COOK Weekly - 29 septembre 2008

FATEAC needs more partners like you who care about what is happening there and are willing to make a difference.

Queen's Herald Gospel Church, one of the churches in which Matt preached last year, Pastored by Stanley Kwong, is bringing about 10 people to FATEAC in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire in order to pray for, do some manuel labor for, help out, etc. for 10 days just before Christmas. We're excited to have them come and be a part of our ministry there. Please pray for this team as they make preparations: buy tickets, get shots, raise money, etc.

Thanks for your prayers and partnerships with us,
Matt & Cindy Cook

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Cook Weekly - 22 septembre 2008

Getting things from one place to another is never easy in Africa.
Right now - this week - all of our worldly belongings (which is in boxes adding up to 5 cubic meters) are traveling by truck from Dakar, Senegal to Bamako, Mali.  After that, we have to find a way to get them from Bamako to Abidjan.  Here are appropriate ways to pray for us this week:
(1) Pray that thieves will leave the truck alone.
(2) Pray for safety - that the truck doesn't wreck.
(3) Pray that the bribes extorted by the border guards are not too large.
(4) Pray that our things ride well - that they don't get bounced around and broken up in travel.

Thanks for your prayers on a VERY timely issue this week.
Blessings,
Matt & Cindy Cook

Cook Weekly - 15 sept 2008

Dear friends and family:

We visited a church this morning that we'd like to introduce to you. There is a picture of the pastor and his wife below.
Pastor Pablo and his wife Eve are from Spain. They are pastoring a church in a suburb of Paris. They were very kind and generous to us, inviting us for lunch after church.
We'd like you to pray for them and their church as they minister in difficult circumstances. They have 5 children aging 11-34.

We were very pleased with our kids' progress reports from school as they have reached midterms for this quarter. Keep praying for them as they get busier and have to shuffle so many activities with school. Pray also that they will not get the flu that is going around.

Love,

Cindy,
CMA missionary to Cote d'Ivoire studying in France

Cook Weekly - 8 sept 2008

Dear friends and family:

Thanks for your prayers for Andy. He seems to be doing much better with homesickness, but we still have the problem of tiredness. Both kids are not getting their normal quota of sleep; this of course effects everything else they do. We're not sure what to do about it. Holly's headaches are also getting worse. Pray that God will heal her from this.

School is going well for Matt and me. Matt's school is a bit overwhelming as he is tackling mass quantities of new vocabulary and expressions. We feel that even with certain constraints, we are right where we need to be. Pray that God will give us the capacity to memorize and remember all the grammar and vocab that we need to know for the near future. Pray that we will then have the foresight to write down everything else so that we can learn it later.

In His service, Cindy

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