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April Prayer Letter (Colour)
April Prayer Letter (Colour)
April Newsletter
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Hello! Sorry for the lateness of this month’s letter, I’m actually writing from the UK and have spent a
lovely few days so far catching up with friends and family. I am really starting to feel at home in Brussels
now, so it’s a shame I only have two and a half months left now! Where has the time gone?!
The Central group took the opportunity of Easter to put on another evangelistic “soirée”. It was SO
encouraging. The group has grown loads recently and there are now regularly between 10-12 students each
week, a few of whom may not be Christians. At the Easter event there were 17 or 18 of us present, everyone
brought a different part of the meal, and Mickäel (centre, right) and Alex (one of the group leaders), gave a
summary of everything we’ve seen so far in our studies in Mark, and a short Gospel presentation from Mark
15. There were several non-Christian friends who came along, heard the Gospel, and had questions to ask
afterwards. Please pray especially for Barbara; a friend of the other group leader Hannah, we stood talking
about things for a long time at the metro at the end of the evening. Please pray for Hannah too, it was truly
amazing to hear her explaining the Gospel so clearly to her friend, and I was really humbled by the experience
and recognised again what a privilege it is to be there.
At ULB we are continuing to study John. The Canadian At Woluwe I had the opportunity to lead
girl I am doing one to ones with: Agatha, is hopefully going the study in John 4:43-54 earlier on in March.
to be leading a study for the whole group sometime after Thank God for the fact that we now have a
Easter so it would be good to pray for her, her first new room to meet in, which we have a
language is English too. One to ones have been going well, permanent key for, which means (hopefully)
we did an overview of the book in our first meeting, and no more room problems! Ever! There are
have since almost got to the end of the first chapter, they plans to maybe have some sort of evangelistic
have been really encouraging times spent together and we event during April, talking about the cross,
are getting to know each other better all the time. Please but the exact title and style of meeting is
pray for the ULB group as a whole, to be united, especially uncertain at the moment.
with regards to how to go on with cold contact evangelism
on campus.
-I’m back in the UK at the moment and having a really nice
Me and my school friend Katie at Labrador time catching up with friends, relatives and church families.
bay in Devon I’m especially thankful for opportunities to meet up with
some of my old friends from school in Devon and the few
chances we’ve had to talk about Jesus. Please pray that
something said would touch their hearts.
-Church is going well and it’s been really nice to be able to
spend more time socially with friends from the youth group
and feel more at home there.
-I’ve also seen my flatmates (Kathleen and Quentin) a bit
more this past month, please pray that before I leave I would
have opportunities to share the Gospel with them. They
know that I’m a Christian and what I’m doing in Brussels, but
I’ve never had the chance to really talk to them about Jesus.
Thank you! It’s been so lovely catching up with some of you over the past week or so, and I hope to see those of
you I didn’t this time, sometime in the near future! Thank you so so much for praying for me and for the students
in Belgium.
Love
Miriam xx www.ifesworld.org www.gbu.be http://miriam-ford.blogspot.com
"Lord, there is no one else that we can go to! Your words give eternal life. We have faith in you, and we are sure
that you are God's Holy One." - John 6:68-69 (CEV)