Operation World is birthed!

The new Operation World, the 970 page prayer guide for the nations is now out. This missions defining prayer guide has been written by WEC missionary Jason Mandryk, aided by a number of team members that we saw raised up from the USA Sending Base. The list price is $25.00 but it is available through us at WEC for only $12.00 + shipping. Please write me for your orders.

The reason for writing this update NOW is to inform you that there will be an OPERATION WORLD INTERNET STREAMING EVENT on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 at 12:00 noon and 7:00 pm. You can go to www.operationworld.org for more details. I have attached a flyer to this email.

This book has been enormously influential in significant, strategic prayer for the nations. For example, I believe that this book has a significant impact on the dramatic turnaround of Albania, from being an atheistic state which severely persecuted any religious activity in the late 1980s to now having religious liberty. It has had a significant impact on our personal prayer and missions orientation. Often this book has spoken to others about going themselves as an answer to their own prayers to the difficult places in missionary service. Read it with care!

Speaking of Births

Still no news. Lydia (our daughter) is great with child, living in the DC area. Her due date is also… November 9!

Goings and Comings

The last three previous weeks were busy with travels to Chicago (Moody), Boston (Gordon College & Gordon Conwell Seminary) and upstate New York (Houghton College). The next weeks I will be at Nyack College (11/10), Lancaster Bible College (11/11) and Liberty University (11/15-17).

We will have the Right-Hand of Fellowship event at WEC on Friday, Dec. 3 at 7:00 pm where our 13 candidates will become official WEC Missionaries. If you would like to attend, please let us know.

Thanksgiving will be a very special time as we plan to have the entire family with Lydia, Guillaume, new arrival as well as Chansonette and Christian.

Discovery Team Trips on the WEB

This is just a note to let you know that information about the Discovery Team Trips are available on the web at www.wec-usa.org/discovery.

A Typical Day at WEC (Lee)

1 Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples!
2 For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD! Psalm 117:1-2

Where does time go? I (Lee) looked back over yesterday --- it flew by. The whirlwind began with community prayer time from 8-9:30am, two hours of teaching conflict management to the candidate class, a quickly grabbed- lunch with David, and a meeting with a couple (candidates preparing to go to the field) for counseling from 1:30-3:00pm. The entire candidate class of 15 people came for break time to see our lovely apartment (3-3:45pm), after which I reviewed and prayed for my evening class and ate dinner in the dining room at 5:30pm. (We eat our evening meals together.) After drying dishes as part of the dish crew, I rushed over to the classroom in the office building to teach a parenting class from 7-8:30pm that includes counseling and mentoring others. Afterwards, I talked with the couple again until 9:30pm, and then returned to our apartment and called David to say I was home. Our arrangement is that he can go to the office two evenings a week as I teach. His work load is tremendous as Director of Mobilization. He could spend, as he has in the past, every evening in the office. David not only gives direction and encouragement via conference skype calls to our mobilizers who are scattered on the West and East Coast, helps produce needed materials, brings furloughing missionaries up to speed, and follows up students he has met on campuses but he also travels to college campuses for an average of five weeks every fall and spring.

It is a pleasure and privilege to use and to share our experience of preparing, going and ministering in Ivory Coast. All that we do now (teaching, sharing, encouraging) is based on what we have lived out and seen with our own eyes. God is faithful and uses the weak to confound the wise. Paoli Presbyterian has a big part of making our time in Africa possible--- from the very beginning. Now you are touching lives that will be sent out all over the world! Your influence is multiplying.

Time does fly. To think 20 years ago we were heading off to Africa. Five years ago the Lord brought us back to headquarters at Fort Washington. Within two weeks we will be grandparents! Thank you for standing with us.

Elections in the Ivory Coast

I meant to write you earlier asking for prayer for this one. The Ivory Coast had their first presidential elections in TEN YEARS last Sunday (Oct. 31) with 14 candidates on the slate. Praise God, the election day was a peaceful day, with 80% of the country’s eligible voters coming out to vote. Even more notable was the peaceful reaction to the announcement of the results yesterday. The current President, Laurent Gbagbo (received 38% of the votes), will run-off on in an election with the former Prime Minister, Alassane Ouattara (received 32%), on November 28. To see more, you can go to BBC at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11681134 or the New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/world/africa/01ivorycoast.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=Ivory%20Coast&st=cse. If you know French, you can also go to www.abidjan.net.

Blessings,

David and Lee