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BLF Prayer & Praise - November 30^th, 2011

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From BLF Europe ...
Most of the BLF Europe staff traveled to Paris area (Lognes) for our annual Evangelical multi-ministry convention. Three days this past week, during which we meet with some of our authors, bookstores, distributors and other publishing ministries in France, Belgium and Switzerland.

Many people were excited to discover some of BLF's new titles and hear about some of our projects for the months to come.

This annual convention is an excellent opportunity to place God's Word and ministry materials in the distribution channel throughout Europe and beyond. Please pray as this process is used by God to bless many. Please click on the photos above for larger photos.

From Zachariah Kenney, Assistant to Director, BLF Canada ...

Please continue to pray for missionary Daniel Julien, who is still on medical leave

Our partners, Aujourd’hui Espoir (Hope for Today) is organizing a “Hope supper” at a church in Lachute, (near the BLF field office) for December 10th. About 65 people are expected (Christians inviting non-Christian friends).
- Pray for boldness for the Christians to invite non-believers,
- pray for open hearts of those who come, and
- pray for Alain Parent, a church member who will be sharing his testimony.

Bookstore update: The basement has started to be cleared out. There is still a fair bit to move, however.

Pray that there will be few hassles with the government as we “reactivate” our import/export account from several years ago (2004)

Notes From
Bud & Char Kroker - in Congo ...

Pray for Bud & Char and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the country's upcoming elections...
These elections have far reaching impact on this country which we are reaching out to share God's Word.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
On Thanksgiving Day good news arrived. The UNDP (United Nations Developement Program) will pay $5 for each observer. They are sending kits to the provinces by cargo plane. This is really an answer to prayer. We are up to about 10 500 names. We can still record more names tomorrow. We have the cards and can just fill them in ourselves. People in the whole country have to get the list back to me by tomorrow morning in order to receive their money.
Thursday I wrote another letter to inform each province about the kits that would arrive by air freight to each province. God wonderfully answered prayer, for we had no other source to go to. The ballots are all printed and will be distributed this weekend.

We have a lot of work to do sorting the badges. Each badge has a name on it and we had 20 people around the table, each with at least 2 lists of training centers, with one girl reading off the names as the others searched their list to find that name so that we could give these badges out tomorrow. We were planning to continue working all evening, but news started going around that fighting was taking place near the airport. So we thought best to let everyone go home before 6 p.m. It is too bad, because there is still a lot to do tomorrow and we’ve already called everyone together for a meeting at 2 p.m.

I had to wait in the office of the Abbé Malumalu in order to hand in all the lists of observers we have from the Protestant Churches of Congo. He happened to be in a meeting. Finally I have a chance to speak with him. He is the one who negotiated with the UNDP for the funds to finance the transportation of observers and bottles of drinking water for the day. He was the President of the Electoral Commission back in 2006 and did an excellent job.. Now he is the director of a school for training in democracy. This year the Director of the Electoral Commission is a Methodist pastor, Daniel Ngoy Mulunda from Katanga. His budget has been so limited that his work has been slowed down, and thus more open for those who criticize.

Sunday morning, November 27,
Most people will be "praying" this morning. That is how they speak of going to church. In the service they have some short times when everyone prays at once.
We will all meet at the Protestant Cathedral this morning for the French service. Last Sunday I attended the English service, and met the Director for Congo World Vision and we had a good visit together over lunch. Our daughter, Caroline working for World Vision in Brussels, is a friend of his.
A young MAF pilot from Canada Nick Fray got his observer badge and wants to help. He speaks good French and he has a car. Glad I met him.
We will DEPLOY 500 observers in 782 election sites and 10 334 poling stations just here in Kinshasa. 30 supervisors, There are more than 100 foreign observers here but only 3 of them will be working with our Protestant observers. We are going to try to have three cars for mobility to get ready for tomorrow. Voting starts at 6 a.m.

Here and there is news of violence, young people of different parties getting nervous and throwing stones. One person killed.

Pray with us for tomorrow. Pray for these people who will be observers, that they might shine as lights, reflecting God’s love to all around them. Pray that the population might accept the outcome of the elections.

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