April 2, 2008 Issue

Focus Church: Forest Avenue Baptist Church
Pastor, Don & Glenda Rushing

Associational Focus:
ESL Training coming up on the 12 & 19 @ Thomasville BC. Prayer that God would raise up leaders to serve in this great ministry need in our county.

Hispanic Worship Service April 12th @ FBC Fulton

Semi-Annual Meeting April 19th @ Grove Hill Baptist

Please Pray for Br. Chris & Kim as they are in revival at his parents home church in Wetumpka, Ala. Sunday through Wednesday.


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

4/2/08 Dan Johnson
City of Roses Abundant LifevChristian Center
Pana, IL 62557
pastor_Dan_Johnson@yahoo.com
Dan is a pastor who runs a community ministry center witnessing to over 1,500 people monthly through a free clothing pantry and resource center. Pray for God's provision for him and his family as they hope to add a food pantry, a homeless shelter and a warming center.

4/3/08 Larry Miguez
729 Second St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
rsbm@bellsouth.net
Larry is director of the Rachel Sims Baptist Center and the Carver Baptist Center. Please pray for two 15-20 passenger mini-buses for these two centers to use in their ministries.

4/4/08 Kenneth Herman
P.O. Box 70
Buckeye, AZ 85326
kherman@azcorrections.gov
Ken is a chaplain with the Arizona Department of Corrections in Buckeye, AZ. Praise God for the volunteers who share Christ in a prison setting. Please pray for God's mighty work in the lives of inmates and staff at the Lewis Complex. Please also pray for his daughter who is due in July with triplets.

4/5/08 Paul Kwon (Sun-Young)
13722 116th Ave. Ct. E.
Puyallup, WA 98374
opkwon@gmail.com
Paul is planting a multi-ethnic congregation in Des Moines, WA., and is asking for prayer for the health of this new church. Please pray for strength and healing for Paul as he is undergoing major treatment for leukemia. Pray also for God's provision for the medical expenses that will far exceed the insurance coverage

4/6/08 Don McCutcheon (Katheryn)
205 Convention Dr.
Cary, NC 27511
dmccutcheon@ncbaptist.org
Don is executive leader of mission growth evangelism for the North Carolina Convention. Pray for the Intentionally Evangelistic Church Seminar in Wilmington April 1-3. Churches from that area, who attended that seminar less than a year ago, are already experiencing increases in baptisms and assimilation. Pray that God would choose to use this in many churches.

4/7/08 Michael Thomson
12 Lenwood St.
Lower Cloverdale, NB E1J1L2
CANADA
michael.thomson@providencechristianchurch.org
Michael is a church planting pastor serving in the Canadian Convention. Please pray for the new church plant in Dieppe, New Brunswick, a French speaking Bible study, (the first in Eastern Canada ministering to the Acadian people group). Pray for the seeds that have been sown, for those being drawn closer to the Lord, and for a fruitful harvest.

4/8/08 Matt Johns (Ashley)
4610 Clivedon Ter.
Norcross, GA 30092
mjohns@re-christ.org
www.re-christ.org
Matt is president of Re-Christ Ministries. Pray for two more leaders to join the RE-CHRIST team, for God's financial provisions for their needs, and for prayer support.

IMB Focus:
COLOMBIA. Thank you for praying for the men's group from the El Camino Baptist Church who has adopted an evangelistic ministry project to two poverty-level barrios (neighborhoods) in their city. One group goes out every other Sunday morning. The other group makes their visits on Sunday afternoons. To reach each location requires several bus rides and one-and-a half to two hours of time (one way). The men have responded in a great way, and several teams have been formed so that no one person is overburdened. Please pray for the people who live in these two barrios, asking that they will hunger to hear God's Word, that they will open their homes to these men, and that the men of the barrio, as well as the women and children who are already attending, will participate.

MOROCCAN ARABS OF MOROCCO (muh-RAH-kan). Your heart aches with each pump of blood to your exhausted body. Your lungs are afire. Water streams out of your eyes--your body's attempt to ease the damage of the biting sand, burning sun, and intense heat. Your legs are numb, except for the occasional stabbing throb of an ill-placed step on the rocky terrain. Despite the pain and suffering, you have chosen to run this race--the Marathon de Sables: a grueling competition occurring every April, and spanning 151 miles through the Moroccan Sahara. Every year, approximately 500 participants carry provisions on their backs, running during the day and sleeping in communal Berber tents to keep warm during the near-freezing temperatures at night. The metaphor of a race is used to describe the Christian life: "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us" (Hebrews 12:1, KJV). Pray for our Moroccan Arab brothers and sisters who face persecution and suffering while struggling to be faithful in following Jesus. Praise God that He does not leave them alone, but strengthens and provides for them while they follow Him. Ask that believers will have strength to "run in such a way as to get the prize" (1 Corinthians 9:24b, NIV), and that others will see that it is worth the temporal pain of this life to follow Christ. http://www.experiencename.com/

CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN YI OF CHINA (ee). A brother has been sharing his faith boldly, despite the cost and persecution that comes with doing so. He has suffered much, both physically and financially. Like many others from the villages, he has found tempting the call to go east to China's large cities. The promise of work and money there is not always realized, but the poverty here is palpable. Yet kingdom work needs his voice in the mountains of his ethnic homelands. Pray that the Lord will provide him all that he needs, body and soul, through a good harvest and deliverance from trouble. Pray that small business opportunities will arise to keep him in the villages, and his witness among the people. The path he follows is a difficult one, but he is learning anew about trusting the Lord in everything. "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear....But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well" (Matthew 6:25, 33). http://Yi.peoples.org