Dear Family and Friends
This past month has been full of ups and downs and lots of emotions.
As I mentioned in my last newsletter, September is a launching month for many of us across Europe. It’s a new year for schools and universities and it’s also when we relaunch many of our courses and connect groups.
Part of my role in Europe is to oversee that our European Campus Missionaries have a place where they can be discipled. This involves having a safe place to express challenges in ministry and in their personal lives as well as helping them grow in their personal relationships with God. We do this by having monthly cluster meetings in small groups. To launch this new season all of us met as one big group to get a focus on this new academic year on university campuses and to also pray for one another. Here is a picture of that Zoom meeting. We were missing our campus missionaries from Armenia and Scotland but the rest of the countries on the call were from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Spain, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Portugal and Netherlands. This was definitely an “up” moment for me and we are all excited about what God is going to do on the university campuses where each of these missionaries are serving. We are also praying for more campus missionaries to serve in every nation across Europe!
Another exciting moment for me this past month was teaching at our Every Nation Dublin’s Discipleship Day! The session I had the privilege of teaching on was our pattern for how to lead small groups. It was a fun day and a wonderful time getting to know the leaders and intern leaders throughout this day.
This month has also been a very hard one as well…A few weeks ago our founding pastor of Every Nation London lost his battle with cancer. Wolfi (Wolfgang) was a spiritual father and mentor to me over the past 21 years. 2 ½ years ago he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and given months to live. Many of you joined us in prayer for a miracle in his body and even though it wasn’t the miracle we wanted – we still got an incredible miracle of him living over 2 years longer than the doctors expected. In the natural he shouldn’t have been able to walk, travel all over the world and even write another book in the last few months of his life but miraculously he did!
The last sermon Wolfi preached was entitled “How to have Faith that does not fail.” I really encourage you to listen to this powerful message – especially if you are facing difficulties. Please click on the title of the message to listen.
Please continue to pray for me to gain more monthly partners, for my health as the seasons change and for upcoming ministry travels:
23-26 October - Glasgow, Scotland – (EN School of Prophecy)
3-8 November - Tampere, Finland – (Evangelism Summit and mission)
Thank you for all of your prayers and support in reaching the nations in Europe!
Lots of love
Traci
Dear Family and Friends
I am so happy to be typing this as I sit at my desk in my new home! Maija and I moved in on 23 August. It is so good to have all of my things for the first time in over a year. For the past year and 5 months I have stayed in 2 different places with many of my things in storage.
Opening boxes on the 23rd and 24th of August was like Christmas! We have all of the basic things needed for a home and now just need to buy the little things that will make it feel more comfy.
My new housemate is a beautiful young lady from church named Maija (pronounced Maya) who is from Namibia. She works full-time as an auditor but volunteers at church to help with our ENC (University) ministry.
Our new home is truly a blessing from God – one of those above and beyond all you could imagine places. When it came on the market, we couldn’t believe the price because of the area of town it was in. Places in this area are very expensive. Plus, it is so convenient for both our jobs and places we need to travel to on a frequent basis. Also, the size of the flat is hard to find when you are looking for equal bedroom sizes. It truly ticked all of our list when we were praying about what we wanted. Another bonus was that the rent was guaranteed to stay the same price for 2 years. Thank you so much for all of your prayers!
September is launching season for us here in London and for many of our churches across Europe. Universities start a new academic year in September and October so University Campus outreaches will be happening over the next few months. We will also be starting our Follow Courses and Engage Course.
I will be travelling and participating in a few different events over the next few months and would appreciate your prayers:
21 September - Dublin, Ireland – (Teaching at a Discipleship Day)
23-26 October - Glasgow, Scotland – (EN School of Prophecy)
3-8 November - Tampere, Finland – (Evangelism Summit and mission)
And finally, a few weeks ago I had the privilege of preaching in our West Kensington Congregation on Enjoying God in Community. To hear the sermon click on the link and it will start where our pastor is introducing me - https://www.youtube.com/live/XfDrfQdmSmw?si=f1alGNJAfrH0ECDi&t=2940
Thank you again to all of you who are partnering with me with your finances and prayers. You are truly a blessing and together we are reaching the nations in Europe!
Lots of love
Traci
Dear Family and Friends
We are FINALLY having Summer here in London! This week has been glorious in my books. It’s been in the upper 30’sC/90’sF so this Florida girl has been very happy. For all of my Winter loving friends – please don’t wish this away too fast – you get to enjoy 11 months of the year and I only get a few weeks haha.
Normally at this time of the year I am serving as a leader on our Youth Camp but this year I felt like God said that it was time to “retire” from Youth Camp and turn my focus fully towards Europe. That said, most things begin to slow down in Europe over the Summer as pretty much every area of ministry takes a break to rest, recharge and plan for the coming season.
I’m actually grateful for the slower pace because it has given Maija and I time to search for a place to live. Our hunt for a place was proving to be difficult because of our budget and also the fact that the rental market is crazy at the moment. A place will be advertised for a certain amount and if you like it you have to put in a bid for it saying how much rent you would be willing to pay, possibly above the amount, because so many other people are also wanting the property. A place would come onto the market and disappear the next day!
Praise God though, He provided a place for us where our bid was accepted and Maija and I filled in all the paperwork and references. This morning, we finally heard from the agency and our application has been accepted!!!! We will sign the contract next week and move in at the end of August. It’s been very stressful. Both Maija and I have all of our things in storage and we have different friends that are letting us stay in their houses until we are able to move.
I will be honest with you, my yearly income has been one of the things that has kept our budget so low. Would you please agree with me in prayer that God will do a supernatural work in this next year to increase my income? That means more UK and US monthly partners. I think most of you know that I don’t raise my support like most missionaries.
When God called me to the nations at 19 years old, He said if you go where I call you then I will provide, and I was not to ask people for money. Here I am 35 years later, and I have never asked someone to support me. I share what I am doing every chance I get, but I allow God to speak to people’s hearts and as a result so many of you have partnered with me in prayer and finances all these years! Together we have been reaching the nations!! I’m so grateful for all of you!
Please pray with me that people’s hearts will be moved this year to join our team.
I look forward to sharing in my next newsletter about the new home Maija and I will be moving into.
As promised as well, here is a recap video of our Leader’s Camp in Marseille. https://youtu.be/HUdbQWYF-3k?si=Uihv_I33mNJFe4b5
Lots of love
Traci
