Thursday, October 23, 2008

Sustained and encouraged


We returned home last night following the closing service of our annual Baptist World Mission meeting. We left the Milwaukee area and drove through Chicago at about 1 am. It's a pretty good time to get through without fighting so much traffic! We got home and received some good news on the phone answering machine. A pastor from Iowa had called to tell us they wanted to begin supporting us.

So...drum roll please...we have broken the 60% level!

Tomorrow we leave to go to Virginia and will be there all day Sunday. Then back home to Michigan.

Please pray for that Virginia church and another in Michigan (where we recently presented) to take on supporting us.

I also wanted to praise the Lord for several key people we got to talk with at the Milwaukee meeting. We have a new field director and were specifically helped and encouraged by some other veteran missionaries. Their insight is exactly what the Lord needed for us to hear. We also spent time with the team leadership couple we will be most directly working with in Porto Alegre. The Lord has given us so much this week...the cup overflows. We are grateful to have gone.

"May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ." 2 Thessalonians 3:5

Monday, October 6, 2008

Fall blessings


The fall is pretty in Michigan. We were in Sturgis, MI for a missions emphasis Sunday at Fish Lake Bible church yesterday. The folks are so friendly and we enjoyed a great meal with them Saturday evening. Time was spent praying with small groups and we were blessed.

We will be in Wisconsin and Virginia for the last two weeks of October. God hes kept us going safely on the roads and we are at 58-59% support. We continue on and thank you for praying.