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6TH CHURCH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND

On November 28th, 2004, Centre Apostolique Malien was launched celebrating its first church service. Six years later to the day we celebrated our anniversary with guest speaker Cliff Pash.

Because of our currently dire financial situation, the celebration and conference had to be low key this year, and the contrast to our big 5th anniversary celebration last year was stark. We did 6 meetings over the course of 4 days, and the final one was our anniversary celebration. Cliff preached an important message that hopefully was heard and made a difference.

On Sunday we had the joy of baptizing six young men. Three of them were children that live with us, and the other three boys still live on the street. However, we have seen their lives changed, and they had a great testimony to share with the people that were present. After they had changed into dry clothes, we prayed and prophesied over each boy. God has such a great future for them!

After Cliff's message, he prayed for people, and then we served a simple meal to all our visitors. It had been a small but good celebration.

On Monday and Wednesday the team went to our two village churches in Dara and Goro. Again, a powerful message was preached, and the team prayed for the sick and those in bondage, seeing God's kingdom come.

I have uploaded some videos to YOUTUBE that you can watch there or by following these links. Unfortunately none of my video software works currently, which keeps me from uploading more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUWVWyrOrBA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykKM2t4Mr_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqoqQKLGqlg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us1y0s8lZ2I

If you would like to read more details and see more pictures of our meetings with Cliff, please go to my blog.

FAMILY CHANGES

We finally fired our driver after another incident, and employed our 20-year-old returned ex-kid Saloum as a driver. I sent Saloum to driving school two years ago when he turned 18, but then he was gone for a year and a half. He returned this summer as our day guard. He is doing a good job as a driver so far.

We took in Adama (18) to become our new day guard. Adama has been coming to our place for three years, and spent most nights on our base these past two years. We've seen his life change, and just baptized him last week. Adama is a quiet young man with a sweet spirit who loves Jesus. He is the 14th "child" to live with us.

Last time I mentioned Jérémie (13) who had run away. After quite an incident with Paul, there was clarification, forgiveness and restoration.

Abdias (17) decided to go into rebellion, shocking us with his behavior, and had to leave the house and sleep with the street children. We are transferring him from day to evening school which will work better for him at his age (he's in 6th grade). We're still hoping he'll repent and return to our family.

Now our well-behaved sweet kid Florentin (15) has decided to become rebellious also and skipped school today. We're still waiting to see whether he returns home tonight.

QUICK NEWS

•        My Book - I'm working on going through the editor's changes right now. They changed the title back to the one I had - YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD If everything works out, it will be released in March. A few book reviews can already be read here. More info as the date approaches.

•        Construction Team Needed - We are looking for a church that would send us a construction team including an electrician and a plumber to put in the wiring and plumbing in our current building under construction. It would have to be within the next few months. Please contact me.

•        School Expenses - We're still in need of help to pay for our kids' school expenses; the next installment of tuition is already coming up in January.

•        Christmas - We're still praying for donations to make Christmas special again. We need $150 to be able to go swimming, $200 to buy shoes for the street children, $400 for a Christmas meal for our street children and resident children, and money to buy much-needed clothes for our children.

•        Next Trip - I'm going to be in the US for one month in the beginning of next year. I actually start in Vienna to see my newborn second nephew, then go on to Shippensburg, Harrisburg, New York City, Pasadena and Colorado Springs. I'm still looking for someone who would explore with me or show me New York City Jan 17-18. More details on my CALENDAR page.

•        Dawn's Recovery - We made a commitment to provide the only possible help for my friend Dawn so she could recover her health and live again. We're so very excited at the dramatic improvement she has found, and praise the Lord for that. Please consider helping us financially with her expenses, as we have helped her.

•        Supporters - We continue being in need of not only financial supporters but people who support us in prayer. I had nearly no response to my last email newsletter, and the attacks have continued in the same intensity and left us all drained. I will never forget hearing Peter Wagner say that he never has any warfare at all because he has intercessors who take it all on them. We need committed intercessors who are willing to take just SOME of the warfare off of us.

•        Europe Trip - Europe will be the first place where I go with my newly released book. I need to start planning my time in Austria, France, Switzerland, and wherever else God opens up doors in March and April. If you would like me to come share, preach or present the book, please contact me. So far the book is only coming out in English.

Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil for you are with me. (Ps 23:4)

Hanging on to HIM,

Claudia