Happy Christmas and Thank you
I really appreciate the support people and have given to the team and the outreach over this last season. Thank you so much for all your prayers and financial support. massive thank you to people at Grace church and New Life who volunteered at the café and for the wonderful line up of dinner ladies!!  We covered 6 months of the season in Cyprus.  It certainly felt like there was some blood, sweat and tears.  But there were also some really good moments seeing Jesus touch and transform lives.

Rehab Café
This went down really well again with the workers and we were busy most days.  The team was bigger this year so even when we were busy there was enough staff available to chat to the workers.  We definitely noticed how much deeper the conversations went with people especially with those who were returning for a second year.  Many biography books were taken about lives changed by God and passed around the community.  We wrote our own stories on postcards that many took to read.

Ryan
Definitely one of the best days was when Ryan was baptized at Nissi beach.  Nissi beach is famous for its parties and is the main beach for workers.  It was a stormy day but his friends from Agia Napa and the Church on the island came to see him make a statement about what God had done in his life.  It was awesome! Some of the workers said it was their best day of the season! Ryan is back in the UK now and is plugged into Church, getting involved and growing rapidly in his faith.  He really wants to reach out to children and young people so he is applying for different opportunities.  Please pray the right thing would come along.

Sam
Sam became a regular at the café.  He has many struggles but during the season he started coming to Church and invited Jesus into his life.  He met up regularly with Laura and Simon from the team to go through Alpha.   Please keep praying for him he is still struggling and has backed off since the season has come to an end.

Random
A lady was praying for the outreach in Agia Napa. While she was praying she gave me a very specific description of a lad we would come across in one of the bars.  She said he would have a large cross round his neck but he just wore it as an ornament.  She said she could see him getting on his knees and wanting Jesus.  That was on the Saturday; on the Monday night on the street the team got chatting to a lad who came up asking what they were doing.  He fitted the description and had a big cross round his neck.  One of the team asked him about it he replied that it was just a statement that it didn’t mean anything.  But as the conversation progressed it turned out in the past he had met with God and experienced His presence.  To cut a long story short. He ended up praying on the street and giving his life back into Jesus hands.  He is back in the UK and is pursuing God and trying out Church.

Nicosia & North Cyprus
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Jessa
Thank you for praying for Jessa, Jade’s 14 year old brother who was brutally stabbed in the throat.  He has healed up physically really well. But continue to pray for him as he still has a lot of trauma to deal with.  The court case will be coming up in Germany soon.  So please pray Jessa would know Jesus by his side through out all this.
Jade
Is setting up and running a night shelter alongside the church in Newport.  She has over 200 volunteers to co-ordinate as each church building in the area will host a night per week.  This has come together really well so far.  Jade said it is really good to see the churches throughout Newport coming together to help the homeless of Newport. So please pray this will have lots of provision of resources and people.  If you would like to sponsor Jade to help free her up to continue to do this work please contact Grassroots.  Details below.

Kat
Is back in Colchester and will be working with her local church with young people but will also be one of the chaplains at her local sixth form college. 
Laura and Simon
Returned to London is September. Laura has just started a degree in law and wants to find ways to reach out to women that have been trafficked into the sex industry in the UK. Simon has just started catering college as he enjoyed cooking so much as the chef at the café!

Frances
Is looking to work as a chaplain to the workers in the bars/clubs and shops in her area.  She is at the proposal stage at the moment.  She has just got engaged and gets married in July next year. 
Maria
Is back at University and loved her time in Cyprus.  She loves politics and wants to be Prime Minister!

Next Steps
I am back in the UK at the moment spending time with family, friends and church here.  I am thinking and praying through the next steps for team in Agia Napa.   In amongst that I am feeling the need to establish where my home is as I have been transient for nearly 3 years and for my sanity I need to settle that one.


Thanks for reading and have a great 2010!

Love
Wendy

Well we’re half way through the season already.  There have been some really good things happening and some really difficult things been going on.  So as a team we would really appreciate your prayers.

Agia Napa
The outreach in Agia Napa has been going really well.  One lad I mentioned in the last update has given his life to Jesus and is doing really well.  He was here last year and started reading some of the books from the café.  Soon as he saw us this year he asked for some more books to read.  A few weeks ago he said the book he was reading ‘Cross and the Switchblade’ was making him want to read the bible so he asked for a bible to read.  A week later when we saw him he said ‘I want to become a Christian and come along to Church’.  He has been coming along and gave his life to Jesus a couple of weeks ago.  We have been going through the Alpha Course with him and it’s has been great to see his hunger to know Jesus grow.  He has been telling loads of people in the working community that he has become a Christian which has stirred up a lot of conversations.  Please pray for his protection and that his faith will grow strong.

Rehab Café
The situation with a venue for the Café has been a tough one.  Originally the venue we were in last year fell through when I arrived here in April.  We were then offered another venue but we had difficulty with an inspector that was either bogus or didn’t exist so it meant this wasted a lot of time trying to sort this out.  In the end we decided not to pursue setting up in this venue.  We were then offered another place where we have been holding the café.  This is in a great location but we have experienced some difficulties of threats to shut us down.   This has calmed down which is great. But the challenge we have every day when we set up the café is that the bar needs a massive cleanup and it is disgusting! To say the least.  I have been speaking to another bar owner if we can move the café in the next couple of weeks for the rest of the season.  I’m just waiting to hear.  Please pray this opens up or if not we would have patience for the rest of the season to carry on in the bar where we are now.  The name of the bar is ‘Big Dog’ we’ve renamed it the ‘Dirty Dog!’ Praise God hey.  By the time we clean it up it smells good.  We have been seeing on average about 100 workers come in for food and hang out.  In amongst all this we have had some great conversation to chat about Jesus, pray with people sometimes. Many workers continue to take books to read like ‘Taming the Tiger’ ‘Cross and the Switchblade’ ‘Tough Talk’ etc.  Quote of the season so far from one of the workers is “To be a Christian do you have to believe in God?”

Please pray
    * That we would see more workers meet with Jesus this season
    * For more favour in the community especially with the bosses
    * For life changing conversations and encounters
    * For protection for the team out and about at night in Agia Napa

Team
The season so far has been a tough one for the team in many different ways.  We have been very aware that it has felt more of a battle than last year.  At times it has felt like we’ve been in a bit of a war zone. We would really value your prayers.