bank right now and has already assisted us with a number of difficult financial matters.

November 21 – Pray for the community of San Benito in Nicaragua. We were planning to drill a well there and still hope to do that, but recently a father, mother and child were shot to death from a rare political struggle and we are looking at how best to proceed at this point with the pastor in this village.

November 22 – Pray for Melaku Abebe, our Field Director in Ethiopia. He has been working hard to get our Medical Clinic approved by the health department of this country and it is presenting some difficult challenges. We have a nurse now who has agreed to work in the clinic and a lab tech too but it all has to be approved by the government. Pray for Melaku’s support needs too as this is becoming financially more difficult with all these costs.

November 23 – Pray for our main passion at CrossWay International: “To take the clear presentation of the gospel of God’s grace to a lost and hurting world.” This is the core value and focus of our ministry which we will preserve at all costs.

November 24 – Thanksgiving – Pray that we all might be thankful for not only what God has given us but for God Himself and all that He is.

November 25 – Pray for our plans and strategies at CWI which do sometimes change which we use as a platform to gain a hearing for the gospel of God’s grace and love.

November 26 – Pray for our plans to drill water wells focusing on 3 countries: Kenya, Nicaragua and Liberia. We are making good progress but you have to crawl first, then, walk and then run. We should be up to 8 to 9 completed water wells by this date for this calendar year.

November 27 – Pray for our plans to care for orphans and needy kids in 4 countries: Kenya, Ethiopia, Liberia and Nicaragua. In total, we have some 150 kids we are presently helping with their food, clothes, medicine and education.

November 28- Pray for the medical needs of all those we minister to in all these countries. Most of these countries have many who have no real access to quality health care or else they are too poor to obtain it, especially the mothers and children.

November 29 – Pray for our plans to continue to sponsor Pastors Conferences as many in these countries do not have much formal training in the Bible. Pray too for the teachers we need for this work.

November 30- Pray for all our many prayer partners who are faithful in bringing us before the throne of God’s grace and for all their generous support to make all this possible. We at CrossWay International love you all and remain in your debt for all the love you have shown us for so many years.