Friends united

Hi everyone! Sometimes I feel like I have so much to write that I don't write anything. Tonight I decided I just needed to start writing or I would just never tell you anything anymore due to information overload. So I will pick out the highlight of this past week and tell you about that.

We have been praying for our church in our old village for a while now. Satan has been attacking it in so many areas and it has been hard on many. Greg and I weren't sure what we were able to do from an hour away. So, we prayed. Greg decided that we needed to start doing a night of visitation to the people who have stopped coming for one reason or another. We shared this idea with the few who were present and it wasn't received as well as we had hoped. However, we arrived on Friday night with the intention of just bringing it up again and seeing how they responded. Only 12 of us showed up that night so again, we were discouraged. (5 were our family) But when we got ready to start they asked if we were going to do visitation. Greg looked a little shocked and said, "Sure if you want to!" So we got into groups and went out. Oh how we were blessed by our efforts.

One family said they were worried about how another person in the church was feeling about something that had happened recently and that person happened to be there visiting them. So they cleared up that misunderstanding and prayed and the family said they would return on Monday.

Then we visited one woman who hasn't come in a month. She was a very active participant in the church and cried when we came to visit her. She shared how she felt alienated by another member and that member was there to visit her as well. They shared their feelings and cried and hugged and prayed. It was a wonderful night. I was in awe at how God was moving in the lives of our friends! We are planning on continuing this every other week. Please pray we will see God revive our little church and bind satan from these precious people! Thank you all! Missy