help us to know You more!

Hello All!

First of all I would like to apologize for not keeping you as updated as I should. I know it has been quiet a while since I last wrote. Please forgive me! :) 

We have been a bit busy lately. So many things are going on! The Children's Saturday Special has really taken off! A few weeks ago we had 30 children!!! That is a huge number. We are so thankful that God is bringing so many non-christian families into the church. Our goal through this is to build relationships with them in a hope that they will come to know the Lord. We are also planning our next holiday club. The theme for this will be Mission Rescue and it goes through the book of Exodus. We are having a planning meeting on the 12th of March for anyone in the church that is interested in helping us with this. Please pray for people to turn up! We really would like to see more of the church people support the youth programs here. Joey and I have also been teaching Junior Church (except for the under 5's group) and we have been trying to help them learn scripture! We really want them to learn the importance of knowing God's word!

With the youth good things are happening! At Spectrum, a bible study group lead by John and Liz, they have been learning what it means to be a disciple. After the first two lessons (of 24 by the way) they have really begun to ask questions. Some of them say that they are a Christian but not necessarily a disciple or follower of Jesus. That really breaks our hearts! We hope to teach and show them what it means to be a true follower of Christ! Please pray that we ourselves will continue to learn what it means to follow Him as we try to help them see it as well! 
We are still running the Convicted group on the first Sunday night of each month. We have tried to link with other churches in our area and we were hoping that they would be here on Sunday but they weren't. So we will continue to try and connect with other groups. We had some really good conversations with some of our youth at this last Convicted. We got on to the subject of God's Word. We were trying to explain to them that God's Word is really God's Word and they just don't seem to get it. One of them even said, "The Bible was written by men, and sure God probably told them what to write but I am sure that they exaggerated a lot of things." And we were like "What??? NOO!!!" And that night Laura came with a devotion and she had us all read 2 Timothy (the whole book) and it says in chapter 3 that the word of God is God inspired!! They still can't wrap their minds around that! We blame that on the RE (Religious Education) here. They are taught all the wrong stuff about Christianity from a very young age! Please pray that God would reveal to them the TRUTH of His Word!!


Although times are not always easy hear we are learning to look for God in everything. Sometimes it is hard to see what He is doing through certain situations. Others times we see it clearly. We find it difficult sometimes to stay focused on Him and His will. Please pray that He would convict us to do what He has called us to!!


We do have some really good news! We have met more missionaries here!!! I can't tell you how good it was to find out that they are here! There are 3 families and 1 single lady. For security purposed I can not give their names. But yesterday we met with them and learned sooo much! Most of them are working with other people groups here. The whole world is in Birmingham! There is one couple here that works mostly with Brits. We are going to try to meet up with them often! They have been here for a while are they are able to give us a ton of advice because they know exactly what we are going through! When we first got here we were told that we couldn't do any door to door evangelism because people wouldn't talk to us. We showed some leaders here Way of The Master on youtube and they told us to never do that because it was too offensive and "in your face." After talking to this couple they encouraged to do it anyway! They have been using it here and it works! Even with the Muslim community. We have been encouraged to do what we do and be how God made us to be!! Please pray that we would be bold enough to do that! We also want to try to train some of our people in Way of the Master and go into the city center! Please pray that we would have volunteers! We may get told we can't because it isn't "youth work" but we trust that God will make a way, like He always does! 


We miss you all very much! I am getting really excited because Bethany and Daddy will be here in 5 days!! I miss them both soo much! Also we want to say thank you to any of you who have been supporting us financially! We have been bless and so far have been able to pay our insurance every month without a problem! So Thank you very much! We love you all!! 


In Christ,
Joey and Brooke