Updates

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:

1. We are thankful for safety in travel as we drove from Indiana to the West Coast of the US, and then back.
2. We thank the Lord that Jennifer’s father knew the Lord and is in His presence now. 
3. 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

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

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

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