More teams are coming!

These three are currently waiting at the London Airport to make their way here. After a delayed flight from the US, they are rebooked, landing around 10:30 p.m. tonight. Please pray for Grace, Selma, and Sarah. Pray for how they will hear from the Lord, for the memories they will create as friends, for the women’s outreach we will do on Thursday, and for all the moments in between no and take-off.
The team from Utah had a final team meeting and prayer looking to take off in 11 days to serve here for one full week. 7 adults and 5 children living life on mission together. I am excited about the ways we can connect with families. Pray for great weather, divine appointments, and lots of laughter!
Thanks to a donation, an order of new Bibles and new testaments just came, covering about 18 different languages. Praying for them to get into the hands of those with hungry hearts to discover who God says He is. 
After the two leaves, I will take off for the staff retreat working on final details for this year’s summer project. The month of June will spent with a team of people focusing on hard-to-reach people groups in Europe. The first two weeks will be in Cologne, Germany and then we will all travel to Stockholm and finish out the month here in Sweden. Please be praying for divine appointments, great weather, creativity in engagement, and for the participants to go home changed.

I am incredibly thankful for the very generous one-time gifts that have come in this past month helping create a healthy balance in the ministry account I am responsible for. I am still looking for $300 in monthly support to get to 100% of my monthly need. Please let me know if you would like to discuss any details further and feel free to pass on my information to another. To start giving, just click here!

April Showers

My reality. Snow one day. Feelings of summer coming the next. Visiting in April would not be recommended 🙂
Getting to host teams provides an opportunity to further encourage and equip believers wherever God would send them. Thankful for H2O church from Kent, OH and their labor in my neighborhood.
Having a team provides workers to help with what I can not do alone. Getting to have a kids’ night making Jesus bracelets and dying eggs. Another step in seeing a type of middle school youth group launch.
I work with the Great Commission Europe Network which is a fellowship of churches with a common vision. Discipleship, church-planting, and raising up national leaders to see kingdom expansion throughout Europe to the ends of the Earth. Thankful for like-minded believers. Our annual staff retreat provided a great opportunity to have time with the Lord, get to have conversations in person and see how God is at work around the continent.

This month I continue to work on my studies with interviews while also engaging the neighborhood. With sunny days, the parks are beginning to fill up as people come out hibernation! Praying for opportunities to connect with new people. Thankful for how individuals are growing in the Monday night group that continues to have potential to grow into a healthy church community. This month there also will be some experimentation in using social media to sow seeds of truth. Please continue to pray for favor among the people and connection with those open for discussion.

Financial Update. Continuing to give thanks for the constant support that is provided. My account is now up to 93% in monthly giving! Join me in giving thanks as the increased support these past few months have come from some increasing their gift as well as new people joining the team. Let’s pray for the final 7% to come in. If you are able to answer the prayer or recruit someone, follow this link for the next step.

Spring time is a beautiful reminder that there is life after winter. There is new growth, and sometimes surprising growth. May we anticipate how God moving and inviting us in this season. Let me know how I can be praying for you!

The first of five team

Incredibly thankful for the teams H2O Church in Kent, Ohio continually send! A team of 9 landed last Saturday ready and eager to engage the community with the gospel. Giving thanks for their hearts, attitudes and willingness. Getting out to meet people yesterday in 30-something degree weather was brave, yet everyone paired up, went out and had good conversations.
Currently, the team is preparing for tonights activities, half of the team is going to host a kids club where we will make Jesus bracelets and decorate easter eggs. Pray for the continued potential for a middle school youth group to be formed. The other half will start making coffee soon to set up a coffee table with water and dates for those headed to prayer before breaking the Ramadan fast. Pray for that group to be salt and light displaying God’s kindness to others.
The rest of the week includes more prayer walks and engaging people in the neighborhood, hosting a Passover meal on Thursday evening, and team times that involved training to be better equipped in disciple-making. Please pray for them!

Having waves of teams provides energy, laborers and opportunity for what could be. There is a handful of young women coming the first two weeks of May for a split missions/vacation trip. Excited to get to labor with Grace, who I have known since she was 7 or 8 when I first met her in a local home group. Now a graduate, Grace will come with friends to labor in a work she has been supporting for most her life!

May 18-26 a group from Utah will hit the ground. A few families with kids and some extra adults will be prepared to engage families in the parks looking to build bridges and find people open to seeking God. Again, looking to do activities with children in hoping to see that Middle School group launch.

The last two weeks of June, the summer project part 2 will also be here in Stockholm. Then a potential team from my own sending church, Riverbend, sending a group in August. Having people come and labor with is a gift and a large piece of the work. The neighborhood provides a great opportunity for people to get a cross-cultural experience with europeans and muslims. It provides a schedule for spiritual development and training in who God created you to be. Thankful for the space God has given as a type of organic bible school/ministry center.

Reflection from home-visit. I continue to feel overwhelmed and humbled by how cared for I was. Every location cared for me intentionally, fed me, drove me around and took time to be with me. It is an incredible gift to get to live this life and have so many people not only partner with me in the gospel but take time to deepen relationship as well. May the Lord bless you a hundred-fold!

Financial Update. The ask at the end-of-the-year was to raise $10,000 in special gifts and $500 in monthly giving. Praise the Lord for a total of $10,920 and new supporters totaling $100 in monthly giving. Please continue to pray with me for new monthly support or another $5000 in special gifts to cover this need. If you’d like to answer that prayer or pass on the information to someone else, visit www.reliant.org/sarah.bedi.

Happy Easter! May the celebrations for this weekend encourage your faith, strengthen your hope and overflow your household with love!