Updates
November 2023
Since our last prayer letter we have had the opportunity to speak in 14 churches. We also spoke in several Christian school chapels and a Spanish church service. I also had the opportunity to do some street preaching while out in the state of Washington. We pray for lasting fruit from each service and outreach opportunity.
While in meetings in the western part of the United States, we received word that Jennifer’s father would soon be placed into hospice care. We decided to have her travel back to her parent’s home in West Virginia. She was with her father and mother when he passed into glory. The funeral service honored both the Lord and the memory of Jennifer’s dad. I am grateful for his godly influence on my life. Pastor Mike Edwards, Jennifer’s pastor throughout her teenage years, shared the message at the service. We praise the Lord for heaven!
Blessings and prayer requests:
- We are thankful for safety in travel as we drove from Indiana to the West Coast of the US, and then back.
- We thank the Lord that Jennifer’s father knew the Lord and is in His presence now.
- We are grateful that we are now at 80% of our support level. We have purchased our plane tickets to Myanmar. Thank you for your interest and investment in this work. Our departure date (pending visa acceptance) is Monday, January 29. …READ MORE
September 2023
In August and September, we shared the field of Myanmar at eighteen churches and two Christian school chapels. We had services in Indiana, Alaska, Ohio, Ontario, Illinois, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Virginia, and Maryland. Jennifer had the opportunity to speak in a ladies meeting. Along the way we chronicled some people and places from Baptist history, including:
- Ida and Ernest Roscoe in Kodiak, Alaska
- Henry Alline and the Haldanes in Canada
- The Wightman family in Groton, Connecticut
- Adoniram Judson, Obadiah Holmes, and Hezekiah Smith in Massachusetts
- William Screven in Kittery, Maine
- The First Baptist Church in Washington D.C.
We are grateful that our support level continues to increase. We are now looking at plane tickets to Myanmar just four months from now. The final paperwork …READ MORE
August 2023
James 4:14 asks, “…what is your life?” A pointed question seeking a personal response. Since our last prayer letter, several dear friends (some older, some middle aged) passed on into eternity, reminding our family of life’s brevity, and in so doing, life’s worth. Time and effort are either invested in the eternal, or are eternally lost. May we all live by this undeniable truth!
Last month was filled with meetings, as August also will be. We were refreshed at our home church, attending midweek services around the time of our daughter’s wedding. August introduces much change in our family. We saw our oldest daughter Juliana get married …READ MORE
July 2023
When missionary Adoniram Judson arrived in Burma (present day Myanmar) in the early 1800s, the population was about 4 million people. Today, over 55 million souls live in Myanmar. The pioneer missionaries to Burma wrote home frequently explaining the great need for laborers for their field. No doubt you sense the urgency of this hour when the population is ten times more!
We praise the Lord for the opportunity to speak in six churches in June and another eight in July. We have enjoyed sweet fellowship around the word and the work of the gospel. Praise the Lord we saw several young people saved in June while participating in a vibrant VBS and missions conference in Alabama. The last Sunday in April began a string of thirty-five consecutive Sundays in which we will present our work in a different church, taking us through the end of 2023.
Please pray for:
- Safety in travel and opportunities to share the gospel.
The working of the Holy Spirit to convey …READ MORE
June 2023
This update comes to you from the “South,” where we will be for much of this month. Our meetings include stops in Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, and West Virginia. To start this month, I was blessed to share about our mission field at the church I grew up in (this month’s update video was taken there). Each meeting we meet believers faithfully serving the Lord where He has them in their churches.
We “closed up shop” (essentially) on our home of many years at the end of May, and now are full-time “on the road.” We are thankful for the Lord’s blessing for safety as well as for a good schedule of meetings through the end of the year. Through the commitments of several more churches, our support level stands now at 36%. …READ MORE
April/May 2023
Since our last update we were able to share our burden with Berean Baptist Church in Ogden, UT; Bible Baptist Church in McConnellsburg, PA; Bible Baptist Church in Dubuque, IA; and Hannahstown Road Baptist in Cabot, PA. We were able to spend time with many great friends at each of those places. We praise the Lord that we are now at 20% support coming in, with several other churches indicating that they will begin soon. We are grateful for a “nearly full” schedule of meetings through December.
I enjoyed the opportunity to briefly visit a couple of churches in the Indianapolis area where many Burmese live. Recently we were made aware of an evangelism tool to reach Burmese speaking people. It is a high quality, 16-page booklet that presents a thorough plan of salvation. Bible Tracts has printed a number of these, and I will have access to a large number of them shortly. If you have Burmese speaking people in your area, please let me know and I will be glad to mail some of these “salvation booklets” to you. We pray God will use this …READ MORE
March 2023
While selecting a website name on which to put our missions information, I was struck by the thought that the very first pronouncement after our Savior’s birth was a message of salvation for all the world, and that this good news was to be shared with all mankind. The Scriptures are replete with the truth that the provision of salvation is a message for all the world. Isaiah 59:19 says, “So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun.” And so, we chose goodtidingstoall.org.
Since our last prayer update, while continuing to serve at Fairhaven Baptist College, we had the privilege to speak at First Baptist Church in Oak Creek, Wisconsin; Maranatha Baptist Church in Lyons, New York; Grace Baptist Church in Urbana, Ohio, as well as in our home church. In addition to sharing the field of Myanmar we were blessed by wonderful Christian fellowship at each church. The missions conference at Grace Baptist in Ohio allowed us time with our son Levi and his wife Bethany…READ MORE
February 2023
Hello from the Armacost family! Thank you for supporting our efforts for the country of Myanmar. As we continue to serve through May at Fairhaven Baptist Church and College, I am again teaching my favorite course, Baptist History. We continue to work with the college students and assist Pastor Mitchell.
Throughout the next several months we will share our burden for the country of Myanmar with several churches. We have been in four churches so far; two in Pennsylvania…READ MORE