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WARFARE BEFORE...
...BEFORE BREAKTHROUGH
QUICK NEWS

WARFARE BEFORE...

These past two months have been a time of excitement and of difficulties, a time of joy and a time of sadness, a time of the manifestation of the kingdom of God and of intense warfare from the hordes of hell. We're experiencing a shaking as heaven and earth clash, as God is about to bring breakthrough and the enemy is trying to keep that from happening. It's not comfortable, but it's encouraging. It's not fun, but promising.

These past few weeks we've been hit hard with sickness - I myself battled for over 2 weeks with malaria, colds/viruses, diarrhea, and Paul even longer than that with the same, as well as many of our children. It seems like we're slowly starting to come out of that.

We're also in the worst situation ever financially. So far we've spent $6,850 or 5300€ on tuition and school supplies, and we are not even done yet. We are now $7,200 or 5700€ in debt - the most ever. With only 50% of our monthly needs covered by monthly donors, the few one-time donations - that we are VERY GRATEFUL for - just could not make up for the school expenses in addition to our daily expenses. Please consider supporting us on a monthly basis, or sending us a one-time gift.

As if that wasn't enough, our 10-year-anniversary conference is two weeks away, and with that, many more big amounts of money to spend. It looks like an impossible situation. It looks like a desperate situation. It looks like a situation only God can turn around.

Again, I remind you of the article I wrote that is being published at the end of this month in Patricia King's e-magazine. Pray that it will bear fruit financially as well as in bringing people to serve in Mali.

...BEFORE BREAKTHROUGH

In just two weeks we have the joy and honor of welcoming pastors Charles Stock from Pennsylvania who was also our speaker for our 5-year anniversary, and Wesley Campbell from British Columbia, as well as Samuel & Emilie Béland, worship leaders from Quebec. The theme of our conference is "Transformed by the Fire of God", as we're believing for a breakthrough to spark the prophesied "Mali Fire Outpouring". Looking at the warfare, we're expecting God to show up big time. Please pray for us and the speakers as we prepare, and especially during the week of activities.

Thu, Nov 6 evening - prayer meeting
Fri, Nov 7 afternoon and evening - first two sessions
Sat, Nov 8 morning and afternoon
Sun, Nov 9 afternoon - big anniversary celebration broadcast live on Christian radio and recorded by TV for later broadcast
Tue, Nov 11 - meeting in the village of Dio, in the region where we once had 6 churches and now have 1

QUICK NEWS

•        Millet & Corn Field - Our millet and corn will be harvested right after our conference. We hope to have a big enough harvest so we don't have to buy any millet for a year.

•        Driver/Guard - Our grown-up kid and driver Saloum has started trade school which is a day school, so that Joseph is driving for us now until our current day guard and future driver Adama receives his driver's license. Our current night guard and future day guard Suma (21) is excited to have started school for the first time in his life, attending first grade at night school. One of the grown-up street kids filling in for Suma at night when he's at school has been doing a great job and will probably be the one to be taken in as our new night guard.

•        New Truck Needed - We just repaired one of our trucks again, one of the several times per month, while the other one has been in the shop for the past week. We desperately need a new Toyota pick-up truck like in the picture, which unfortunately costs as much as $40,000 or 30.000€.

•       Volunteers - We always need volunteers in Mali who can stay a few months or more. If you'd like to come help us, please contact me.

But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. (Mt 6:33, AMP)

Trusting HIM ,

Claudia