Friday, November 03, 2006

Pray for the Jones in St. Helena

Dear Praying Friends,

Greetings from the beautiful Island of St. Helena, SC. Our children, Sarah
and are helping us to make and pass out invitations to children in our
community to come to our church for Sunday School and Kidz Bible Club.
Would you pray for this effort? We invite kids to come to Bible club and
church on a regular basis but we're organizing it a bit differently not and
have our children more involved in the visits and inviting. Sarah is 8 and
Peter is 10. They are assigned one to two kids to pray for by name, we
began this week. They pray for the kids during our devotion time and again
at night. Then between Thursday and Saturday they help us invite the kids
out to church. They will each give the invitation to the kid they are
praying for and invite them personally. All of us have a few people we will
focus on during the week and trust that they will come and that we can share
with them there on the spot. Sarah and Peter have gone through an
evangelism class and know how to share the gospel in a simple,
straightforward way. There is a group of kids that live near us who always
ask us as we pass them, "are you going to church?" As often as we remind
them of the days we are going to church it seems they aren't ready so we are
especially targeting them this week. We would appreciate your prayers as we
go out this week. And keep all of the adults we invite in prayer too,
we're just doing something a bit different in our invitation of children.

Prayer Requests
*For us (Jones family) and teachers
*To make enough invitations
*Have nothing hinder us (come up) from passing out invitations
*To pass them out with love and be ready to answer questions, witness etc.
*We will be well prepared and trusting in God's strength for this and for
teaching the classes

*For those kids who will receive invitation
*That their parents/guardians will permit them to come and even parents will
come
*Nothing will hinder them from coming
*They will get up early, get dressed and be ready when we stop by to pick
them up
*They will be attentive in class
*Their hearts will be receptive to the word of God as it is taught
*Children will be saved
*Children will continue to come weekly

Thank you for your prayer support,

The Jones Family
All Nations Community Church
St. Helena Island, SC

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