I thought it would be good to update you on a few of the items from our last set of prayer points... You're continued prayer in these areas would be greatly appreciated!

• Fire Safety Inspection - We're finally getting close to the end of our ministry center relocation!  There are still plenty of projects needing to be completed at the H88, but the majority of the major reconstructive work has been completed, and the two biggest rooms of the facility are more or less operational.  The most significant development in this area is that -- after eight weeks of waiting through back-orders and delivery delays -- our special fire-resistant doors finally arrived last Friday (9 February 2007) and are being installed this week!  The next step after installation is to set up an appointment with the fire marshal for securing official authorization to use the space for a maximum allowance of at least 120 people.  Please pray that this meeting could be set up sooner rather than later, and pray that everything will go smoothly so that we can start meeting in the H88 by the beginning of March (or as soon as possible).
• Home Group Alpha Course - Our home group recently decided to focus our outreach energies on hosting an Alpha Course, systematically presenting the basics of the Christian faith through times of dinner, teaching, and discussion.  We had great success with doing an Alpha Course about a year and a half ago, so we're looking forward to seeing what God will do through this round of things.  Right now, we're preparing and inviting non-believing friends that we hope will participate (we're excited to try and "populate" our course without announcing things to the church at large -- so that we can especially focus on bringing in people outside of Zolder50's existing sphere of influence).  We hope to start the course on 28 February 2007.

There's plenty of other things that you can be praying about, but I'll have to post about those some other time.  For now, we'd be very grateful for your prayer support in these projects.

We cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard… (Acts 4:20)

Greetings from Amsterdam!  You may notice that this month’s “prayer letter” is a bit unusual—a “prayer video,” actually, instead of the regular textual format.  We’re hoping that the technology has become widespread enough that almost everyone should be able to play the embedded presentation (and if not, we’re hoping that you can figure out a way to watch the video at a friend’s house!)… Thanks to a special offer from a GCM videographer in America, we were able to give you some eyes and ears to experience our ministry in a more personal way.  The way I figure it, if it’s true that “a picture speaks a thousand words,” our hope is that this video (figuring in 10 minutes and 4 seconds in length, with 60 seconds a minute and 30 frames per second) will speak 18,120 “words” that could never fit in a regular letter!

We pray that the story represented within this video will be a great encouragement to you—as it is to us.  Please know that your prayer and financial support play a critical role in allowing this story to unfold!  We could never thank you enough for everything you do for our ministry…

Eric