Pray for Laura and Rich Freeman helping plant churches and encouraging and training pastor in Turkey.

Laura and Rich are associate development workers appointed with International Ministries and their nonprofit organization Turkish Connections International. They serve in the establishment of new churches in one of the least-reached countries on earth: Turkey. They work with Turkish pastors and key Christian leaders to accomplish three goals: first, identifying new potential pastors that are well trained and highly respected; second, gathering needed financial support for these new pastors; and third, maintaining ongoing contact with each new church, engaging and nurturing Turkish pastors. In order to connect Christians in the United States and Puerto Rico with God’s work in this country, Laura and Rich provide a quarterly prayer newsletter and offer service projects in Turkey.

Prayer Requests:

• New church planting projects within Turkey.  The government scrutiny and heavy handedness is making new church development much more of a challenge.
• Encouragement for existing pastors in Turkey.  Turkey is not the same country that my wife and I begin to serve in 2000.  It is some much more dictatorial.  Islamist viewpoints are growing.  Christian leaders must be so much more careful in what they say publicly.  It is very disheartening.
• Wisdom for Laura and I as we travel to Turkey.  It is very difficult to even enter Turkey right now due to visa restrictions.  May God open the doors