November Update

"But the purpose/goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart." I Timothy 1:5 (NAS) This is our passion that we would love people the way Christ loved them and that we would want to preach the gospel as Peter did in Acts 4. "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."

We are loving our time here at our Orientation at the International Learning Center. It is great to have this buffer time here in the states to adjust to not going to our churches, and to begin to understand what life will be like overseas. We have house church each Sunday and we worship with our small groups 4 other mornings as well. We are learning different ways to lead small groups and to story through the Bible. It is so good to be here with people who have the same passion of seeing people from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

We ask for prayer for our Visas, we have sent everything to the Portuguese embassy, and now we wait. We have even sent our passports which we will definitely need for our flight date. (January 5)

Please pray for our time as we finish Orientation that we will soak up all that God has for us here.

Please pray for this coming Friday as our whole training group descends on Washington DC. We are going to do some cultural exploration of our people groups, and we will be seeking to have conversations that would lead to a presentation of the gospel.

We hope to see many of you in December before we go... we will be in Baltimore at Fort Howard Community on December 12th, and at New Covenant Church in Clyde, NC on January 2nd.

Pursuing our calling...
CJ and Rachel