House church

We just enjoyed a great time of worship at home! One Sunday a month we have family worship. The other 3 weeks we attend an African church, but currently can't understand much of the sermon. This morning we listened to a sermon online from Adrian Rodgers and was greatly encouraged by his words. He spoke about being real toward God and others. God knows our hearts and we need not to act like something that we are not. God blessed us with his presence and a wonderful time of praise and worship!

Everything is going well in Abidjan. We have got ourselves on a schedule and are beginning to make some relationships. Please pray for my friend that I go sit and practice my french with 4 days a week. She is muslim. She loves for me to come and talk "small talk" with her but I don't know yet how open she is with me sharing Christ with her. Pray for me as I am trying to learn Creation to Christ in French so that I may be able to share with her soon. Jon is making some contacts in the area that we think God is leading us to labor first. Pray that God will show us that person of peace that will open his/her house for a Bible study, etc.

Our homesickness is getting better, but we still would love to come and visit you! This has made us even more eager to learn french because we can not leave our region until we have reached our level in the language. We pray that we will be able to visit you about this time next year. I know, that is a looooooong time; but, you can come and visit us at ANY time, we don't have to be fluent in language for you to visit! ;-) Seriously, if any of your churches would like to come for a mission trip to Abidjan, let us know. We would love to have you!!!

I hear that most of you got some snow yesterday.....boy, am I jealous! I wish you could just send a little of that cooler weather this way! The hottest time of the year is here, but the rainy season will be here in a couple of months. Hopefully, the rain will cool us down a little!

You can pray for us tomorrow as we met with the West Africa homeschool consultant. Autumn will be in 9th grade this upcoming school year (wow, I will have a high schooler!), so we need to look at what we need to do to be sure her schooling is done through an accreditated program. Our other option currently is the missions school in Senegal, and none of us is ready for that just yet! It looks like a great school, but we are still adjusting to being in Africa and aren't ready to be separated. Continue to pray that God will send Autumn a friend. We went to the American Embassey (very impressive) this past Wednesday to get our Ivorian drivers license and found out that there are several americans in the city. They gave me an email address to contact concerning things for teenagers. Pray that this contact will lead us to a friend for Autumn. She is very content right now, but we all know how important it is to have a friend your own age. God has blessed her with other younger MK's that she can get out and play basketball or a board game with. We are also very thankful for the internet. Autumn talks to her friends daily on Facebook and they stay up late every Friday night to talk over skype. All these little things have been a great blessing!

I want to leave you today with a song that we sang this morning:

Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary
Pure and holy, tried and true
with thanksgiving, I'll be a living
sanctuary for you

To the nations, we follow you Lord
be exalted, be adored
Come Lord Jesus and lead your people
to the nations, to all lands.

I pray as you go to church this morning that you will open your heart to the word the Lord may have for you.

Blessings,
Teresa