We arrived in Wilmington, Delaware on Lord’s Day (February 4), where we had a sweet time of dinner, fellowship, and blending with the saints in Wilmington, Delaware.

As trainees, we were asked to share a bit of our experiences in the training or the recent gospel trip, seeing as we are at the last end of the trip. Then the saints shared on the history of the church in Wilmington, and also their burden with us concerning the gospel outreach.

Yesterday (February 5), we had coordination in the morning as a team and with local saints. We then went to distribute Bibles and literature. We had four teams of about 4-5 saints. Three teams were set to contact students by being located on Main St, which was a central street that ran right through campus. One other team set up a table in front of a grocery store to contact the students, as well as those in the community. We found that there were many warm contacts that would like to be contacted further. Many were so happy to receive a study New Testament Recovery Version. We were able to distribute 58 New Testament Recovery Versions.

Today (February 6), we have split up our team of six. Three are traveling to Richmond, VA and then three are traveling to Pittsburgh, PA. Please pray during our time in our respective cities that we would be blent with the saints and be in one accord, so that the Lord would have a way to pour out His blessing.

Prayer Burdens:

• That the the Lord would increase in life and in number in the church in Wilmington, Delaware.
• The saints would be encouraged and strengthened. To be burdened to continue to go out to the communities and college campuses to contact people for the sake of the gospel.
• The Lord would raise up a group of vital students at the University of Delaware campus, and also release saints to labor and continue to reach out to all the warm contacts.
• That the Lord’s hand would follow His Word, and that every recipient would open the New Testament Recovery Version or read the tract that they received.

On February 5, we had a wonderful time of coordination and fellowship with the saints here in Lethbridge. Towards the evening, we met with a sister to coordinate for a neighborhood children’s meeting that will be in Coaldale (near Lethbridge) on Thursday. After dinner, we met with the young people and played some games and spent the time to get to know them better. We all feel the time was very profitable and the young people really enjoyed it too. We really enjoyed spending extra time to really get to know the young people here. There are about 23 young people ranging from junior high to college age here in Lethbridge (and in the area) and we are becoming more and more burdened for them.

Prayer burden:

• Please pray for the upcoming neighborhood children’s meeting this Thursday! The saints who were going to host it had an emergency come up in their family and are now unavailable. Pray that the enemy will have no ground and that many of the children’s friends will still be able to make it even with the last minute change.

Thank you all for your faithful prayers. We believe the Lord has truly poured out His blessing on the TAMIU campus during the last two weeks of our visit. After our four total Bible study sessions on campus, we’ve realized that there are between 25-30 new students who have showed a high interest in continuing on with the club after we leave. After our last Bible study session, our main burden became for these students to be connected with the saints in Laredo.

During our last night in Laredo, the 3rd, we had a cookout gathering for all students at the ranch we were staying in and a total of 15 students came to this time, and seven of them got baptized!

During our two weeks stay, the Lord led approximately 40 to 45 students to be saved, nine students to be baptized and connected to the local saints in Laredo, and granted the saints a start of a weekly Christians on Campus Club meeting at the TAMIU campus.

Please continue to pray:

• These newly saved and baptized ones would continue pursuing Him during the campus club meetings and church life meeting.
• The Lord would strengthen and raise up more saints to shepherd these newly saved ones.
• The Lord would thrust out more full-time serving ones to labor on this campus.

Today, we had a Bibles for Canada table on the University of Waterloo campus. The team was on this particular campus two times before without a table, each visit resulting in 23 Bibles distributed. Today was the first time we had a table and we ended the day having distributed 91 Bibles and about 150 tracts. Although it was midterms season, many students were willing to take the time to talk to us. A majority of the recipients were shared at least one verse with footnotes to show them how to use this free study Bible. A verse that was often shared was Phil. 4:6-7, on anxiety, peace, and how we can pray even while studying for midterms.

There was one appointment at the University of Guelph where two sisters met with a student there. The time was spent getting to know one another humanly and connecting her with a local sister. At the University of Waterloo there was one appointment where a newly saved contact was introduced to a local brother who also works on campus, which was followed by a mini Bible study.

Later on, we joined the Christians on Campus Bible study where we went over Gal. 5:1-6, followed by pizza and fellowship. Although there were many new faces, there were many good questions and mutual discussion about being freed in Christ.

There was a misconception that this campus was hard to breakthrough in. However, we were wonderfully corrected because of how open and seeking many of the students were. Jesus is Lord on this campus!

Prayer burdens:

• Pray that the current students would be richly supplied and vitally built up
• Pray for further connection of the contacts to the local saints and existing students
• Pray that the great Shepherd would shepherd the saints and through the saints
• Pray that the Lord continues to preserve and operate in each contact
• Pray that the Lord would brood over and reveal Himself to the contacts through the word
• Pray that the ones who just received tracts would order a Bible online
• Pray for the enjoyment and continuation of the Bible studies on campus
• Pray for remaining fruit

On Tuesday, February 6th, during coordination we pray-read Acts 4:31: And when they had so besought, the place in which they were gathered was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.

Afterwards, two sisters on the GTCA team went to Conestoga College where they met a contact who prayed to receive the Lord. The rest of the GTCA team went to Wilfrid Laurier University to distribute Bibles on a one-on-one basis. Later in the afternoon we had rest, dinner, and fellowship at homes of local saints followed by the prayer meeting. 34 Bibles and 23 tracts were distributed.

On Wednesday, February 7th, during coordination, we enjoyed the matter of abiding in the vine and that apart from Him, we can do nothing. We were joined with one local sister to go out to the University of Guelph. There we continued the one-on-one Bible distribution and had three appointments in which the contacts were both receptive and encouraged. Later we went to another local saint’s home for rest, dinner, and fellowship. 20 Bibles and 25 tracts were distributed.

Prayer burdens:

• Pray for our contacts to be properly connected to the local saints.
• Pray for the table at the University of Waterloo for Thursday, February 8.
• Pray for the weather on Friday.
• Depending on the weather, we may not be able to meet with the contacts we met last week at Conestoga College for follow-up.