a grey friday morning. snow is still sticking in spots...



This month we sent our friend Prari, one of our church's founders, to Kenya. She's like 20 years old, petite and cute. She was a barista at Starbucks and was raised on Friends and MTV, but there she goes, infected with a call from Christ to hold the dying and love the poor.



She's hooked up with a lady named Sylvia Suhr, who started "Kenya Sow or Go". She's a godly, Spirit-Filled woman with incredible faith.



Now it looks like we might send John Parran, the closest thing to an associate pastor we can scrounge up on the front lines, to join Prari for the rest of her time there... In a perfect world, we'd have them both back in September. In reality, the adventure of joining Jesus in His work can be addictive and lifelong...



They are ministering in an area of Kenya where there is a 34 percent aids rate. Everybody knows death well there, and there are MANY orphans. This is one of the most desperate areas on the planet. We are happy to be a part of its turnaround through the power of salvation in the Gospel of Christ!



There are many miracles happening through the church there: healings, provision, there are even rumors of people rising from the dead! I have very little difficulty believing it. Only the lukewarmness of the church here grooms disbelief in such things. They pepper the Bible so liberally that I'm compelled to expect them.



Which brings us to the Cincinnati homefront:

We are in a time of waiting. Waiting for the Spirit to visit us and give us power to be witnesses.



We have baptized two believers this month, sending one to Kenya. There are many who are hearing the uncompromised Gospel of Christ. But very few have received the power of the Spirit. And so we are waiting...



We are also pressed. We work hard to get by in a generation where getting a salary and working faithfully for Jesus are hard to pull off. Sometimes the pressures can bring out the worst in us. That's when we see how much we need the Lord. We're pretty exhausted between all these things, but your prayers lift us up! So please pray:



That we LOVE!

That the Spirit visit with POWER!

For a Video Camera to send to Kenya

for our web development so you can see what's happening more clearly...



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