Dear Praying friends, family, and churches:

FURLOUGH PLANS

Before I give an update on what the Lord has been doing, I would like to announce that we will be taking a FURLOUGH this year starting in the summer.  We are planning on being in the states from the summer through the fall.  So, we would like any church that would like for us to come and give an update about our ministry to please let us know.  We have provided a card with this prayer letter that you can mail back to our overseas address or you can email me here.  You can also go to the web address below and contact us via the form that is available there. 

http://www.thatallmayknow.net/furlough

If you email us, please let us know if you have a preference of us coming for a missions conference or just a Sunday Morning, Sunday Evening, or Wednesday Night.  We are looking forward to reporting to as many churches as possible and giving an update on all that the Lord has done! 

MINISTRY

The Lord continues to work in our midst.  I am happy to announce that we were able to FINISH the DVD project.  When we started the project, our goal was to get a Gospel DVD into every household in our city.  We “guesstimated” that there were 50,000 households in our city of approximately 150,000 people.  Our estimations weren’t far off as we distributed, a total of, 38,883 Gospel DVD’s.  Every household in our city has been given the OPPORTUNITY to hear a clear presentation of the Gospel.  Our goal is to saturate our entire city each year with the Gospel in some form or another.  Our next project is called “A Bible in every home.”  Thanks to Bearing Precious Seed of Milford, Ohio, we have 50,000 copies of John and Romans and we will be placing a copy of the Word of God along with an invitation to the church and a gospel tract into every household in our city.  We have already begun preparing the Bibles, invitations, and tracts and plan on beginning the distribution in the coming weeks. 

So far the Gospel DVD has been our most effective form of outreach.  Thousands of people have watched the DVD and gone to our website that is listed at the end of the DVD and 3 people have come to know Christ as a direct result of the DVD.

It is amazing to see people come to Christ but it is also amazing to see God working in peoples lives.  One of our main goals is to train leaders.  We do this through discipleship.  We aren’t just talking about 12 lessons and we’re done.  We are referring to getting into the people’s lives, being around them as much as possible and always teaching and discipling them, one on one.  We have seen God do so many great things in the people’s lives as we walk with them through every situation and circumstance.  We have seen a random soccer game become a time of edification and training.  But we take it one step further.  We focus on teaching them for the purpose of them training someone else.  We must teach them so they can teach others also (2 Timothy 2:2).  Above all it is humbling to see God work in their lives and do things that we could never imagine possible!

We are humbled and gracious for all you do for our ministry!