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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Hi All, It has been a tormenting and fleshy day of travel from K.C. to N.Y. with one thing after another. We are in N.Y. safe in our hotel, but bruised and battered spiritually. We would appreciate your prayers for a good nights sleep, a good day tomorrow at the passport agency in getting Brayden's passport, the retrieval of every piece of our luggage that didn't make it to N.Y., and a successful launch onto the plane Rome bound tomorrow evening 6:30p.m. N.Y. time. May God grant us peace and power to walk in his Spirit despite what comes our way. These sinus headaches and the kids taking medicine doesn't help the warfare. May God heal us as we sleep. Nonetheless, God is good, and praise him for his mercy. Love you all, Saturday September 8, 2007 Morning folks, I am headed to North Carolina to be with one of our supporting churches. I am leaving Kansas City, Missouri early today (Saturday) and will come back here late Sunday to meet Hope and the kids so that we can fly out to N.Y. on Monday early. Please pray for my time in N.C. to be fruitful, for Hope to have much grace with family and the kids until we re-unite, and for God to prepare the way for getting Brayden's passport in N.Y. Plus, we will need lots of Grace for all of the flying, lay-overs etc... What a wonderful Maker and Savior we have. We love and greatly appreciate you all. We have had an amazing time in the States this time but now it's back to Italia. Thank you for everything. To update you a touch... in Italy, Lidia's mom is out of the hospital and feeling better. Stateside, Amy's mom had a tumor removed from her brain and is undergoing chemo and radiation. Continue to lift up Genny and her family. Gotta run. By Grace, Tuesday August 7, 2007 Dear Prayer Warriors, Good morning from Boise, Idaho. We are doing pretty good. Hope is experiencing some pretty sharp pains from the surgery area so please pray for healing there. I am writing you on another note though. Our close friend Amy who lives in Rome and attends our fellowship, has just communicated most serious and sad news that her mom is in the hospital with a brain tumor. Amy and her new Italian husband Stefano came to America to celebrate their marriage with family and friends stateside and were delivered this news upon arrival as it came on somewhat suddenly. Doctors knew weeks past that Amy's mom, Genny, was having some abnormal blood issues. After tests were negative for potential Lukemia, we were rejoicing. Please pray for Amy, her family, and her parents of course... Genny and Roy. We all know that God is God, the great physician, He who created all things and can do all things. Let us pray for a miraculous healing. In the meantime, God's power to comfort and sustain is just as supernatural as his ability to heal and change. Much wisdom and strength is needed to know what to do, where to do it (California or Ohio) and so forth. May God grant the family faith, hope, peace that passes understanding, and even joy in the midst of the potential for fear, pain, and loss. Thank you all for your prayers. We will keep you posted. In His loving Grace, Brent Friday August 3, 2007 Dear Friends and Family, It is a blessed joy to announce to you the safe and healthy birth of our little baby boy! Praise God for his faithfulness and His great goodness. He was born Thursday, August 2nd, at 12:27, weighing in at 7lbs 2 ounces and was 21.5 inches long. He is a cute fuzzy, little peanut and all is well. Brayden Scott Harrell is his name. Thank you all for your prayers, love and support. We are very excited and look forward to taking him home in the next couple of days. We are staying at St. Lukes Hospital in Boise, room 18 on the 8th floor if you want to drop by or call. Maybe give a ring before you think you might come visit. 425-318-9554. Joy-filled, humbled and blessed, All our love, Brent, Hope and family Saturday July 21, 2007 Dear faithful, Hallelujah!! Praise God from whom every good and perfect gift comes and who does exceedingly and abundantly above all that we asked and thought. Today our visas arrived approved and ready to go. We have never seen such fast and effecient beuracracy in the history of the Italian Republic!! This truly is an amazing miracle. In two weeks our paper work was processed and approved without them asking for anything else. Thank you all for praying and interceding. May the Lord bless you doubly for your faithfulness to labor on our behalf regarding this situation. May he reward you abundantly for your love and support towards us. We are so blessed and relieved to have that done! Now we press on ahead to the awaited decision from Medicaid for financial assistance for the c-section birth of our coming little guy. We should hear something at the beginning of the week. We ask you to continue to pray. I will be traveling Tuesday and returning Thursday to visit a church that is interested in what is going on in Rome. They are giving me the opportunity to share anyway. While I'm gone, some ladies at the church are throwing Hope her first good old fashioned "Baby Shower". Then we will be just one week away from the arrival of junior. Please lift up my travel and time with this interested fellowship that God might knit our hearts together to accomplish more in Italy. Also pray for Hope and the girls while I'm away... that the girls would be on good behavoir and Hope will stay rested and at peace. Sometimes when God is pouring out such abundant grace, we sit back and brace ourselves for something bad to hit! God help us to know that He is amazing and wonderful no matter what. He is worthy of all our praise. His loving kindness truely causes us to want to please Him more and more doesn't it? Great blessings to all of you, By Grace, Friday July 13, 2007 Hi all, Our friends who are missionaries in Treviso, Italy, Mark and Renata Nigro, are heading to the hospital there in Itlay to have their little baby girl. Please pray for them, Renata, the delivery, the baby's health, the doctors etc... A quick note on us... we sent our visa applications out on Wednesday so please cover that in prayer. Also, Aug 2nd is coming quickly for our c-section birth. We are still waiting to hear back on the possibility of financial assistance from medicaid so we would appreciate your prayers. Also, continue to life us up as we share in chruches about the work in Rome and teach the Word as well. Soon there will be a little DVD video deal on our website which we made recently for sharing the vision in Rome. Keep checking in. It should be on there soon. Thank you so much, God's best to all of you. Brent Tuesday July 3, 2007 Greetings everybody!! We are back in the land of milk and honey. God, and the bretheren have been exceedingly gracious to us. June 13th we landed in Boise. We immediately began working on gathering necessary documents for our religious workers visas. The process continues and we would appreciate your prayers. By God's grace, we will get them off in the mail to San Francisco next week at the latest. There are a few more important details that we want to clarify before sending everything. Pray that the consulate would email us or phone us and return our several attempts at correspondence. The girls did great flying over and are happy to be playing with grandmas and english speaking friends. Hope had her first stateside doctors visit this past Friday and was very pleased. We have a super nice doctor who is a believer. He didn't do anything major yet but checked the heartbeat and measured her tummy. It's big!! The week before we applied for pregnancy assistance through medicaid so please pray for God's will to be done regarding being accepted or not. We are sharing in some churches, taking things one day at a time. At the end of this past week, my dad went into the hospital for open heart surgery. Though I didn't get out a prayer note, God was ever faithful. They did a double by-pass in seeming record time... pretty fast. The prognosis is that everything went well and as of today he is at home recoupping. Amazing! Please pray for him to be truly born-again as he has never made that decision. God has been working in him the last couple of years, but pray with us that the flood gates will burst. Tomorrow is the 4th of July, our first one back in 8 years. It will also be a first ever for the girls. We are blessed by America as it is a great land with great people though it does need a lot of prayer and ministry too. Things are going well in Rome. The house we meet in on Wednesday's is undergoing some construction work so we had to move temporarily. By God's grace we can meet in our Sunday location even though they simultaneously have a study going of their own. God is God. We are blessed to have some guys coming in from different places to teach on Sundays giving Vincenzo and Robert some help. This coming week my friend Kirk Crager is going down from England to do some outreach and teach so please cover that in prayer. There is also a young lady interning from Washington. Her name is Allison. Pray for her adjusting to Rome and the folks in the church, that she would be blessed as she seeks to serve and grow. Once we get through July we will cancel our mid-week and pick it back up in September. August gets pretty bare in Rome. We are working towards our conference on Creation in November with Roger Oakland, Rick Oliver, and Doug Bennett. There are some churches interested in participating and we expect it to be very fruitful. Pray for the logistics, support, organization, and every detail... May God prepare the church and new hearts even now. This is going to be not only a great equipping tool for the body of Christ in Rome, but will also be a challenging tool for non-believers and evolutionists on the campus and throughout Rome who will attend. Pray for our speakers for their protection, health, inspiration, and preparation. The other day here, at the church, I counseled with a guy who had an affair with his wife a year ago and was afraid he had HIV. My counsel was to repent all the way, tell his wife, and let God deal with it all praying for reconciliation and restoration, forgiveness etc... God has already done the miraculous in that his wife is seeking to be forgiving and seeking to be in counseling together. He also got tested and it was positive on the HIV. God is so merciful. Praise Him. [Clarification] Keep this family in prayer that it would truly be healed and reconciled. Protected too. They have two small boys. Pray especially for the wife. One last note. A guy I used to work with years ago here in Boise named Matt is having marriage problems. He came to faith just before I left but has backslidden unfortunately. He wants to know Jesus and is open but says his wife has made up her mind about wanting a divorce. I told hiim that God works through prayer and changes hearts... so let's prayer them up. Please pray for God to melt down her hardness and lead her to repentance. May they both know God and fall in love all over again. They also have two children in the mix. Appreciate it. For those of you in the NW or anywhere that may just want to give us a call if you are stateside, our number is 425-318-9554. We would love to hear from you. In the meantime, have a great 4th celebration as independence is a beautiful thing. Also, enjoy the super-abounding love of our great God and Savoir Jesus who set us free from sin and death and has caused us to reign in life!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you. We love you all greatly and couldn't make it without you. By Grace,
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