{"id":5502,"date":"2023-03-27T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/?p=5502"},"modified":"2023-03-27T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:52:08","slug":"bridges-newsletter-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/bridges-newsletter-march-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridges Newsletter: March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ministry Update<\/h2>\n

We have now been living and serving on the field full-time in Wales for seven months! Through all the challenges of selling our house in South Carolina, getting rid of most of our belongings, our children getting settled into a new school, and learning about our new home, we can say that God has truly been faithful. Even on the hardest days, His grace has been totally sufficient for us. We couldn't be here without the faithful, consistent support of partnering individuals and churches. We are so very grateful for all of you!<\/p>\n

Here is a summarized list of our ministry activities over the last seven months where we have been:<\/strong>
\n\"Meeting<\/a>\u2022 Securing a home, vehicle, school schedule, and new way of life for our children.
\n\u2022 Connecting with pastors and leaders in the IPHC UK Conference by attending part of a
\nministers and family retreat, as well as the National Assembly (annual conference) meeting in
\nLondon.
\n\u2022 Being very intentional about crossing denominational lines and meeting with ministers, pastors,
\nchurch planters, and teachers of other networks, denominations, and movements across the
\narea.
\n\u2022 Assisting Todd and Stephanie Presley with outreaches and family events for their additional
\nneeds ministry (ELI Project).
\n\"Samuel<\/a>\u2022 Praying and planning for a potential new IPHC church plant in Neath, Wales.
\n\u2022 Connecting with Pastor Lemuel Turner of Compassion Church in Bridgend Wales, visiting
\ntheir coffee house ministry, and teaching in the Hope Center (a drug and alcohol rehabilitation
\ncenter for men).
\n\u2022 Connecting with and helping to teach a mid-week Bible study started by Todd and Stephanie
\nPresley which primarily consists of a group of new believers.
\n\u2022 Attending and learning from Lifepoint Church of Neath.
\n\"Meeting<\/a>\u2022 Practicing friendship evangelism by opening our home and intentionally connecting with
\npeople in the community who are warming up to the gospel over meals and coffee.
\n\u2022 Teaching a class for the London School of Ministry.
\n\u2022 Taking exploratory ministry trips to Belfast, Northern Ireland and to Dublin, Ireland where we
\nministered, prayed together for open doors, and met with pastors and church planters.
\n\u2022 Beginning the Acts 13 Prayer Alliance as we call for concentrated prayer over the Celtic
\nnations and for a pioneering church-planting movement to emerge here.<\/p>\n

Urgent Prayer Points<\/strong>
\n\u2022 For supernatural fruit that remains (John 15:16).
\n\u2022 For joy to fill the hearts of pastors and ministry leaders.
\n\u2022 For a supernatural acceleration of salvation for individuals and households\/entire families.
\n\u2022 For seed which has been planted for years to come forth in the name of Jesus.
\n\u2022 For a wave of contagious evangelism to take hold.
\n\u2022 For IPHC churches to be planted in these unreached lands and nations in fulfillment of the ARISE 2033 Vision. (We have
\nzero churches in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, and currently one church in Wales.)
\n\u2022 For signs and wonders to follow the ministry of the Word and the testimonies of our ministry workers.
\n\u2022 For rivers of healing, deliverance, salvation, and Holy Spirit baptism to flow in this land which is so wet in the natural but
\nis spiritually parched (Isaiah 43:19).
\n\u2022 For native laborers and leaders to be rapidly discipled and sent out into these vast harvest fields.
\n\u2022 For divine connections, favor, and open doors as we drive (10 hours) up into Scotland for the first time in two weeks.
\n\u2022 For a strategic day of prayer in Lougher, Wales to take place on Saturday, April 29th.<\/p>\n

Thank You<\/strong><\/p>\n

Words fail us on how to say thank you enough to all of you, our supporters and senders. I'm thinking of an elderly member in one of our churches in Upper South Carolina who has been giving to missions all his life. I visited his home along with his pastor before Bethany and I moved to Wales, and we had prayer with him. When he was a young boy he would pull figs, fill up bags, and sell them so that he could have money to give to missionaries. I received a card from him just last week. We have amazingly generous and mission-minded people like him throughout our movement. Thank you all! Your faithful, consistent, monthly partnership in financial giving is sustaining us here so that we can serve and do what God has called us to do. We believe that you will reap eternal rewards.<\/p>\n

Blessings,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Samuel Joshua, Bethany, Isaac, Philip, and Lydia Bridges<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Please send contributions to:
\nWorld Missions Ministries | PO Box 270420 Oklahoma City, OK 73137
\nSupport Account #30131S
\nOr, give online at give.iphc.org\/missionary\/joshua-and-bethany-bridges<\/a><\/p>\n

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