Easter in Paris........

There's just time to write an Easter update before we need to pack for our trip to Paris as part of the Emerge Wales team. Exciting enough in itself but we have also just heard that we've been volunteered to speak at the church we will be visiting on Sunday morning. We'll let you know how the first French preach went when we return!

Anyway, we've had a pretty busy month since we last wrote and of course we had the opportunity of joining in the Big Gathering a couple of Sundays ago. It's always an encouragement to see just how wide the connections to River are spreading

The prophetic walk from Llanelli to Aberystwyth was great fun although the knees found the first day's stage to Carmarthen had rather too many hills. "Good job they're not in Nepal" we hear you say. There were lots of good conversations on the way and opportunities to pray for shopkeepers and cafe owners, chapel-goers, garage mechanics and the owner of an occult shop in Carmarthen! The next part of the walk is from Aberystwyth to Caernarfon while we are in France and Robin and Fi are involved in hosting arrangements there.

The prayer team at Antioch has started well but there are rather more health issues for us to pray for than there were. It was great to be able to share some prayer needs at the BG, particularly the situation with the youth suicides in Bridgend and also for one baby who has been seriously ill. Praise God she has made a good recovery having been flown to Great Ormond Street at only ten days old having at one stage stopped breathing. The testimonies from parents and nursing staff have been tremendous.

The aspiration for the prayer team is both to encourage more prayer within the church and also, as we pray for the community of Llanelli, to engage with a wider cross-section of churches. Having had a visit from Aloysius a Ugandan intercessor who led his group of pray-ers through a 90 (yes ninety!) day fast because they wanted to see breakthrough we are feeling mightily challenged. And yes they saw breakthrough with healings and people raised from the dead! How much do we want it?

We've continued to have people staying with us for the odd night here and there but the most auspicious visit was Nigel's Mum for her 88th birthday! Even the weather recognised that it had been too miserable of late and we had a lovely sunny day for a drive round and lunch at a hotel on Gower. Thanks to Margaret Buck for bringing her too.

After we get back from Paris we have a couple of days before we are off to the Freedom in Christ Team weekend and then we need to do some more travelling around our connections before the next major Emerge Wales event being hosted by Antioch in May.

And last but not least, we have spoken with our landlord about extending the lease on the house for another six months but we really need wisdom about whether that is the right course of action. Whatever we decide to do, we are committed to being based in Llanelli beyond the summer. Your prayers for us would be much appreciated.

With our love

Jean and Nigel