May 2017 Update

Greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ!  We're pleased to share with you what the Lord has been doing in our lives and ministry.

Family: In May we celebrated Christopher's twelfth birthday with cake, cards, gifts, and blessings. He had a delicious, homemade, cherry pie. A couple days later, however, he fell off his bike, chipped his front tooth, and scratched himself up. Thank the Lord he has healed up well and his tooth was repaired with a composite filling. We pray it will remain solid for years to come, as we have been told that front-tooth fillings can tend to fall out fairly often. Please pray it will hold in place for many years to come, and that it will not begin to grow crooked.

More photos.    

Ministry:  As we continue to administer our discipleship training school (DTS), we'd like to update you on the good things that God is doing with it. Currently we have nine students in six nations including Nigeria, Kenya, United Kingdom, Mali, Liberia, and Germany.

Charity and Deji in Nigeria

Our newest student is a woman named Charity from Lagos, Nigeria. About seventeen years ago, she came to know Jesus. She says, "I was opportuned to be in a bus where someone was preaching I was touched and afterwards gave my life to Christ." She says she is enrolling in the DTS for the following reasons: "To build my spiritual life; To have a good knowledge of the Bible; and To have a relationship with God." Let's pray that she achieves her goals of discipleship, along with all our other students.

Another one of our students named Deji in Nigeria recently spoke with Len by phone. He called Len and said many encouraging things regarding the work the Lord is doing in his life. He has seen good fruit coming forth in his life and the Lord has been good to him. He has provided him with regular sources of income and He has been meeting his every need. Deji is also grateful for the way the Lord has been teaching him His Word and leading him in the way he should go. He is still engaged to Hannah and they began premarital counseling on May 14th. He said something like, "The Lord has used you to mold me...through your counsel and your example...(I know that) many people out there are feeling the impact of what you're doing. My life is a testimony of what you are doing." We give the glory to God for that. He said he looks forward with anticipation at the end of each month to receiving Len's latest edition of Old News That's Still Fresh, which Len sends out monthly to pastors, elders, and laborers in the harvest in Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, and USA.  He then told Len he had read the latest May edition, and still remembered the titles of two of the three articles in that edition. Praise the Lord for the way He has touched Deji's life! He sends greetings to all of you who support this ministry.

"Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness." (Ps 115:1)

Resources:  This month we would like to suggest some articles Len has recently written called The Day of Small Things, Why is the Body So Divided?, and Forgetting the Past,  Len's latest articles are all available at Old News That's Still Fresh - May 2017. His entire collection of his most popular blogs are at Writing for the Master.

In closing, we have much to praise God for, and many opportunities for you to join us in prayer.

Praise the Lord with us for the many answers to prayer:

1. For healing Christopher, protecting him from serious injury, and enabling him to get his front tooth repaired.
2. For bringing into our midst Charity, who is our newest DTS student.
3. For providing for Deji, molding him, and making him into a more mature disciple of Christ.
4. For the opportunity to assist each of our students in becoming disciples of Christ and fulfilling their callings. 
5. For the Lord's leading, guidance, and help administering the Doulos Training School (DTS), and for the progress the students are making.
6. For the lives being touched for Christ around the world through our writing ministry.
7. For the words of encouragement we have received from the people being touched. 

Next steps and prayer needs:

1. For the Lord to grant Denis a miraculous healing in his kidney.
2. For Christopher's filling to last for many years and that the tooth would not grow in crooked.
3. For the Lord to bless our newest student Charity as she begins her new quarter, help her to achieve her goals, and that He would bring in many more new students.
4. For the Lord to assist us with the administration of the Doulos Training School (DTS), as well as develop through it many disciples who multiply disciples. 
5. For the Lord to help all of our DTS students to find LTG partners (another Christian to meet with weekly for discipleship in a Life Transformation Group).
6. For the Lord to heal Len from sciatic trouble, causing chronic pain. 
7. For the Lord to fulfill His purposes for us and our ministry.
8. For the Lord to send His angels with Len’s written messages to those who need them, and for an open heaven over them when they receive his messages. 
9. For the Lord to move mountains to raise up new faith partners, including those who would sponsor our students, and for Him to provide for all our needs -- not only ours personally, but also those of the ministry -- as He releases a financial miracle.

Thank you so much for your partnership in this ministry.

with love from all of us,

The Lacroixs

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