PBC Global Outreach

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Thank you for your prayers

Thank you to all who prayed for our Kosovo team. We are thankful for each prayer.
Please continue to pray as the team processes all that they experienced and that the trip would make a lasting impression. Please also pray for those we ministered to, that God would reaveal to them their need for a Savior.
Soon our adults will travel to East Asia. We ask that you once again come along with us in prayer!

Clarification on July 6th Post

Just wanted to make a clarification to Jeff's July 6th post. Jeff wrote that the team "picked Jennifer up" but he never mentioned where I was. While the team was at the apartment complex doing a Kid's Club, I was able to visit a weekly Women's Meeting. Each week women, mostly unbelievers, meet for a Study, to make a craft together, and to sell crafts/jewelry that they have made. The week I attended there were about 20 women present. I was privilideged to be invited to share my testimony with them.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

They're Off!

The team departed Kosova this afternoon at 2:20pm for Vienna. Things seemed to go smoothly with checking in and baggage stuff. Haven't heard anything from them yet, but I trust that all is going well. They were all a bit worn down from the week, but excited to head to Austria. Continue to keep their travels in your prayers. We had a wonderful time here together, and I so wish I could keep each one of the here with me! But am so excited to hear what the Lord is going to do in and through them this next year.

Blessings and love from across the ocean,
Christina

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Tuesday, July 6

You, O God, are great and greatly to be praised!

Today we wrapped up our last day of ministry here in Kosovo. It has been such a blessing for me to watch these teens serve our great God. I am so proud of each and every one of them. After breakfast we had our usual personal quite times. We followed up quiet times with some preparations for two kids clubs that we would be doing later today. Our host then took the team to a local restaurant for some more traditional foods. Following lunch most of the team headed off to an abandoned building that several people are living in where we played basketball, performed our Zacchaeus skit, and made some crafts with the children.

After this, the group picked up Jennifer and headed out to a village to do our last kid's club. The club went great. We had about 20 kids and were able to go through our normal routine of Zacchaeus skit, group explanation of wordless book, Zacchaeus book craft, handing out of wordless books along with another explanation in smaller groups, and finishing it all off with fun games in a nearby field.

Tonight we had our final traditional meal for supper followed by a time a studying God's word. Another local worker, came by to lead us through a study of Psalm 73 and share a few stories of from his years of service.

It was a long day but the teens did a fantastic job. Although Erin Thomas was not feeling too well in the morning she managed to make it through the day and did her usual amazing job of showing God's love to the kids. She is doing much better this evening, but please pray that she is back at 100% tomorrow.

It has been such a privilege for me to lead this team. I have been so proud of their hard work and willingness to serve. Thank you all for praying for us and sending us out to share God's love and message of grace to a people in need.
Grace and Peace,
Jeff Edmunds

Prayer Requests:
-That the team will be able to process all God has taught us on this trip.
-God will use the experiences on this trip to draw us into deeper dependence on Him.
-That the team will have a good time of debrief in Vienna.
-That God will continue to work in the hearts and lives of the people here in Kosovo through his servants here.