Final Update...

The Boss has been good and there are lots of stories to share about how He has moved and worked this summer. One in particular that has been developing needs lot of specific prayer. An Imam (Islamic Priest) that we have been meeting with and talking had a vision two days ago. In His vision he found himself screaming “ I have no guarantee, I must have a guarantee” Please pray as we continue to talk with him that the Boss will spread His word across his heart and quicken Him to Truth. His name is Mohammad

PLEASE PRAY:
1. Pray for the 3 teams that are here and getting ready to depart. Pray for traveling mercies and grace through immigration.

2. Pray for the literature that has been distributed across the city, that it would be received by those the Boss would desire!

3. Pray for the M contacts that our teams have been meeting all summer. That the Boss would continue what He has started

4. Pray for our brothers and sisters who continue to work & live here under lots of difficult circumstances. May the Boss continue to provide, protect, and grant them favor to be all He has called them to be.

BB-Middle East

Creative Distribution

The last couple of days have been exciting as team members are continuing to build relationships with their M friends. We have had a good chance also during this time to do some major distribution across the city. It has been pretty intense at times, but the teams have had a lot of fun finding creative ways to get the C literature into people’s hands. We would love to share some specific stories concerning this but for security reasons we need to wait till the teams are home for these reports. But please be in prayer for what has gone out. Literally hundreds of materials are now floating the streets or in the homes of M people across the nation.

We also have had our final group arrive today. Please pray for them as they try to adjust to a short stay they have on country. Lots of opportunities have been put in place for the to maximize their time and give our Boss lots of praise.

Today we were in BTG all morning and afternoon with about 16 nationalities. The Boss arranged for our group to be apart of taking the principals they have learned the last few weeks and pass them on to others that are coming here for the first time. It was a high profile meeting and we were really praying there would be no complications. PTL,… It all went smooth and the. Boss really received a lot of attention from this kind of meeting.

Please pray as we have arranged also some very special meetings with our suffering brothers and sisters over the next few days. Please for their safety as they meet with us and for grace to keep them in this difficult time. Also be in prayer for one MBB brother (D.H) that was suppose to meet us tonight but is having some major health problems. Our medical team will be visiting him tonight to see how we can most serve his needs

A Sweet Aroma

As time grows shorter for our trip many team members are rushing to make those final connections with the M relationships they have been building all summer. Many have incredible stories of how the Boss has steered their conversations to enable them to share the good news of JC. Please keep each of these contacts in prayer. For many this is their first true exposure to the C belief system. Many have never had a C friend or even discussed their beliefs with anyone other than a M.

The last few days we have had the opportunity to meet with contacts but also to visit a cerebral palsy orphanage. At this orphanage the team was able to share the love that rest so deep inside them. They sang songs, examined children, and just prayed over the many needs. It was a sweet time of being the aroma of C in a place where the atmosphere was dark and sad. Please pray for these children. Adoption is illegal in the country. So they will never be given a true home with a family except for the one they might have when they exit this life. Pray the Boss will send people to them to share the good news and be an expression of the truth found only in JC.

The life of one Sudanese who gave all to remain true to JC

Today as we were seeing patients in the clinic we met a woman we would like you to hear her testimony and pray for her & her family.

M -Arab troops in Juba took her and her husband and 5 children to a prison to be tortured because they were C’s. In prison they tied the mother up and had her laying on the ground. They then took her husband and decapitated him while she layed there and watched. His head was placed in front of her to tell her she must convert to the M belief or the same would happen to her. They then began kicking her in the stomach on the ground. She was 6 months pregnant at the time. Within hours during the torture & kicking she miscarried the baby while still laying on the prison ground. She said she saw no blood only her baby dead in front of her.

The M troops then brought in 2 of her sons on week later, They killed these two sons in front of her again trying to get her to renounce her love for JC. Miraculously 2 weeks after this she was able to escape with her 3 remaining children & 1 child of whom she took with her because her parents had been killed in the prison. She fled to the UN and was granted refugee status in the country we are in. This beautiful woman came to our clinic this week. It gave a new meaning to the scripture that says, “Weep with those who weep…” Our team members surrounded her in love and wept, even sobbed with her, while she shared her heart. Who could imagine a heart could be carrying such incredible wounds. This day we did more than treat just a physical pain, but JC allowed us to embrace a family member and share in her sufferings.

Please Pray:
Please pray for (Ver) and her remaining children.

Pray the Boss gives her unspeakable joy in her walk with him

Pray all her needs will be met and that JC would continue to be her source for life.

Pray for others like Ver who have walked a path of suffering and continue to stay true to the Boss in the midst

PS the teams are doing great! Please continue to pray as the Boss directs our steps daily for his purpose…

BB-Middle East
Names & locations have been changed for security reasons

Healing Brings Hope

In the last few days several great reports have come forth. We received news from our friend Alex that while we were in his city that 26 people came to saving faith.

Along with this one man (Shad) gave up a lifestyle of addiction and another man ( Mic) broke a significant relationship with a M woman that made them very unequally yokes. PTL!

But the news gets even more exciting; a couple of weeks ago reported with the Barbie Doll team that a man was miraculously healed when the girls went to the home of a M family. This man had suffered a severe stroke and spent weeks in the ICU. He was carried by a wooden plank out of the hospital to his home to remain in this condition. The prognosis was very bad. He was only in his 40’s with a new wife that became pregnant right after their wedding. Hope was fading so much for this family. But our girls prayed for this man, and God miraculously touched his body. The girls did not know this till this man (J) showed up at a clinic a week later. They were all astounded. But even more than this, him and his wife have received JC and are now going to be dunked in lots of water to show their new commitment to JC. This was a M family that is now C. This is HUGE!!!!

Please Pray:
Pray for our new family in Alex’s town who have committed their lives to JC

Pray for Shad & Mic who have made some major decisions in their life to put JC above their own desires. Pray the Boss gives them great perseverance to withstand the temp to go back to their old ways.

Pray for this new MBB family who have seen the Boss do what He is so good at doing in making his Name great in their home. Pray they do not shrink back in fear as the cost to follow grows more difficult as they go public with their Good News.

BB- Middle East

Names & locations have been changed for security

The Boss still works in the dark...

Dear Friends & Family,
The last few days have been exciting for everyone on the teams. We have been traveling and doing conferences and building relationships with our M friends.

In the last city we were in we got to a place in the conference where we began discussing how to recognize when the enemy is talking to you and trying to get you to enter into temptation. At the very point we began this topic the electricity went out, but only in our building. There was no logical reason for it to be out except at the moment we started they discovered a sudden short went through the electrical box. We continued the meeting in the dark and prayed the Boss would allow this not to distract. Amazingly we had so many that we were able to talk with and even one young lady began weeping over her personal relationship with you know Who….

During this same conference two men got sick and so we sent some of our medical team to meet with them and they ended up leading one of the young men to JC. It was so exciting!!! When we returned to our base city we had meeting arranged with some MBB’s and were able to meet with them and continue our teaching with them, it is very exciting to be able to pour into these lives. Tonight we had one MBB brother come share with our group who is out of a very strong group in the country. He is still not public with his walk, but shared a lot with our group about the sufferings of others like him and the reality of what it means to be a c when you were born a m.

Everyone in the group is doing well. We have been so busy with teaching and meeting contacts that sleep has been some what of a hard commodity to come by. Please pray that we are able to slow things down a bit and that our team will receive some rest. The culture here often requires very late nights (Sometimes till 3 -4am) so everyone is still working hard on adjusting their systems to such late times.

Please also pray for the following:
1. Relationships that are being built that as time grows short that conversations would grow deep into spiritual things
2. As we do teaching to MBB’s & others that there would be a teachable spirit and our Boss would expand His words in their hearts.
3. As we do clinics unique doors would be opened to go beyond physical needs & emotional & spiritual needs would be treated as well.
4. We have some special meetings arranged this week with some of our MBB family, pray safety for them as they meet with us
5. We have been given two reports of some recent painful activity among our MBB family, pray our Boss would sustain them in this time of hardship.

BB Middle East

Building Bridges

The last couple of days some very exciting things have been happening. The Servant team has had some adjustment and the two groups are becoming more one. The last two days we have been Sharing in times of going out and meeting new M friends. One group met with a M girl that had a vision this last week and was asking them to interpet it. The vision clearly gave the girls the opportunity to share their C opinion that has given them a direct bridge to share the Good News. Isn’t our Boss so good!!!

Other groups have had several “divine” encoutners with M’s that have enabled them to build some good solid relationships and beging building bridges of hope.

PRAYER
Please be in prayer for the two groups, for wisdom & dicernemnt as they continue to build bridges, but als for their M friends.

Pray the M friends would have dreams, visions, and questions that open doors for the sharing of good news. Pray that as they meet with our group that unique opportunities would arise for them to share ‘snap shots’ or nuggets of truth that will lead more conversation in a directed way.

This weekend we ask specifically for prayer in that everyone will be participating in some teaching sessions that will be intense and allow good opportunities to teach those that receive little.

Our last pray request is for those that are bound because of their new life & walk in JC. Several of our close MBB friends have had some very difficult things happen in the last two weeks that has been very discouraging and challenging to their new walks. For a couple it has meant great suffering that we are not at liberty to share at this time. Even though you do not know their names, please pray for the MBB family that is here.

Thank you for all your sarifice to pray and be such a vital part of the business here.

Middle East Teams

Second Team Arrived!

Dear Prayer Partners,

The second Team arrived yesterday with no delays and great travel mercies. Because of Jet-lag each was taken around the city and then kept awake late to prayer strategic areas of the land around us. It was so good because it gave each member a change to taste & feel the spiritual atmosphere of the nation right away. Wile this team was PWing the Barbie Doll Team had a meeting with some young women whom they were teaching stronghold material to. It was very successful. We got a report that one MBB woman that had been attending the discipleship meetings had been very moved by the material. Her husband said she came home so different after the teaching and he wants to bring her back for me. PTL!

Starting this Friday we will be on the road visiting a friend in the North named Alex that we have arranged several meetings to continue to teach & bring discipleship to those who receive none because of the country situation. Please keep the following in Prayer:

Servant team will get over jet-lag quickly and be able to full embrace and interact with the people. We desire to begin relationship building today with this group, pray the Lord directs their steps to the right people.

The Barbie Doll team is meeting with many “M” contacts today, pray doors are opened to share the god news of JC and that solid relationships are continued to be formed

Pray for those who are receiving the Stronghold teaching. Pray the Lord awaken’s their hearts to these truths and gives them grace to overcome by the Word of God.

Pray or Team unity. Since we are merging two diverse teams this week, we pray the Lord would grant us grace to embrace one another and find ways to compliment the business of each.

Pray or the new believers or MBB;s that are receiving this discipleship, that God would use it as a means to bring the scriptures more alive to them in their Faith.

Pray for those that we cannot name because of the chains they wear in suffering. Pray the Lord would grant them freedom & allow us to encourage them to run the race set before them.

BBM—Middle East

The Barbie Dolls (Field Report)

Wow. we have seen some amazing things. Everything we did the boss (God) seemed to use in every way. we were invisible the whole time. every stop the way there and back- we even had a white coat stop ( security) the white stallion ( Main officer) looked in and talked with hk and he didn’t see the barbies ( girls team) at all!

While we were at alex's house (undisclosed city) let me tell you some things going on while our teaching was happening.

- the full day we were there all the funds ( extremists) in alex(the same ones who caused trouble right before our last visit up there) held a big party to challenge the managers that our boss put in authority in this land for not being hardcore enough about their business plans in this nation. So it was a huge deal that our boss kept us hidden from this party and from the white coats who would have put extra eyes on us to keep us ok

-Some of the things we saw happen at our meetings...12 new family members on the first night--- 8 boys 4 girls!!!10 girls total- by the time we left all were apart of our family (Became Christians).

The second day we were there the 10 girls had a yarp (Prayer) and singing time till 3 am... these were high school kids!!

The leader of the company (Ministry) in this area was so encouraged by us and our groups humility that he said that our example has "changed his life". The Boss is good!

Also a leader of the company that works on a specific division for just young boys clothing was set free from a lot this week also and is being adopted by hk and his crew... this is huge because he is the only guy working in this division of the company right now for like 1700 people.

Also the teaching was very very good... we had time to talk with girls after the teaching and answer questions it was awesome time

We are back now and starting to get back to setting up business meeting swith our contacts keep yarping see you SO soon!!!

The Barbie Dolls ( All girl Team)