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Monday June 26, 2006 Hi Everybody, Once again, I must apologize for not being able to really put out a proper update letter since the conference, but getting teams and guests out of town led up to the following weekend, we had service Sunday and in a matter of hours today the Lord sealed the deal for me to go back to be with my mom for my step-dad's funeral in Washington. It is now almost 1a.m. on Tuesday and I will be heading to the airport in about 6 hours. At 10p.m. Tuesday I will be in Seattle. So all that to say, I need your prayers, as well as for my mom and my wife and kids while I am gone. I will be returning to Rome leaving Seattle Sunday a.m. and arriving in Rome Monday a.m. I will, by God's grace, get out a genuine update on all that took place at the conference. It truly was a blessing and God did many wonderful things. Our speakers were awesome and the Hungarian choir was amazing too. So many folks chipped in and served and came together in love to make it all happen. In the end, we know that God was certainly glorified. One neat praise report plus prayer request before I go. Stefano, who has been coming on Sunday's for about 3 months, accepted the Lord Sunday at church. Be praying for him as the enemy is now threatened by him being a child of God and so forth. I heard he had a trying day today... so.. the enemy doesn't wait. We praise God for him. He is a special bro and we can't wait to see what the Lord has in store for his life. Pray also for Vincenzo and Robert as they take care of the flock in my absence. Robert has been working lately and Vinni (as we call him) has full days with his little guy while his wife is at work. Vinni works out of home translating Chuck Smith's teachings for those of you who didn't know. Lift up the rest of the body too. Gotta run for now. Thanks for your faithful prayers and all of the love and concern regarding my step-dad Jim. We are glad that his suffering has ended and that he is with Jesus. Bummer for my mom and all of us, but wow, what a time for him to now be in the presense of Jesus. Amen. Love you all Brent and Hope Saturday June 24, 2006 DEAR PRAYING, This morning (American time) my step-dad Jim passed away after battling cancer for the last 5 years or so. Many of you have been lifting him up in prayers for a long time and now he is rejoicing with Jesus. We praise the Lord that his great suffering has ended but of course we will miss him. He was a great man and a godly man. Please be in prayer for my mom and Jim's family. May the Lord comfort them and bless them in this time of loss. May my mom have lots of God's abounding grace to get through it all and have wisdom to make necessary decisions that come along with the circumstances. May God be glorified in it all. Pray for me and my family too as we see about getting back (to Washington) for the funeral and being there for my mom. We ask for wisdom, God's provision, and that we might be able to be a blessing, an encouragement, a comforting presence as well as a help. Thank you all for caring and praying so fervrently. Many blessings Love Brent and Hope Harrell Saturday June 24, 2006 Dear Praying, I will get an update out soon on the conference and so forth but for now I am forwarding you a prayer request from my brothers in the North as Pastor Craig has not been doing so well. Please lift him up in prayer. Thank you for your faithfulness. I don't recommend calling. By Grace, Brent Harrell, CC Rome Fiday June 16, 2006 Hello everybody, Our first day at the conference was great. The way that God has blessed and provided with volunteers for staff is amazing. The theatre was set up all day Friday by all these workers, brothers and sisters and it just looked amazing. We have a Latin American church here in Rome that has a security ministry and they have about 40 people helping with security and children's ministry. Another church from above Rome has a hand full of people helping, the sound guy is a brother from outside of Rome, the camera crew go to another church in town..... It is really beautiful to see the brethren sincerely dwell together in unity. Praise God. Thank you for your prayers. Keep it up. Our speakers delivered some powerful messages last night by way of introduction so there was quite a buzzzzzz. There weren't too many folks there last night, maybe a couple hundred or so, but be praying as we get into day two and have our first concert tonight. Our band leading worship has worked really hard and were heavenly last night. It was the best worship that I have had the privilege of participating in for a long time. During one of the speakers the young guys employed by the theatre that work the bar (coffee shop) were asking me questions about evangelicals etc... and that opened up a great opportunity for me to witness to them. Pray for the theatre staff working alongside of us to be blessed and get saved. Unfortunately, we were unable to get the webcast going. Couldn't tell you why but no big deal. Sorry for those of you who were looking so forward to getting in on it. I assure you that you would have been and would be blown away. The whole thing is being professionally recorded with cameras and we are recording sound as well. So, there will be some incredible materials that we will be getting out to the world as soon as possible. Gotta run for now. It is 7:45 a.m. and we have a full day. Many blessings to you. May we not be sleeping or deceived as these last days rapidly bring great apostasy and great religious lies in the name of Christ. By Grace, Brent Harrell, CC Rome Saturday June 3, 2006 Hi folks, Lots happening here in Rome and the Harrell household. We are now coming down to one week left before Isy finishes her first year of school. Pre-school of course, but nonetheless, Monday thru Friday from 8:30-1:00. It makes quite a day for Isy, but she loves her friends and has a good time while she is there. Next week she has the big end of the year play/recital deal. She froze up at the Christmas one so keep her in prayer. Summer coming up for her. More time with both kids at home so pray for Hope and myself. By Gods grace we have a young lady named Aan-Sofie coming next week to help us out while we face off for the conference. On the conference, we now only have two more weeks to go. The momentum is gaining. By Gods grace, we are praying, working, organizing, getting out the word etc … We continue to ask for your fervent prayers over every possible detail. Some areas of focus for the next week or two:
We’ll leave it at that for now. We certainly need and appreciate your prayers. Praise God that he uses the foolish things!! May God give us grace. May He give you grace as well. We love and appreciate all of you and know that you will share in the reward as God moves upon Rome and in Italy through your prayers and giving. Special blessings in His name, By Grace, Brent and the crew Saturday May 20, 2006 Ciao tutti, Warm greetings from HOT Rome, (no complaints) We hope this note finds you fighting the good fight, standing firm, walking in grace. We are seeking to abide ourselves. God has been so good to us and we thank Him for his faithfulness. He is faithful even when we are faithless. Hope and the girls are good. In a couple of weeks Isabella turns four. She is attending the Italian pre-school and rips it up in Italian with her little friends. Olivia is growing and speaking more finally. She is now following her sister’s monkey examples and climbing on everything. Hope stays verybusy with me, the girls, her women’s study, and is actually tomorrow is running in a 5 K here in Rome tomorrow. We are rapidly approaching the dates for our ‘Last Days Deception’ prophecy conference here in Roma. Many things are coming together and we continue to ask your fervent prayers. I want to fill you in on some praise reports letting you know how wonderful God has been and how your prayers have been at work, and also give you some requests to be lifting up in the coming days and weeks.
There remain just under four weeks to go and every day is racing by. May God give us grace and strength to rest in Him, yet, labor with diligence to make this as organized and well planned as possible that it might bring great glory to Jesus and be a powerful, blessed, and stronghold breaking and edifying time together in these important times!! Thank you all for your support, words of encouragement, sacrifices made, and most of all, for your prayers. We will try to get out a separated prayer list soon without all of the update info. May God bless you as you serve him …not by might, nor by your power, but by His Holy Spirit. All our love, Brent, Hope, the girls, and our CC Rome family Saturday April 29, 2006 Hello Everybody, I don't have time to say much but I wanted to get out a brief prayer and praise report. First, Praise!! We are rejoicing and praising God for his wonderful, miraculous provision for the conference theatre deposit. We basically had until this weekend to get the amount due. On Thursday we had a person donate the balance of what we needed. Jokingly I said, hey, we still had one more day!! Mammamia!! The amazing thing is that it all pretty much came in over these last three weeks. God is never late!! We are blessed, humbled, and filled with excitement and joy. God is going to do mighty things we know. Thank you for your faithfulness to pray and battle together with us. Thank you to those of you who made sacrifices and gave with such conviction and belief in this conference, understanding the importance of it. Thank you for the many encouraging words and phone calls. The phone calls were especially nice. It is good to hear your voices. Thank you for walking in faith with us. May God give you as much joy and blessing and reward as he has us through this process and that which remains. Now we go to phase two; getting even more organized, making up teams, covering details, advertising etc... Please pray for the teams coming to help that they might be unified, filled with power, grace, and love, come with willing, flexible hearts, walking in grace, and ready to pray. May God protect them and provide for their every need. Then there will be the balance for the theatre and other costs. We will get more details out later. Please pray for a young man that is coming to our church while studying abroad here in Rome. His name is Quinn. I have spaced his mom's name but he called me asking prayer for his mom as she was admitted to a hospital in the LA area for severe kidney failure. Evidently this came out of nowhere. Lift her up, him and the rest of his family. May God's will be done. We ask for healing, comfort, guidance, grace for doctors and nurses, and for God to be glorified. Gotta go for now. Love and blessings to you all. Psalm 115:1-3; 20:6-7 By Grace, Brent Harrell, CC Rome Friday April 14, 2006 Dear brothers and sisters,
Thank you all for your love and encouragement as we wait upon the Lord regarding the conference deposit. It has been quite a journey, yet, God has continued to invite us to rest in Him and believe Him for great things. We wanted to get you some prayer requests and keep you up to speed as much as possible.
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Thank you for your help. May God bless your Resurrection Celebration weekend. Love from Rome.
Brent Harrell, CC Rome Friday April 8, 2006 Hi everybody, I wanted to get out another quick note now that perhaps you have revived from cardiac arrest concerning the figures over the conference. I simply want to encourage you as well as myself that nothing is big for God. He asked Jeremiah, "is there anything too hard for me". And that is what I must answer to the Lord as we approach these things that are impossible for us. God has his people and his ways. We are asking for your prayers, that as we agree upon the Lord's will being done for His glory, he will hear our prayer and answer with great favor, blessing us all and overwhelming us with His abundant provision. Then we shall praise His name in humility and gratefulness, rejoicing over his faithfulness. For now, our main focus is prayer for the deposit that is due at the end of April. We want to take it simply one step at a time. We are not trying to have faith for the total amount at this point. We are asking and believing God for the deposit for the theatre first. Pray with us as we ask our gracious Heavenly Father to provide $10,000! By God's grace, $1800 has been committed! Now, we only have to pray for $8200. Things are already easier, see!! Thank you. Your prayers are power in this city and in our lives, against darkness, and in the lives of many whom you probably will never know until heaven. There, you will surely see and be blessed as well as rewarded. Praise God! By Grace, Brent Harrell, CC Rome Monday April 3, 2006 Ciao Fratelli e Sorelle, Greetings to you on a beautiful sunny day in Rome. It is so refreshing to have some nice warm, spring weather. It has also been nice to be in a recent season of spiritual spring as we have experienced God answering some heart-felt and much needed prayer requests. I told you about Lidia getting a great job after much wilderness testing and suffering in various ways. It seems that Paul might be securing a job this week as well. It has been a year of unemployment for him with a wife and two kids. Bill's have stacked and it seemed that they were going down for the count, but we serve the God of the resurrection don't we. Thanks for your prayers. Keep praying for healing for Ester and Paola. Pray for a new believer whose first Sunday in an evangelical church was yesterday. Her name is Elessia. Pray also for Stefano who is a non-believer and has come a couple of times recently. Vlady has come through some failed testing and learning what things can be like when we are not clinging to the Lord. He is humbled and seems ready to step back, sure up that intimacy and go forward. Concerning the conference, I wanted to get back to you on what your prayers and the good heart of our Heavenly Father produced last week regarding the theatre. We got the first response from the (Elisha) theatre granting us use of the facility (great miracle), asked for a discount since we are renting for 3 days, and after lot's of faxes, praying and waiting, the administration responded favorably(another good miracle). We now have until the end of April to pray in half of the total due for the deposit. Some of you have written requesting the specific costs involved in order to be praying more specifically and some desiring to contribute. Here is a list: Theatre rental costs - $17, 000 for three days – incl. theatre, staff for sound, basic stage lights, and on location fire safety personnel. We are talking and praying about charging a registration fee or just taking an offering or suggested donation at the door. It is a very sensitive issue in Italy, at least in the evangelical world. Our prayer is that God will provide so that we can make it all FREE in this works oriented culture.
Please keep in mind that this is an international conference with its main target and goal to:
To some this may seem expensive. It does to me too, in one sense. But, it is an eternal investment! It is Rome. It is 3 days of intense bible teaching sessions and evening outreach concert’s. We spend a lot of money on our houses, cars, recreation, vacations, teeth whitener's, and so forth of which I am certainly not opposed to. Easy on the teeth whitener. But, sincerely, pray and consider the message, the time, the place, the need, and the potential fruit and impact, not just for one fellowship, but for the Church at large (particularly in Italy) as well as the amount of people that can be reached with salvation in these 3 days. As Hope and I watched the one year tribute for the death of Pope John Paul II last night on T.V., it was yet another sad and sobering reminder of why God has called us here, why we are doing this conference, and how much work there is yet to do as we watched thousands of Catholic faithful, gathered together in St. Peter’s square, in unison, praying to Mary as they were being led by high ranking Cardinals and Vatican representatives. This was their hope for the possibility that their pope would not die. Even so, a pope who openly worshiped Mary, attributed to her his failed assassination attempt, and called millions of Catholic faithful to pray to her for peace and salvation throughout his entire papacy. Well, as we pray, plan, and prepare, we continue to covet your prayers. God has done great things. We believe he wants to continue to great things and are glad that you can be a part, however you decide to participate. For anybody interested in joining us, we will be taking a couple of days to fast and pray either the coming weekend or the following weekend all day Friday and Saturday. Again, thank you as always, and we will be in touch to keep you updated on prayer needs and praise reports.
Brent Harrell, CC Rome
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