Christmas Break: New Disciple

Picture:
Xavier, team
Lah Kpro, center
Pa Yo, blue
Na Spe, orange

Background:

Update from Xavier, team member working full time as a teacher at Keystone Academy. Xavier is discipling Lah Kpro, one of the Karen boys in the Academy who is a leader among his peers. Lah has been discipling Pa Yo, another Karen teen, who has shown some unfaithfulnes recently. Today Xavier and Lah went to confront Pa Yo and God did some pretty awesome things!

Xavier's testimony:

Hey team,
God has been gracious and faithful to me in great ways. Today he has blessed me with a disciple. His name is Naw Spe, he is a Karen kid about 14 years old. He told me and Lah that he wanted to follow Jesus and be a disciple. He was at Pa Yo's home when Lah and I talked to Pa Yo about his unfaithfulness. Pa Yo decided that he still wants to be discipled. Then Naw Spe said he wants to as well and so Lah explained to him what it means to be a disciple. Now Lah is discipling Pa Yo and Pa Yo will disciple Naw Spe.

Prayer Points:

Pray for faithfulness from Pa Yo and Naw Spe.

Pray that the Holy Spirit will help these boys to experience God personally and grow in the same joy that is evident in Lah Kpro's face.

Pray for the beginning of a firm foundation in this last week before school starts up again.

Re: Mailing Address

Hi Katie! Thanks for your email!. It's great to hear that God is working so wondrously in Houston!!

Bob and I are living in Paraguay. I can give you our address but the mail is not good. If you can scan and email what you were mailing, it would get to us a lot sooner than the slow mail system here. That's our suggestion! 

If you still want to send it via regular airmail, our address is:

C.C.13173, Shopping del Sol

Asuncion, Paraguay, South America

Have a blessed Jesus filled Christmas, to the whole team in Houston!!

Bob and Joy Brougher

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Katie Riley <katiekeystone@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Prayer Team,

Please forgive the lack of communication over the last few months.  Honestly, I've been so busy trying to keep up with what God has been doing through my disciples that I have found it difficult to manage other responsibilities.  As a result, a few of you have not been receiving reminders and the blog is lacking the many many stories of God's consistently awesome work in Houston over the last few months. 

Please know that we as a team are incredibly grateful for your prayers and have seen tremendous fruit this year in large part due to your support with us in this fight.  Thank you for your faithfulness!

We would like to send you a simple note of thanks and Christmas greeting from the team.

Please send me your mailing address at your earliest convenience.

Blessings!

Katie Riley

Spas: Good News and New Requests

**Good News

The landowner changed a few months back and we found out that they are not renewing the lease for any of the questionable establishments in the complex, including our two spas, some gambling game rooms, and a bar.

This is an answered prayer, that God would either allow us to go in and bring the women out into freedom in Christ or that he would remove them from our area to bring deeper spiritual freedom to the families we disciple.
Seems like God choose option B.

One of the spas has already vacated their suite. The other is still running, but if our sources are right, they only have till the end of this month to find a new location.

**New Requests

We are in the process of communicating with the landowner to ask his permission to go in after they have moved out and volunteer to clean physically while also praying to finish the job spiritually.

Our first attempt with the agent managing the property was quickly and firmly denied. Today we left a message for the head of the company, the actual landowner. The woman receiving the message seemed much more open to the idea.

Please pray for favor with the landowner so that we may go in and finish the job.

Also, pray for the woman we got to speak with and pray for briefly last week in the spa that is still running. We gave her some fruit and a bible in her language. Pray that God's word will do what he sent it for.

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"Every prayer a powerful weapon, strongholds come tumbling down and down and down and down!"

Mailing Address

Dear Prayer Team,

Please forgive the lack of communication over the last few months.  Honestly, I've been so busy trying to keep up with what God has been doing through my disciples that I have found it difficult to manage other responsibilities.  As a result, a few of you have not been receiving reminders and the blog is lacking the many many stories of God's consistently awesome work in Houston over the last few months. 

Please know that we as a team are incredibly grateful for your prayers and have seen tremendous fruit this year in large part due to your support with us in this fight.  Thank you for your faithfulness!

We would like to send you a simple note of thanks and Christmas greeting from the team.

Please send me your mailing address at your earliest convenience.

Blessings!

Katie Riley