tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-309914642011-11-14T19:27:03.223-08:00We will tell of the Lord's Wonderous deedsRyan M. Thurmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10565823712585009016noreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991464.post-85040044083335057972009-03-13T06:54:00.000-07:002009-03-13T07:01:09.254-07:00

..In June of 1995, I was sitting in a make-shift refugee camp in Osijek, Croatia, filled with refugees from Bosnia who had lost everything in the war. It was here that God first impressed upon my heart the reality that in a world where man has turned from God there will continue to be hatred, oppression and violence of all kind that leads to many vulnerable and needy left in distress. And as

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Apprenticeship to JesusWe are now 14 adults and 4 kids representing 4 houses and two distinct neighborhoods and mission fields—with more friends desiring to join us. Lord Give us wisdom and discernment to know your timing and purposes and continue to provide for us each dayTake My Life conferenceThis weekend Feb. 6th & 7th @ Southwestern http://takemylife.org/ The A2J community will be leading

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2008 Highlights God provided all our needs despite the economic difficultiesSummer trip to Bosnia confirmed our continued involvement there.God provided property for Apprenticeship to Jesus (A2J)A2J Session I was amazingly fruitful—foundations were built upon and the ministry is growing and impacting more young people and bearing fruit in downtown phoenix2009 Immediate PlansJan. 5th-

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Dear friends and family, Thank for your prayers over the last few weeks for our family and community, we have experienced God's presence and peace. Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say to those with fearful hearts, "Be strong, do not fear; your God will come—Isaiah 35:3-4 last night these promises were experienced as God encouraged and strengthened us

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..Through Apprenticeship to Jesus we are trusting Jesus words, “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my father I have made know to you” (john 15:15) God calls us his friend. He wants to talk to us personally and frequently. As Dallas Willard writes, “The ideal for divine

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Dear Friends & Family I wanted to share with you a devotion I wrote to encourage us in our present difficulties to stop and practice the gift of remembrance, to reflect on God’s constancy and goodness. Click here: http://capturingmoments.wordpress.com/ We also wanted to invite you to join us any day except Saturday for Morning Prayer at the Apprenticeship Property. ( 115 N. 12th Avenue from 8-

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Bosnia Trip Summary Confirmation that Bosnia is long-term ministry focus for our family Work of reconciliation and discipleship was affirmed after meeting with key leaders Reconnection with young men I discipled 7 years ago while living in Mostar Confirmation that we are to continue our ministry of encouragement and support to the Bosnian leadership & strengthen the relationships with the men I

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.Enjoy the photographs and captions from our summer trip to BosniaWe ended our time in Herrnhut, Germany and drove to the Eifel to reconnect with friends we have built while working with George and Hanna Miley over the past five years. After a short visit we flew out of Cologne to Osijek, CroatiaBible School in Osijek, Croatia: I first stayed here 13 years earlier while working with Bosnian

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We are home, we made it safely and are now readjusted to the time changes and feeling caught up on life. Having the entire family at the meetings in Germany was very powerful. We are so grateful for Brittney and Ryan's help with the kids, their participation in our lives and ministry was a highlight. As we move forward in Apprenticeship to Jesus we recognize that the greatest opportunity for

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Upcoming ScheduleTake my Life planning Mtg-- May 15th Preaching at St. Georges Church-- May 18thApprenticeship Retreat-- May 23-25thGermany and Bosnia-- June 2nd-27thGermany and BosniaHerrnhut, Germany—there will be about 80 of us from all over the world seeking to praise and worship God together and seek His counsel for the direction of ministries. Bosnia—We will

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Greetings friends and family, Apprenticeship to Jesus momentum: As God continues to nurture, protect, and provide for this precious vision we have great hope; because just as in child birth, the mother and father have faith in God that He has prepared the mother’s body and the baby to naturally know what to do. So we in faith trust that God has prepared us for such a time as this. Still, we

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Greetings friends and family. We hope this finds you well!Bosnia Trip—Thank you for your prayers; I accomplished all I had hoped to. I have arranged the details for this summer and was able to reconnect with friends and get a good sense of the current needs of the young Bosnian church and how my family and Apprenticeship to Jesus (A2J) can serve and be a blessing in Bosnia . My family experienced

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Trip to BosniaGod loves the people of Bosnia . Bosnia is a country full of beautiful people created with purpose and intention. The physical destruction of war is less evident today, yet the hearts and souls of many people remain broken and in disarray. A remnant bearing the name of Jesus marches on refusing to give up. They boldly cling to the promises of their King , “I have come to make

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I am leaving this morning for Santa Rita abbey and I wanted to share with you a few highlights that are around the corner in the next three monthsAntioch Network Gathering: On January 8-11 we meet for our semi-annual Gathering of the Antioch Network Council (Board), staff and ministry friends. Our days will be framed by a rhythm of prayer. The mornings will be devoted to prayerful meditation

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Apprenticeship to JesusBuilding Partnerships: I have begun meeting with different leaders and pastors and am receiving encouraging initial responses. One recent meeting with a college pastor was powerful. As I shared with him the vision for partnering and praying together to see God’s Kingdom come in Phoenix and the nations beyond, he told me that this was something he has desired to be part

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Greeting Friends, I wanted to invite you all to come join us at the ODF Missions Fair next weekend (Oct. 19-21st). There will be a time of prayer starting at 7pm on Friday & on Saturday, there will be an international dinner at 6pm. If you would like more information please let me know. Prayer Requests:Most of the International Turkey Network workers are in Turkey( I was not able to be there

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What is God teaching you?He is teaching me His desire and commitment to see me, “transformed into the image of his Son.”(Rom. 8:29). I am overjoyed and humbled that God has called us to be His own and given us the dignity of being created in His image (Gen. 1:27) and the privilege to exercise authority over His creation (Psalm 8:4-8) and co-labor with Him now in His kingdom work (I Cor. 3:9) and

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For the past 8 months I have been working with the International Turkey Network on an initiative to mobilize strategic prayer for Turkey. The vision is to see at least 50, 000 Turks come to follow and worship Jesus. This is a God-sized vision, for there are only 3,500 known believers out of a population of 70 million) A small church in Turkey led by a Turkish couple with little resources,

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Three Pillars of Antioch Network:  Reaching the Nations with the Gospel—Making Apprentices(disciples)to Jesus Serving the Church in its role in reaching the nations  A pursuit of intimacy with GodWe are involved in starting & supporting kingdom works of:  Reconciliation—working for ethnic, social, and spiritual unity and reconciliation through Jesus Compassion—serving the poor and least

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Dear Friends, We hope this email finds you encouraged and aware of God’s greatness! We are doing great. We just got home from a successful minor surgery for our daughter Keilah. I am back in full swing of things after my time in Turkey and Wheaton . I have finished the Turkey blog that has stories and photographs of my time. Please look at the photographs and if you have time read the

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Greetings friends, I returned home safely late Wednesday night. Thank you for your prayers for our time in Turkey and for my family! We spent much of our time in Turkey hearing from God through His Word and praying in strategic cities. I will be spending the next few days processing the trip and creating a web blog that will have key stories and photographs. When it is finished I will send

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 Recently, I have been devoting most of my time working with Jayson K., for the past five months I have been helping him with the development of a strategic web page focused on mobilizing prayer for Turkey. Currently, the focus is translating the web page into Turkish, Spanish and eventually Korean so that Latin, Turkish, and Korean Believers can use the resources and tools provided on the web

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This is the team! We spent our time, this past weekend, enjoying the rhythm of work, prayer and study that is foundational to the Cuirim House Ministry in Nogales, Mexico. For the work project we continued where the college teams left off. We mixed cement with a mixer and when that died we mixed it by hand and laid the foundation for the addition that was built for Miguel’s house last month!

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Dear Team, My family minus Keilah who will stay with her grandparents will be heading down to Nogales, Mexico this Friday afternoon for the weekend. We will be continuing to work on Miguel's house. Miguel and his family oversee the kids cafe. Two weeks ago we built an addition and a new roof to their existing small house. This trip we hope to lay a cement foundation for the addition and

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Last week I spent 8 days working in Nogales at the Cuirim House. I went to help Brian Donahue, who runs the ministry lead 30 College students who used their spring break as an opportunity to serve Jesus. I had many wonderful conversations over meals, as we worked, and after our daily times of prayer and worship. We wrestled with the person of Jesus Christ and how his life is relevant to our

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“Wisdom unsearchable, God the invisible, Love indestructible in frailty appears. Lord of infinity, stooping so tenderly, Lifts our humanity to the heights of his throne! O what a mystery! Meekness and majesty, Bow down and worship for this is your God!”-Graham Kendrick Merry Christmas! Through your love for us you reveal the heart of our Father! Thank You! Our God is faithful! We have once

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We write this email with wonderful news, after15 months of difficulty including one verbal threat and another via certified letter to take away the house, the house officially is ours, or more accurate God's! We finished signing the paperwork today! God is indeed mighty! He does amazing seen and unseen deeds, not least of these is the work in our lives so that we did not lose hope but were able

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Dear friends, I will be taking the Apprenticeship to Jesus group back down to Nogales this weekend. In September, our group built the stone walls (figure E.) to protect the trees, which are the only shade for the kids from the sun, from being washed away by the rainwater runoff. This trip, we are hoping to complete the finishing touches on the property so that it will be ready to start serving

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Photograph of the chapel at the Cuirim HouseMinistry in Nogales, MexicoMy family is working with a friend who has started a ministry center called the Cuirim House. The Cuirim House is a center located in the heart of the Nogales slums that partners wiht local Mexican churches to love their neighbors. The ministry includes:Feeding children through the Kids CafeFacilitation the construction of

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We just returned from Nogales, Mexico. We went down as a family along with several young adults on an exploration mission trip. Some of you may remember that I was down in Nogales a few times last spring working with a friend of mine, Brian Donahue. Last month I went down to Tucson to connect with Brian, and he invited my family to explore a deeper partnership with him and his family in Nogales

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It has been over a year since we began our journey towards finding a home for our family; it has paralleled our ministry exploration. We believe our home is to be a strategic beachhead for a ministry expression in downtown Phoenix—focused on developing and shepherding a community of ‘apprentices’ to Jesus that will serve the Church, transform the community and bless the nations. This vision will

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I hope this email finds you thankful for another day to walk this journey of faith. Praying with those who have traveled this road before us; give us today what we need so that we can reveal your Goodness to the world through your working in us! We wanted to give you the latest information on the house. The great news is that we have received approval for the loan, and we received a move in

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Have you ever felt the pain of feeling left out and forgotten? Have you ever wondered if your life was still valuable and capable of blessing God and others? Or questioned whether those around you understand the depths of your heart and the journey God has called you on? I am quite sure you have because these are some of the common themes of what it is to be human. I am reminded of a song

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Hello!Noleen here, we wanted to give you an update on our housing and loan situation. We want to tell you about a huge praise first! A week ago we were given two separate one-time gifts that bumped up our year-to-date income through Antioch Network, which allowed us to qualify for the loan. We submitted the loan application last Tuesday morning and it is now in underwriting. We are hoping to

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Greetings from Baltimore ! I am here for five days for Antioch Networks bi-annual staff meetings. I came out a day early to help make all the arrangements and spent all of yesterday making 1 & ½ hour round-trip airport pickups. Thus the day in the life of part of the ways I serve within AN. Today was the first official day and it has been wonderful. Our time together are not planning

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I hope this letter finds you all doing great! It is quickly closing in on our one-year anniversary with Antioch Network! We have set aside time this week to reflect on this past year and seek Gods counsel for this upcoming year! We feel we’ve accomplished what God had for us in this first year we were able get to know the majority of the AN staff as we worked closely with them on the projects

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Well it is finally done! I just finished the Senegal Blog. Please browse through the pictures and stories. all you have to do is click this link: http://woloftrip.blogspot.com/ (if that doesnt work than cut and paste it) When you first get to the blog page look at the right hand side of the screen and it will give you a link section that has some of our past blog pages. (all you have to do

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We have been really busy since returning from Africa. Indeed we made it home safe! But things have been challenging, especially becuase both our little ones have been battling RSV since we have been back. Last night we had little Keilah, at the ER from 2 A.M.-7 A.M. She was having trouble breathing because of the the RSV she is battling, she is doing better today! Keep praying for us

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We wanted to send out a reminder of our get together next Saturday the 4th of March at our parent’s house @ 4p.m. The focus of this time is to be with you, our friends. We look forward to visiting, fellowshipping and praying together! As most of you know when I first joined Antioch staff we knew this first year would be an opportunity to get my hands on as many projects as I could and work

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Hope this letter finds you remembering that there is a meaning beyond absurdity, and sure that every little deed counts, that every word has power. Never forget that you can still do your share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and frustrations and disappointments. We are doing our best to remember this truth as we have been near the point of complete exhaustion recently

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Germany: International Staff & Council MeetingThis month all the Antioch Network staff, council and guests had a wonderful time of praying and sharing stories of God’s faithfulness with each other. It was great for me to visit with the many friends Noleen and I have made over the past four years, who are part of the Eifel fellowship in Germany. Through our prayer and time together we continued

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We just wanted to send out a quick update to let you know that I, Ryan will be off to Germany tomorrow morning. Dan Kane will pick me up here at 3:45 A.M. and we will start our journey. We will be spending almost two weeks meeting as a staff. Seeking God's Heart and plan for our tomorrows. We will end our time with a three day spiritual retreat led by George and Hanna. I am really expecting

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We pray you have a blessed Christmas and hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season thus far enjoying friends and family. The growing Thurman family is doing great! We are loving having our sweet daughter Keilah here with us (four weeks old now), and Ethan is such a blast at this age (almost two). We will be spending the holidays here in Phoenix with family and then in January Ryan will

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Greetings from the Thurman Family that has just increased its size by one. Thursday evening at 7:06 P.M. Keilah Willo Thurman was born. Her name means stronghold of Freedom. Willo, which means, freedom is also the name of my grandma who is an amazing woman of God whom our family can trace our faith in Christ back to her. The verse God gave us for Keilah is II Corinthians 3:17, 18 Antioch

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Hope this note finds you doing wonderful! Nols and I and the boy are doing great, we are getting closer to the due date of our little girl and we are excited. We wanted to follow up with our Newsletter and let you know the time of our sharing night. Dessert and visiting will be from 6:15-6:45 and sharing & photos will be from 6:45-8:00 p.m. this Sunday night the 16th @ Bruce and Ellen

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It is so good to be back in Phoenix with family and friends, yet at the same time it is hard to be away from the many long-time friends we have abroad as well as the new friends we made this summer. We have been home for about a week and have been trying to re-adjust and also scrambling to get all the things done that would help bring some sense of normality back to life sooner rather

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In GermanyHope this email finds you all doing excellent! We are doing great; the two-week Prayer Days have been over for a week now. This past week has found our family getting extended time with different individuals and families that are part of this developing apostolic community. It has been wonderful, we have been able visit twice our friends Maria and Birgitta. They are in the

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A little side story with regards to our travel to Germany: We left early Saturday morning from Cyprus for Istanbul and spent the day Saturday in Istanbul...We got up again 3:30A.M. Sunday morning to catch a bus to the airport. The bus driver showed up late, when Dan and I went to go find him we saw him in the parking lot sifling gas out of parked car, we don’t know if it was his or just some

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In CyprusWe have only a few days left before we head to Germany. We wanted to send out to you a couple of stories and prayer requests: This week we have added 15 new people to our team. Six young people from Turkey that our working with the Central Asia Team. Three other young leaders from Turkey who are part of Humberto’s church and also six girls from England who are part of the 24x7 prayer

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Luke 10: 1-7 “After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go. And he said to them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into his harvest…What ever house you enter, first say ‘Peace be to this house!’ And

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In Cyprus What our days and weeks look like what is the schedule1. Monday-Friday—24x7 prayer is going on all the time. The international community of believers who are living among us at this complex as well as visitors from other places in Cyprus are signing up for one-hour slots every day so that there is non-stop prayer going on for Cyprus. We are seeking the face of God, “one

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In CyprusNols sent out an email the other day but it appears to not have made it We are here in Cyprus! Ethan did a great job on the flights it was amazing how well he did he slept on the floor and ran up and down the aisles making friends, Cyprus is amazing today Nols and I were just praying about how we longed to make more contacts with the locals God answered our prayers today we were taking

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It has been an amazing past month for us. Here are a couple of highlights: Antioch Network Staff time in Baltimore God affirmed that He was calling us to be a people that seek to be in His presence to hear from Jesus and then to obey what Jesus is asking us to do. George gave us a powerful call to be people of purity. To offer our lives and allow the Holy Spirit to do the work of

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We wanted to send out a quick update. Life has been full for our family, we have been enjoying our time meeting with friends and sharing the vision God has given for us this next year. Antioch Network Staff Meetings--I fly out on Monday for Maryland. I will be spending Tuesday praying with the two other guys on Antioch Staff who I will be going to Cyprus with, we will be seeking the Lord in

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