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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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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