OBERG PRAISE N PRAY – December 9,
2007
PRAISE God for a great Sunday in Samorogouan! It is so
encouraging to be with this group of believers—they are so excited about getting
land and building a pastor’s house that they hope to use as a church building
until a pastor arrives. We enjoy our times of sitting together after church,
visiting and eating (today we got fed lunch twice again!). We’ll be going there
next Sunday as well—please PRAY for God to continue to work in the hearts of the
believers there, and for safety as we travel on a very bad road and sometimes
come within inches of hitting large animals and people on bikes and motos.
(Prayer for our travel and safety is a “running prayer request”—we just like to
remind you now and then! :o)
Please PRAY for Kevin as he is going to be involved with
an evangelism campaign Monday-Wednesday, and for Toby as he takes over Thursday
night and then next Monday and Tuesday. The evangelism will take place in
Badala and 2 villages close by, about 45 minutes outside of Bobo (our closest
church in the Kenedougou region). Please pray that many people will come to
Christ, and for Pastor Tychique as he does follow
up.
Please PRAY for Kevin as he heads to Sirasso on Thursday
for the day. He will be taking Simeon, the mason who built the Ndorola pastor’s
house, with him so that he can start the church construction in Sirasso. Please
PRAY for Simeon and all those involved in the construction, for safety, and that
the work will progress smoothly. It will take about a month and a half, and we
hope to have him start on the Ndorola church as soon as he is done
there.
This past week, we had a tragedy take place on our
Burkina field. Shellie Gardlock, a young lady who had come to Burkina just over
a month ago to help our Ouaga team for several months on a short term mission
trip, suffered some kind of heart trauma and passed away in the home of Lorinda
Robinson, one of our missionary colleagues. Shellie was just a few days shy of
her 35th birthday. Please PRAY for Shellie’s parents—she was their
only child, and for Lorinda and the Ouaga team. Please PRAY that God’s glory
will be shown and that the lives of many people will be touched as they hear of
Shellie’s faithfulness in serving Jesus. (Her pastor set up a blog if you’d
like to know more specifically how you can pray: http://www.shieldsgroup.com/blog/?p=170)