The Lord of the Harvest

We can't thank you enough for not only following this blog, but especially for praying for the needs you read about here. We believe that prayer can do anything God can do! This week we ask that you join us in praying for one of the biggest needs on our hearts, that God would add believers to our church planting team. Many of you are familiar with the story in the New Testament when Jesus responds to the crowds of people who were “harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd” with compassion, commanding his disciples to “ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field.” (Matthew 9:36-38) The harvest is certainly ripe here in our community, and we need help!

We're praising God that Karis' school teacher, the woman I wrote about in the last post, along with her husband and daughter, joined us for worship Sunday morning! They are precious people who love the Lord. Please pray that they make a commitment to help us start this new church! Also, there is a couple from our church back home who will be here visiting us this weekend. They are currently praying about whether or not they will move here and be part of the church plant later this year. Please pray that God makes it clear to them that they are, in fact, supposed to be here with us. ;)

We are all meeting so many people at work and in our neighborhoods. Many here are “churched”, but there is also a huge number of them who don't belong to any church at all. The reality is that they all need Jesus. Because we are all from Texas, we are so accustomed to assuming until told otherwise that most people we meet have at least heard the true gospel. But not here. There are SO many who are lost, “sheep without a shepherd”. Please answer Jesus' call to pray for laborers. There is much to be done here.

The team worshipping together in Ben's home-Please
be praying for the opportunity for us to begin meeting
in a public place! More on that soon! :)