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Dear
loved ones at MBC,
We thank you all for your prayers and financial help
during our 7th year Church anniversary. We praise
God that we met our 500 goal attendace and many
souls got saved on that special day. God really
worked so mightily that even the storm had to pass
another direction in order to celebrate our
anniversary with a very nice weather.

It was a week of ministry work with
Pastor Jim Mcmahan and his companions. They were
very blessed at how the Lord worked in every
opportunity in bringing people to Christ.
Your missionaries in the Phils,
Pastor Jaime & Carmela
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Dear Milan Bible Church,
We’re back to school after a summer with lots of wonderful
activities. How can I thank you for all your
prayers and support? I wish I could send you all
the pictures we took at the many places I was
this summer. We did youth training at Schitu
Duca, about 25 km. from Iasi, with a couple of
groups; we trained them to work with children
and even do children’s camps for a couple of
days. After the training they were the ones who
put together mini-camps for the children in
their own churches. By doing that two purposes
were accomplished: the youth got the training
and the children benefited by their “expertise”.
We also went to the Republic of Moldova to a little village
called Brinza, which means
cheese,
where there is a big church with many children
and youth but with little Bible training. The
pastor’s name is Dimitri; he is not paid because
they don’t believe in paying their pastors and
also because they are poor. The pastor asked us
to go back there and do some Bible training for
the men in the church to be able to preach and
in the evenings do a week of revival preaching
ending with a baptism service on Sunday. We
spent a couple of days there at the time and did
a children’s program, worked with the youth and
preached (obviously not me, I only did the
translation and helped with the children!).
Later in the summer we went to the Ukraine where
something similar happened: we did some teaching
and presented the school at Schitu Duca and its
emphasis on evangelism and discipleship. The
group of preachers and women who attended the
teaching asked us to return and do more training
for both men and women. That is exactly what we
did two weeks ago. Daniel Rusu, my colleague
from CIBB, the Bible School in Iasi, came with
us and taught How to Study the Bible and
Preaching - how to put together a message (for
which he used some of Pastor Kutnow’s material
on Homiletics). Separately there was training
for children’s ministries.
I have so many reasons to be thankful to the Lord. Here
are some of them:
- the many opportunities to translate in
churches and at Conferences
- youth training to work with children
- opportunities to go out to Moldova and the
Ukraine and present the two Bible schools, work
with children, youth and help with training.
- our students, new and return, at CIBB in Iasi
and Schitu Duca
- the Word of God being preached and learned.
- the Cristia Club for girls
- discipleship training in churches
Please continue to pray for all these
ministries God in His grace allowed me to serve
Him with. It is such a privilege to do it but
prayer is most important so that in doing all
these things I never forget who I do them for
and grow in my relationship with Him. His be the
honor and glory for ever. The rest of the year
is also quit busy with classes in Iasi and
Schitu Duca and other opportunities to serve the
Lord in churches.
I pray for you, dear brothers and sisters in the
Lord, that as a church you continue to grow in
the knowledge and wisdom of God so that He will
accomplish great things in and through you.
With love, in Christ,
Marcela
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Dear
beloved brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus,
I thank you from my heart for your part
in my ministry with OM Italy as I stand firm as a
soldier to fight spiritual battles in order to help
lost souls find Christ. Thank you for your
faithfulness in the things of Christ Jesus for which
we work in the unity of the Holy Spirit. This past
year, 2007, has been a time of testing, victories,
and blessings from God in which we have all learned
more, thanks to God!
EVANGELISM in Chiaverano, Albiano,
Luserna, and Torre Pellice: I’ve been working with
the disabled, drug addicts, and handicapped. We
have distributed “Words of Life” calendars to many.
I’ll share with you the story of Gala, a Peruvian
like me in Torre Pellice. Gala has a serious disease
and only a little time left to live. I’ve shared
the Gospel with her and have spoken about her
relationship with God. She thought about what I
shared and finally, yesterday it was God’s time.
When I went to visit her in the hospital of Pinerolo,
she opened her heart to Jesus! It is wonderful to
know that Gala will soon be with the Lord Jesus in
glory if God does not work a miracle of healing in
her life. She is being considered for a liver
transplant, but the decision has not yet been made.
Please pray for Gala! Pray for OM’s
outreach in the Muslim community. We provided food
in one outreach as an excuse to hand out tracts and
the DVD of the Jesus Film. One young man took a DVD
and then returned with other friends to see if we
had more material for them. Please pray for their
coming to faith in Christ.
Pray for my work in the OM ITALY
OFFICE. Praise God for the energy and guidance He
has given me to serve in this ministry which is
going well, especially as our office workers have
grown in their teamwork.
PRAYER REQUESTS:
For the unity of Team OM…
For the salvation of many in the communities where
we come and go…
For God to do a great work in the small evangelical
churches in this area to
be burdened for reaching out with the
Gospel…
For the salvation of the Muslims and their good
acceptance in the
churches of Torino…
For our prayer and financial support…
For the God’s protection for us in OM Italy…
I thank God for all of
you (Philippians 3:13,14) and pray for God to give
you a wonderful 2008.
Katty A. |
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