Just another Teamexpansion.org Blogs weblog

December 20, 2015 Prayer Note

Dear Family & Friends,

“So the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God! Listen: You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man?’ The angel replied, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God.’”  

Luke 1:30-31,34-35

We who have be blessed to grow up in the the Church hear these passages read and just accept them as truth.  We believe that God has done what the Bible says.  This past Friday our family helped with an outreach to the Chung Gang High School in the Taichung area.  The lesson taught that Jesus is the son of the most high God, Mary is Jesus’ mother, & Joseph is Mary’s husband.  Some of the students caught the fact that Joseph was not Jesus’ father.  This was a difficult thing for many of them to accept.  John told them that this was a miracle by means of God’s spirit.  This truth coupled with Jesus coming to restore our relationship with God was difficult for many students to accept.  We hope that all of the 700-800 students that heard the presentation will continue to consider if Jesus truly is the son of the most high God.

Our team has several other Christmas outreaches today and throughout the week.  There are four simple church services that will happen today each with non-Christians attending.  The Pagel family and our family will be hosting one of the simple church services.  Two of the non-Christians attending are Samantha Sanford’s parents.  Our co-workers, the Sanfords, now live on the east side of the island.  Later in the week there will be opportunities in schools where we teach English to share the Christmas story as well.  Please pray for all of these opportunities to share the Gospel.

Ted & Bev Skiles are in the US until early January.  They went back for Ted’s stepmother’s funeral.  They are looking forward to meeting her again in heaven.  Please pray for the whole Skiles family at this time.

We ask for your prayers as we now have Alaina’s little sister living with us as well.  Her Chinese name is Ya Ni.  Her English name is Nikki.  She is 10 months old.  Continue to pray for their parents to develop a stable lifestyle so that they can care for them again.

Thank you for your prayers.  Merry Christmas!

God Bless,

John & Cheryl

1.  Please pray for the students from the  Chung Gang High School to consider how much God loves them.

2.  Please pray for all the outreaches that our team is involved with during this Christmas season.

3.  Please pray for the Skiles family as they both grieve and rejoice.

4.  Please pray for Alaina & Nikki as we try to give them security and love.

Comments are closed.