April 16, 2008 Issue

Focus Church: First Baptist Church Fulton
Pastor, John & Connie Copeland

Associational Focus: First, Thank you for the prayers last week as I was in revival. God did a tremendous work in the church and still continues. Praise to HIM!

Pray for and encourage other to come with you to our Semi-annual meeting at Grove Hill Baptist church this Saturday evening. We will begin at 6:30pm.

Pray for the 7 that are getting ready for Guatemala and the 2 or 3 still undecided. I know finances are and issue so pray for the Lord to supply that need if it is His will for them to go.

NAMB Focus: Email address included so you can send a word of encouragement

4/16/08 Don and Wanda Reed 1775 South BeretaniaHonolulu, HI 96826Dreed003@hawaii.rr.comDon and Wanda Reed are retired NAMB missionaries. He is now serving as interim DOM for Honolulu-Windward and CLOBA Associations, which have elected a task force to study the best way to do cooperative work on the island. Pray God will provide His solution and they will be attuned to the Holy Spirit's leadership.

4/17/08 Kevin (CH) Banks (Carol) charles.k.banks@us.army.milCH is a battalion chaplain who was deployed to Iraq in early March. Pray for a successful mission, safe return, spiritual awakening, strengthened families, and sound minds.

4/18/08 Alex DiMatteo984 Burdeck St., Apt. ASchenectady, NY 12306pad5959@yahoo.comAlex is a church planter/outreach coordinator with the Hudson Association and the New York Convention. Praise the Lord for bringing people to this church who are willing to share in the work. Please pray for all the summer missions teams coming from the South.

4/19/08 Bill Johnson1205 Maple St.Conyers, GA 30208missionsconnections@yahoo.com Bill is a missionary serving with church community ministries for the Stone Mountain Association. Pray for Igor Coada, a Romanian pastor, who has come to the U.S. to pastor the Romanian speaking people. Pray for God's financial provision, a change from immigration to resident status, and more church partners for this Romanian pastor.

4/20/08 Dave Wedekind (Jeanne)915 Doty St.Green Bay, WI 54301dwedekind@mwbc.org or jwedekind@mwbc.org Dave and Jeanne work with the Minnesota-Wisconsin Convention. Dave serves with Disaster Relief/Missions Ministries and Jeanne is WMU/Missions Education. Pray for an easy transition to these areas and for the move from Green Bay to Rochester, Minnesota.

4/21/08 Rex Rains (Laura)1100 Mound View Dr.Dubuque, IA 52003rex@newlifedbq.comRex is a church planter and pastor of New Life Church. Praise the Lord for the prayers He has already answered. Pray for a youth leader, for their mission to serve the poor and oppressed, for God's financial provision for needed remodeling and for a new building.

4/22/08 Misael and Hilda Castillo1001 SW 10th Ave.Okeechobee, FL 34974-4915mcastillo@flbaptist.org Misael and Hilda are missionaries serving in Okeechobee and Misael is migrant ministries director for the Florida Convention. Praise the Lord for the Youth Migrant Camp in March saw 221 youth with 17 salvations! Pray for the camps May 2-3 and also one on May 10. Also pray for the new Migrant Ministry in Homestead.

IMB Focus:
CATALONIANS OF WESTERN EUROPE (KAT-uh-loh-nee-ans). "Thank you, Lord, and thank you prayer partners," workers write. "In answer to your prayers, we now have a new sister in Christ! At the end of the ongoing discipleship Bible study, C. expressed her desire to accept Jesus as Savior and Lord, and she did so through a beautiful prayer. Another reason for rejoicing is that the believer in whose apartment the Bible studies are being held prayed a prayer of reconciliation to God. After the death of a loved one, she has had faith issues. Please continue to pray for A., as she is every day closer to surrendering to Christ. Pray that these new believers will follow Jesus in baptism and will continue their growth through a lifelong study of God's Word." Bcn_sos@yahoo.es

CHURCH PLANTING IN ZIMBABWE. The topic of repentance and revival seems to be popping up everywhere you go these days in Zimbabwe. People have done all they can to make ends meet, and it is not enough. The despair and hopelessness are evident wherever you go. People are saying, "Only God can help us now!" They are right. Only God can. But first, God's children must be living in obedience to Him. The situation in Zimbabwe makes this time ripe for revival. Pray for God's Spirit to move mightily across Zimbabwe in the coming days.

KURDS OF IRAN. Please pray for two Iranian Sorani-speaking Kurds, K and R. They are newly married and have only been believers for a short period of time. Nonetheless, they are growing strong in their faith. Both K and R are Kurds from the western Iranian province of Kordestan (which means Kurdistan). However, they have not lived there for some time. K and R want to return to their home province, where there are only a few believers and house groups out of several million people, to do evangelism and church-planting work. Please pray for them as they step out in faith in this ministry. Ask God to provide for their needs and to give them trusted partners in the work. Pray that God will save many Sorani Kurds in the province of Kordestan in Iran. doulos@comcast.net