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We began a New Year with great excitement and expectation.  We had a great crowd for our Christmas play, and the children did a wonderful job.  The New Year's Eve service was well attended and we opened the New Year with prayer, praises, and worship.  Our prayer this year is to see many saved and established in the faith. Pray for Victor, a Catholic, Nigerian man that Timothy invited to church, he was so impressed that a young boy would invite him to church that he came.  Pray for Betty and her husband, from India, that he will come to church and get saved. "  So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. " (Rom. 10:17)

God has given us a burden for the area of Pireas, we had several that responded from our outreach in that area: Pray for Mary, and Maria, and Vergini and her family.  Pray they will open their hearts and be saved and a new work will begin there.  Thank you for praying that God will send us a helper in the ministry.  The Lord answered our prayers and sent us a couple on a survey trip, Adam and Brandie Crabtree, graduates of BBC going through Evangelization for Eastern Europe.  They will be coming back for a short term in the spring and relieve our work.  Pray that they will be able to find a way to get a visa to stay in Greece. 

The world is racing full speed ahead to one world government.  2002 marks the entry of the new European currency, the EURO.  As you can imagine this brought much confusion as there will be two currencies in use for the next two months.  Everyone is walking around with a pocket calculator to find the exchange.  The EURO started with .8899 to 1US$ and is expected to rise and match the US$ before the end of 2002.  We pray for economic stability.

We began the New Year with the biggest snowstorm since 1963.  Athens, known for one of the best climates in the world, is now covered with snow, 67% of Athenians were snowed in for more than three days.  Many places in Greece had as much as 2 meters of snow (75 inches), with twelve hundred villages snowed in without food, water, or electricity. Helicopters are dropping food to relieve these villages.  This has been a catastrophe for Greece for they are not equipped for this much snow and 60% of the crops were destroyed, and floods are also expected to cause more destruction when the snow melts. 

On New Year's day the president of Greece announced that there will be "bad days ahead," once again the drums of war in the air, as Turkish planes are flying over Greek airspace.  After Prime Minister of Greece Simitis visited President Bush, a list of Anti-American terrorist group, the 17th of November, was released revealing top politicians involved in.  There is pressure on Greece to shape up before the 2004 Olympics.  We will be prayerfully waiting to see an end to these terrorist attacks in Athens, New York, and all over the world. 

The Dimakos

     Field Address: Dorilaiou 10  * Nea Smirni 17122  * Athens, Greece

( (011-301) 93 17 223 ( Email: dimakos@hol.gr