Justin and Abbey Valiquette
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  • July26th

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    This Small Mountain

    Posted in: Ministry, Prayer

    Happy Monday! We hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We had a great time with some friends who visited for a few days. It was nice to just kick back and enjoy their company. But, today we are hit again with a dose of reality, and we wanted to invite you to pray for us.

    View from top of Capri

    By nature of being missionaries, we must fully depend on God to meet our financial needs. And, he chooses to do this through the body of Christ getting behind us. Over the past few years, our family has expanded (tripled, actually), and we moved overseas. Also, as a result of difficult financial times, we have lost a significant amount of financial supporters. These factors combined have created a very large need. In order to remain on the mission field, we must replenish our team of faithful supporters.

    Exposure is a key word for us right now. We are praying that our ministry would be exposed to as many people as possible. We’re very excited about where the Lord is taking us, and want to give as many individuals as possible an opportunity to consider joining our team.

    Sensitivity would be another key word. Being aware that times are tough, we want to be careful as we approach people inviting them to give financially towards our ministry. Our hope is to invite people to give $25/month, which is an amount most people can swallow. By exposing ourselves to hundreds of people, we are hoping that this challenge will bring in the support needed to continue.

    Would you please pray for us, that we would be able to meet (personally or via the web) as many people as possible and invite them to join our team? Would you also consider sharing (Facebook or Twitter) or forwarding our emails to others that you think might be interested in our ministry to Italy? It feels as if we have quite the mountain to climb, but we’re confident God will provide!

  • June11th

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    Newsletter, June 2010

    Posted in: Family, Ministry, Newsletters, Prayer

    This was our most recent newsletter mailing to our friends and supporters. Click on the image above to view the full newsletter. You can also right click and “save as” to save it to your desktop.

  • May17th

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    Summer Project 2010

    Posted in: Ministry, Pictures, Prayer

    Sorry its been a few weeks since our last post. We have been gearing up for the largest summer project to date. We just welcomed 35 students and staff from America who will be spending the summer investing time on campus sharing the gospel with Italian students. The Lord always seems to do tremendous things during these four weeks, so we appreciate your prayer for the group that their time would be fruitful. Below is a picture of the students receiving some training from Rodney, one of our team members. We decided to do it from the historic castle, which overlooks the entire city and its surrounding areas.

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    Training at the castle

    View from the castle of Salerno

  • April25th

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    How to pray for us

    Posted in: Prayer

    Many people pray for missionaries every day, and we have been told by multiple people this is true for us as well. We cannot thank you enough for those of you who do pray for us and our ministry. The following suggestions will help you in praying for us, in addition to other missionaries you know.

    Sunday

    Our spiritual life - Time to read and pray. Spiritual growth. Encouragement. Fellowship with local Christians. Good links with sending churches and prayer supporters. For integrity, reliability, consistency.

    Monday

    Our personal life - Relationships between husband and wife. Maintaining contact with children, parents and family back home. Friendships with nationals. Health and strength. Physical and spiritual protection.

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  • April12th

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    Did you know…

    Posted in: Culture, Prayer

    Some interesting facts about the spiritual reality here in Italy.

    DID YOU KNOW:
    • 32,000 (out of 33,500) Italian communities have no established evangelical witness
    • Only 10% (of expatriate missionaries) on average return for a second term
    • there are 616 official religions in Italy
    • there are an estimated 100,000 recognized fortune-tellers
    • less than 5% of Catholics are actually practicing
    • Islam is the second religion in Italy. Jehovah’s Witnesses are as numerous as all Evangelicals put together
    • 2.6 million foreigners live in Italy
    • in Milan alone more than 1000 teenagers commit suicide each year

    Would you take a moment and pray about these things?

  • March30th

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    eCiao, Take 2

    Posted in: Ministry, Prayer, Video, eCiao

    Take 2 of our video updates. Hope you’re encouraged by it, and will be moved to pray!

  • March11th

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    Spring Break Visitors

    Posted in: Ministry, Pictures, Prayer

    We are in the middle of our first week welcoming a group of American spring-breakers who decided to not go to the beach, but rather come to Italy and serve along side of us. This week our alma mater school, The University of Central Florida, is joining us.

    One of the main things we try to accomplish while they are here is to find creative ways for them to interact with Italians at the University and engage in spiritual conversations that hopefully lead to sharing the gospel. So for the past two days, we’ve setup large photo exhibits that allow students to come and observe. While observing, we engage in conversation asking how these pictures relate to their life, and their relationship with God. It has opened up some neat opportunities for conversation that we would not have had otherwise. Pray for more opportunities like this in the coming weeks! Next week we will host a group of 25 from Mississippi.

    How about you? Which photo represents your relationship with God right now?

  • February7th

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    Important Update Letter

    Posted in: Newsletters, Personal, Prayer, Reflections

    We sent this letter out to each of our friends and supporters, regarding our lives. Click on the image to view it in its entirety (or right click to save it to your computer). Please take time to pray for us concerning its contents.

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