The kids Bible club at our house has been going strong. April is walking them through the Bible, one story at a time, pointing them to Jesus. The children are very receptive, so please keep praying! One Muslim girl from Pakistan spent four hours at our house the other day talking with April about Jesus. At the end of the conversation she asked, "Is it wrong if I believe differently from my parents?" She admitted that she was beginning to fall in love with Jesus and is concerned about how her family will react. Please get on your knees now and plead for this girl's salvation, and not only for hers, but for her whole household! Please make this a priority on your prayer list until we report that this whole family has been set free by Christ.
There is not much new to report concerning the Floradale church plant. We are wondering if we got ahead of ourselves in hitting the streets without first raising up leaders? Jeremy's passion is mentoring and training, and he is beginning to realize that this is perhaps the first time in ministry that we have moved forward like this without a group of guys around him that he is mentoring for ministry. Jeremy feels burdened to wait until he has some guys to come alongside him -- or for him to come alongside them. Our calling ultimately is to develop and deploy missionaries -- to train and equip others to do the work of ministry. So please pray that the Lord of the Harvest will raise up some fellow laborers that we can pour our lives into. We want to see the Floradale church plant happen soon, which makes finding these future missionaries/church planters an urgent prayer request.
Please continue to pray for Jeremy's health and healing. He saw the doctor again a few weeks ago and the doctor apologized for not ordering the drugs from Africa. He gave Jeremy another dose of the first treatment (the ineffective med from before) and ordered the new drugs. So now it will be December before he can take the new meds. He's been hurting a lot more this past month, and with that comes the usual discouragement and fear. Please don't give up on praying for a miracle.
April has also had some setbacks in her health. She's been battling severe headaches recently and the doctors discovered that she is very low in iron. However, the doctor is concerned that something else may be causing the low iron levels (it's not likely due to a lack of the mineral in her diet and the doctor said it is not related to her thyroid problems either -- he thinks it's something else). She had some more blood work done and we are waiting for the results. Please pray that it is nothing serious.
On a lighter note, we had a few birthdays this past month: Caleb (Nov 4th) and Jeremy (Nov 13th). Caleb is now four years old and Jeremy is...old. We had a joint birthday party for both of them when Jeremy returned from his trip to Montana. We also had some of April's family up a few weeks ago for a visit, which was nice since we hadn't seen them in a few years! They are from Florida and showed up just in time to see some snow flurries.
Please pray for Jeremy as he is currently in New York for some church planting training and trainer certification. He has been hurting a lot the past few days, but the training has been good. He has been able to do a lot of networking with other church planters and missionaries in the Northeast.
Just another reminder to pray against the enemy on our family's behalf. Pray specifically for our marriage -- in light of spiritual warfare. It is nothing new that when our ministry begins to see some fruit that we experience an attack. Sometimes it's physical, but more often it's in our spiritual life or some relational conflict that suddenly and unexpectedly arises -- ALWAYS in conjunction with God moving in our family or ministry. We can count on resistance! Recently it seems our marriage is under attack (please don't read too much into that, but neither should you shrug it off). Our Muslim neighbors are allowing their children to come to our house to study the Bible, and now some of those children are near placing their faith in Christ. Should we be surprised if the forces of darkness react? Will your prayers do anything to stop them and hold them back? I hope you believe so. Please pray.
Just another reminder to pray against the enemy on our family's behalf. Pray specifically for our marriage -- in light of spiritual warfare. It is nothing new that when our ministry begins to see some fruit that we experience an attack. Sometimes it's physical, but more often it's in our spiritual life or some relational conflict that suddenly and unexpectedly arises -- ALWAYS in conjunction with God moving in our family or ministry. We can count on resistance! Recently it seems our marriage is under attack (please don't read too much into that, but neither should you shrug it off). Our Muslim neighbors are allowing their children to come to our house to study the Bible, and now some of those children are near placing their faith in Christ. Should we be surprised if the forces of darkness react? Will your prayers do anything to stop them and hold them back? I hope you believe so. Please pray.
The Langley Family
2 comments:
We will keep you in our prayers. Thanks for the update. I echo your thoughts regarding developing leaders before beginning a plant. I have come to a place where I don't see them as distinctly different, but that discipleship with a small group is the planting of a church and that by developing those early leaders it has a good chance of sustaining and moving ahead in the future.
Hope to see you tonight!
We pray for you every night and appreciate the new prayer requests. I just wanted to recommed to books in light of your update "The Jesus Storybook Bible" is an awesome tool that shares basic Bible stories and points them all to Christ (thought it might be good for the Bible Club or as something to give to kids). And "What did you Expect" in reference to marriage. Our group is doing this at night and its really the best book I've read on marriage so far. We love you guys and pray for you continually.
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