Dave and Sheryl Gehrls

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June 2008 - Personal Update:  The last nine months have been a significant time of transition, especially for Sheryl’s ministry, but new understandings of God’s deeper purposes are surfacing as well as new and exciting Kingdom possibilities…

As throughout history, God has again allowed our world to be shaken to help move us on towards becoming more and more like Jesus…This is true of churches and ministries as well as individuals.

Everywhere I go in ministry I see God shaking the salt out of the salt-shaker…   In the last nine months, many new ministries that have been gestating for years  in individual hearts have been released into the city. These new ministries need support and care.  

For many people called to vocational ministry, there has been some additional transitional processing. Questions like: “God, how will You provide for us to continue doing what You called us to do? What changes do we need to make?”

The loss of Sheryl’s salary and a third of my missionary support last fall was initially buffered by an influx of personal gifts that tapered off as several new churches launched out of the crisis.

In January, Sheryl started a six-month contract to help establish the New Hope Life Center for Women, giving her some time to process before moving into a new ministry assignment. That contract was funded by a one time donation and ends this month. Sheryl hopes to be able to volunteer some time in the future. 

As we have prayed, we have felt that our basic ministry calling is unchanged. I am exactly where God wants me. If we can raise enough support, Sheryl will also minister under CFCI. She would like to offer teaching, mentoring, and pastoral care to the Body of Christ, both here and abroad.

Many of you may also know that for several years we have hosted a Sunday evening team ministry with Burt Holland. That has included ministry to leaders in Costa Rica and Tijuana, as well as prayer with many local leaders. Sheryl would like to further develop this ministry team, creating a “safe place” for leaders, pastors, and missionaries to receive.

It is a great privilege to serve the Lord vocationally in partnership with those that send us. We are scheduling a number of informal small group info-meetings in our home over the next few weeks to share with potential ministry partners and we would so appreciate your prayers and support at this crucial time.  

Dave is an

International Ministry Coach for

Christ For The City International

and the newly appointed

Omaha Ministry Base Planter

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May 2008: Team ministers to Tijuana Pastors and Government Officials

The Lord blessed our CFCI/Fresh Start ministry team with outstanding meetings with several pastors and wives groups ending with a remarkable meeting with key church and city government leaders. Click here to see the pics.

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June 2008, God Is Blessing Prayer In The Streets:

As we prayerwalk high crime areas, it is not uncommon to have people come out of their homes and thank us, but in the last few prayerwalks the response has been remarkable as God is blessing prayer in the streets.

  • We are taking First Responder Prayer-teams to the site of every murder in the city within 24-48 hours.

  • There were six homicides in the month of March, but during the month of April as we did weekly Empower Omaha Prayerwalks where people of diverse ethnic heritages from every part of Omaha prayed together at strategic sites there was only one murder.

  • In the South Omaha Projects almost every team shared and prayed with locals.

  • Gunshots are heard almost nightly in the area around 40th & Spencer where one evening a 7 year-old girl was hit in the leg by a bullet coming through a wall and 40 bullet holes were counted in neighboring homes. As we prayerwalked this area people came out of there homes and the intersection was almost completely filled as residents came and joined us in prayer circles. There was dialogue and prayer with gang members... A TV news report can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO055DZPOPY

  • Ames is a very busy street but the area around 62nd & Ames has seen some very brutal daytime violence...  June 5th, as about 20 of us prayed in front of the Click Lounge where a young man was shot front of his fiancés' 3-yr-old son, three cars just driving by saw us, pulled in and joined us in prayer...one was a police officer on his way home from work... then the owner of the property stopped by and we shared and prayed with him.

Go to http://www.youtube.com/DaveGehrls  to see video news reports on Prayerwalks

To learn more about the various types of prayerwalks go to Eight Prayerwalks in 2008 to see the types of prayerwalks the Lord is leading us to do in our Metro area.

Click here to see a downloadable version of my Basic Prayerwalking Guide.

Click these links to see updates and photos on prayerwalks we did at The Neo-Nazi Rally at the Mexican Consulate and The Empower Omaha Prayerwalks in high crime areas of North and South Omaha.

June 2008: Family

Our youngest daughter Sandra is in her first pregnancy... With Twin Boys! and there are no twins anywhere in either family tree... If she can hold together, Wade and Sandy expect their arrival in September...

  

The Great Escape

2008 will be Dave's 33rd Year guiding a week of canoeing and camping in in the Canadian Boundary Waters Wilderness

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Spring 2008,  Focusing Leaders Class in Lincoln:

In May we finished a wonderful EMI (Emerging Ministries Institute) Focusing Leaders Class in Lincoln, NE.  Whenever we have four to eight leaders interested we schedule another class. In the fall of 2008 I plan to do a full eight month Focusing Leaders Network.   See Brochure...