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Alison Gill’s
Prayer letter No. 7
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September 08
Greetings
from Paris. I feel I'm always in a different city
these days! It was fantastic to see many of you in
person over the summer.
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Well, I've arrived at Les Cèdres, which is a French
language school for Christians going to work doing
missions in francophone countries. So far I've met
people from the US (lots), Norway, Ivory Coast and S
Korea. Class starts on Tuesday for 8 weeks. They have
5 levels of classes here - from beginners to those who
are almost fluent. I have been put in the middle class
based on a test I've already submitted. We will have
lessons in general French, class worship times (to
practise praying etc in French), Biblical French,
written and oral French, grammar, phonetics and
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Front
of Les Cèdres & Chapel
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As well as the
formal lessons we are expected to do 10 hours of
homework and 10 hours of French activities (such as
seeing a French film) each week. We have to speak in
French all the time here which is good.
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I am finding reading the easiest
and I enjoyed singing in French at the Baptist Church
service held here. I plan to read my Bible in French
each day and then in English if necessary and hope by
the end of the month to have my Quiet Times in French!
YWAM Staff
Retreat in Dundrum, NI
Last week I was in Northern
Ireland with YWAM Ireland staff. We spent time
together worshipping, praying for all the nations
we're linked with (incl. Burundi) and seeking God for
the future.
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We praised God that 3 out of the 5
students who went to Burundi / Rwanda on outreach this
year are moving there in the next 7 months - Rowan
Seymour is moving to Rwanda in Sept. to train people
to create IT healthcare software; Meg Lavery is moving
to Burundi in Oct. to be Project Manager for Simon
Guillebaud and his work with GLO; and of course I
ammoving to Burundi at the end of March to help train
Church pastoral workers in trauma healing methods. I
can't believe it! I'm thrilled my dear friends will be
there already when I arrive.
Summer
conferences
I was blessed to go to the iNet
missionaries' conference and the HTB camp, Home Focus,
in July where I heard a number of acclaimed speakers
incl. Brother Andrew and Pete Grieg (24-7 prayer) who
inspired a lot of faith in me. Pete talked about how
we need to step up a gear to prepare for what God is
about to do! The Holy Spirit was moving powerfully in
both conferences and I feel blessed and refreshed,
praise God.
New
iNet director iNet,
the mission sending me, is
looking for a new Director. If you or anyone you know
is interested please check out: http://www.oscar.org.uk/opportunity/vacancies/jobopportunities/inetd.htm
News from
Burundi
I've read that the final rebel
group (FNL) who have around 22 000 members have only
handed in approx. 40 weapons since the ceasefire in
May. They still recruit child soldiers. Let's continue
to pray for lasting peace in this nation.
Prayer
Requests
- I emailed in July about my
YWAM Belfast colleague Heidi (who's in her early
20's), who had a life threatening grade IV brain
tumour. She is now in Canada, with her family, has
had most of the tumour removed and is receiving
chemo and radiotherapy. Pray for miraculous
healing as her prognosis is poor.
- For supernatural help from
God to learn as much French as possible in these 2
months.
- That I continue to carve out
special time with God and hear Him speak to
me.
- For the Lord's blessing on
Rowan's move to Rwanda and Meg's move to Burundi.
With love and every blessing,
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Contact
Alison via Friends of Burundi
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