Missions Corner

The Jutras have asked for additional prayers, specifically:

• Decisions they have to make regarding their work at the church
• Furlough in 2008
• Family needs: Timothy’s schooling, Hanna’s teeth problems, etc.

• Prayer for summer camps, youth from Canada helping out at camps, safety, salvation

• June 29 -July 8 Camp in Arka
• July 14  - Canada night with an AA group.
• July 19-29  - Youth Camp at Arka
• July 31 -24 - August 5 Soccer Camp at Zamosc

• Needs of families and children that they visit, salvation, encouragement in faith.
• Halina and her family have been sent back to the orphanage.

• Three children, namely, Peter, Miriam and Laura
• Entered two and a half years of training with New Tribes Mission in 1976
• Served in Senegal, West Africa from 1979 to 1998
• During those nineteen years, seven of the eight people groups they ministered to had the gospel presented to them in their mother tongue
• No written language in these groups prior to the 1970’s
• Currently living just east of Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia and visiting churches all over the Atlantic Provinces since 1988
• Regional representatives for all four Atlantic provinces and last summer, conducted a series of eight meetings starting in Eastern Newfoundland and finishing in Western Newfoundland
• Had a great time and blessed with many fond memories
• They appreciate our on-going prayers, especially, for fresh new messages, traveling mercies, new contacts and new labourers to enter training for the mission field
• Thankful that we are co-labourers in reaching out to the forgotten tribal groups with the Good News

Praise

• The success of the winter camps
• The three, of the six youth funded by Project 2007, FEB International, who made professions of salvation.
• A recently saved youth shows growth in the Lord, life changing , great desire to follow Christ
• Christmas event ,120 people, best event yet opening doors to neighbours and new contacts
• Mother who has stopped drinking, her children are back with her and she gratefully accepted food and witness of a deacon.

Prayer

• Hanna and Lidia the pastors wife had their first ladies meeting — continued results.
• Pierre preaching once a month
• Visitation and follow-up after camps
• Preparation of summer ministry, soccer camps in August
• Language studies in Polish

Johnathan and Adriana Whiteside (daughter: Katrina Linda)
Iglesia Cristiana La Roca Eterna in Toronto, ON
Please pray:
1. That God would lead new people to the church, so the church won’t be lacking for workers ready for the harvest
2. For encouragement to the congregation
3. That God would work in the hearts of several non-Christians that are attending and bring them to salvation
4. For troubled marriages in the church

Yves and Lise Décary (children: Eric, Simon, Catherine)
French Mission in Sorel-Tracey, QC
Please pray:
1. For the Lower Richelieu valley and for the Sorel-Tracy area (45,000 francophones and only 225 Christians in 3 evangelical churches
2. For Lise’s health (kidneys, heart, vocal cords)
3. For their door-to-door visitation

Pierre and Hanna Jutras (children: Timothy and Rachelle)
FEB International: The Polish Link in Warsaw, Poland
Please pray:
1. For Marta, a new Christian, and her family. Her mother, Ewelina, is a widow with 5 children. She needs to turn to the Lord for salvation and for their daily needs. At Christmas time they were evicted from the home they lived in.
2. For Tomek Kopec, a teenager from last summer’s camp. Please pray for opportunities to share the gospel with him and his family.
3. For Lukas, Inga, Halinka, Ania and their mother. Their mother lost the children to social services due to a drinking problem. The children were divided into two orphanages, which has been difficult for them and some of their basic needs may not be well met.

Neil and Leta Stirling (children: Peter and Miriam)
New Tribes Mission of Canada in Tatamagouche, NS
Please pray:
1. For new doors to open for ministry
2. For more people to have a desire to go through the missions training program in Durham, Ontario
3. For Peter, who is planning to go to Senegal to finish his research for his thesis in October, 2007
4. For Miriam, who plants to leave in late April or May, 2007 for 14 months of service with HIV/AIDS patients in the country of Malawi

Brian Simcoe
FEB Central Youth Ministries in Stouffville, ON
Please pray:
1. For expanding opportunities in youth ministry
2. For effective impact on the regional fellowship
3. For financial concerns, they would like to bring support levels up to permanently staff the ministry as it grows

Lance Johnson
FEB Central Regional Director in Cambridge, ON
Please pray:

1. For wisdom and strength in each of his areas of responsibility