Spreading the News of God's Sovereign Grace for the Joy of All Who Believe!
Ephesians 2:1-10
Rockport Prayer Needs 07/23/08 - Upcoming Events
  1. Rockport Women's Summer Conference - August 1 and 2. Husbands, encourage your wives to go!!
  2. Pray as our Nominating Committee finishes it's work!
  3. Men's Breakfast next month (Saturday, August 9th)
  4. Upcoming Ministry: Work Day August 23rd / Men's Camp Out Sept 27 / Outreach at Arnold Days(?) Sept 19-21
  5. Pray that God will be glorified among His people as we gather to worship Him this Sunday.
    AM - He Taught Them in Parables Part III - This Light is Meant to Be Seen!
    PM - Rockport, HeartCry and the Southern Baptist Convention - How We Support Missions
  6. Pray for wisdom as we consider how we should allocate our missions giving this coming fiscal year, starting September. Sunday Evening, July 27 Pastor Scott will speak about How Rockport Supports Missions.
  7. Pray as we present the Fire Department with an appeal to accept our appraiser's view that the property they wish to purchase from us (0.8 acres) is worth $125000.
  8. Pray as to whether or not Rockport should have a presence at Arnold Days (Sept 19-21) for direct evangelism. It would take many people helping out
  9. Upcoming dates: Ministry Meeting (Aug 5th at Brady Hardin's); Church Picnic Aug 10th; Young Adults (18-28) Bible Study Fellowship meeting at the pastor's house, Aug 14th. Work Day, Aug 23rd
Continuing Needs of Our Church Family and Friends
Praises
  1. Jeannie Turner has a job! She'll be teaching Early childhood education at Herky.
  2. Amy Lee is feeling better
  3. Paula Ottofy is feeling a 'little' bit better and is now just adapting to her new Diabetes Medication.
  4. Ava Lucille McAllister was born July 17 - weighed 7pounds. Jenni and Baby Ava are doing well.
  5. Jamie Groat's mother is doing well after disc surgery in her neck.
Prayer Needs for Health
  1. Karen Dickmann (Tim and Rebekah's mom) is having an eye problem and may not be able to see from one of her eyes for several days.
  2. Mike Dickmann is recovering from knee surgery at home.
  3. Nancy Ponder has pneumonia
  4. Doris Loggins' brother Jake has pneumonia (lives in a Nursing Home)
  5. Chase (Bobby S.s. friend) is still in a coma after an automobile accident.
  6. Trevor Van Arsdale (Bill M.s young friend) he has had surgery and is doing okay- keep praying for healing.
  7. Lauren Crook (Scott's cousin) for continued strength physically and emotionally.
  8. Our expectant moms Becky, Joyce, Jessica, Melissa
Prayer Needs for Guidance
  1. Bob Schembre desires more work.
  2. Brady Hardin asks for wisdom.
  3. The leaders of Youth Camp as they minister to the teens.
  4. Amy, Cindy and June as they prepare for the Womens' Conference
  5. Several couples are going through some hard times-financially, emotionally, Pray that God will direct their thoughts and actions.
  6. Jeff Jackson (Will's brother) Jeff recently lost his job and now he may be facing separation or divorce.
  7. Scott Lee as he studies for his classes at the College and for his messages here at Rockport.
  8. Pray for those of us who are the caregivers for our loved ones.
  9. Adam Boyd-that he will place his trust in our Lord as he waits for sentencing.
  10. Those still needing jobs: Tren G. Jason V.
  11. Continue to pray for family and friends who do not know Christ.
Prayer Spotlight:
My name is Billy Jackson. I am one in a family of ten. I was born in Tennessee and moved to Missouri when I was two. I was saved from my sin, and rescued for Christ when I was eight years old. Before that I had prayed with my dad when I was five; and other times on my own. But I had not really meant anything more than (Hey, I don't want to go to hell!). When I was eight I was thinking that over one night, and I was really worried about where I was going after I died. I was going over in my mind a picture book illustration that was used in Children's Church, and showed the condition that man was in. I was pretty sure I was one of the men left on the wrong side of the gulf that separated sin from God. But that night something clicked for me to realize that that's what the bridge was there for. To save sinner's like me. The big thing I realized was that God would accept me because of Jesus. I had already been confessing my sin that night when I realized that Jesus paid for it if I would give him his rightful place in my life as Lord. Since then I've been striving to live for Him. My plans for the near future are to get to the point where I can support myself through wedding photography and to explore the possibilities of sports photography. I'm going to a sports photography seminar in Tennessee on July 29. I am trying to get some of my own wedding contracts to photograph. (I work with my dad right now). I've created a web site for this purpose billyjackphotography.com. You should check it out and tell me if it works right. My prayer requests are these....That I mature into a godly man, that I can be a good big brother and son, and that I could learn this trade that I enjoy and be able to support myself."

Missionaires

John "Bebe" and Ani Tomeci (Flavius Lustinian-13 and Larisa Rebeca-10) - HeartCry in Timisoara, Romania
(missionaries for 14 years working with college students)
- health for their family
- God's help in several upcoming summer projects
- salvation of family members, including children, parents, brothers and sisters
- God's power in evangelism
- faithfulness in their calling and a good testimony to their neighbors
- God's provision for their financial needs
Sorin Prodan - HeartCry in Eastern Europe (coordinator for gypsy work)
- currently back home in Romania
Paul and Lori Babb - IMB in the Ukraine (recently transferred to the Ukraine)
- quick and easy adjustments to ministry in a new location God's provision of their financial needs
T and T J - Papua, Indonesia they have a son and a daughter (tribal church planting for two years)
- safety and outreach as they build houses in the Korowai tribe
- fruit as they help the Fuau village in the Mamberamo with church development and Bible translation
- wisdom as they assist a church planting team in West Java working with Muslims
- more Baptistic and Calvinistic workers recruited for the field

Jail Ministry
  1. Jeremy H. has requested visits. Please pray as Tren Groat begins to visit him. He wants God to be a stronger part of his life, that his parents would visit him, and that his bail would be reduced.
  2. Shaun M. has requested visits. Please pray as Tren Groat begins to visit him. He wants prayer because his girlfriend has lost her job.
  3. It doesn't appear that the Gideons will be able to help us to get the regular Bibles into the jail. There is still one possibility and, if that doesn't work, some of the men are talking about having their church help us financially. Pray that God would take care of this need. We need soft cover, entire Bibles, with big enough print to be read easily.
  4. Pray for Bake Ottofy as he will be preaching Monday night.
  5. Jeremy B. is asking what to do to be a Christian, he doesn't understand it. Pray for him. He needs to be able to comprehend the "One True God" Book we gave him.
  6. Crystal Y. knows she is not a Christian and wants to be, pray for her and Karen Dickmann as she visits. She may be sentenced soon, for perhaps 25 years.
  7. Pray that Michelle L. will be a good influence in the women's "pod" and for Amy Lee and she visits.
  8. Pray for Rob Wann as he visits Michael V. and Donald O.
  9. Pray for salvation for Darin W., Barry M., and Tom S., and Bake Ottofy as he visits them.
Spanish Ministry

We have been graced by some visitors that have come by to talk the last few days. These people attend our 8:00am service in Spanish at Rockport. Our group of people have become increasingly interested in the history of the reformation and after sharing with them about the story of Martin Luther, they are very excited about watching the movie. They only have one perspective of this man's life and death...what has been taught by the Catholic church. Would you pray for the group of people that came to borrow the DVD and are watching it today?

New People
We had three new people last week: Erika, Guillermo, and Abram. Praise the Lord! One of these is a brother of one of regular attenders, Ismael. This new guy claims to be a believer and at least has some experience with church music.

Resources
Please pray that we might continue to purchase items that we need for teaching, as well as we might receive assistance from a native Spanish speaker that could help provide some guidance for the ministry. My Spanish is very limited. Don't get me wrong, it is better than what it was...but there is so much more that this group of people need to be taught.

Continued Passion for current believers and Church Leaders
I don't know if something like this would be possible, but as an effort to reach current believers, Pastors, and leaders, I would like to see if there is a way to offer something in Spanish in conjunction with our local Founder's conference. To my knowledge, there are not many resources, if any, that are available like this for the Spanish speaking community in North America, specifically the U.S. 		 
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