Cool news in our outreach

This last week while at my outreach, I finally got a chance to have a deeper conversation with one of the kids there about Christ. He was curious, but reluctant, because he believes that he has sinned to much to be saved. I would ask that you pray for him, and that he would ask more questions the next time that I see him. Pray that the Holy Spirit would continue to work in his heart to hear and understand the gospel of grace and that God would give me the right questions and words to say. Also be praying for all the other kids there. Mike (another New Triber) and I have been trying to build relationships with these kids for about 9 weeks now and they are finally opening up to us. Praise God. Same goes for Amanda's ministry with the teen pregnancy center. The girls there were very much quiet and did not want anything to do with the girls that went to help and teach them some basic skills, but now they are more interested and learning these skills and asking questions about the bible. It is so cool to God working on the hearts of these young people (well younger than us =) ). Class have been going well thus far we have now moved into the phonetics. which is teaching us to listen and write down sounds. So we have been learning all the sounds that we make in English and all the ones we do not. It has been difficult but fun. The reason for this is to better prepare us to learn languages once we get to the foreign field and to help brake down the tribal languages. Writing down the sounds phonetically allows us to be able to read and reproduce them the way we heard them. Please be praying that we would continue to be diligent students as we learn these new skills to help us once we get to the foreign field. Please also pray for the kids that we are talking to in our outreaches also that they may come to know Christ as their savior. Thank you for all your prayers

- john stro

PLEASE PRAY

This last month we only received 79 dollars for the month, due to money transfer thing i mentioned in the last post, where 800 dollars that has been given over a few months was transferred to another account and taken from ours. that hurt our budget quite a bit as you can see the amount we are working with this month. so i would ask that you all be praying that more people will join our support team so that we can reach the minimum recommended amount a month of 2500. Praise God that He has provided another person to support our ministry here and our ministry when we get over seas. Please pray that we will continue to trust God for His provision in these tough times. And that we would be good stewards of what He has already given us. We all thank you for the prayers and support that God has provided to us through all of you.

God bless you all
- your brother and sister in Christ - john and amanda