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Braleys 4 Jesus

Gospel for Asia


“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is,
and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him,” Hebrews 11:6

More Visitors!
News from Home The girls waited
for hours at the
airport for their
Greetings from Texas! And aunt and uncle.
Happy New Year!!! We are so It was well
worth the wait!
January 2011
blessed in the Braley house-
hold and could not be happier Howdy from Carrollton!
to be serving the Lord here at
Gospel for Asia. As always,
our prayer is that He would
receive the glory for our lives. and we wish they could have stayed longer. We love you
both! Prayer Requests:
We are pleased to be His
craftsmanship, and honored to As always, we miss everyone back home. Please, know that • Wisdom, love and humility to be mani-
die daily to ourselves so that we would love to hear from you. Our contact info can be found fested in our lives by the power of Christ
we might follow after Him. on the bottom of the back page of this very newsletter. If you • Pray for the lost in Asia!
May the Lord grant us a heart prefer, you can always drop a note by email…. We love you
• Help us to have servant attitudes
to be faithful to Him. all, because Christ first loved us! God bless!
• Pray for health. Lots of illnesses this
So, we picked up a Christmas
winter
tree (see pic on this very
page). It’s an old shady oak... • Pray for wisdom and childcare if it is
quite a beaut’, ain’t she? We the Lord’s will to go to the Radio confer-
hope to plant it in a very spe- ence (See page 2)
cial place (more on that in • Please let us know if there is anything
newsletters to come….that’s you would like prayer for. You can
right, our newsletter now fea- email us with any requests and we’d be
tures cliffhangers! You already glad to pray (see back page)
can’t wait for our next one,
right?)
Praises:
We had a wonderful Christmas
Can you find the shady oak? • Sinclair said the prayer to receive Jesus
celebration, though it was hard Look what we got for Christmas!
How about Waldo? in her heart! Hooray!
to be away from family. The
season is a wonderful re- We celebrated • We found a new place to live. Be on the
minder of our Savior’s love for Jesus’ birthday lookout for our new address.
us. All we can do is worship, with play dough
and a Cinnamon • We found a home church.
and so we do.
cake! Oh yes, and • The Lord continues to bless the ministry
We also had a special visit party hats. Rie Rie
in so many ways. More on that to come
won the award for
from Uncle Mark and Aunt in future newsletters, too!
removing hers the
Laura. The girls were very fastest • Summur’s health continues to improve.
excited to see them at the air-
Headaches have been very infrequent as
port (as you can see from the
of late. Hooray!
pic). Mark and Laura are a
blessing to us, and the girls, • The kids are doing great!

Supporting us is easier than


ever ...and great fun too!

We are pretty excited here at GFA, as our ously supplements those of us who are below our 10 supporters at $10 a month
brilliant IT team came up with a way for peo- support levels, from a general fund. We are still You can also set up annual donations, if you pre-
ple to now set up their support on line. You about $1000 a month short of where we need to be. fer, or one time gifts are a blessing to us as well!
no longer have to mail or call in monthly Just think, for every dollar you support us, another
support. Now you can just visit this site: dollar from the general fund is freed to go to the Thank you for considering joining our team! We
field. Would you consider supporting us this holi- have yet to have a supporter tell us they regret
http://www.gfa.org/ht/masu/
day season? Here is a breakdown of what we their decision! That’s like a 100% success rate.
Of course, it is not always easy asking our need: ‘Could I have that URL one more time, Matt?’
friends and family for support, but it is also
1 supporter at $150 a month Great question!
necessary. As you know, GFA sends 100%
of the donations designated for the field to 2 supporters at $100 a month http://www.gfa.org/ht/masu/
the field. As a result, we are asked to raise 6 supporters at $50 a month
our own support. However, GFA gener- 10 supporter at $25 a month
News From the Field
YOU’RE INVITED:
Anju Das thought her parents did not care about her. So out of deep frustration and hurt, Go to: www.gfa.org/prayer
she did something drastic: She drank poison. Tuesday Night (every Tuesay night):
5:20pm – 6:50pm (PST)
Friday Night (first Friday of the
This crisis began one day when Anju's parents told her to go work in the rice paddy field month): 5:30pm – 7:30pm (PST)
with them. Upset they did not also make her brother work, Anju said, "You are not telling
my brother to go for work. Why are you asking me to work in the field?" Her attitude an-
gered her father, and he severely beat her.

After this conflict, he left Anju at home and went to work in the field. Meanwhile,
her brother left the house to go play. While she was home alone, a thought tor-
mented her mind: Because she was a girl, her parents did not really love her.
Deeply distressed, Anju drank some pesticide her family kept on their farm. Provi-
dentially, a neighbor stopped by the house and found Anju unconscious on the
floor. He immediately hurried to tell Anju's parents about their daughter. They
rushed home and took her to a hospital. Fear gripped them when, after the doctors
examined Anju, they received the news
that she would not survive more than 24
hours. Since they didn't know what else to
do, Anju's parents called Stephen Dutta, a
Gospel for Asia-supported missionary who
had been ministering in their area. They
asked him to pray for Anju.

Pastor Stephen came to the hospital and


prayed for Anju for almost an hour, and
God healed her!

Even more miraculous than the healing,


during the following months Anju and her
entire family chose to follow Jesus! Anju
started participating in the local fellowship, along with the Women's Fellowship min-
istry.

Pastor Stephen requested that you pray for Anju and her family to continue to live for Jesus. Pray also that the story
of Anju's healing will spread in this region.

Every day, we hear stories similar to the one above. The Lord is doing miraculous things in Asia, and we are
seeing so many come to know Christ. What a privilege it is to play a small role in this ministry. To read
more stories like Anju’s visit our website at www.gfa.org

Summur Time!
EDITORIAL NOTE:
Summur wanted to name
this section “Summur’s
Side”, but the editor has
gone in a different direc- Summur with K.P.’s wife, Auntie Gisela. Once a This is us at the Christoffersons’
tion…don’t tell her…. month the ladies have an evening meeting, to share house, who invited us over for
in the Word, pray and fellowship. Christmas dinner this year!

to them soon. I haven’t been able to make


Well here is my attempt at it in to the office much lately. The girls
Late Edition Editor’s Note:
keeping you all updated have been sick for a lot of December. They Childcare Has been Found.
had RSV and The flu now twice. Please
on my side of this adven- pray that they will be healthy, and I may be
Details about the NRB Con-
ture we call missions. able to go in on my normal Thursday morn- fernce coming next newslet-
ing schedule. ter. MORE CLIFFHANGERS!
I have started in the Radio Also if you would pray for us about a con-
ference that is coming up. I have been YES!
department here at GFA. asked about going to the National Reli-
You can get more of Summur’s “time” on
We broadcast the story of Christ gious Broadcasting (NRB) conference. This
Summur’s blog at
is in Nashville and I would be gone for 5
throughout India and other nearby coun- www.mattandsummur.blogspot.com. It’s
days. I have only been away from Sinclair
tries through GFA Radio. Thousands have good clean fun for the whole family.
for 2 nights, and that is when I had Rie. So
given their lives to the Lord through these If you need prayer or just want to visit we
please pray that if it is His will for me to go
programs, which are broadcasted in their can be reached via email @
that he will take care of all of the childcare
own language. And what is my part in this? mattbraley@gfa.org or
and give me a peace about it.
Well, I am the asst. to the asst. in charge of mrsbraley@gmail.com
Well, hopefully this new section will be
Radio. So I have filed emails and done a Or you contact us even more directly @
helpful for you all to see my side of things.
few things like that, basically doing the (209) 918-8096 or (209) 275-8078.
Your prayers mean so much to us!
small jobs that would distract my bosses
Peace in Jesus, And my work phone is 1-972-3000-3139
from all of the big jobs they have. Lord
willing I can eventually be a greater help GOD BLESS!
Summur.

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