Gateway Prayer Update
August 16, 2009
Peace be with you all and may the Lord continue to direct your prayers by His Spirit for the ministry in Turkey. We have many urgent needs during this time and would appreciate your focused prayers.
1. Zacchaeus Projects (Two trips to the East the end of August): Then end of this month Dr. Mujdeci, E., K., R., and others are planning two trips to several provinces. There have been some spiritual attacks on these for the purpose of trying to discourage these trips. Pray specifically for their protection, unity and that they would be led by the Holy Spirit in all. The evil one hates this work as we are breaking into this unreached territory and we are in fierce battles daily because of this.
2. NUT School: “E.” has trained 2 future workers among Muslims this summer in our program and we have one more student coming this fall. Pray for this new coming student we will call Zurafa from Rochester, NY. Zurafa is 20 years old and has felt called to Turkey by our King for quite some time. He is wishing to stay in Turkey for 6 months but needs to raise funds for his plane ticket, food and lodging and language school. Pray that hearts will be moved to support and pray for him. His estimated time of arrival in Turkey is in September.
3. Beytel West is being evicted: Since 2006 we have been meeting secretly at Beytel West. J. and E. of G.E.S. have been summoned to court regarding Beytel West; this date is set for November. The owner wants us to throw us out because she found out about the Christian activities that have been going on there; she hired a lawyer. Praise the King for a lawyer that worships at and was recently baptized at Beytel West. He will be meeting with her lawyer this Tuesday regarding this. It looks like we will be forced to move. We have been kicked out of 3 places at Beytel East and have had much trouble with the secret police at Beytel West. Our need is to purchase a place that we cannot be thrown out of but we lack the funds to do so. We have been praying for a place to purchase at both Beytel East and West and looking for someone to make this Kingdom investment. Pray that we can find a new place to store Zacchaeus projects goods, to worship, have an office/training center for NUT school, along with being a safe house for Christians to meet and stay when forced out of their homes when persecuted (as this is what we use Beytel East and West for).
4. E.’s prayer requests: E. has been accepted into the International Relations program in a university and begins his studies this September. Pray that he will have a big impact as an Ambassador for the King at the university among both teachers and students. Pray also that he will be very successful in his classes and that all he learns will be used for the Kingdom. E. also asked for a personal prayer for patience and that you all would pray for his father who is a diabetic and having eye surgery to prevent blindness.
5. Prayer Request for L.: L. finished her first year of her doctoral program and begins a new year of teaching at a new school. Pray that she will shine as a light in the darkness at this new school to all the teachers, students and parents of the students. Pray also that the Lord will open many opportunities to be an advocate for the children with special educational needs in Turkey as she is doing her Doctorate in Special Education. She is going to try to organize speakers from the States on these subjects. Pray for her endurance as she is teaching full-time and doing her doctoral work full-time. Also pray for her protection in the city as she travels and that she will be encouraged and continue to have a bold faith for the King.
6. Immediate need: J. returns to Turkey in two weeks and has a need for 4 laptop computers. To communicate with Bible Correspondence Course writers and to be able to have our online worship services for secret believers in the country we need these. These computers need to have a camera and wireless internet capability along with running Microsoft Word and Power point programs. If anyone can help with the donation or purchase of these or even just one of them please contact J. (570-604-6462) or donate the money to the below account.
Thank you and may the Holy Spirit guide you in all you do,
J. of G.E.S.
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