COOK Weekly - 20 octobre 2008

On the road again...

We leave Tuesday for Bangkok, Thailand.  Please pray for safe and convenient travels.  Pray especially for the meetings with the World Evangelical Alliance in which Matt will be involved.  Pray also for peace along the Thai border.

This will be two weeks of meetings for Matt, but Cindy hopes to catch up on some reading and to some touring while in Thailand. Elephant ride anyone?!
Thanks for your prayers this week and next (as we don't expect to write a weekly prayer notice).

Blessings,
Matt & Cindy Cook

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COOK weekly - 13 octobre 2008

We're starting our last week in Paris.  Thank God, with us, for this time to rework our french skills which are the lifeline to communicating as a teacher.  Thank God, also, that we're getting closer to a "stable" life, whatever that means. After having interacted these last two weeks with the 3 major seminaries in Paris (Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox) I'm all the more pleased with the level of teaching and the quality of students at FATEAC.

A special thanks to Keith Ellenberger, Jeter Livingston, Daniel Keita and JP Schultz for their part in getting our belongings from Dakar to Abidjan.
Pray for our colds to pass quickly so that we don't have to fly with stuffy noses!
Thank God for the tuition money that has come in for this years first year CMA students. Some still are waiting for food and housing money.

Thanks for your prayers,
Matt & Cindy Cook
Côte d'Ivoire (eventually)

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COOK Weekly - 06 octobre 2008

I, Matt, am involved in a ministry which we haven't talked about much: The World Evangelical Alliance--theological commission. I am involved in this group, having organized several to discuss contextualization-- that's the reason I was in Oxford in August.  Contextualization means living out the Christian faith in different cultures.  This group of the WEA is in the midst of writing a book together on the topic.  Cindy and I both will be going to Bangkok, Thailand, later this month for more meetings and conferences on these topics.

Pray for wisdom to help the world-wide church live more faithfully to Jesus Christ in their local context.
Pray that God handle the many logistics necessary in bringing this book to fruition.
Pray for safety as we travel to Bangkok and back in a couple of weeks (you'll hear more about this trip as we're making it).

For those of you who have prayed for our luggage to make it to Bamako, it arrived this week. A bit smelly and water damaged, but all in all we praise Him that it has all arrived safely. Now we're looking into a way to get our things from Bamako to Abidjan. Thank you for your prayers.

Thanks for your prayers.
Matt & Cindy Cook

P.S. we talked to all three of our children last night on Skype and it was wonderful.  Thank you for continuing to pray for them: Elysia in Ohio; Holly and Andy in Dakar
P.P.S. For more information about the WEA- thoelogical commission, http://www.worldevangelicals.org/commissions/tc/

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