January 10, 2012
Dear Pastors, Prayer
Partners, Family & Friends,
Happy New Year!! Thank you so much for your prayers for our
Christmas festivities!! The Adult Christmas Dinner, Ladies’
Christmas Tea, and Teen Christmas Outing & Party were all a
success! Our “Carols By Candlelight” Service on Christmas Eve
was said to be “one of the best” with a full chapel and folks
standing in the back!! We praise God for these opportunities to
share the gospel and were thrilled to have one of our faithful
lady’s husband attend the Carol Service for the first time! We
have been praying for her husband, Joe, for many years and hope
that this was a small step toward seeing him begin to attend
church services and ultimately come to receive Christ as His
Saviour!! His wife said to him after the service, “Now, that
wasn’t so bad was it?” and he answered, “No, I rather enjoyed
it”. His grandson then asked, “So, you’ll come with us again
next year?” and Joe said, “I believe I will”. We were also
pleased to have the couple from one of the local restaurants
that we often use for dinners/teas accept our invitation and
attend the Carol Service. These were just a couple of the
“blessings” from the evening besides the physical warmth that
was enjoyed from our newly installed heating!! (Thanks again to
all of you who helped make this possible!)
We are anxious to see what God has planned for 2012 and already
have a couple of visits from folks in the states on our
calendar. Jenelle Bender will be coming to speak at our Ladies’
Retreat in May. Pray for her and her husband, Steve, as they
prepare for their time here in North Wales. We also have a team
coming from a supporting church in California to help us do some
canvassing and a Family Retreat in June. Pray for us and this
team as we seek God and discern how to make the most of this
team’s gift of service to us. There is also a young lady that
has a real burden for Wales that is planning to spend several
weeks with us leading up to camp. Lastly, we are hoping and
praying that
Brian &
Rebekah Wright will also be able to join us again for at
least camp this summer. Would you pray about possibly helping
them with this expense? We believe that this would be a blessing
to our teens, our church, and also to Brian and Rebekah as they
reinforce their relationship with the ministry here in North
Wales.
The overall ministry of Libanus Baptist is going well. Our
attendance on Sunday mornings has been steady with most of the
teens still regularly attending. We have had a new couple begin
attending, as well as, an older single woman of the village. Our
teen service on Sunday evenings is steadily growing and is
causing us to have to think about where we are going to meet
since we are very close to growing out of our current teen room!
We have moved our Wednesday Bible Study back to the church since
we have grown out of being able to meet in homes. Our Friday
Night Outreach to the teens of the village is going well and we
praise God for providing the extra help that has been needed
with the new couple that has recently started attending our
church. We have several young men and young women being
discipled and a ladies’ Bible study being taught. Please pray
for us as we seek God in this new year.
In His Service,
Kevin & Kim
Davis
