2010 Wishes and Prayers

Jim LaRose - Missionary to Poland’s children in Poznan with Piotr Zaremba

Our Wishes for You - To everyone who has partnered with me over the past year, I first want to express a deep thank you for such sacrifice and faithfulness. The Lord continually reminds me that mission work is a team effort, and I am always conscious of the fact that you and I are in this venture together.

The children in Poland are benefiting from many different members of the Body of Christ working towards a unified purpose. My prayer for each of you is that the Lord would bless your participation in ways that enrich your lives, relationships, and spiritual understanding, and that He confirms each person’s importance in the service being done on behalf of the kids here in Poland.

Our Hopes and Dreams - Three things that would help my ability to minister more effectively would be:

• Polish partners in children’s ministry. Polish law requires certain aspects of children’s ministry to be officially led by adults who have qualifications that only Polish citizens can obtain. In order to hold camps and other registered activities, I desperately need Polish co-workers who are committed to children’s ministry as a priority in their focus and time.
• Increase in my Polish language skills. I can communicate on a basic level, but I would like to be able to reach a higher level of comfort in every day conversation, as well as possibly begin to do more and more actual teaching in Polish. I am still quite a ways from this level, but I would like to at least make some measurable progress in this area over the coming year.
• Ideas for Sunday School lessons. The Lord has been faithful in supplying ideas both for topics and related projects, for which I am truly thankful. My prayer is for continued inspiration and stamina, since each lesson must be created from scratch every week.

Vicky Waraka – Mundri, Sudan.

Sudanese national and church leader with Episcopal Church of Sudan in Mundri, Sudan. Single mother to 11 needy former orphans. Leads the ministry to Sudanese women in this area of southern Sudan. Vicky is helping ITMI disciple women and children and provide an audio translation of the New Testament for the Moru people that can not read.

Our Wishes for You – To those who have been supporting me in the ministry…Big thanks to Friends who give there support and sharing the love to me, by know[ing] Christ, if not for Jesus you could not send you[r] love to me.be a child of God. may you share his love all the time, his light Shaun[shown] in us.

Our Hopes and Dreams - Thanks, one of the things, i would like to share with you is abut [about] [a] group in [a] village with only one teacher [and] over 200 children who go every day [to] school, [If we could} support this community [it would be of great] help to church , the children will grow and know jesus..

[Secondly], the major issue in my ministry was tron sport [transport], if car will be there, all this mills [these miles] of 100 mill [miles] will [allow us to] reach [the village] in
short time[.] also [the distance to] most of the villages need [a] car , which will make the [ministry] visit [easy]Essy.

its difficulty to be effective ,when means[are hard]. pray that God will work it out . those are the need[s] for SUDAN.

Bob and Sue Taber – Gniezno, Poland

Retired Americans, Full Time Missionaries, Church Planters, Discipleship Trainers, Homeless Transformers, Godly Examples.

Our Wishes for You – We would like to tell you who support and pray for us - Thank you! We wouldn’t be here without you.

One dear lady in the Wrzesnia Church plant said, after she translated for Bob during his sermon, “My father was so harsh and cruel to our family that none of us could bear being around him. I have just lived my life as a Christian and tried to keep everything regarding him in my past. Now, after what you said about how we must forgive, I realize that I have to go to him and tell him that I forgive Him.”

After Bob preached in Gniezno and gave an invitation, Andrzej from the New Life Center gave his life to the Lord. We are seeing the church plant grow steadily stronger, even though progress is slow. None of this would be taking place without you.

YOU are doing this, together with us. We are so thankful for you, and we keep you in our prayers. We love you, Bob and Sue.

Tim and Ashley Keller – Kabwe, Zambia

Our Wishes for You – We are so incredibly grateful, as we reflect on the past year, for the love and support shown to us by our friends in the US and around the world.

We have often asked the Lord to stretch out His hand for us in protection or provision, and so often He has used His people to do this, showing us His might and glory through the love and obedience of His Church.

We pray that His grace will continue to be present in the lives of His people. We pray that many more will have the opportunity to experience provision that can be credited only to Christ, grace that can clearly be seen as coming from Him alone.

Thank you so much to all who have been His hands to us this past year.

Our Hopes and Dreams - As the end of the year and the arrival of our son draw near, we are praying for the Lord’s grace in giving us a safe drive to South Africa
over very bad roads (Tim could really appreciate it if his son did NOT choose a roadside arrival).

Also, that the Lord would grant us a good delivery of a healthy baby. We are trusting the Lord for the funds necessary to pay for the medical bills associated with Baby’s delivery.

We are also praying that He will provide funds so that we can have our precious baby Monica tested in the Petersburg hospital, as she has been struggling with some serious health concerns, fainting and seizing, of unknown cause.

It is a blessing to know that the Lord knows our needs and our hearts and that His hand will provide as our needs are present.

Paul and Molly Yuvaraj – Chennai (Madras), India

Pastor, Church Planter, Children Prison Ministry, Sports Ministry, Widows and Lepers, in the slums of Chennai and Southern India.

Our Wishes for You – I wish to share to Friends who have given to Molly and I that they are a precious part of His bigger plan in the Kingdom. We are all bound together and need one another, I am thankful to be in this place in my life where I see the importance of each body part–each is needed for sending the Gospel and building up disciples.

The friends who have given to us in faith are a blessing–sending the sweet message of our Lord’s life to those who have never heard. There is nothing more exciting than this.

To reach those whom the Lord loves, but have never heard! This is why we are here as His messengers and we cannot wait to join around the throne and understand this faith transaction of theirs in eternity!

Our prayer supporters and friends are tied up in eternity in the work we are excited to do. God is pleased with them as much as He is the ones newly coming to Him in faith.

We praise God for you and pray this year His glory is seen by you in new ways. May you be drawn closer to Him than ever before.

1 Cor. :12-18

“All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines. One Body, Many Parts 12.The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ.13. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body– whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free–and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14. Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 16. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18. But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.”

Our Hopes and Dreams - If Molly and I were to dream about something incredible for this year…..all we can think of now is being back in our dear India.

We must give her time after our baby arrives near Feb 10 and then the great heat arrives in Madras!! We dream of going near June for time with our family to meet our little one, for us to jump back into the field work for a time, to encourage the church and plants spend time with our evangelists, for Paul to return to His pulpit and bless the people for a season. We are missing our India greatly in this preparation time and can not wait to be back there. (Of course we must return to complete his visa project–but a much needed trip is in order!!).

God willing, we would love to bless our mother church with something we have been praying about this year. If we are able to bring back a projector, we can use testimonies from here (athletes and Christian friends), to encourage our believers. We can also have songs up on the wall! And when we return to America for Paul’s visa, he can send weekly messages for the church and they can all experience the thrill of seeing him though we are not there.

Indian guest speakers unfortunately can be dangerous sheep dividers in India, so we are limited when Paul is away and they are greatly missing his challenges.

These are two huge things we are currently dreaming and praying about and excited to see God show off again on our behalf if this is indeed HIS WILL and not just our desire.

May HIS KINGDOM COME!!!
Praying for you as you pray for us! Paul and Molly~