CENTRAL ASIA UPDATE
MAY 2015
HEY FRIENDS!
We have some really exciting updates from the past few weeks and some major developments coming in the near future. As always, we truly appreciate you investing time and energy following our ministry as we prepare to go overseas.
LOCAL MINISTRY UPDATE
We're super excited to share about two highlights from the past couple weeks with our local ministry. First, Kelley hosted a baby shower for a Turkish frend who lives in our apartment complex and we had between 20-30 Turkish women come to our home for the party. It was a great opportunity to develop new relationships and during the party, David was able to share the gospel in depth with her husband.
The second major highight from this month was attending a Turkish holiday celebration in the park. About 50 Turks gathered to eat a meal and celebrate National Sovereignty Day, and we were able to join them and meet a lot of new people. We're excited that God is growing our friendships within the local community, and we hope this allows for gospel conversations, language development, and culture acquisition.
LOCAL MINISTRY CONT'D
The last major highlight from this month was hosting a potluck in the park with our lifegroup. We grilled out and invited some of our Turkish friends to join us. We were grateful to have about 5-6 Turks come and be exposed to Christian community. They had a great time and there were a number of gospel conversations throughout the evening.
TRAINING
1. You might remember that we will be leading a goer lifegroup next year with our church, which will function as an intense, 9 month missions training class. We've now had our informational and personal meetings and will soon finalize the members for the following year and couldn't be more excited about this opportunity.
2. We have officially started the process of applying to our sending agency, East West Ministries. Our hope now is that we can begin building our ministry team full time THIS JUNE!
3. Lastly, we finish our Perspectives training this week and have been really thankful for that opportunity to learn and grow.
PERSONAL
May is going to be a big month for us in the Laws house. We start back up with wedding photography, David will finish teaching english at Brazos Christian School, and we are preparing to build our ministry team! Baby Kennedy is now smiling like crazy and getting bigger each day!
PRAYER POINTS
2. That God would use our local ministry, our life group, and our church to equip us for our ministry overseas.
3. That God would grow Kennedy to know Him and love Him from an early age.
4. That God would provide us with wisdom to discern His will.
5. That God would encourage and strengthen our friends and future teammates currently serving overseas.
6. That God would begin to bring together a people to join our ministry support team.
A few months ago we were praying that God would do big things through us in our move to these apartments. It is SO encouraging to see His faithfulness to answer that prayer through these relationships. Praise be to Him!