These are the current Missionaries that Bridge to Grace Covenant Church supports:
Marta Klein
Physician Assistant (PA) Medical Missionary to DR - Congo
Marta will be leaving again for the Congo on May 21 or 22. " Thank you so much for your prayers as I get prepared to leave".
Here is a brief overview of plans of ministry for the next couple of years, and she talks about it a little in the video.
- She has been invited to work at a different mission hospital in DRC — Vanga Baptist Mission Hospital.
- She hopes to work at the hospital the first 6 months, developing relationships with new Congolese and missionary colleagues. She may also be doing some language study during that time. They do speak Lingala in the area, but they also speak Kituba.
- September — PCP is planning a Medical Ambassador trip to the CEUM area. She is planning to travel from Vanga to Gemena in late August with hopes of remaining in the area for 6-8 weeks.
- She will return to Vanga in late October to keep working at the Vanga Hospital.
- Sometime in 2022, she hopes to help the Vanga Baptist Mission hospital implement the program Helping Babies Breathe. This is a program that has been done in the CEUM area. She would like to bring down two nurses from the Karawa/CEUM area to help with training at the Vanga hospital.
Link to the Ministry Video:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gpt4qcia660lqhp/M%20Klein%20Ministry%20Update%202021.mp4?dl=0
Update from Fabio Muniz March/April 2021
Prayer Request:
- a young Frenchman in our small group at church - his mother is intubatedin ICU
- our Brazilian friend, Renato, is intubatedin ICU in Japan
- Fábio's column on spiritualitythat is published on Mondays. Pray that it would encourage people and meet them wherever they are on their spiritual path.
Praise:
- Thank you for praying for Johnna as she traveled to the U.S.for 10 days in March. She was able to see her father, mother, sisters, brother, celebrate her father's birthday, sister's 50th birthday and mother's birthday. It was a much-needed reunion after at least 2 years, with much laughter and joy!!
- Johnna's mom is coming to visitfor part of June and July! Please pray that France's borders will be open for her to come and go at that time.
- Johnna's preparing to use her Intercultural Development Trainingwith one of our partners in the upcoming months. A mission team desires to take the assessment and learn ways they can grow as individuals and as a group toward greater intercultural development.
- You! Your prayers, your emails, your phone calls and texts, your support. We are overwhelmed by your generosity and partnership. We can't wait to welcome visitors to France so you can see firsthand what God is doing here.
Fabio and Johnna Muniz along with their two girls serve in Lyon, France. The serve Globally under the Evangelical Covenant Church know as Cultural Fusion.
Their mission to Serve Globally facilitates the practice of the five priorities of the ECC across cultures and around the world through: equipping local congregations for mission, training the people of God through formal and informal theological education, sending missionaries to strategic places, cultivating partnerships with churches and organizations in strategic contexts. Fabio and family have recently to France and ask that we pray for them to continue to get integrated into the community, health for their family, their meetup groups and parenting.
Joel Zamorno serves with Youth With A Mission (YWAM)
Familia Zamoran - December, 2021
Then Samuel took a large stone and placed it between the cities of Mizpah and Jesana. He named it Ebenezer (which means "the stone of help") because he said, "Up to now the Lord has helped us!" 1 Samuel 7:12
At the end of the year 2021, we can confidently say: the Lord has helped us up to this point. We are sure that you have also seen the mighty hand of God working on your behalf, in happy moments or even during difficulties, difficult or sad moments, the Lord has sustained us with His faithful right hand. Let's end this year with gratitude that comes from the depths of our hearts and let's say: “Thank you, Lord, for Your fidelity!!
We wish everyone a blessed year of 2022 with a daily walk sup-ported by His Faithful hand.
We thank God we are well. We have seen the Lord's care very pre-sent in our lives.
In November we got sick, the four of us were infected with the COVID virus. Thank God Isabela and Alicia got over it quickly, but Valdinete and I had our lungs affected and we were in the hospital for six days. It has been 4 weeks since we left the clinic and we are still in treatment, but every day our lungs are better. Thank God.
It has already been a month and a half since we were diagnosed and right now, thanks to God, we are much better, and we continue to recover. We are still taking medicine, but we trust the Lord for our recovery.
Thanksgiving…
We thank God for taking care of us in this time when we were sick and how he continues to take care of us. Many were praying for us. God supply for all our needs. We greatly appreciate this demonstration of love and care.
Isabela is fine, thank God she has recovered and has been a great help taking care of Alicia in our absence and taking care of us when we return from the clinic. She continues with her Japanese classes and with arts classes. She has been helping at the school where she graduated as a teacher’s assistant. It is being a very good experience for her.
This Christmas we celebrate Alicia's birthday! Our little girl turned 13 years old! We are very grateful to God for her life. She is doing very well in school and continues with her arts and volleyball classes.
We want to thank each of you for being part of this ministry in this year. We appreciate your friendship, we appreciate your prayers on our behalf, we thank those who support us financially. All of you together bless us every day and are gifts from God to our lives, we are sure that the Lord will reward you greatly.
We wish you a blessed year in 2022 and ‘strengthened in the Lord and in the power of his might’ (Ephesians 6:10).
May the grace and Peace of Christ Jesus be with you and with your family.
A big hug,
Joel, Valdinete, Isabela y Alicia.
Youth With A Mission is an evangelical interdenominational, non-profit Christian, missionary organization. Founded by Loren Cunningham and his wife Darlene Cunningham in 1960, YWAM's stated purpose is to "know God and to make Him known".
Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is a global movement of Christians from many denominations dedicated to presenting Jesus personally to this generation, to mobilizing as many as possible to help in this task, and to the training and equipping of believers for their part in fulfilling the Great Commission. As citizens of God’s kingdom, we are called to love, worship, and obey our Lord, to love and serve His Body, the Church, and to present the whole gospel for the whole person throughout the whole world. We of Youth With A Mission believe that the Bible is God’s inspired and authoritative word, revealing that Jesus Christ is God’s son; that people are created in God’s image; that He created us to have eternal life through Jesus Christ; that although all people have sinned and come short of God’s glory, God has made salvation possible through the death on the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ; that repentance, faith, love and obedience are fitting responses to God’s initiative of grace towards us; that God desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth; and that the Holy Spirit’s power is demonstrated in and through us for the accomplishment of Christ’s last commandment, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to everyone” (Mark 16:15 NLT).
