Deputation Notes
March
- May 2003
“Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us.”
I Thess. 5:24-25
Dear Family and Friends,
We chose
the above verses to place on our prayer card.
This choice was not by chance or coincidence, but they are Scriptures
that mean a great deal to us. The Lord
has called us to be missionaries in Kenya, and we trust Him to accomplish this
in us. As it states in verse 25, we ask
that you would pray for us, for without your prayers our ministry will be
greatly hindered.
In mid
October we were accepted by Gospel Fellowship Association (GFA) to be
missionaries in Kenya. We spent the
next few months getting all our materials together: prayer cards, pamphlets,
letterheads, and our audio/visual presentation. Each of these items took a surprising amount of time to put
together, but with the Lord’s help and guidance they were accomplished. Deputation officially started in our home
church, Trinity Bible Church of Greer, on March 2, 2003. Since then we have had two other meetings;
one in Sumter, SC and one at the church in which John grew up in Bartonville,
IL. The last week of May was spent at
the Wilds Christian Camp in Brevard, NC where we attended the GFA Annual
Conference. It was a blessed week of
encouragement, good sermons, and mission workshops all in a relaxing atmosphere
of the mountains.
This next
month of June will find us for a week in Ohio where John will visit a pastor’s
conference (hoping to make additional contacts for meetings while spending time
with them around God’s Word) while Sophie and the boys will have a chance to
visit with her parents. John will also
be spending much time on the phone, calling pastors and trying to line up
meetings. We have eight more meetings
scheduled, all of which are in South Carolina so far.
Prayer Requests:
1. Family health: boys as they visit many children in
various nurseries and Sophie as, Lord willing, there will be an addition to the
family in December.
2. Safety as we travel to Ohio in June.
3. Opportunities to minister with God’s people and
witness to the unsaved.
Your missionaries to Kenya,