July, 2016

STREETCRY NEWSLETTER, JULY 2016

Dear Friends,
Greetings to all of you and thanks for your prayers and support of our ministry.
Recently we've made some changes in the church and cafe. In May we began closing the cafe an hour earlier which has given us more time for prayer midweek, go witnessing together on Fridays, and have more Bible classes. More people from the church started to come out witnessing. It has been a great joy to see how God is moving on the streets, as we preach the Good news there. More people let us pray for them, and more are open to hear the Gospel.

WORSHIP NIGHT

  

The Lord has been emphasizing the importance to pray for unity between the churches in Estonia. On May 7th we had Worship and Intersession night together with Praise Chapel church. People from different churches in Estonia, and good friends from Sweden and Finland were part of it. Several musicians from two of the churches joined together to make one worship team. About 50 people from 7 nations got together to worship the Lord. He moved our hearts to pray for the nations represented there. 

WORSHIP BRINGS HEALING

                          
During worship the presence of the Lord was very tangible, and there was a strong healing anointing in the room. Roosi, a young lady from our church, got healed from migraine headaches. As the Lord took her headache away, she felt that it was not only physical healing but also spiritual. She knows now that she doesn’t have to get used to being sick and doesn’t have to agree with any sickness in her body because God's desire is to heal. She hasn’t experienced any more headaches since. Praise God!

                                                      (prayer for Roosi)
We were truly blessed to have our friends, Victor and Anna, from Sweden visit us. We have known Victor and Anna for more than 20 years now. Victor was a founding member of StreetCry Ministries in Russia. Anna joined us in St. Petersburg many years ago as a missionary and served the Lord with us ministering to the young people there. They got married and had two of their kids on the mission field. Later they moved to Sweden but continued to be prayer and financial partners of the work in Russia, and later in Estonia. We are very grateful to have them as our friends and co-laborers in the work of the Lord!

NANCY’S TESTIMONY ABOUT VICTOR’S AND ANNA’S VISIT 
On this trip Victor and Anna ministered in our church in Tallinn and during united worship night. They both have strong prophetic gifts, and they gave a couple of classes about their journey of discovering their gifts and using them for the purposes of God. They have shared their lessons and experiences, as well as the Word of God with us. After the class many of us were stirred to pursue more growth in prophetic ministry. The next day after these classes I picked up a book about the prophetic and went to read it in the park. As I was reading it the Lord started speaking to me about a gardener who was working next to me. I asked if I can share some things with him. I shared a word about his struggle and regrets about his daughter. I encouraged him to pray for her and seek God. He was amazed saying that the word was true, and that he will definitely pray. 

VICTOR AND ANNA SHARE ABOUT THEIR TIME IN TALLINN, ESTONIA
We have been planning our trip to Estonia for several months. We felt strongly in our hearts that the Lord wanted us to be there during specific dates in the beginning of May. 

Back home in Sweden, a while before we left, on Facebook I saw a profile picture of a girl in the church in Tallinn. Right away I felt that the Lord started speaking to me about her. He showed me some things about her current situation and the calling He had for her. During the very first meeting we had in Tallinn, I was able to share these words and minister to this girl in prayer. She was profoundly touched by the word and later told me, that she really needed to hear it, and that her eyes were opened up to the Lord again. She had been going through a tough time in her life.

Last fall we got to know Dima, a pastor from Narva, an Estonian town which is located near the Russian border, about three-hour drive from Tallinn. Dima and his brother pastor a church and a rehab center for drug addicts in Narva. Both of them are former criminals and drug addicts. On the second day of our trip we had a meeting with Dima in Tallinn. It was Friday and we were supposed to go out witnessing with the team that night. Dima and his family came pretty late, so Victor stayed at the Living Room cafe for a while, fellowshipping with them and then caught up with us on the streets. Before going back home Dima had some other things to do in Tallinn.

The team from the Living Room Fellowship took food out on the streets to pass out to homeless people and others in need. A couple of weeks prior to our visit they had met Juri, a homeless man and gave food to him and shared the Gospel with him. That day we met him again, he was sitting on a bench in total despair. He had lost everything he had, and due to memory loss remembered nothing of the past two years of his life. Victor told him that his life would change today, and that the only one who could save Him is Jesus! Victor shared with him about the rehab center in Narva and gave him Dima’s number. Two days later Victor received a photo from Dima of Juri sitting in the rehab center listening to the word of God! (see the picture below). Apparently Juri called Dima the same evening after we met. The next day some of Dima’s friends brought him to the rehab center. He was literally taken from the streets. 

  (Juri in Narva Rehab center)

We really had a great and blessed time ministering to people prophetically and in prayer. Here is another testimony:
At the worship night I (Anna) shared a word with a guy that he is a musician, he plays guitar and writes songs. Victor did not hear me sharing that word with the young man. Afterwards he came up for prayer and the Lord started to speak through Victor almost the same things as I shared with him earlier. God is amazing!
His wife attended the Sunday service, and the Lord told both me and Victor that she was a worshiper, that she had a beautiful voice, and that the Lord wanted to use her voice. At the end of the service she came up to the mic and started to sing very beautifully. We were really touched by her song! So the Lord showed us the accuracy of the word right away. The couple was very thankful for the things we had ministered to them.

We were also so blessed by the strong presence of the Lord in the meetings. At the worship night I  experienced it in a way like never before. It has changed my life! So overall we had a total blast on our trip to Tallinn! We are so thankful for the way the team in Tallinn received us, thankful for their heart for the Lord and people.

HEALING TESTIMONY BY TRIIN 
A young man, Edvin, comes to the cafe regularly. He is a competitive boxer. While training for his next competition his pupil got damaged, and the area around his eye was swollen. Nancy and I explained that Jesus has the power to heal him and he agreed to receive prayer. After praying for him, the swelling was immediately gone. The next day when he went to the doctor for an eye checkup, the pupil was healed as well. He was very moved, and it made him ask more about God. We are praying for Edvin’s salvation.

HEALING TESTIMONY BY NANCY 
Imre and I were on our way to the cafe, and Imre noticed a man (Ervin) limping. He quickly approached him and shared that we are Christians and believe that Jesus can heal. We found out that he had injured his ankle. We asked him if we could lay hands on him and pray for him. He gladly received the offer, and we prayed together. After praying we asked Him to move his leg. Suddenly he said, “It is better! I am not even joking! “He was doing different moves to see if it is going to hurt, but it didn’t. We shared with him that Jesus loves him and that’s the reason He healed him. Please join us in praying for Ervin to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus. 

WORSHIP NIGHT IN RAKVERE 
Our church was invited to lead worship in Rakvere Karmel church at the youth meeting attended by about 40 students. Some of the young people did not know the Lord. By the end of the service we could see how their hearts were softened, and for the first time in their lives they asked for prayer. Many people were encouraged during worship and by prophetic words that we had shared. Here is a note from one of the girls who came to the worship night. 

“The worship night was wonderful. I have been attending Karmel’s church for 2 months now, but I have not experienced a stronger presence of God than that night. Before that I only had heard from others what it feels like when God touches you, but this time I personally experienced it through worship. I am still amazed at the accuracy of the prophetic words I received from the team from Tallinn. It was one of the greatest nights in my life! I am very thankful!” 

ARLO
     (Arlo (left) with Imre after baptism)   
Arlo received the Lord at our last Christmas Feed-In in Tallinn. Since then he has become a church member and a worship team member, and a volunteer at the cafe. He is such a blessing! We see that he has been growing in the Lord. Recently he made a decision to get baptized. See picture above. (see Arlo’s personal testimony in March, 2016 Newsletter)

MERLI
Five years ago Merli and I (Nancy) were classmates. I had been witnessing to her while going to school together. Although she believed in God she had never made the decision to really follow Him. Just recently she started to come to our church. When she first came, she received prophetic words that touched her to tears, and were clearly speaking about her current situation in life. Since then she has been coming to Bible study classes. She also has been baptized in the Holy Spirit and started to speak in tongues. Please pray for Merli to continue to grow in the Lord and make the right decisions in her life. 

PRAYER REQUESTS:

• More hunger for the Lord in our church

• Wisdom for the leadership to lead

• Spiritual growth for all the members

• More workers in the harvest field

• Fruitfulness of monthly Worship Nights 

• More fruit in street evangelism and in the cafe

• God's provision for all the areas of the church and cafe

• For people we are witnessing to at the cafe, to come to salvation

• Fruitful and Spirit led summer ministry time

Thank you again for your friendship & prayers!
Blessings,
John & Sara and all of us in Tallinn

You can see more photos and a video of the Worship and Intercession night at:
https://picasaweb.google.com/109763764736656092466/6285385267422860113?authkey=Gv1sRgCK2_ss-ulrTjCw
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwDMasAEX7o3VFktOERKaVpJR3c/view?ts=57486225