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