Ministry back in France!
24h Prayer & Worship
Recently at our campus, we had a 24 hour worship and prayer time for the nations. For this event we invited local artists and churches to come alongside us to partner and activate their faith by engaging with God’s heart for the nations. Every two hours we prayed strategically for a different nation regarding its current events, hardships, and nearness/ability to the Gospel. We know God was and is moving through our prayers to see an impact in these nations for his kingdom. It started off praying for North Korea, that this nation would become more open so that missionaries could go in. Throughout the 24 hours we prayed for North Korea, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, El Salvador, Haiti, Sudan, Ethiopia, Venezuela, Colombia, Russia, Ukraine, and Yemen. Megan and I were part of many sessions, even in the middle of the night at 4am, covering security, sound, lighting, prayer, and engaging the locals that would joining us.
Check out our instagram for a post we made about the 24 hour prayer burn 🔥 @Jacobandmeg - https://www.instagram.com/share/BAKmRjQeMp
Leading the campus in everyday things
I have been covering campus by leading the operation circle for a while now. This responsibility has grown as the campus founding leaders have stepped back into more visionary roles, and out of the day to day. This means that all of the day to day operations of our campus are covered by me and my co-leader. This is empowering us to learn & grow as leaders that multiply the values of the kingdom of God through our work in serving the ministry of the larger missions community.
What Megan is up to
Local Connect Community Ministry
As shared in our last newsletter, Megan has shifted to helping with the operations circle. Her six years in missions at YWAM Paris has helped bring strength and wisdom to covering the daily operational things of the campus. We are both stepping into helping run the local ministry of English classes and Bible studies that our local evangelism ministry is inviting people to. Our roles in covering the local connect community ministry are still being sorted out but we are excited to keep serving and developing growth for our local ministry. Megan thrives in relational ministry and is able to share and witness to people in this way.
Impact cities - City Circuits
Our missions Impact cities
At our missionary campus we have been refining and getting specific on our vision around transforming cities. God has given us more understanding where and how He is leading us to make a difference in cities. With this, we are excited to announce City Circuits where we go to impact major cities. Moving forward our campus will send out student missions outreach teams and our staff to these cities: Paris (France), Dublin (Ireland), Tirana (Albania), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Tblisi (Georgia), Bucharest (Romania), Rome (Italy), Valletta (Malta), Casablanca (Morocco), and a major city in Japan. God has been speaking and narrowing our vision in what nations we go to so that we can be more efficient, strategic, and productive in our ministry. This will allow us to build strong relationships with contacts and continue to follow up on opportunities in these locations to have a greater impact.
Outreach teams have returned
We just had outreach teams come back from 3 months of ministry in Egypt, Cyprus, and Central Asia. Overall they saw
Our campus slogan!
⁃ People prayed for: 661
⁃ People heard the Gospel: 429
⁃ Testimonies shared: 127
⁃ Salvations: 27
⁃ Healings: 16
⁃ Hours of Bible for nation: 52
⁃ Hours of Prayer for the nation: 20
⁃ Hours of teaching: 80
God really moved through these students and full-time missionaries and we are so excited for them to finish up their missions training school. We pray that we will see many of them go into being full-time missionaries or that they would enter the work field or university with a new equiping and heart of making Jesus known.
Sharing with current missions school
I had the opportunity to share with the current missions school that is about to go on a 3 month outreach to share the love of Jesus. I shared my testimony of how God changed my life from feeling completely lost and desperate to being confident in the Lord with Joy that will never leave. I encouraged them to surrender to God in areas that seem the most difficult because they can lead to the most rewarding transformation in their lives. This transformation will be so impactful for them but also for all the ministry they will do over the next 3 months. These missions students are apart of a themed backpack Europe missions school so they will be going to impact the cities of Barcelona, Rome, Thessaloniki, Madrid, Tirana, and a few more cities.
Prayer Requests
Megan and I have been on and off sick ever since we returned to France on Jan 31st. Megan is recovering from a fever and body ache sickness that she is mostly over now.
Please pray for us that we will get fully healthy again and build up a strong defense against the sickness around us..
Please also pray for our peace and strength in our call with God here. It has been challenging since being back and we want to have a confidence in God for our ministry here.
Please pray for our legal and government situation here. My Visa is in favorable condition but I still have not received the physical renewed visa residence card. Also we will be continuing to try to get the French health insurance which we have applied for many times and seen little to no response back. Pray that we receive quick and favorable approval as we do the application again.