Mustard Seed Jersey prayer update January 2021
Dear praying
friends
I was really quite amazed when I checked and saw that I did not send out
a prayer update in October as I had intended and really thought I had!
In spite of many difficulties with the Covid
crisis and those implications our Christmas shoebox appeal went ahead as
planned. Although no one from Jersey was involved in the actual distribution in
Romania we had some excellent reporting back from all the trusts to received
either shoe boxes or money for food parcels, bread, winter fuel etc from us.
In Romania we now
work with five different trusts:
Mustard Seed Romania headed up by Alex. In the autumn Alex’s whole
family were affected by Covid 19 and his father died.
Alex spoke of his father now “breathing the fresh air of heaven” and to me that
really puts death into perspective for believing Christians. We give
thanks for the life and faith of Alex’s father and for the lives of countless
other men and women of God who have died in the last year We continue to pray
for Alex and wife Rody and the family that they will
have Gods wisdom in all they do.
A V S headed up by Nelu and Cristina. We begin
with thanks: Nelu And Cristina’s third daughter Anna
was born on January 13th. We pray for their family. We remember Nelu and Cristina’s work among the poorest and most vulnerable
and ask that God will provide further people with compassion and commitment to
share that responsibility. We pray God will make them skilful
communicators as they seek to educate against alcohol and substance abuse in
their work with FI.
Vineyard - we pray for Vasile and Florina as they lead this church based
work which was originally started by Ken and Florence. We pray
especially for the Christian kindergarten and their Project Simon program which
offers food parcels to several hundred needy pensioners in the area
Agape / Romanian Orphan MInistries - we pray for
Corey and Diana, also Geta in all their work with young people who have passed
through the state orphanage system. We pray for the young people that they may
reach their full potential.
ADPB - we pray for their work assisting the elderly and
vulnerable in the residential home they run.
A medical prayer
request
Ema is one of the recipients who has benefited from money from our Medical
Fund both last year and again this year. We give thanks for the
progress that has been made in her fight against cancer and pray
God’s blessing and divine healing on Ema as she
undergoes major surgery on February 9
A Jersey prayer
request
After several years
of speculating about exactly what the implications of Brexit will be for our
sending of humanitarian aid to Romania we will finally discover the reality
when we send our first aid consignment of 2021, most likely date for that is
April. We really would value your prayers for wisdom and that all will
go as smoothly and as inexpensively as possible.
Please continue to
bless us with your prayers.