NEWSLETTER
JANUARY 2010

As we enter into the challenges and opportunities of 2010, it hardly seems possible that another year has passed.  The year 2009 was filled with many blessings and also many difficulties.  We do not have the total amount of offerings received for 2009 (at this writing), but it appears that we will fall a little short of our goal for a new record year.  It was, however, the second best year on record for offerings received for our missionaries from faithful churches and individual Christians.  This is admirable, considering the difficult economic situation of today.  God’s people have given sacrificially and the result of these sacrifices has been many souls born into the kingdom of God, believers baptized, and new churches founded.   We look forward to this coming year with great anticipation of what the Lord will do through His people in reaching lost souls around the world.

One of the difficulties of the present economic situation is that our deputation missionaries are finding it harder to make appointments.  While churches are remaining faithful to the support of their present missionaries, many are finding it difficult to add new missionaries and this has a direct effect on those who are in the process of raising their support in order to go to the field for the first time.  Pray for these godly folks, that they will not become discouraged and that the Lord will open doors of opportunity in many churches for them to present their ministries. 

Pray for the following missionaries who have returned to their fields of service:  David, Diane and Amber Cato have returned to Brazil, Jacques and Marie Alexandre have returned to Haiti, and David and Florence McDonald have returned to Spain for their next terms of service. 

Ed & Cindee Richards have arrived from Dominica for a six month furlough.  Bill and Dena Rose & children have arrived in the U. S. from Spain for a short furlough.  Upon their return to Spain they will begin a new work in the city of Málaga.    

Several of our missionaries are in need of our prayers due to illness:  Betty Hawkins has begun chemo treatments following cancer surgery.   The first treatment did not make her ill and we are praying that she will do well during the 18 weeks of treatments.  Charles Bowen is doing well following surgery due to the injuries he suffered when struck by a car on a store parking lot.  Doyle Whaley continues to have great difficulty in his battle with Alzheimer’s and deafness.  He is now under hospice care at home.   Joy Chapman continues to have some difficulties in the regulation of insulin dosage for diabetes.  She is also facing gall-bladder surgery.  Judy Wood continues to progress following a slight stroke.  Mark McCutchen and Kyron Horton are both recovering from surgery and doing well.  Debi Harris continues to receive treatments on her esophagus in hopes of avoiding a very major surgery.   The following missionaries have ongoing physical battles and need our prayers:  Linda Carruth, Rebecca Hawkins, Sandy Janky, Juanita Bowen, Joe Hawkins, Elaine Hawkins, Mary Gagnon, Monnie Bacon, Ernie Brown, Gloria Higgins, Abigail Mitchell, Amber Cato, Dana McCutchen, Charlene Neill, Mike Lane and Dale Brown.