Word on the Street

From Dennis Williams

The majority of our work involves coaching and mentoring the next generation of believers and Nav staff who are having an impact where God has planted them in life. My wife Sara has become involved with a growing number of women whom God is developing and using to touch others for Christ. Carey is one of these women who is helping to mentor young girls. She commented to Sara, “It’s a privilege for me to support these girls in their growth. Your walk with me has helped me lead them. Thanks for your investment in my life.” Carey also actively shares the Gospel with many of her peers and family. Pray for God to continue to use Sara to help many women grow in their closeness to Christ and their impact in the lives of their families and friends.

Armando and Mary Jane moved here four years ago to minister among the 100,000+ Albanians in Metro Detroit. This fall, Armando asked if I would team with him to lead a Bible study for a number of Albanian men. Some are new in their faith and some are seeking what it means to know God. Now that we’ve met together several times to read the Bible and talk about faith in Christ, it’s very obvious that God is drawing each of these men closer to Himself. I believe that many families are going to be touched for Christ through these men. Pray for God to give wisdom and strength to Armando and Mary Jane as they relationally open doors for the Gospel among their numerous Albanian friends.

Four times a year, our Marketplace Ministries team hosts a luncheon where men and women can invite friends from their workplaces to come and hear a fellow business person talk about how faith in God, the Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ have impacted some aspect of his or her life. We average over fifty in attendance at these luncheons, twenty of whom have brought work colleagues with them. We are in the process of helping these twenty have a larger impact in their business networks, and developing materials we can use as we coach and mentor them in life and ministry. Several have already set up Bible reading groups where they work, and we’d like to see that number grow this next year. Pray for the Lord to use our team to encourage many of these brothers and sisters in Christ to trust Him for a ministry in their workplaces to those who do not yet know the Lord.

We are committed more than ever to minister the Word deeply to others and increase their fruitfulness.

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by A Shober

Kerry-Ann works in partnership with our Nav ministry in the Tidewater Metro area of Virginia through her church. She works with the Urban Discovery ministry by helping people get their GED, helping girls with their self esteem, helping single moms become better mothers and value their children and, most of all, helping people learn about God and knowing Him better.

She was saved through this ministry and God moved her to stay and help the poor and broken of inner city Norfolk, Virginia and all the dangers that exist there.

Kerry-Ann realized that a war rages all around us. Most of the time we can’t see it – but on one day it broke out in force in the physical world.

Kerry-Ann, her son and a friend were sitting in their car, when an all out war broke out around them. Two rival neighborhoods were fighting fiercely and bullets started to fly – with Kerry-Ann’s car right in the middle. Miraculously, no one in the car was injured. God had protected them when by all accounts they should have been dead.

After being angry and upset about it, this incident led all of them to ponder God’s hand. It led them to pray for those involved in the shooting and gave them an even greater desire to continue in their work with the downtrodden who are trapped in this war zone.

It didn’t daunt Kerry-Ann because she knows that God is on her side and He wants her there for these people He loves. This event brought into sharp focus the need for Jesus in the city; The need to bring a life-giving hope and a love that surpasses all understanding – to give those young men and women a chance at a life without violence, without hatred. That hope, that peace can only come through Jesus. And she knows that she has to stay to bring that to them.

She said, “We were all reminded that this spiritual war is real, that people need the Lord and that we have to continue sharing our faith. We also cannot let fear hinder our walk and the Gospel.”

Ultimately, it is God who works and protects in all situations – and Kerry-Ann gives Him all the glory for all He has done to further His kingdom and work through her for the people of this city.

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To read more about the Tidewater Metro Area – visit http://tidewater.navigators.org/