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My Perfect Sunday

My Perfect Sunday

Published July 16, 2008

With few Christians in Japan, Sunday is not a day of worship. It is, however, the only day most people have with their family. Until a couple of years ago, students had school on Saturdays and ...

Roger and Gaynor

Our Dear Family and Friends,
We have just finished watching the final of a brilliant game of tennis at Wimbledon between Federer and Nadal. It's great that it is at a decent hour here!

We are both well and being kept rather busy with our trips into Basel to meet up with people, spend time at Centrepoint volunteering (each once/week for 2 hours) and also the Friday morning tea. German classes have stopped running for July and August so we have to think of other creative ways to move ahead with the language!

We spent a last Tuesday lunchtime with our Youth Pastor David and his wife Simea talking about the upcoming Youth Camp in Denmark and the role they would like us both to play. There will be around 65 on the camp altogether. I am a little excited because we just might get to dip our toes into the ocean! Our accommodation will be in a boarding school.

Thank you for your prayers, support and interest in our ministry here. We value you all immensely.

With love,
Roger and Gaynor


Praise Points

- We are very happy to have warmer weather and the enjoyment of being outside much more. We still cant quite get used to the summer break being in the middle of the year.

- Continued good contacts being made in Basel. We are spending more and more time in Basel and this is proving to be most worthwhile. We have begun volunteering at Centrepoint and find this is a great way to meet newcomers to Basel.

- Roger has enjoyed putting on a 6 part DVD Australian Drama Series at Centrepoint (2 nights with 1 night to go) with 6 - 8 guys attending and really enjoying the series and being together.

- Roger attended a Tuesday Seminar Leadership Advance which looked at the subject
RAW BEAUTY: Finding and Fostering the Potential in Others

- Wonderful response and great encouragement to us both from many of you after last months prayer points - thank you!


Prayer Points

- Continuing planning and meeting with strategic people in Basel, working out ways to move forward in our ministry here.

- We have been invited to go on the Young Peoples camp from our German Church again this year. It will be for 2 weeks and will be held in Denmark, so a bus ride of 13 hours. We travel early on 26 July and come back overnight on the 10 August. We ask you to pray for good contacts with the young people and leaders. We will need to pay something towards the camp, so please pray some support will come in specifically for this. The young people will be paying 379 euros each for the 2 weeks.

- The second stage of Leadership Advance is the weekend of 31 Aug - 2 Sept. Pray for Derek Webster as he prepares this and that God will lead more people to participate.

- Roger as he gets to know the men better who attend the movie nights. Pray that God will open up opportunities to speak about faith in Jesus.