Easter – Getting ready for family and friends
How to get ready for Easter and having friends and family at the house: This is an excellent time to be a witness to our family and friends. So, pray for how the Lord might use you in this way (Col 4:3). You might check out our videos for some ideas:
The Paper-folding Tool (3m37s): https://youtu.be/_D7l48Uyl2E (have everyone grab a piece of paper and follow along!)
The Wallet Illustration (2m41s): https://youtu.be/pH25Loz9JyM (super simple … take a wallet and a hat or napkin to cover it up with and follow along)
3 Things God Cannot do (2m32s): https://youtu.be/xeK9K-M3G6Q (easy to remember from John 3:16, animated)
Also for our most recent Prayer Letter on how to “chum the waters”, go to: https://gocrossway.org/march-2017-prayer-letter/
First Week of April 2017
- Pray for Dean, who speaks at a school on March 31 in the Arlington, Texas area and then shares his ministry at a supporting church on April 2. He will also be visiting prayer partners that weekend in this area.
- Pray for Ken, our Field Director, who suffered a home invasion last month and that we can find an effective alarm system to better protect his family.
- Also pray for Francisco Caldera, our Field Director in Nicaragua, who also suffered a home invasion several months ago and was badly beaten and hurt. We are seeing a higher incidence of violence on the mission field.
- Pray for Francisco’s wife, Jazmina, who needs surgery to remove more tumors and for a badly needed hernia operation for Francisco.
- And in case you haven’t seen this, here is a link to an 8 second video message from Francisco’s little girl, Sherlly, thanking everyone for praying for her appendectomy. We almost lost her during her 12 day stay in the hospital. Here is an 8 second video of her. https://youtu.be/2rspmZltNBA
- And right after posting this link on Facebook, I got word that Sherlly is not doing well again. She went back to the hospital again – needs medicine for kidney problems, also her intestines are still swollen. The latest word as of March 27, is that her fever is down and she is doing better.
Second Week of April 2017
- Bruce McIntosh, our International Training Specialist, finished writing the discipleship booklets, The Road Ahead and Backroads, and now they are going through the editing process at the CrossWay office. Please pray that they will soon be ready in English, and then translated and ready to publish, and will be used effectively to help those we reach grow in their walk with the Lord.
- Pray for Gary Jones, our International Training Director. It’s been three years since Gary Jones has visited Africa and he is praying for God to open a door for him to go to Kenya this Spring and conduct another Pastors Conference. Please pray for his needed support for such a mission trip.
Third Week of April 2017
- Bob Hamilton, a new Associate Missionary with CrossWay International, asks for prayer for spiritual growth among the pastors that we are reaching, especially that they will begin to practice the multiplication principle of 2 Timothy 2:2.
- Bob also asks for God’s wisdom as we begin to plan an expansion of the pastoral discipleship ministry beginning in Kangundo and spreading throughout Kenya and beyond.
Fourth Week of April 2017
- Pray for Dean who goes to Maryland to teach the Make It Clear! seminar on April 22 and then preach at this supporting church on April 23. He will also meet with team members who plan to go on a mission trip this summer and help prepare them for our ministry in Nicaragua.
- And Dean will also be going to Florida to speak at another supporting church the next weekend on April 30. Pray for safety and a fruitful ministry.
