June 11, 2014

Just like our first meeting, the Holy Spirit was present today convicting, teaching, assuring, directing, and filling us with joy.  The spirit laid on our hearts today to pray for the spiritual battle going on within our denomination and with Christians in general. We prayed for an increase in knowledge and urgency in our prayer life about this spiritual war, and also for discernment and wisdom in finding truth.  Below are more prayer requests:

General prayers for the AC church, the leadership, pruning, and wisdom.
Prayers to fight in the spiritual war we are in- that God would be victorious and that Satan would be kept down.
For God to give our prayer group a clarity of mission for right now so we can be focused warriors of prayer for Him.
For prayer requests to be made known to us.
For Teresa (wisdom, grace, joy, peace) and her friend who has given up the Christian faith (that she may return)
For vulnerability and also for courage to be vulnerable with each other.

Our next meeting will be on Monday, June 23rd at 5 pm at Tompkins.  Feel free to post prayer requests as they come up or as God reveals them to you!Choose a sticker or emoticon

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• It all started the day my dad got here and we bought a horse. The son of the guy we bought it from came to show Luke how to saddle it, etc. the next day dad and I and luke walked to the store to buy bread. Luke saw the kid and said, “hey, come this afternoon and ride the horse”. That afternoon the boy showed up.. with about 8 friends and they wanted to swim. We let them. The next day (Monday) more kids came wanting to swim. We said, “no, only on the weekends”. That Friday afternoon there was about 15 kids (at different times) milling around our driveway. I told them to come back on Sunday. On Saturday we had a mission team come out to relax. At least 2 different groups of about 10 kids came asking if it was time. The next day, we had a couple come for lunch so dad could talk to them (I had told the kids 4pm—they came about 2). I had to go get my Brazilian friend and his family to help us with our “program”. When I drove out the lane about 3:30 to get him there was 20 kids/young adults waiting to come in. I picked up Carlos and his family and when we turned into the lane and they saw all the kids and their eyes got really big. We set up chairs and benches on the tennis court (ok, ok, we have a tennis court, but it is not indoors and we are using it for ministry). I prayed, then carlos shared various evangelical stories. Then we split up into 2 groups (under 12 and over 12yrs). Carlos took the older ones and Jaelah and I worked with the younger ones. After we were done I explained to the kids that since there were 25 of them we needed to take turns swimming. I must have used the wrong verbs, because they ran for the pool. It was a little crazy for about an hour. Kids jumping, etc. Janelle had made popcorn and then Carlos, Sierra and I walked some of them home to meet their parents. Almost all of them asking “when are we going to do this again?” I told them not next Sunday but maybe the next The next Sunday we got home about 3pm and there were kids up and down the lane again—also there were 4 kids swimming already. I was not happy. I drove the car into the back yard. The kids (that were swimming) took off for the jungle, but I yelled and called them back. Asked them if they wanted me to come to their house when they weren’t there. After everyone left we prayed. A few days ago was the 2nd meeting. We only had about 5 kids show up at 4pm (I think they were still scared from last Sunday). Mariah and Jaelah went and invited some more kids and we ended up with about 20. Janelle told the story of creation and the first Sin and then we split up into 3 smaller groups again. Carlos has a 23 year old daughter who has been going out into the river communities working with the dentists and evangelizing. She asked me before we started “if someone gets saved, who is going to disciple them”. Discipling is a huge thing with ProjectAmazon. I didn’t know and hadn’t thought much about it. Well she took the oldest group of about 5 kids. Janelle took the younger girls and I had the younger boys. Carlos went to help his daughter, but after a few minutes she said, “dad, I got this. Its just God, me and them”. After we got back together we talked a bit more and then had popcorn (no swimming this time). Carlos came over and said, “4 people accepted Christ in my daughter’s group. What are you going to do?”. I said, “I don’t know? Never done this before”. We walked them home again and figured out where they lived. You are supposed to follow up 24 hours and then 72 hours later. We did not. Finally today we made it back. The first 15 year old was not home so we talked to his dad until the son arrived. After his son came home, we talked with him alone for a few minutes. Carlos explained again the decision he made Sunday and then asked about coming back once a week to disciple him—to talk and learn about the things of God. Carlos asked, “do you want to do that”. He looked up and said “I want to”. His dad came over and Carlos asked him to join us. Explained that since he was a minor, it would be good for his dad and mom to understand what we were doing. He explained about our plan to meet once a week and discuss the Bible and then asked if he (the dad) would like to join. His dad replied, “Yes, I do. And my wife, my son and my daughter will be here”. Wow. We set it for Saturday at 6pm. We then visited another 15 year and his mom and family. He also agree to meet on Saturday—around 4pm. Luke and I ran into an older guy (20+) walking in the jungle one day (Rodrigo). I wanted to get to know him better (the first day I asked him if he was a believer and he said “no”. But I haven’t had a chance to talk to him much since). Carlos and I found out where he lived and talked to him tonight also and he agreed to meet on Saturday around 2pm. Asking for prayer as we start this process. Many people we talk to say this community that we live close to is not a very good one. Lots of drugs, etc so we are praying for transformed lives—for people to one day say, “Juntaí? That used to be a dangerous neighborhood, but not anymore!”.
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  6/11, 11:19pm

  Faith Steidinger

  Sorry this is a long one. Got this from my brother in Brazil tonight. I told him our group will start standing in prayer for community of Juntai. Praise the Lord. I would've posted it on the blog, but i wasn't sure how to... have a blessed few weeks.

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