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Good news about the showing of English movies. Richard didn't want us doing it there at Metro, so we looked around and found a different theatre. We will be showing movies once a week (probably Friday nights) and they are only going to charge us 500 som ($12.50) a night. The Director knows that we are believers and that we have a church here, so we can share openly about Jesus. Hopefully the radio station will do dome advertising for us again since admission is free.
Today or tomorrow I'll get the last papers in for the registration. The lawyer wasn't sure about how long it will be before we get approved, but the longest would be 6 months. We were able to get all Russians except one so the process should be faster than usual. Pray for that to go through quickly. I found out that the ten people who start the church do not have to be a part of the sovet (board). Right now we just have a Director and Pastor so we can add the board later as men are raised up.
Sundays have been good. Last week there were less than usual. We are planning on going to the mountains every other Sunday right after church. People here love going and it is a good opportunity for people in the church to invite friends and family. They come to church and then go to the mountains and hand out with Christians all day. We have already heard that 5 or 6 unbelievers will be coming to church and then going with us to the mountains this Sunday.
Tuesday nights we are starting to study though Ephesians. I'm going to have Jonathan teach through one of the chapters and see how he does. He's grown a lot at the Bible College and this last semester he's had more of a desire to teach. Melanie will be starting a woman's study next week. Many of the girls are really looking forward to that. Thursday nights we (and about 4 people from church) go out on the streets to share. So far is has been pretty good and we've had some good conversations. IT will be nice when Katie gets here Sunday. Once she's here we can start doing a lot from music outreach.
Worship has been good. Melanie is doing a good job. She sings and plays with to other girls that come to the church. I have been looking into music equipment and it looks like we can get some pretty good stuff here. I found a guy that know a lot about that kind of stuff. Melanie and I are going to look at a keyboard today. Melanie has started taking voice lessons at the conservatory, so pray that some people will get saved through that!
Pray for Gyla and her daughter Diana (the ones that just gat saved about a month ago). Their family is giving them a hard time as they are taking more of a stand for Christ.
We have met with more Chinese recently. A friend of Tommy's is living with Valya now and is going to start coming to church. We are getting together with about 6 of them tomorrow night. We even heard that one of them is a Christian, so we will meet him tomorrow.
Titus is doing great. Growing every day. The Lord has blessed us with a wonderful boy! He's so easy going. We literally drag him around with us everywhere we go!
I think that is it for now. I'll try and drop a note here and there to keep you up to speed. I want you to know what is going on so that you can hit the road running when you get here!
Praying that the Lord blesses your time there in the States for people to get being the work here.
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