Margaret Nurse

has been living in Marseilles, France for over 35 years.

Marseilles is the second largest city in France with 1.5 million inhabitants.  It is located on the Mediterranean Sea coast and is the largest commercial port on the sea coast.

Extracts from Margaret’s most recent Newsletter

Thank-you to all of you who wrote at Christmas, all much appreciated.

After the intensive period of calendar visits, I have been blitzing office work (including French New Year cards for certain contacts, preparation of my 2007 programme for England, and general sorting out and clearing out the piles of paper which have accumulated over the autumn!). 

I have a long visiting list, including people I didn't see this autumn as they don't take the calendar, often because of orthodox family members.  Those who do a marathon Passover clean need to be seen before they start that at the beginning of March.  Some people ring and ask for a visit, others are shut in, bereaved, in hospital, or have a new baby, and there are those who need discipling help.  Also, several people hope to visit me at home this spring.

Please pray for the ladies' group and their families, that each member of the group might know Jesus as Saviour, Messiah and Lord.  That they might make the necessary right decisions in their lives, and that partners/ husbands and children might be impacted.  The network of phone calls, prayer, encouragement etc. between the meetings seem to be as vital as the meetings themselves.  Please for a breakthrough this year where situations have stagnated for a long time.

I would ask prayer that with each contact, 'my message' ... may be 'not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that' people's 'faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power'. (adaptation of 1 Corinthians 2:4-5)

At the end of the year I fractured and cracked some bones (rib, vertebrae, coccyx) but it's not as bad as it sounds.  The main problem I have is getting out of bed.  I can visit, with care and it's getting a bit better each day.

Love 
Margaret