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May Newsletter

Dear Family and Friends

Hello from Thessaloniki, Greece. I’m on week 2 of our ground-breaking Campus mission here. I will tell you more about the mission but first this is what has happened over the past month:

I preached part 5 of our “WE” series that we have been doing in Slough entitled “We Pass It On”. You can watch the sermon HERE.

We had our UK, Ireland and Iceland Staff Retreat. Our staff (most of whom are missionaries like myself), gathered in the city of Manchester to not only get input and build relationships but we also took advantage of being in a city where we don’t have a church YET and went onto the University campuses to pray and do a bit of outreach to scout out the land!

I’ve continued to work on our Bucharest mission coming up at the end of October as well as continuing to work with our youth team here in Slough and getting ready for our annual Summer Youth Camp.

Our mission to Thessaloniki started on 29 April and ended on 6 May but I will be here until 12 May to do follow up with any students that we have been able to connect with. Our international team consisted of 20 people who are based in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Ukraine. We spent the week using 3 different tools to survey students on mental health and their belief in God. Each conversation could last anywhere between 3 minutes to an hour! In total we had around 177 conversations with students, had 44 follow up contacts and 24 students responded to the gospel.

This trip has been a ground-breaking trip to discover student life, culture and beliefs in Thessaloniki and we believe that it is just the first of it’s kind and we are trusting for a church plant here in the near future.

Here are a few pictures from the trip of our team, some of our events and a few students we connected with.

On Friday I will be flying back to the UK, repacking and then heading to America for my annual support raising time to say thank you to friends and family as well as trying to gain new support.

If you are near Tampa and haven’t contacted me yet for a day to meet up, please email me to set up a time as soon as possible. Please don’t wait until I am there. I will only be there from 15 – 29 May. If you are in Georgia, I will be there from 30 May – 8 June.

I also want to say thank you for continuing to pray for Teri (Mana) who I mentioned in my last letter. She has now had 2 chemo sessions and even though it’s been rough she is doing okay. Please continue to pray for a miracle healing and that her husband and 2 daughters will give their lives to Jesus in the midst of all of this.

Please continue to pray for my schedule for the next few months:

15 May – 10 June – Raising Support in America

25 – 30 June – Speaking at our Student Leaders Camp in Marseille

31 July – 6 August – Youth Camp

Thank you so much for all you are doing to reach the nations in Europe. You have a part in impacting so many people with the gospel!

Loads of Love

Traci

April Newsletter

Dear Family and Friends

I hope April has started off well for you. Today has been a beautiful day here praise God. We have had so much rain and the weather has still been cool. I’m so ready for Spring and warmer weather! It’s trying to come but for those of us who live in the UK, we know that it’s not a guarantee until April is over.

Last month I mentioned our European ENC Conference in Berlin. HERE is a recap video from that weekend.

I also preached part 3 of our “WE” series that we have been doing in Slough entitled “We Love Well”. You can watch the sermon here:

March was a month of big change for me as I moved into a house with a friend from church. After not having a housemate for a few years it’s been an adjustment for both my housemate and I to get used to each other, but it is going well. It’s also been lifechanging being so close to a train station and town centre because where I lived before, I needed to walk 30 minutes to get to anything.

I’ve also been working hard with our mission team getting ready for our Mission to Thessaloniki (Greece) at the end of this month as well as starting to prepare for a mission to Bucharest that I will lead at the end of this year.

Our mission to Thessaloniki is from 29 April – 6 May but I will be staying on until 12 May to do follow up with any students that we are able to connect with. I will then be flying back to the UK, repacking and then heading to America for my annual support raising time to say thank you to friends and family as well as trying to gain new support.

If you are near Tampa and want to meet up please email me to set up a time. Please don’t wait until I am there. I will only be there from 15 – 29 May. If you are in Georgia, I will be there from 30 May – 8 June.

Finally, I want to ask you for prayer not only for

my upcoming schedule but also for someone who is very dear to me. Over the last 19 years here in the UK, you have either read or heard me talk about the Portuguese family here that has “adopted” me as one of their own. One of those family members is Teri who I call “Mana” which is a term in Portuguese that you use when speaking to an older sister. Mana is and has been an amazing big sister to me these last 19 years! This past month she has been diagnosed with cancer in her lungs and in her leg. The doctors say there is no cure and will begin treating her with chemo next week as a preventative. BUT we are believing for a MIRACLE and we know that God can do the impossible. Would you join us in prayer for this miracle? Would you also pray that her husband and 2 daughters will give their lives to Jesus in the midst of all of this?

Please continue to pray for my schedule for the next few months:

16 April – Preaching in Slough

29 April – 12 May – Mission to Thessaloniki

15 May – 10 June – Raising Support in America

25 – 30 June – Speaking at our Student Leaders Camp in Marseille

31 July – 6 August – Youth Camp

Thank you so much for all you are doing to reach the nations in Europe. You have a part in impacting so many people with the gospel!

Loads of Love

Traci

March Newsletter

Dear Family and Friends

I just got back from our ENC European Weekend in Berlin. We had students from 14 nations across Europe coming together for a packed weekend of input and fun! These weekends are an opportunity for our campus ministries who have been reaching out to their universities to invite Christian and non-Christian students to experience our worldwide family, and as always, we have an expectation of each one of them to take one step closer to God. This weekend did not disappoint as we continued our theme of Miracles in the conference. We had faith filled worship, speakers and incredible testimonies of God doing miracles in peoples lives.

Every year at the Conference, we have different workshops on Saturday afternoon where students and campus ministers can choose which one to go to. I was asked to speak on Emotional Wellbeing. Because this is such a big topic and so needed after Covid, most of the students chose this session. I just came back from the weekend so I don’t have access to photos or recordings but here are a few low quality ones that I was able to find of everyone on the weekend and then one of our London Crew.