A Note from our Missionaries - Todd & Cindy Anderson

$15 and 15 minutes. I'm boldly asking you for our Christmas gift. I hope you don't mind. Sometimes people want to know what we would like to have or to have a list from us. Would you give us $15 of your money and 15 minutes of your time?

The longer we work in the Bengali Hindu world the more we see how entrenched the strongholds and demonic forces are that grip this people keeping them in blindness and bondage. Prayer is the only thing that will change that. We need thousands of people to pray and intercede with us or nothing we do here will have any affect until these strongholds are overcome in prayer.

Create International has worked with us to produce an 11 minute dvd about the Bengali Hindus. It's just been released. It is called Bengalis-Not Forsaken.

Here is my Christmas gift request to you...Would you order this dvd for $15 then set aside time to watch it and pray for the Bengali Hindus for 15 minutes sometime in the next three months? Maybe you could show it to a group of friends and pray together. Maybe you could show it in your church service or a house group. Maybe you could watch it and pray and then pass it on to another group who you challenge to watch it and pray.

$15 and 15 minutes. If you gave us that for Christmas, it would mean more than anything else you could give us.

If you want to help in this way, please go to the website http://www.createinternational.com/store/index.php. Then click on "Bengali Not Forsaken" and order it online. Or, if you prefer you can send us a check for $15 made to Todd Anderson, 11522 172nd St W. Lakeville, MN and we will get it sent to you. Then after you get it, please just let us know when you watched it and with whom and that you prayed for the Bengal Hindus and any scriptures or Word's God gave you when you did.

We really want to see 2009 be a year of breakthrough and freedom for the Bengalis here in Siliguri. But it won't happen without prayer, much prayer.

Thanks for taking time to read this in a busy season. May the Savior who came to deliver and redeem show himself strong this new year in your life and ours!

The Andersons

News from Ethiopia

Check out the newsletter from our missionaries Bob & Rhonda Thomas who are serving in Ethiopia. http://thomas4africa.org/newsletter.html

Glutting Prayer Letter - Chi Alpha Missionaries

Thank You For Praying With Us For Our Ministry!

Last week I asked for prayer for the need below. We’ve not had any progress on it yet, please continue to join with us in prayer. (Please know I’m not asking you to contribute by asking for prayer!) (I felt I needed to dispel any unspoken expectations)

I’ve approached 2 key churches, one is seriously considering an amount. Please pray for these churches to contribute generously. Pray for other churches and individuals to contribute this week and next too.

(Please join us for prayer:I need to raise $1400 to go to our year-end conferences ($800 if I go by myself). They are national meetings for the staff and students. I need to have the funds by December 10th. One is called World Missions Summit and the other is called Momentum. Momentum is on January 2,2009 and the Summit is on Dec 30-January 1, 2009. Please pray that the Lord will help us have the funds to attend, especially as a family. Please pray for God to radically work through the conferences so lives of students and Chi Alpha staff will be built up, trained and become affective for HIS KINGDOM. Pray that we’ll see radical healings, restorations and revivals at the conference and back home on university campuses.)

PRAISE REPORT - In October I asked prayer for Monica: Rich and Monica Brubaker, University of Oregon, OR. Praise God everything worked out so well. Erin did an awesome job sharing and praying with Monica on Nov 3rd. And the Lord worked out some key issues over the last few weeks in Monica’s life that really ministered deeply in her heart. Monica is doing very well. Thanks for praying!!! What an awesome God we have!

Please pray for the Brubakers 1. They have an autistic son who is having a physical reaction (body twitching) from being over-stressed. He recently was switched to a “regular classroom”. Please pray for calm and peace in his heart and an ability to cope. 2. Please pray for Rich’s Dad as he is going into cancer surgery to remove his pancreas on Friday Dec 5th, in the morning. Please pray for a successful surgery and healing from cancer. 3. The Brubakers started raising support in Sept 08 and now have 45% of their budget raised. Rich has church service in OR scheduled through June 09. Please pray for continued favor in their support raising efforts.

Thanks for caring and for praying! We love you!

Yours for the souls of collegians,

Gregg & Erin

Hope in the Rubble

Dear friend,
As the temperatures are dropping in the Caucasus mountains, refugees in Georgia are warm because of you. Families this afternoon received winter clothing, hygiene supplies, food aid and the message of HOPE, because of you. Tomorrow, hundreds more will receive blankets, food, heaters and stoves to prepare for the winter, because of you.

Earthquake survivors in Armenia are moving into their new homes, because of you. Next week, Christian Yezidi Kurds, who have faced persecution and hardship, will receive clean water for the first time in their villages' history. All because of you.

Standing in the rubble of destroyed homes, hearing the heart-wrenching stories of survival, we are simply lost for words.

Thank You from survivors of the earthquake in Armenia. Thank You from hundreds of refugees in Georgia who survived the war with Russia. Thank You from the Clarks.
Serving the poor,

Mike and Laura Clark

Trip Video

Here's a short video of the BCC and Way of The Cross ministry Mexico mission trip.

Local Misssions 10/31-11/2

I wanted to pass along this opportunity to serve in the "local" mission field. Tent City is a yearly event in downtown Toledo that ministers to the homeless. Here's a link for more information:
http://1matters.org/?page_id=54

Mexico Trip 9/08

The BCC Mexico mission trip was a wonderful time of songs, sharing our testimonies, sharing the gospel and sharing Gods love by ministering to the people we met in Aldama Mexico.

We saw 175 people come to the Lord at the schools and villages that we visited. Many thanks to all who provided supplies and prayers for the team. You were part of the Lords work!