A PRAYER REQUEST all the way from africa :)))

Greetings from Africa!! God is SO great, we are doing fantastic here. I wanted to call on you all to join with my team and me in prayer!! So quickly here it is::

SO much happened today. Our team has a dream to preach before thousands at the futbol stadium here. We have been telling pastors here and many think we are crazy...we kind of are! Lindsay (my amazing co-leader) had the fantastic idea today to go to the Stadium and pray and worship there. We arrive and the military met us...amazing! As a Canadian gal I am not okay with people pointing with their guns!!! :)) The military told us we needed permission to come in, Johan (our Irish team member) asked if they would give us permission haha! We can be a bit cheeky on this team!! They said no...as we were talking a black car pulled up with just the man (Komi) we needed to see - the man responsible for the Stadium! He invited us in to his office and we quickly became friends with him. However he wasn't able to help us as he needed permission from his boss to allow us to use the Stadium...so he called him. His boss was the government official - Minister of Sports for all of Togo!! (This will come as no surprise to my family as it has continually been spoken over my life that I will interact with top government officials and royalty!! BRING IT LORD) Komi graciously sent along one of his workers to help us. Upon arriving at the government building we were ushered in to a conference room to meet with the Minister and 2 other men. There we shared that we had a message of God's love from the Lord to share with the Togolese and wanted to use the Stadium. Our conversation went from them saying it was impossible for us to use it to them inviting Lindsay and me to return on Thursday with a few Pastors from the local churches who plan to help us host this event. At this meeting we will talk about if and how we can do this! SO please pray! We have made MAJOR progress!! God is SO good!! We are praying for the Stadium for free and for thousands to come and hear our message!!

Another huge prayer request we have is this::

About a month ago we had a word of the Lord to go to Nigeria! So we are!! It was totally out of the blue and the Lord has done nothing but open doors thus far. Today Lindsay, Alec (another team member) & I went to the Nigerian Embassy. Once there the lady working there told us it was impossible to get our visas for Nigeria :))

YAAAY another inconvenience OR an opportunity for the Lord to do the impossible. They also said we cannot get a visa at the border either. They pretty much told us the only way to get visas was to apply in our home countries - Canada, Brazil, Korea, Ireland & England. That can't happen as we are leaving in about 18 days time!! We left not discouraged but encouraged to get on our knees in prayer, knowing that this was the Father's plan not ours! Upon leaving the office one of the gate guards asked us how it went, after we shared he informed us we can actually get visas at the border. PRAISE! We are hopeful for this but have another lead as well...about an hour before we went to the Embassy we were applying for visa extensions for Togo, at this office we met the son of the diplomat for Mali (another West African Nation) - no big deal, just a day in the life of Togo Team - and we are hoping that this young man who studies in Boston and is visiting his diplomat mum will help us in not only getting our visas to Nigeria but also maybe help us get there!!

Needless to say we ned prayer!! God is SO good we have already seen Him move so much. Since being here we have seen 4 physical healings, a multiplication of food at church and have begun to disciple 3 young Christian men! We are rejoicing in how the Lord is going to open these seemingly shut doors!

Would you please take even 45 seconds right now and pray that the Lord would move in these two situations, that we would be able to use the Stadium to bring the GOOD NEWS and for our trip to Nigeria - our passage there as well as our visas! Please pray in faith acknowledging that we serve the God of Luke 1.37, the God where nothing is impossible!

Thank you SO much for your love and prayers!! We are SO grateful!!