We pray you and your family are prepared to have a wonderful Thanksgiving Celebration. Joan and I are overwhelmed with grateful hearts to God for His goodness and grace toward us. This year has been the biggest test of faith of our lives. However, we have never grown more and scene the hand of God more evident. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 tells us that “in everything give thanks, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus”. We know this to be true in the depths of our souls.
God has done a deep work in our hearts of healing and renewal. He has kept us on our faces praying and crying out to Him every day. Dependence and trust are wonderful gifts when they are centered in Jesus. Thank you for your prayers for us and know we have been praying for you. Let us know what God is doing in your lives.
We are also thankful that God after breaking us is using us in greater ways than ever before. We will be partnering with so many in 2012 to begin Church Planting Movements in strategic places around the world. We will be trained in December with the most effective Church Planting Movement strategy in history. In Asia, Europe and Africa there are hundreds of thousands of churches being planted through this movement. Co:Mission will be in partnership with the International Mission Board to assist churches in the U.S. to be part of this global movement. We will be attending this conference in December in the windy city of Chicago.
Sunday November 27, we will be worshiping with our friends at Dorrisville Baptist Church in Harrisburg Illinois. On December 4th we will be at Eldorado First Baptist church. Pray for the time as we challenge these church families to strategic involvement to fulfill Christ’s command to go make disciples locally and globally.
Final details are coming together for our team going to Haiti in January. Pray for the details to come together for building the house in La Saline. We also need wisdom on the communities we will be planting more churches when we return with our team in March.
Finally, pray for provision for this ministry. We need a great deal of funding to do the work God has called us to do. We are stepping out on blind faith and scheduling our trip to the Amazon in February. This will launch our partnership with IMB and World Wide Church Planters to establish a Church Planting Movement in the region. We know God has called us to this effort. Pray about giving to this effort that promises to plant hundreds of churches and reach thousands for Christ.
We love you and pray your hearts are filled with thanksgiving for the goodness of our God.
Until the Nations hear,
Mark and Joan
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