Weekly Prayer Requests

Here are our prayer requests and praises for this week:


Dear family and friends,
We pray that you are all well and joyful in the Lord this week.

We write with several specific requests and praises for this week.

First, please join us in praising the Lord with us for donations we received last summer to purchase uniforms and school supplies from Hickory grove Church! We were able to provide uniforms for many children from both Calvary Chapel and First Baptist as well as school supplies for all the school age children from both churches! God is so good and we rejoice for special offerings like this that are such tangible meaningful blessings to the brothers and sisters in Christ here in Costa Rica. THANK YOU Hickory Grove!!!!

Praise God for a wonderful, refreshing time in Nicaragua. Thank you for praying!

We ask that you pray specifically this week for an English class we are starting with our landlord and his entire family. Tuesday afternoon, our landlord, Alvaro, his wife Elvita and their children, Ernesto (Marcos), Ana, and Ronny and his wife Dinora will begin bout 10-12 weeks of basic English classes with us. Brooke is currently discipling Dinora, Elvita and Ana. Although each of them has said that they have accepted Christ, some inconsistencies still exist and we ask that you pray that God's Word speaks truth into their hearts and they come to know Him as their personal Savior. We ask that you pray this same Truth be true in the lives of these three men as well. None of them know Jesus and it is our goal to offer this class to them not only as a way to teach them English, but also as a way to teach them the Truth of God's Word. Brooke discussed what a class would look like and that they would have homework and it would be from the Bible. Also, we feel God has opened this door as a way for Matt to minister to these men. Please pray for God to bless this time we have with this whole family and that He would be honored, glorified and His Kingdom furthered. Pray that ultimately our time with them would be less and less about English and more and more about our Savior! Pray for the salvation of the entire family.

Please also pray this week for a young girl named Lindsey who Brooke has been spending time with. There is much going on in the life of this young lady and we ask that you ask God to continue allowing Brooke to minister to her. Pray that she would come to know Jesus as her personal Savior.

Pray also for the many needs of the people here. The economic situations here are so diverse, but overall the situations of many in the churches are very hard. Praise God for many who have work. Pray for those who do not. Pray for their basic needs to be met. Pray for their faith to be strengthened even in times of great need.

Serving Christ 'til He comes back,
Matt and Brooke :)

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THank you for standing in the gap for our family.