Happy New Year to all and especially Gideons and Friends reading this prayer request from Chris & Angela Axelby of Doncaster GideonsUK.

Thank you for partnering with us in prayer on this first trip from GideonsUK working with ShareWordGlobal of Canada.

All our plans are completely reliant on God ( for background please see our first posting re this trip including the miracle of flights provision in an earlier Prayer Request)

We will travel to London tomorrow (Wednesday 2/1/19) and fly from Heathrow at 06:00 on Thursday D.V.

Below you will find a brief itinerary provided by our hosts in Moldova:

Jan, 3 - Team arrival in Chisnau, Moldova.

Jan, 4 - Packing with the local team 1800 childrens gift boxes and evening program in the village near the Chisinau city (city where you stay).

Jan, 5 - Visit 2 villages - Transnistria region (morning) and North of Moldova. We don’t come back to the hotel but sleep in another hotel or someones house.

Jan 6 - (Orthodox Church Christmas)  Visit two villages or citifies in the North of Moldova - Briceni and Ocnita cities (in Ocnita we opened kids playground in summer time). Returning back to the hotel in Chisinau, Bible League.

Jan, 7 - Program in the Church without Walls? and shopping day (a little bit rest)

Jan 8 and 9 - Visiting villages in the South of Moldova, Gagauzia region - 4 or 5 villages. We sleep there in the youth center, where is the School without Walls branch. We will make program for the kids in the churches or village clubs, or will go from house to house giving the gifts. Returning back to the hotel in Chisinau, Bible League.

Jan, 10 - Team departure.

In each village will be from 100 to 250 kids.

Angela, the team and I really appreciate any prayers that you can send up for this outreach. We are now only 7-8 people. Chris & Angela are the oldest participants and only Brits.

Chris & Angela Axelby

[GideonsUK Chairman Doncaster branch & Region 3 Director] 

CYNTHIA ELLIS   (Vale of Glamorgan)

The many thoughts, messages and much prayer, is appreciated as Cynthia begins a Clinical Trial of Chemotherapy for her Leukaemia on Monday December 10th

Please pray for a complete recovery and the witness of Graham and Cynthia during their regular visits to hospital.

       Do not be afraid ... for the battle is not yours, but God’s.  2 Chron 20 v 15

16th Feb 2019  - Please continue to lift our dear bother David before the Lord. He is now home but very poorly indeed. 

Dec 2018 - David and Brenda thank you for your prayers.  Although the tumours have not spread from the liver, the course of chemotherapy has not worked; David has declined the offer of a much harsher course of treatment which has more serious side effects, his aim being to recover from the side effects arisen over the last six months and to regain strength, wellbeing and a better quality of life. Your continued prayers will be very much appreciated.

We are now getting nearer our departure on Thursday 3 June 06:00 from Heathrow.

Please pray for Barry our trip leader. Barry has been ill since returning from his last mission to Kenya on December 3rd. We had opportunity to pray with him via Skype this evening.

Please pray for Chris & Angela Axelby of Doncaster branch. Chris & Angela have been invited as a couple to take part in a ShareWordGlobal [SWG] Mission trip to Moldova 3-10th January 2019. Chris & Angela are in contact with Barry Chalifoux(24) who is SWG's Global Development Manager. Our flights were provided and booked in a miraculous way by our Father. We will post more details as we learn them from Barry, but please do pray for the distributions of God's word that will take place at the Orthodox Church's Christmas date that week and the distribution of Gift shoe boxes to children in Europe's poorest country. Chris & Angela

Michael has been waiting many years for a kidney transplant, and last week was found a successful match and underwent surgery at Sheffield Northern General Hospital. Michael is doing well and says he feels reborn.

Please pray for Michaels continued recovery into full health and the reinvigoration to continue his fervent work for the Lord

Lawrence McLellan passed into the Master’s presence at 2pm on Wednesday 14 November.

The funeral arrangements are: Friday 23 November at midday at Woodpark Evangelical Church, Belmont, Ayr then 1pm at Ayr Cemetry then 1.30pm at Brig O Doon Hotel.

Please pray for his children, James and Elizabeth.

We need new blood!  And we have two assignments imminently.   Corfe Castle Congregational on Sun 28 Oct and Wimborne Baptist on 11 Nov.   Please pray the Lord's immediate blessing. It would be great to get interest on the day!

Many of you have been faithfully praying for our learning disabilities daughter Sarah over the last 6 months, for which we thank you so much.  Sarah has now finished her 6 sessions of gruelling chemotherapy - each session was 5 days long!  She had a PET scan last Tuesday and we have now been given the results.  As most of you know she only had one working lung during the treatment, as her lymphoma had crushed the other, had crept up into her neck and round her windpipe.  In her own words' I have two lungs now, God has totally healed me, I am clear of cancer, thank you for praying for me'.  The next 6 months will be used in trying to get her strength back, get her walking again and climbing stairs, and eventually back to her voluntary work and her own home.  

Geoff and  I thank you so much for praying, we really valued your prayers, and the Lord has answered them in a wonderfully positive way.

God Bless

Jane Mann, Region 5, Cambridge Branch

The Inverclyde branch are concerned about the wefare of two of our oldest members, Bill and Marion Ritchie. Both have suffered quite debilitating illnesses over the past few years, resulting on occasions hospitalisation. Some time since either of them managed to attend a branch meeting. Would you join with the Inverclyde branch in prayer for them.

Our Chairman, Don Kerr, is quite ill at present with several health issues. He and his wife Pat would value prayer for his recovery to health and strength.