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May Prayer Letter - Black & White
May Prayer Letter - Black & White
May Newsletter
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Hello! So the GBUs are kind of winding down for the summer now. Most of the students have a
pretty intense period of exams in May/June, and in the run up to that they have their ‘blocus’, basically a period
of time with either less or no lessons at all, in order to revise. It’s a time that Belgian students take very seriously
and so most of the GBU groups will finish during May. Where we can, me and Lucy are trying to do more studies
to relieve the ‘responsables’ of the responsibility, and enable the groups to keep meeting for as long as possible.
ULB has been interesting lately, we’re studying John and every week seems to turn into a really deep discussion
about the sovereignty of God, and predestination vs. freewill. Whilst those discussions are hard, both
theologically and linguistically, the studies have been really encouraging, especially to see how the cross was
always in Jesus plan and how his ministry was working up to when finally “his hour had come”. One to ones in
Philippians with Agatha are also going really well and I think we’re both enjoying them and learning from them.
We’ve only had one since getting back after Easter for various reasons, but it was lovely to catch up properly and
we looked at how and why our attitude should be the same as that of Jesus Christ. She also lead her first study
at ULB in French last week, and is going to finish it next week as we didn’t get to the end due to the
aforementioned in depth discussions of the sovereignty of God!
Personally, I am just generally having a great time here now! I
feel really content and genuinely love the people around me, it’s
going to be hard to leave them! That is something to really thank
God for because at the start of the year I didn’t know as I would
ever get to a point like this! It’s just nice to be able to keep getting
to know people and spend more time with them socially before I
guess I’ll have to start packing!
I finished and submitted my second semester report for uni, it
contains the PowerPoint we used for the ‘Être Témoins’ soirée as
Place Flagey, near my house. an example of some work I’ve done, so it’s exciting to know my
tutors will be reading it and hearing the Gospel at the same time!
I’m spending quite a lot of time at the moment just looking for
summer jobs and have applied for a couple of EFL related things
both in the UK and in France, please could you pray that I would
get something sorted sooner rather than later as it would be a
weight off my mind!
Please keep praying for the opportunities to speak to Quentin and
Kathleen about Jesus before I leave, I haven’t seen them very
much since Easter.
Praise God for the soirée Focus me and Lucy ran, for his
Plans for this month: help in preparing and leading it, for those that came, and
that what was shared might be useful and lead to
3rd-8th May : friend visiting! conversions.
Weds 5th May : study at Central For students in the run up to their exams, that they might
(Colossians 1:24-2:5) still be able to find the time to come to the GBU, and that
Weds 5th May : staff meeting they might do their work for the glory of God.
Sat 8th May : a special focus to thank For me and Lucy preparing and leading studies, that we
Tim and Emily for their work here
would serve the GBUs faithfully and humbly.
over the last five years + a talk by
For David and Marianne as they continue to seek financial
Erwin Oschenmeier on whether or
aid to be able to work with the GBU next year.
not it’s normal for Christians to be
For me, Tim and Emily and their family as we have to start
ill/endure suffering. saying goodbye to people and preparing to leave.
Mon 10th May : last meeting at For the Focus on 8th May which will be discussing an issue
Woluwe that several students have issues with and will not agree
Sun 16th May : GBU Prayer Meeting with what Erwin will say.
Thurs 27th May : special staff
meeting to talk about next year with WORD OF THE MONTH
David et Marianne ‘ribblechips’ – a sort of crinkly/ridged crisp.
28th-31st : friend visiting! (Leading to much laughter & description of things as ‘ribbled’)
Thank you again for reading this and for your prayers. If you ever have any questions or want to know anything
else at all then please get in touch, all my contact info is in the head at the top of the first page. Or I sometimes
write more detailed accounts of things that happen on my blog.
Love,
Miriam xx www.ifesworld.org www.gbu.be miriam-ford.blogspot.com
“…God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in
you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)