Oct. 4, 2022 — CompassCare

CompassCare is pioneering a TeleCare platform to enable the Church, through 650 pregnancy centers nationwide, to reach and serve every woman in America seriously considering abortion with the ethical medical care and community support she so desperately needs. CompassCare is now equipping a national team of nurses in twelve regions to reach and serve even more women considering abortion through TeleCare, cutting the time to talk to a nurse from 24 hours to 24 seconds! Reaching a woman considering abortion in her moment of crisis is critical to saving preborn boys and girls and sparing women from life-long emotional and physical scars. Follow this link (https://www.compasscarecommunity.com/2022/09/first-life-saved-through-telehealth/) to read the story of the first life saved through Telecare.

There will be CompassCare tours at their facilities on the following dates:

• Thursday, October 20 @ 7PM

• Saturday, November 5 @ 9:30AM

You should talk with Paul Craig if you would like to attend a tour.

Please continue to pray for CompassCare and pro-life groups everywhere.

• Pray that many women in crisis will find the CompassCare offices in Rochester, Buffalo and Albany and through Telecare and receive the care that they need.

• Pray for God's protection on all pro-life centers from attacks.

• Pray for grace, humility and truth as individuals, groups and a church in our ongoing conversations about abortion in all settings.

• Keep praying for plans to expand CompassCare into Brooklyn, NY.

• Pray that God will raise up Christians in New York, and across America to pray for the unborn every day.

CompassCare is a Christ-centered organization, committed to "Erasing the need for abortion by transforming a woman's fear into confidence.” You can also follow them at CompassCare Community on Facebook or ErasingTheNeed.com/RebuildBigger. Please contact Dan Tomlinson at daniel.tomlinson@.compasscare.infoif you would like a CompassCare tour. Please contact Paul Craig by email pac8612@gmail.comor text (585.305.5557) to learn more about getting involved with the Walk for Life, and the PrayerNet ministry of CompassCare.

Sept. 27, 2022 — Matt & Jenn Irivine

Praise God that Malachi and Arielle did well on their placement exams. They are very encouraged and thankful. We are all very conscious of the centrality of prayer in this. 

Malachi is now attending the University of Edinburgh. He's excited (as we are for him). Pray that the Lord would continue to be faithful to him as he takes this next step.

Arielle is now at her preferred "sixth form college" for her last two years of high school. She will now begin the two-year process that Malachi has just been through leading to big exams coming up in May of 2023 & May 2024. Pray for her to meet some new friends and settle in well. 

Luke recently started school after a good summer rest. He doesn't seem particularly worried at the moment about some of the classroom environmental difficulties that seemed to build up last year. We did ask for prayer in July about a new school we are trying to swap him to. It will probably be mid-September before we hear anything. The chances aren't high. If he got in it would mean change and more travel. We still think it's good to have applied, but are trusting and asking the Lord to work what is best - either to keep him where he is at or swap him. And whatever the outcome, pray for Luke's heart in it, especially as he is especially feeling the impact of the departure of his older brother. 

Thanks to God for a marriage renewal/retreat time Jenn and I had while the three kids were at a Scottish Young Life Camp. We are so very grateful!  We were refreshed by this and also by some subsequent family holiday time we all had together in mid-August.

In late July NLSS (the church plant) managed to do our first summer kids’ club since before covid. It was on a slightly smaller scale but still well attended.

Pray for healing and comfort for a couple of our teammates and church family who have various health issues.

Pray for follow-up from summer outreach and direction concerning various autumn outreach possibilities. 

Please pray for the Lord to direct our steps this autumn in the coming days and weeks as we begin to ask Him, per the words of one of the local leaders, "God, what are you doing right now in our midst as NLSS? God, what do you want to do in our midst?  Are we still passionate about seeing this kind of church start? Do we still believe God can do it? Are we still "in this" together? Are we willing to take risks together as a church?" Pray for the Lord to help us pray along these lines. Pray for us to listen well. Pray for patience & perseverance to continue to walk step by step and to not do things in our own strength but to keep taking risks.

Keep praying for the good news of Jesus to run in the lives of our friends and neighbors.

with love in Jesus,
Matt for the Irvines

Sept. 20, 2022 — Souls Winning Ministries

In Children’s Worship for 4–7-year-olds, we have been focusing on Mission for the month of September. October 2, we hope to be virtually zooming the kids to Haiti to talk with the directors and kids of the New Joy House orphanage. 

Continue to pray for Osseille and his family as his condition remains unchanged.
Pray for the country of Haiti, that is plagued with gangs, and an ineffectual government.
Pray for the ongoing success of the seminary in the southern city of Jacmel. Their hunger for teaching is great. They are having to decrease the frequency they meet due to lack of funding. 

Aug. 30, 2022 — Jody Collinge

Travels: (Dios mediante — Lord willing):

• September? To Dallas 

• October 1-2: Special event and board meeting, CHSC, TX

• October 3-7 Meeting with the Global CHE Network Representative Council in Payson, AZ

• October 8-31 Visiting churches and friends in Rochester, Schenectady, and Ballston Spa, NY

• November 1 To Israel with a Bible study tour

Prayers and Praise

1. Thank God for the Children's CHE trainings in Uganda this week. Simon and his team are working with children's teachers in their churches. "They have said that, they have never had any training before about equipping children." They are meeting under a mango tree (above) so they can sit in a circle, CHE-style. Meanwhile, Sammy and his team are back at the Bidi Bidi refugee camp giving more CHE and Children's CHE training. Pray for fruitful trainings.

2. Meanwhile, back in Zihuatanejo, we will have a children's ministry at the basketball court this afternoon. I am often teaching some English to the kids and grandparents.

3. I have also enjoyed teaching online inductive or discover-it-yourself Bible studies with kids. We have just finished Daniel and will begin Elijah in September. Praise God that the girls are inviting their sisters and their friends to join our studies!

4. We also want to make these inductive Bible studies available to others in other areas and other countries, without cost. So I have been writing new studies that are available as a PDF. I have been working on Women of the New Testament. Let me know if you would like a copy.

5. Please keep on praying for wisdom about building a cabin in Texas.

6. September begins a long series of travels--first to Texas for a fund raising event and board meeting with the Christian Health Service Corps; then on to Arizona, where our service team will join in on a Representative Council meeting of the Global CHE Network; and then on to New York to visit family, friends and churches in Rochester, Schenectady, and Ballston Spa; and finally on to Israel (I hope!) with a Bible study tour. Here is a link to a brochure: https://belovedtruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Israel-2022Brochure-1.pdf

Please pray that all the pieces for these travels will come together. And pray for fruitful meetings and time to relax with friends and family. I am also looking forward to the long-awaited Bible study tour in Israel. Pray that we can go this time.

Whew! Many thanks for praying me through all this. The travels seem a bit overwhelming, but God has promised to never leave us or forsake us. And thanks for your faithfulness as well.

Much love to you

Jody

Aug. 23, 2022 — CompassCare

CompassCare is a Christ-centered organization, committed to "Erasing the need for abortion by transforming a woman's fear into confidence.” The Buffalo offices of CompassCare are fully open and offering services. You can learn more at this interview on The Christian Post. You can also follow the CompassCare Community on Facebook or ErasingTheNeed.com/RebuildBigger.

This picture tells a profound story.

Please continue to pray for CompassCare and pro-life groups everywhere. 

• Pray that many women in crisis will find the new CompassCare offices in the Albany area and receive the care that they need.

• Pray for God's protection on all pro-life centers from attacks.

• Pray for grace, humility and truth as individuals, groups and a church in our ongoing conversations about abortion in all settings.

• Keep praying for plans to expand CompassCare into Brooklyn, NY. 

• Pray that God will raise up Christians in New York, and across America to pray for the unborn every day. 

Please contact Dan Tomlinson at daniel.tomlinson@.compasscare.info if you would like a CompassCare tour. Please contact Paul Craig by email pac8612@gmail.com or text (585.305.5557) to learn more about getting involved with the Walk for Life, and the PrayerNet ministry of CompassCare.

Aug. 16, 2022 — The Irvines

“Brethren, do pray for us, that the Word of the Lord may speed on (spread rapidly and run its course) and be glorified (extolled) and triumph, even as it has done with you.” 2 Thessalonians 3:1 AMP 

Thank you for your prayers. 

Please continue to pray for those who heard the gospel in various ways during LEAP (London Evangelism and Prayer) week and through other recent outreach encounters we've had. Pray that the gospel would run rapidly in their lives and ours. Praise God that our oldest two kids had finished exams and were off school, and chose to get involved in LEAP week along with a couple of their high school friends who are believers. 

It was personally renewing for me and our team to reflect on the centrality of prayer in evangelism, our weakness in both, and the Lord's grace in helping us in our weakness.

After doing a teaching on a "basic gospel outline" as part of the training we were giving, I actually had the chance to walk through this more complete gospel summary with several people on the street. Sometimes we get to have brief conversations, but this kind of more complete conversation doesn't happen all of the time. 

Please continue to pray for us, that the Lord would continue to align our hearts/vision with King Jesus' heart/vision, that we would continue to sense our weakness in and need for prayer, boldness in witness, and hearts full of faith, and that the Lord would continue to renew us in prayer, in witness, in faith. We need the Lord to pour his Spirit into our hearts more and more. 

Pray for healing for those who are struggling with health challenges and peace for those struggling with family tension challenges in our midst.

Pray for our team that the Lord would encourage and minister to each of us where we have needs and would renew us and provide for us.

Pray for our youngest, Luke (12). He just finished year 7 (i.e., USA 6th grade). Long story, but the school he is in seems to be struggling to deal with the classroom behaviors of many students. Luke is discouraged as he watches this and we feel like educationally it would be a good thing to move to another school to which we've applied recently. However, he is 11th on the waitlist. If this would be a good thing, pray for the Lord to open the door very soon, even by the beginning of school in September. If this isn't the right thing, please pray for the Lord to provide for him where he is.

Please pray for our family to have some moments of good healthy family bonding and rest and enjoyment as we prepare to send Malachi off to a yet-to-be-decided next step later in September. 

"The whole idea of prayer is that we call on the name of the invisible God. To come in prayer is to abandon everything, to claim God's promises, and to know God, not to know what we have to bring ... when you pray you stand on holy ground, and God alone has a right to set the terms of that meeting." The Pastor-Evangelist (ed. Greenway), p. 39  

So grateful for you.
Matt