We send you all blessings and love from our post in Bristol.  More than ever, we are convinced of God’s goodness and faithfulness as we make our way along in this spiritual adventure. God has blessed us with some really good spiritual friends and companions here who provide the good food of the Gospel in our fellowship times together. We love that!!  It’s worth so much!

Our House of Prayer is continuing to bless this area of the UK on a monthly basis.  Michael feels led to develop  spiritual mapping and organize prayer walks in the different areas of Bristol to increase the prayer covering.  We are praying for an open heaven over Bristol, that God’s Kingdom will come in power.   We see signs of that all around, like our street is a much quieter, cleaner street than it used to be.  We know many of our neighbors and Michael brought tea to some brick layers last week who said they had never seen such a friendly street!   Further developments in teams of people praying in the streets are spreading out across the denominations all over Bristol .      People are uniting to pray for healing and God’s Presence everywhere!  Oh how good are the movements of God’s Holy Sprit amongst His people.  during a prayer session with Fr. Scott Evans when he was here, Michael heard God tell him to payer walk the streets for at least an hour a day, and he will take care of the rest.  Michael has been faithful to that and continues to have amazing experiences and is gaining a perspective of the hurting and lost in our area.  He walks miles all around Bristol declaring out loud ‘Jesus Christ is Lord of this nation’ and other prayers.  He now feels called to start picking up the work that has been done of spiritual mapping in Bristol and to take it to a place where we can initiate intercession into different areas of the past and present for the city. We feel God has been blessing us during this time in so many ways.    We’ve just returned from a two day trip to London, where Michael had been given a pass (worth £700!) to a two day workshop on the digital media revolution put on by the British Association of Film makers.  He feels that we as Christians need to know how fast technology is changing and the effects it is going to have on society. We need to have Christians speaking out and leading in these areas because the industry is going ahead as fast as it can often without thought of the direction and consequences of what is developing. He has gained quite a perspective which I’m sure will be put into practice in the days and weeks ahead.

We were blessed with a wonderful visit from our son Mark who came here on business.  We had such a good visit, with a day in London at the British Museum – his primary desire was to see the Rosetta Stone!     We also visited Assyrian and Egyptian art which took place during the time of the old testament – so fascinating to see the art that was created in those times.

God’s been giving me revelation about art, and the icons, which I need to process now in the studio.  I am being asked to re define with more clarity what my mission for the Kingdom is in art.  Part of that is a call to excellence so I am visiting museums, seeing old and contemporary art.  I will be studying at the Florence academy of Art in July classical portraiture.  I’m very excited.  I’m also volunteering next week to help sell Christian art at a major Christian conference called Spring Harvest.  I’m continuing to teach two watercolor classes each week and want to have a more full on teaching job for the fall.  We may be commuting to London on a weekly basis to get work.

Here are our prayer requests for the next month:

• that God will give us clear discernment about whether to stay here or return to NY where our house is.
• Financial breakthrough, in jobs, sales of paintings, and any other income stream the Lord wants to open up for us to finance our endeavors.  This is high priority!
• Successful resolution of our house in NY – either a good sale or a good rental.
• Spiritual Protection – particularly on financial and health issues.
• Prayer for the Christian community to play a part in the digital revolution which is underway, in healthcare, education, music, video and interactive games.
• Spiritual mapping of Bristol can come together through many people working together on it.
• That Christian videographers in Bristol would start working together to witness what God is doing here.

We continue to be blessed by serving as chaplains at Frenchay Hospital with a dedicated group from Woodlands Church.

So, we love you, value your prayers, and love to hear from you.  Blessings and love, Christine and Michael

We write to you to keep in touch, let you know what we’re doing, and we do this  with great joy because God is continuing to bless us on this amazing journey He has us on!  Below is a picture of the beautiful Bath Abbey which recently began selling Christine’s icon cards in their gift shop – praise God!

The City of Bath is  a few miles from Bristol and the most beautiful city to visit.

We’ve been blessed with new art teaching jobs for Christine and an opportunity to present our work at a city wide Church event. Michael will be able to outline his vision of “As One” a website which lists Christian events and news across the denominations, as well as having a page of  24-7 Prayer Slot sign up also interdenominational.  We’re looking for key people to connect and work with as well as for funding.     This would also support our House

of Prayer which is gaining ground too.  Our vision is to support prayer in every way that we can as we know this is key to Revival sweeping the land. And we see sprouts of it happening! We want more Lord!

Michael is enjoying his volunteering at the Crisis Center – a Christian run organization which feeds and supports the homeless in Bristol. He recently heard God ask him to go out into the streets and pray for one hour every day.  His daily journey to so many different parts of Bristol have shown him a broken world of people who are laid low by poverty,drugs, alcohol, or a culture which doesn’t support Godly principles. He is able to pray with people at times, and always he is praying his way through the streets. He wants our house of prayer to start doing spiritual mapping so we know what to pray into in each area.   

Christine has been blessed by joining the British Iconographers’ Association and they have run a notice of her teaching iconography at her Paintworks Studio.

Another fun thing this past month – we were blessed with two visits from great

friends in God’s world and ours!  First, our good friend from Randy Clark’s School, Chad Cromer came with his new fiance.  They were guests at our February House of Prayer meeting, met the minister of the church we are attending,  and gave some powerful healing prayer which resulted in at least two healings that night!     Our next visitor was Fr. Scott Evans from upstate New York who came for the London Alpha conference. We were blessed by a wonderful night of prayer and fellowship before he headed to London.   (You’ve got to love my icon of  “Christ in Glory” behind them in the photograph.  It looks like they are right in God’s embrace, as indeed they are!)

We celebrated our wedding anniversary this month with a trip to the ballet in Bristol and saw Romeo and Juliette – very romantic!

And now for the really exciting news:  our son and daughter-in-law, Mark and Kristi are expecting their first child! AND our daughter Micah will be marrying her wonderful Tor Knos in New York in June!  How’s that for an amazing God!

So, we will be spending a good bit of June in New York.  We would love to come to give a talk at your church and share our vision.   We want to hear from you because it strengthens us so

much to know we are not alone.   We’re praying for changed lives, healed bodies, renewed minds and open hearts -AND a Revival! Do you have a heart to see the UK  filled once again to overflowing  with God’s love and Holy Spirit?  Won’t you join us?

Your prayers are an important part of our effort and we know we can’t do this without others. If you feel called to be part of our intercessory prayer team let us know.

We pray that God will bless you richly throughout 2011.     Love and Prayers,  Michael and Christine

Dear Friends and Family:

We hope you are all well and surviving the winter storms.  We’ve had really cold weather here, and have heard about the snowstorms in New York and Boston.  Yes, another winter is upon us!  But we know Spring is coming!!!

We’ve had quite the stormy last few months – some major progress and some heavy costs and wanted to share some of our process with you.  We believe God’s Glory will be revealed and established by sharing our struggles and victories.  We hope what God does in and through us will give you inspiration and hope!

Our second meeting of the House of Prayer was on January 21, the same night Woodlands Church had their half night of prayer.   We had a blessed meeting with the Presence of God moving so beautifully with us as we read and prayed into John Mulinde’s Prophetic Word for the UK.  We prayed for Bristol, for marriages, and children to be blessed, and for Revival in the UK.  Then we went on to pray at Woodlands until about 1am, then back early Sat am to pray for healing, then Sat night we had our prayer slot in the 24-7 Prayer room at Woodlands which had been set up for the week of prayer.  I had lent my icon of Jesus and a prophetic painting to the prayer room.  So many people expressed that they helped to bring the Presence of God into the room and we felt that too.  So, I was encouraged :).

We are still praying for God to bring another couple to share leadership with us of the House of Prayer and we are praying for a larger place to hold it.  Our next meeting will be Feb 8 which will coincide with a visit from our friend Chad from Randy Clark’s ministry. We are excited for that!

We have been blessed to be taking some free courses on entrepreneurship which are helping us understand how to earn a living over here.  So far, Michael has been working very hard to make our income with little results.  I have been blessed with a friend from Woodie’s who has helped me find a job teaching watercolor, and now both Michael and I will be teaching in that program starting in Feb.  It is only a small part of the picture but we see it as a breakthrough and we thank God for it.  I have also been blessed by Elim Church with the opportunity to teach a class in Prophetic art this month.  So we see signs of God moving in our lives and we thank Him and thank all of you for your prayers.

Elim Church is committed to Revival, and was originally started by the Jeffrey brothers from the Welsh Revival.  Pastor Simon is shown in this picture.  We are members of Woodlands Church where we feel very blessed, too.  The one thing we did not have in Philmont, NY was a good place to worship and we feel abundantly blessed with that here in Bristol.  Thank you Lord!!

My studio at Paintworks is a wonderful place for me to be in God’s Presence while I paint.  I will be moving into a slightly larger studio next month so that I can teach iconography classes there.  There’s no heat in the building (!) but I have a couple of small heaters to warm up the room.  Will be glad for warmer weather though :).

Financially we’ve had some setbacks- our investment we had set up three years ago to fund our mission went bad. Our inexperience with investing allowed us to put our trust in something which was not viable so we lost a large amount of money.  We are asking God to restore it somehow!! Nothing is impossible for God!  On a more positive note, we received two significant donations to our ministry for December and January.  One was from St. Michael’s Church in Colonie, NY, and one was from my son, Mark and his wife Kristi.  We felt so encouraged and supported and they have made a big difference to our hope and confidence and finances!   

That’s me at the Tate Modern in London.   Very happy with all the art I get to enjoy here!  Regarding our house in Philmont – we waited three months for some buyers who were interested, but  now need to move on and see if we can find a good renter.

As always, we appreciate your prayers very much.  You are all in our prayers, too.  I love praying for people!!

Here’s Michael:   Over Christmas I was able to spend some time editing some of the video work that I have recorded and sent out one on the Healing Love of God to You Tube. I am sure that as we see God healing people it encourages us to push further in our own prayers. Also as we see people testify of their healing and how God worked in them we realize what an important part testimony is in keeping the healing and also passing the vision on that God heals even in diseases which a person may have lived with for twenty years. This is very important especially in cultures which have become comfortable with a concept of a passive God. A God that is doing wonderful works in far off places but not healing my neighbors next door. We know God is very powerful and able to do far more than we can possibly imagine and it is vital that we hold that in our hearts as we pray for healing. Here is the site for the video if you have not seen it yet, please pass it on to anyone who it might encourage.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIrUh-Qw1eo

To that end I have been given a larger vision to use videography to communicate what God is doing in this city through as many different expressions of Christianity there are. I am also praying for another person who has this on their hearts to work with me in this arena. This year is going to see big steps forward as we start to build momentum to pooling the different resources across Bristol to pray for a revival here.  Here are links to my Memorial Photography site and website:  www.memorialphotography.com   http://www.mickhales.net

We are blessed to be part of Bob & Marge Morrison’s Charity called “Unto Life”.  Your donation to our ministry will be tax deductible if you make the check out to “Unto Life”, put our names in the memo line, and send it to:  Bob & Marge Morrison, 411 Gettysburg Pike , Mechanicsburg, PA,   17055.  

We love you all and couldn’t do this without knowing you love and support us in your prayers.  Thank YOU!!

“The people who are walking in great darkness have seen a great light…”Isaiah 9:2

Hello Everyone:  We missed you all especially at Thanksgiving this year.  That is such a great holiday to celebrate – giving thanks to God for all that He’s given us.  We had fun explaining it to our friends here – everyone seemed surprised that we don’t give gifts at Thanksgiving, but that it’s  a time for feasting with our families and loved ones.

Poking out of my head in this recent rare photo of the two of us together is our tiny Christmas tree.  It sits on our mantle and is just the right size for us this year.

We have some sad news – our sweet little Dylan dog died on Dec 1 of a hereditary disease. She was the sweetest and most beautiful dog and we are missing her greatly.   I believe that I’ll see her in heaven.  May not be perfect Theology, but it works for me!

Thanks to all of you who prayed for our first “House of Prayer and Creativity” meeting on December 10.  Our house was filled to capacity with some really wonderful people who are committed to praying on a regular basis.  We will be following a Celtic model of keeping more of a rhythm of prayer rather than a 24-7 prayer watch.  That means we have Morning, Noon, Evening and Night Prayer – simple liturgies which all can follow when they can.  We have a prayer focus for Bristol, the Nation, and more personal concerns as well.  We have a blessing sheet, too, which speaks out blessing to artists and families in our area.  If any of you would like to see more, I can email those to you as an attachment.  The blessings are a wonderful way of speaking forth God’s best for us and proclaiming His goodness in every situation.  Our next meeting is Fri, Jan 21, also here at our house.  Our house is becoming a House of Prayer – Yay!     But we are praying for a bigger space to house the House of Prayer as well as for another couple to be core members with us.

To the right is a snap of my new painting studio at Paintworks – an art community of creatives who work in several buildings very near where we live.  There’s no heat – so it’s been very cold, but I love it there.  It’s becoming a special place of prayer and creativity for me.  I’m still teaching watercolor classes and will start looking into teaching iconography this spring.

This is the “Angel of Repentance” which God showed me to paint last week at Church.  God told me to release this angel in Bristol and in the UK, and that it is an honor to be considered worthy to receive this angel because it is so beautiful in His sight.

I feel more and more convinced that God has brought us here for a purpose, and that what we’ve given to be here is a treasure to Him.  I feel blessed with His inspiration more and more every day, and we keep meeting amazing people here in Bristol who have been faithfully serving and praying over many years.  It’s a joy to begin to be a part of what God is doing here and I hope as time goes on we can share it with all of you in many different ways.     Here’s Michael:  

Here is a picture of Christine painting at Bristol Interfaith Festival, which was a festival of many different religions which are represented in Bristol. For me, Michael, this has been a very interesting experience returning to live in my own country after being away for 29 years. I have to say that it has not been an easy transition so far and we knew from before coming to live here that it would be difficult. However, perhaps what is the hardest aspect of being in England is seeing how much this country needs a revival. There are many wonderful works of God going on here and there are some wonderful churches but the country as a whole appears to be moving further away from a God fearing nation at a rapid rate. There seems to be a spirit of numbness over the country, it is as though we need to shout Awake, Awake even in the Christian community. We strongly believe there is a revival coming to this nation and we can see God positioning people in various different ways and we believe Bristol is going to be one of the break out ports of the Holy Spirit.

So the vision God has placed on my heart is to create a website which has three main elements. This vision was for Bristol but it could be for any city or region. Its purpose is to create a prayer covering, a notice board of all that is going on in the body of Christ by date in the city and then to proactively equip, train people in the churches to video what God is doing and quickly post it for the city to see. The three elements are separate but also interwoven. The prayer covering is a timetable where people make a spiritual commitment to pray, The Notice Board is by date so one can see for each day what Christians are doing each day. The video forum is the testimony page where what God is doing does not get lost but is established and raises the faith of the community. I believe one of the most important parts we can play to bring a revival into being is to have the different parts of the church body working together As One. This often means getting the church leaders of a city to work together purposefully. So please keep this vision in your prayers as I approach different leaders in this city to become proactive in this vision.

The photograph above is of  Ffald-y-Brenin a House of Prayer in Pembrokshire, Wales and the sky picture is from there. It is known as a thin place and God’s presence is strongly felt there. The picture of the sky is  above Ffald-y-Brenin and there are many vapor trails from planes heading West from England to America. We live in such an incredible world that we can physically fly from one place to another by plane and we also live in a spiritual world where we can travel in the spirit. Our cries go out for these two countries England and America to travel in the Holy Spirit out of the wilderness we so often see around us.

“Verily the sky is riven with angels voices singing:

Gloria, Gloria, excelsis in the Highest!”

To make a donation to the Hales’ ministry, Kingdom Arts Ministry, Make check out to “Unto Life”  with our name in the Memo line, and send to:

Bob & Marge Morrison, 411 Gettysburg Pike, Mechaniccsburg,PA  17055

Hello Dearest Friends and Family:

This past month has marked some satisfying breakthroughs for us in so many ways.  Most importantly is the revelation that we are resting in God’s Presence first, then from that we are moving out to do something for the Kingdom.  We recently went on a retreat in Wales for the purpose of learning how to start a House of Payer.  This is a grass roots kind of prayer meeting with a core group of committed people who meet on a regular basis to pray and worship together.  God has put it on our hearts to start a house of prayer and creativity – a place where artists (and other people!) can come and worship for hours while painting, playing their musical instrument and resting in God’s Presence.  We will use a rhythmic prayer schedule, similar to the Celtic model of morning, midday and evening prayers.  Michael and I have started already and are praying for the right couple to form a core group with us, and we are also praying for a space which can be permanently dedicated to prayer.  We want people who need to be in God’s Presence to have access to it 24-7, and be able to pray when in need.

We are planning on renting a space in a building where Christine and other artists will have studios.  We feel that by renting the space in a creative setting we will attract other creatives who might not otherwise go to a church to pray.

We are beginning to understand more our calling as Cultural Revivalists, who want to bring God’s Kingdom through the arts.  Christine has started teaching painting in a secular setting to a group of older adults and she is also teaching Prophetic Art at a really great church in Bristol called Elim, as part of their evening school of transformation.  She’s continuing volunteering at the Wellspring Center, drawing young mothers and their babies, as well as assisting Michael in Chaplaincy times.

This is a view of Chrst Church in Bristol’s art walk celebration with one of Christine’s icons of the Crucifixion hanging on a column amidst brightly colored leaf shapes.  These leaves had prayers written on each one and were heartfelt testimonies to their hope  in restoration and healing.

What’s not immediately obvious here is Michael’s beautiful photography making it all possible.  He has one more trip back to NY for work this month.  We’re praying that God will place him in some good work situations here in the UK, but we are also grateful for answered prayers of work in NY.  Michael is getting more excited and experienced in videography and is making some short documentaries of how God is working in our midst.  We will post them on the blog when they’re ready!

This is a detail of an 8ft x8ft  prophetic painting Christine did for Elim Church’s One Thing Celebration.  The Scripture reference was Psalm 24:8  “Who is this King of Glory?  the Lord God Almighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.”  It was an awesome night or prayer and worship, and we prayed for Bristol to be full of God’s blessings.  I believe that Revival is coming in to the UK like the ocean tide – slowly, almost imperceptibly at times, but steadily inching forward.

Our friends the Morrisons have completed the 501-3c application for the charity “Unto Life” which we are blessed to be part of.  Now, if God moves any of you to contribute financially to what we’re doing, it will be tax deductible if you: make the check payable to Unto Life and write on the memo “For Michael and Christine Hales”.  You can send it to: Unto Life, 411 Gettysburg Pike, Mechanicsburg, PA  17055. If you have a purpose you would like it applied to, just send us a note or email and we will earmark it for that purpose.  We want to do a lot of outreach once we have the prayer house established so that we can bring God’s love to people who are hurting and in need in various ways. The retreat we went to about the House of Prayer was a Trans Med Vision – houses of prayer spriging up in nations around the Mediterranean.  We asked if Bristol could be considered as being on the Med 🙂  and God’s favor on us charmed them into it!  So we are now part of a team of English and Welsh people with a vision for establishing Houses of Prayer in England and Europe.  Very Fun!

We send you our love and prayers – we are praying several times a day now, so if there’s anything specific you want us to pray for let us know!  Love,   Michael and Christine

Dear Family and Friends:

Hello again from Bristol, UK.  It’s always hard to say good bye to summer, but this year we celebrated with the annual Bristol Balloon Festival.  Thousands of people went and it was a beautiful afternoon – apparently it’s the biggest balloon festival in Europe ( can’t say as I’ve ever heard of a balloon festival before!)

We’ve been reading some inspiring biographies on men of faith and the power of prayer,   George Mueller and Rees Howells.  George Muller was a minister in Bristol who God asked to start orphanages to take care of the homeless children in the UK.  By faith, he started what eventually became five orphanages and cared for over 10,000 orphans.  His legacy of faith inspires many people here and we talk about opening the ancient wells of spiritual heritage here from people like him, also John Wesley’s first chapel is in Bristol too.

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While we wish we were more connected in our ministry by now, we do have some progress to report:  We attended the Charismatic Anglican “New Wine” Conference http://www.new-wine.org/summer in August, and met many good ministries there, we connected with Andy Freeman of Britain’s 24-7 Prayer movement http://uk.24-7 prayer.com/ and are exploring setting up a 24-7 house of prayer here in Bristol.  Here’s a link to the blog I’ve just started for it. http://revival4uk.wordpress.com/ We are praying about starting up a monthly calendar with one and two hour slots people can sign up for to pray either at their home, work place, or church.  Eventually we hope to have a house of prayer space here in Bristol.

We visited Bath City Church this summer and it has lots of great things happening there- we hope to join in with them, too as the year progresses. http://www.bathcitychurch.org.uk/

Bath has lovely gardens and Roman Baths.

We have been attending

We have been attending Woodlands Community Church in Bristol  http://www.woodlandschurch.net/ which has about 1000 people, mostly college age.  We have been asked to host a pastorate- a home group in our home starting in September.  We are so happy!  It’s what we have been praying for – to be in a close community of Christians who we can pray with and transform our community.  So, thanks for your prayers!!

Now we are getting ready to go to a conference called “Greenbelt”   http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ for 3 days of camping!!!  Help!  I’ve never camped before, but these Brits camp ALL THE TIME!!  Good grief!  AND the weather is supposed to be horrible!  But these are Christian artists – of all kinds- and we have to go.  This, however is our tent- where we will be living from Friday August 27 through Sunday:)

So, more prayers, please!!!  Please pray that we will be warm, meet lots of great people, new friends, and see a place for our ministry here.  Also, we request your prayers for God to bless us with finances to fund our work here.  We are applying for jobs of all kinds, and any door the Lord opens will be a good one!  Last week I was blessed to get my NI (like our social security number) so I can work now, Yipee!  And Mike is working to get established as a photographer here, and also applying for jobs of any kind to keep us going through the winter.

Well, be well, and be sure to comment your thoughts and any prayer requests.  We’re going to be trying to respond to each comment (I’ve learned that’s what you’re supposed to do :)) .   So, keep your comments coming!  We love you passionately and want to stay in touch,

Blessings,

Christine and Michael

19 Chatsworth Rd, Arnos Vale, Bristol,  BS43EX  UK

0117 904 8988

In June we’ve had so many people receive healings, both physical and spiritual, through the Randy Clark conferences in Bath, Sheffield, and Southampton, and also through Bill Johnson’s Conference in Bristol.  We’ve helped out in both – Michael doing camera work and photography and myself in prayer team and prophetic painting.

Prophetic Painting is on the beginning edge here, and I met another prophetic artist with a similar call to set up a creative house of prayer in Romania.  We are praying about the House of creativity and prayer that we are called to so it’s great to be friends with a similar missionary.

This is the painting I did during worship at the Bill Johnson Conference.  The presence of God was so heavy, the worship team half crawled to the stage, Bill went to pray for each one and the lead singer fell over on the floor, along with half the team!  When they finally started playing, this is what I painted.  God was showing me how to take an incredible leap of faith and He talked me all the way through it.  At least one person received deliverance from watching it being painted – a dancer.  Many others said they received healing from spiritual issues.When they showed this as background to Bill speaking, Michael and I both saw extra angels in it!  Several times we saw that!  I think God was painting too! What could be more fun?     Here are some photos which feature our house -small but very nice.                                                                                              Well, this will be a shorter blog – more later this month.  We are going to spend Friday (tomorrow)fasting and praying to hear more of God’s will for us.  So, please keep us in your prayers, too.  We absolutely cannot do this without your prayers!  I believe we are at a point now where we need to really hear from Him, and begin to reach out in the direction He has for us.  This will be an exciting summer and we look forward to sharing it with all of you.  We miss you!  We look forward to your comments and posts!  You are all in our prayers, daily, and we send you our love,

Michael and Christine

Praying on the Streets in BristolPainting prophetically in Bristol!Praying on the Streets!
Since the Release Conference a week ago with Bill Johnson, we’ve had unprecedented numbers of people going out praying in the streets, bringing God’s love to everyone they can find!!

Michael and I made sure we got to Bristol before that conference because we knew that it could have a big impact on Revival in this country and we wanted to be part of it.  We saw miracles at that conference!  We , along with an amazing prayer team partly from Bethel and partly Bristolians, prayed as a team every night and saw many many people get healed.  It was an amazing time of calling forth the Holy Spirit to fall on Bristol like never before.  Bristol is a gateway to England, and we believe it is where the Revival will enter in and change this whole country.

An amazing phenomenon that happened during the conference was a billboard went up all over Bristol – it was a huge red cross on a white back ground and it said “50 million believers”  !!!We claimed it as a prophetic sign of what is to come!  The interesting thing about it is that now the conference is over, the posters have disappeared!  I’ve seen this with my own eyes!

There is a new cafewhich opened in our area of town, so after our street praying we went in and prayed God into the space while we debriefed – Pretty Fun!
Bristol is quite a large city with many differenct areas.  We live on the South SIde in Arnos Vale, and we went praying on the streets this morning with about 8 people, praying for God’s love to spread all through this City, person by person.  I prayed for a little girl who God had shown me during a treasure hunt.  We prayed for restoration in her family, and we were so blessed to have been able to do that.  So many stories of people we’ve prayed for, and you can see a light shining in their eyes now.  The light of love and hope.  We are SO HAPPY to be here doing this.Our street, and our house.  We bought a little diesel car – gas is very expensive here.  We are both praying for jobs to support ourselves financially.  I will be volunteering as an art therapist at a neighborhood community center, until I can figure out what else I can do.  This coming weekend I am blessed to have an opportunity to do a workshop on icons at a street fair, sponsored by the Salvation Army!!!  How amazing!  This will give me an idea of how and what people think of icons are here!

So, if you pray for us, specifically for provision, for restoration of Health for Christine, and for the work Mike will be doing with Randy Clark and his team over the next week, we would be very appreciative.  You are always in our prayers.  Do comment, we love to hear from you.  Also, if you want to keep receiving these, sign up for the subscription – at a certain point we won’t be sending out mass emails, so that only those who want to get this will ! 🙂

We send you our love, Michael and Christine