Dear Friends,
Here's a brief update on ways God has answered y/our prayers recently:
CRMS held a Focusing Leaders Facilitator Training a couple weeks ago, with four new facilitators and two new staff joining in. Really enjoyed it! James also did a Mentoring Seminar last week.
We had a 2011 staff calendar planning day last week, and had good synergy talking about ministry ideas for next year. With each passing year, our staff continues to grow.
Thank you Lord for raising up Asian mentors who are called to build
spiritual leaders in Asia.
The boys fiished football season last weekend. Cameron (13) got to play other positions besides Center, and carried the ball to score a few times. His team were the champions! Tyler (17) had a good season overall, but a couple of tough losses to finish the season. He's come a long way since that year in Pasadena on Maranatha High School's JV team. He has an MVP award to prove it.
It was fun for us as parents to pitch in where needed. Making meals, coordinating the announcers booth, meeting up with and praying with other parents. It was fun to widen and deepen our circle of friends in Singapore.
Tyler got results from his second SAT (brilliant!). He's now on to more subject tests and ACT. He's daily working at the university applications. Cameron is maturing in his responsibility about assignments and is already on to Basketball for one of the school teams.
Lord, lead these boys in discovering an ever deepening personal relationship with you. Help us teach them genuine dependence on you as they find the niche you have for them in serving this world. Thank you for your just-in-time provision of Godly mentors for them as they grow into men.
Join us in Praying in NOVEMBER:
4-7th - Tyler's off to a YoungLife camp this weekend.
8, 9, 18, 23 - James leads mentoring group meetings, with personal appointments on other days.
11-14th - James and Cameron have a Father/Son retreat to listen to Dr Dobson's "Preparing for Adolescence" and talk about growing up. This is a 13 year-old right of passage in our family.
15th - Joanna our first part time Administrator is training Regina Fermin these two weeks. Regina will start full time when Joanna turns her heart and focus to her two young boys at home on the 15th.
18th (17th in USA) is our CRM Day of Prayer. We will spend concerted time today praying for you and the things on your heart. Please let us know how we can pray for you!
15 - 19th - CRM will send out a short email devotional to staff and donors that contains a reading from the Psalms and prayer points/reflection questions. The purpose of this is to offer a tangible means of coming together as one community to recall His works, offer our praise and thanks, and finally, celebrate all He has done. It makes me feel more connected to you all when we have the opportunity to do such things together.
25 - 28th - a year ago we had a rather spontaneous Thanksgiving Dinner and the floodgates opened with dozens of guests! Pray with us for wisdom about how to use Thanksgiving Dinner (November 25th!) as a platform for hospitality and sharing the gospel in our neighborhood.
A lot of planning, and praying, and meeting, and encouraging, and stock taking is happening as we end up this year and plan for next year.
The Neighborhood Report from K!:
God continues to obviously be at work here in our neighborhood called CLEMENTI. The report* is much the same as before: Daily I am making new acquaintances. I keep meeting other Christians in the neighborhood. This little girl Yi Hui and her family are clearly the answer to our prayers for a tangible way our family can help the poor. She's like a "stray child" around here. In befriending her, she's not only blossoming a little more each day, but our neighbors are dumbfounded to see her tagging along with us. I trust we are a model of Christ in this, and will continue to lean on him for guidance now that the novelty of it all is wearing off (especially when she calls and calls and calls if she is not with us)! We're setting some good boundaries and she's learning consequences!
*the report* about Yi Hui is chronicled online through this link. An exceptionally funny outtake is written at http://charminfullbloom.blogspot.com.
Lord, together we pray for salvations, and the tearing down of idols in this neighborhood. Inspire the community to be kinder and generous with this little girl and with one another, but we are asking for eternal significance to flow out of the simple things like teaching her manners or how to read. Thank you that she now comes to church with us and loves being a helper and meeting more people.
A women's Bible Study, a mentoring group for younger couples, and a church home group broadens Kimberly's circle outside of the apartment and our local neighborhood.
Please let us know how we can be praying for you too.
Fondly,
James (who's laughing, not crying here)
& Kimberly Creasman
What We've Enjoyed Reading Recently:
Kimberly - The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus, A Clear and Simple Explanation of the World's Best Seller, John Cross. Exodus.
Charitable Giving thru CRM
(Thank you for making our work here an extension of your heart for Asia.
We pray that you'd have great joy in these kind of investments,
whether is it with us or with other good work around the world!)
Donation questions (in USA) 1 (800) 777-6658
you may add "preferenced for Creasman-acct 5651"
CRM- 1240 N. Lakeview, Suite 120, Anaheim, CA 92807-1831
More Fall Highlight Photos:
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Tyler played football on an Army Base in Korea.
We are happy that Cameron's student pass was extended through 2015 when he graduates High School. Had a bit of trouble in the renewal process with Immigration and are thankful for God's provision.
A good chance for a mother/daughter picture. We're thankful for God's care in walking Sue Coventon, Kimberly's mom, through many health challenges the past few years. It is so good to spend time together.
Cameron (in the center of photos). On offense (above), and defense (below)
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