Answered Prayers

• Our home is being used for life and ministry! We've had families over for dinner, coffee, games, and just afternoon hangouts!
• We started attending small group and even hosting it in our house every other week!
• Sweet Birthday Mail from our sending Church for Eleanor's birthday- We love our Missions Pastors and the Missions Team!
• We've been asked to help plan some events with our local church and begin to attend staff meetings.
• We had a sweet opportunity to host some dear friends and show them Manchester!
• It is time for Autumn half term - so the girls have a week out of school.
• We celebrated Kris's birthday with some friends from around Europe.
• We had a work conference and left very encouraged and equipped to continue ministry.
• Kris and Aubree were able to pray with a woman M while doing evangelism in London.
• A quiet revival stirring in the UK.
• The girls are making friends and relationships at school.
• Emma has connected with our church's youth group and has enjoyed Friday nights with the students.
• Tuesday ESL class has been going well. We have gone through the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham with so many spiritual conversations.
• Learning a lot of our city and making connections.
• Kris has had multiple spiritual conversations with his barber who has left Islam and we are praying for H to accept Christ and want to study the Bible with Kris!
• Kris attended an evangelism conference and we're preparing to put the into practice the ideas from the conference in November.

October Prayer Requests

One thing that echos in our hearts and minds is that prayer is the work of this missionary journey, we can do nothing apart from Jesus! We would love for you to join us each week in praying over the work of ministry, our family, and life in Manchester.

1. Monday: Pray for our National Partner- Trinity Church. Pray for Pastor P + M and their wives. Many pastors in the UK leave ministry from burnout- pray life and refreshing over them!
2. Tuesday: Pray for boldness and spiritual conversations where we can share the gospel! As we prayer walk, map the city, pick up our children from school- and all the other moments of our day. People here in Manchester without the gospel go to hell- pray that would be the main focus of our days!
3. Wednesday: We have had fear, anxiety, and anger bubble to the surface in the girls. Pray for joy and peace within our family and wisdom and patience as we parent in love. Pray for salvation for Riley and Eleanor. Isaiah 50:4
4. Thursday- Pray for us to be fully dependent on the Lord throughout our days and that we would have grace and joy in our dependence in Him! John 15:4-5
5. Friday - Pray for relationships: that we would build deep friendships, relationship with our neighbors, and meet more families at school! We want to start hosting playdates for the girls and really investing in friendships for them!

Stories from the Field

October has been full of steadying. We have spent this month maintaining life giving rhythms of family, school, and work for our family. The new and fun of school has worn off and the work of continuing begins.

Kris and I have found a great rhythm of taking the girls to school and then prayer walking through local park. We have been able to pray for our church, our neighbors, and for a movement of the Lord here in Manchester. Our afternoons involve getting the daily report of all the events from school- friends, homework, and the adventures of the school yard.

We have been able to spend our days with ESL class, mapping, city research, preparing for future teams, connecting with local church leaders, and visiting the first Chick-fil-a in England!

One of our favorite church conversations this month was with a pastor from a local church planting network that was able to give us insight on how to come beside and serve the Church here in Manchester. He encouraged us to be ministers of encouragement to the local church. We were excited to hear about the "Quiet Revival" that people are noting here in the UK. The spiritual climate here is shifting. People are beginning to ask questions about faith and genuinely search for spiritual answers. We are eager to partner with our local church to begin an evangelism emphasis to engage those asking questions.

We heard recently a statistic that 4 out of 10 adults here in the UK typically have gone more than three days with out talking to another person face to face. With the darkness of winter upon us, we see an opportunity to share light and hope with the people we come in contact with.

We are thankful for October and the beauty that the British Autumn has blessed us with. Walking to school each morning with the primary school girls has given us a chance to daily take in the beauty.

But...

This place is like a real life Gotham City.

There is so much brokenness.

We need God to raise up a generation of believers who want maturity and multiplication!

Pray for Nov 1 as we will participate in a Church planting conference for everyday christians in Manchester to hear the nuts and bolts of planting gospel churches. Pray that our city will catch this vision of multiplication.

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Thank you for partnering along with us in prayer as we are sharing the gospel, making disciples, and helping plant churches. If you'd like to financially support us, gifts to our ministry account help cover ministry activities, travel, and local outreach as we serve in Manchester. Thank you for being part of what God is doing here!

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