Thursday October 7, 2004
Greetings Friends!
A lot has happened since our last letter. God has continued to teach, use, guide, and provide for us. He is such a good God.
I’ve been kept quite busy lately working on various web and graphic design projects, along with work for Welcome Home, the new refugee ministry International Teams recently started in Kitchener. I’ve found it exciting to be actively involved in a number of different things that will have real kingdom impact.
Welcome Home is holding an open house on Sunday October 24, 2004. It would be a great opportunity to see more of this ministry first hand. You are all welcome to come! I’ve attached an invitation to the event.
We also have a cycling event coming soon to raise money for International Teams (IT) ministries to refugees here in Canada. Neil Ostrander, the president of IT Canada will be cycling 100K on October 30, along with other interested cycling enthusiasts. If you’d like more info on this event, check out http://www.iteams.ca , or talk to me.
Grace has been keeping herself busy being a parent and taking care of another young boy. She’s also begun helping out with the junior youth group at Lincoln Road Chapel. Recently, she’s been struggling with some challenging health issues. Please be praying that the doctors would be able to diagnose and find ways to deal with this soon.
Grace and I have been growing lots in our relationship with each other. It’s been exciting to get to know her better. And while it continues to be a huge adjustment, it’s been a good one. In our last letter, I mentioned that adjusting to lack of sleep with Aris being up at all hours was quite a challenge for me. Well, praise God, she’s sleeping through more often now, and I’m also learning to deal with less sleep, so while it’s still a challenge, I am managing much better than I was.
It has been exciting to see how God has been supplying our needs. We’ve recently had a new financial supporter come on, and most supporters are continuing to support us in our ministry. Praise God! Thanks so much to those of you who are faithfully giving to us in our ministry. For those interested, we’re currently sitting around 65% of our short-term budget (where we should be by April).
Thanks to all of you who have been faithfully praying for us as well. It has been such an encouragement to know that people are standing in the gap. Please continue to pray:
- That we would have wisdom in how best to serve the refugees we’re working with, and that God would be at work in their lives
- Praise God for His provision. Pray that He would richly bless those who are a part of this, and that others who are called would respond
- Pray that I would be able to make effective use of my time in developing resources for IT, and that what goes out would have real kingdom impact.
We have a new prayer card and brochure describing our ministry. If you haven’t received either of them, let us know and we’d love to send them to you.
For His Glory,
Steve Van Bruwaene
