Together4Bristol : TEN's January News

TEN's January News - Exciting Times Ahead

Happy New Year! Thank you for your continued support of TEN. We hope you had a blessed time over Christmas. Despite the cold weather, we are grateful for another year and the opportunity to walk alongside our partners as they faithfully serve God. Thank you for walking with us. Here's what's coming up in our January news:

News@TEN - Puppet shows and Christmas outreach in North Macedonia and also the many ways you can get more involved with the work of TEN
Christmas Outreach in Struga - TEN partners Emil & Vesna Puzderlievi celebrated Christmas twice! Find out how they got on
Online Partners & Supporters Prayer Meeting - Join TEN partners, supporters, our staff team and special guests Emil and Vesna Puzderlievi to pray together
TENteams - If you are keen to join a short-term trip to work alongside Christians in another country, TENteams may be just the thing for you!
A Prayer for the Balkans - A short video you can share with your church of small group to pray for the next generation of Christian leaders in the Balkans

Blessings Banner Photo: Winter in Chisinau, Moldova

News@TEN

We can't start 2024 without sharing news of Christmas outreach - here's James with footage from North Macedonia. James also shares some photos of outreach among the homeless in Serbia. There are different ways you can get involved with our work or inspire others to do the same. Keep watching to find out how.

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Christmas Outreach in Struga

If you watched News@TEN, you would have seen that lovely footage of Christians singing on the streets of Struga, North Macedonia. Some of you will have read about the Christmas outreach planned by TEN partners Emil and Vesna Puzderlievi in our November news. Here's an update from Vesna to tell us how it went:

We gave out almost 200 gift bags, each containing a calendar, Christmas card and gospel tracts. Overall, we gave around 400 gospel tracts in both languages - Macedonian and Albanian. Our biggest surprise was people asking for the New Testaments and Children's Bibles.

We had to make multiple trips to the church, bringing more literature each time. In the end, we gave out around 200 New Testaments and Children's Bibles. We were so glad that we could raise our voices in Struga and celebrate Christmas in such a public way.

It was a time of joy, warm wishes and kindness shown to our fellow citizens and it was welcomed wholeheartedly. We pray that the seed sown will result in many souls being saved!

Praise the Lord! Please keep Emil, Vesna and the believers from Evangelical Church Struga in your prayers as they continue their creative approaches to sharing the gospel. Pray for everybody who took a gift bag and that those who don't yet know the Saviour will accept his gift of grace.

Join Emil & Vesna at our

Online Partners & Supporters Prayer Meeting

We would love you to join us, TEN partners and supporters and our special guests, Emil and Vesna Puzderlievi online on Tuesday 6^th of February (7-8 pm) for our Online Partners & Supporters Prayer Meeting. This will be an opportunity to find out more about what they are up to in Struga, to pray for North Macedonia and the wider work of our partners. Please register in advance for this meeting - see you there!

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

About Emil & Vesna

TENteams

In our latest News@TEN, James asked you to consider joining a TENteam. We have two trips planned already - a women's team in Albania with partners Erion and Gentiana Cuni and Camp Fokus in Croatia with Vjeko and Jospia Mrsic and the team.

We ran these trips last year and they were a real blessing to all those involved. If you are interested in joining, contact us as soon as possible. If you know somebody who might be interested, please forward this email to them. We also hope to send a TENteam to Struga, so watch this space for more information on that.

More Information

And if you're part of a church that would like to send a small team to visit a TEN partner, get in touch with Melanie Griffiths and Lucy Reid to explore what might be possible.

Email Melanie and Lucy tenteams a_t ten-uk d-o_t org

And Finally...

As promised, here is a short video that you can share with your small group, church and friends to pray for a new generation of Christian leaders in the Balkans.

A Prayer For The Balkans

Thank you so much for your support. We hope you are encouraged and insprired - you really make a difference. Be blessed, The TEN team.

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