November 2019 Volume 4 Issue 6
Dear Pastor and praying friends:
We are full swing into Fall Missions Conference and Missions Emphasis Months, and this has taken us to Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Virginia. While we were travelling through Kentucky we stopped for gas, when I came out of the station, I noticed a puddle of engine coolant under the front of the truck. I opened the hood and checked the engine to find a pin sized hole in the coolant reservoir, we put some tape on the hole so that we could make it down the street to the Walmart parking lot.
When we got there, I called my father in law (who is a great mechanic) to get advice on what to do, I then called a parts store to try and get what I needed to fix the problem. While on hold a man pulled up and asked if we needed any help, I told him what was going on he picked up his phone and called a parts place and I was still on hold. He got done and said he would be back in ten minutes; he came back had exactly what was needed to fix the car. In five minutes, he had the truck fixed and ready to go when we tried to give him money for the parts and his time and he told me no that he wanted to make sure we were back on the road to our next destination, he then got in his truck and drove away. I believe we experienced a Hebrews 13:2 moment, praise the Lord for His provision and protection.
Something else that I praise the Lord for is his timing. We had a meeting on our schedule that was cancelled, I spent the next 2 months trying to fill the date with a new meeting only to get to the week right before with nothing scheduled. I put out a post on Facebook as a last-ditch effort. Forty minutes later we had a meeting scheduled to be at West End Baptist Church, we had a splendid time and was able to partner with them in reaching Mozambique.
We had a splendid time in the 11 churches we visited September through October. We made new friends and prayer partners, enjoyed their generosity, hospitality, support, and friendship. Each church greatly blessed us. Heartland Baptist Church (Perryville, MO), West End Baptist Church (Brookneal, VA), voted to partner with us in reaching Mozambique, and Berean Baptist Church (Pendleton, OR) voted to increase the amount at which they were already supporting us. We are currently at 86% committed support and praying that God will raise our support to 100% by years end.
I praise God for the safety He has provided as we have traveled over 6,700 miles since our last prayer letter.
Family Updates by Lorin
Deacon (5) Our oldest is now 5!! We are so thankful that God has allowed us to have him a part of our lives and a joy to our family. Deacon has been praying for snow for a while now. On our trip to Illinois it started snowing!!! Deacon yelled, Praise God it is snowing!!! God answered my prayer!! We stopped for dinner and we have a video of him twirling in the snow. One of the churches that we were at for a missions conference had firemen come with their equipment to their Christian school and our kids were able to experience the activity. They enjoyed it a lot.
Eden (3): Eden loves Patch the Pirate and Deacon was able to get the newest adventure for his birthday. We were listening to it and at the end she started laughing and crying at the same time, asking “Why does Patch have to retire”? She is a very smart little one and loves to sing along with the Patch crew. She is very dramatic, so it shows through while listening. Eden also loved the firemen coming even though she was a bit intimidated when they had on all their equipment.
Enoch (9m): Our littlest now has 2 teeth and trying to crawl. He is growing so big and is bigger than his other 2 siblings at that age. He is hating his car seat and prefers not to be in one. He will deal with one for about 5 hours then he is done. Enoch had his experience with snow, and he wasn’t sure about it.
I Thessalonians 5:25 “Brethren, pray for us.”
Prayer Requests:
- We need one of these, either 9 churches to take us on for $100, 18 churches at $50, or 4 churches at $100 + 9 churches at $50 or some combination that will get us to 100%
- Safety as we continue traveling
- For the many Churches that have said they would like to take us on for support, pray God would enable them to have the finances to support us.
- For our current supporting churches as some are having financial struggles.
- We will raise the support needed to go to the field, and that we can be done with deputation by the end of this year.
- For the People of Mozambique that God would work even now in the hearts and lives of the people to prepare them for the Gospel.
- For our ability to learn quickly as we begin to study Portuguese and as we continue a course in Biblical Studies to complete our required classes.
- For our continued good health, so that there will be no setbacks on the Deputation Trail.
- That our Spiritual lives will remain close to God, for us to grow each day closer to him, and not stray from His will or be caught up in the snares of the Devil.
- For our Truck that God would continue to allow it to run and get us from meeting to meeting safely.
