Answers to Prayers

Good Morning,

Thank you for continuing to pray for us, it really does make a significant difference.

I'm not sure what Bible verses would support the idea, but we can actually "feel" the difference when people are praying, even when we don't know who it is, or where you are, or why you have felt led to pray for us here at Cafe Church.

SUMMER CHURCH has seen new faces every week so far, with forty people attending on July 24th. Some are here on holiday and it has been a joy to have them worshipping with us and to pray for the churches they represent from around the world. Others are new contacts with people who live here permananetly.

I am increasingly feeling that the element of Praise at Cafe Church is one of the keys for the future in Bergerac.

Christians who come to live out here, can last for a long time on their spiritual reserves of biblical teaching and their years of reading. The thing that they cannot do on their own, is to be fully released to praise God. That is because "Praise", in its fulness, is a collective activity. One lady wrote to me to say that she hadn't realised (until after attending Cafe Church) just how much she really missed the fellowship of other Christians.

When I first heard God saying that He wanted a charismatic group of Believers praising Him in Bergerac to restore the witness of the Huguenots, I also heard Him say that Pam and I were to lay the foundations, which others would build upon. I was also given a time limit. Three years for the foundation work and then it would be time to build the walls.

Well we are almost at the two and a half year mark and I have been praying very hard for the "builder" to be sent soon! God, of course, had it all in hand and I believe that He is sending Bob and Jane Pearce to help us all to move forward.

At the moment they are members of the West Wiltshire Vineyard Church but until four years ago were in Pastoral leadership at the King's Church in Bordon in Hampshire. God blessed the work there and it grew from around thirty to over one hundred in a seven year period. Much of the growth was through Alpha Courses.

They have now been over twice to visit us. Miraculously (and I mean that) their house has "suddenly" sold and they expect to be back in France in September to stay for a six month period, to see how things work out and to listen hard to the Father heart of God. Please make them a centre of your prayers so that they are protected and please encourage others amongst your christian friends to "adopt" them and pray for them as well.

Oh, you've probably guessed it it already, but Bob is, by trade, a builder!

Blessings,

Derek and Pam

Guest Speakers at Cafe Church
July 31st. Kay and Glen Doney
August 7th Derek Cook
August 14th Brian Lincoln