Most RECENT! how can i pray for YOU?>

Hello family and friends!

PRAISE THE LORD! We have finished our week of rest and relaxation that was miraculously provided for by an anonymus donor, the entire sum of $2,300.00 for the sole purpose of getting to rest and REALLY take a break from the work we have been doing here. Which was SO needed. Oh MAN, there have been SO many CRAZY things that have taken place over the course of the last 2 and a half months. Sicknesses, hospital stays and visits for multiple people, threats on churchgoers by upset ex-pastors, physical threats and just straight up gossip (which is by the way a HUGE stronghold and struggle in this nation, even within the believers, so pray for that to be BROKEN!), more sicknesses, remember getting kicked out of the house? There was something it seemed almost everyday, these things didn't always include or threaten us directly, but the ministry we are working alongside was the one being directly effected, but it was because the LORD is doing POWERFUL things in and through the town and villages that we have been able to preach and share in.
The church that we spent much of our time in was left almost barren by a split that took place just after we arrived and started ministry (the pastor left the church JUST after the dedication of the new building), and since we had continued ministry within that place the church has had about 80 members attending despite efforts of the old pastor trying to keep them away, 80 members is more than most all the other churches. And of course it's not about numbers, but it is about God doing a POWERFUL work in that place, and we are SO grateful to Him for giving us a living picture of His work and His power and the fruit that He has shown and continues to and we PRAY that those people continue to walk in the FULLNESS of God's GRACE and LOVE and right into deeper walks and understandings of who God is and just how INCREDIBLE He is! Just before we left the ministry to move on to our R&R the original church and another church nearby came together and it has been since then that the congregation has grown, and it has been a blessing to have worked with the new pastor and to see the fold of God increase! PRAISE the LORD!

So now we are here in Neyveli, working with "No Time Pastor" who is truly like a dad to us. He is a little ADHD sometimes, hence the name "No time Pastor" he is ALWAYS on the move doing something and getting something, but his wife, Esther-Mary, and himself, Pastor Rajkumar, who says he is not a Pastor but a "Paster" because "God brings the people to him and he pastes people to God", have HUGE hearts and they love the LORD with ALL of them! We have already learned 2 Tamil songs, which we got sing in front of a Pastor's conference today before we broke up into Pastors and Pastor's wives/the women when all 8 of us got to share and have a RADICAL time just encouraging and being encouraged and sharing what God had placed on our hearts. Who are we to get to share with them, nothing but children of the MOST HIGH GOD for whom He opens unshutable doors.
Last night we celebrated Jenaye's 22nd birthday and we have 2 more birthdays in the next week or so, and we get to go to our friends' wedding on the 9th of November, and we have about a month AT LEAST here in Neyveli, we will have to rearrange some of our plans a little if we don't get the majority of our finances in because the place after this, Bejipur is a costly journey i hear, so pray that God would provide for the remainder of our funds to come in, ROUGHLY around $6,000.00.

Thank you SO much for your love and your prayers. We cannot explain to you what they mean and how they impact our lives here.
PLEASE continue to PRAY!
- Unity of love within the team...first intimacy with God, then each other and then India!
-Communication, which ALWAYS seems a challenge
-Continual provision for the remainder of the finances we need as a team (roughly $6,000.00, give or take!)
-Deep LASTING seeds and foundations to be laid in JESUS' NAME to those, and the POWER of the Holy Spirit to fall and to magnify the LORD in ALL we do and say.... to HIM be the GLORY!
-However else the LORD leads.

I pray that each one of you, of us, myself included, walks in the FULLNESS of God's love and heart for us, with us, and those around us. To press on toward the prize of the upward calling that is Christ Jesus! That when we are weary we ONLY press into Jesus that much more to know that we don't wrestle with flesh and blood but against powers and principalities not of this world, and that God wants our HEARTS more than ANYTHING, they are the MOST PRECIOUS thing to Him that we could EVER give. So don't hold back ANYTHING from the LORD, for He holds nothing back from us. These things i am learning!
Stotrum,
Liz