NEWSLETTER
JULY 2008
We, here at the WBF Mission Office, are busily
preparing for our 43rd Annual Missionary Candidate Seminar,
which will take place here at the office July 23 to
August 1, 2008
. We will spend these days
in orientation and
instruction for our candidates prior to their meeting with the Mission
Committee for approval. The
World Baptist Fellowship Mission Agency does not send out missionaries.
We believe that authority belongs to the local churches.
Candidates are sent out as missionaries from their home churches
and we labor for them and the churches in helping to facilitate their
deputation and field ministries.
We look forward to working with this year’s candidates and are
praying that each of them will become part of the WBF Mission Family.
We will follow up the Candidate Seminar with our annual
Mission
Family Retreat,
August 4-7, 2008
. We invite our deputation
and furlough missionaries to attend for a few days of spiritual
encouragement and physical refreshment.
It is a time when they can fellowship with each other and with
our Committee members. We
invite special speakers each year to challenge and encourage them in
their ministries. Please
be much in prayer for these two important events that the Lord will
bless in a special way.
Please be in prayer for Assistant Mission
Director Dave
Schembera and his wife, Betty, who will lead a group to
Ecuador
on
August 12-19, 2008
for a church construction project. They
will also hold special services in several
churches while there in
Ecuador
. Pray that the Lord will
bless this group’s efforts to be a blessing to the Ecuadorian
believers.
Stephen,
Charlotte and Jonathan Byrd have arrived from
Ecuador
for their furlough. Pray for
them as they get settled and begin their furlough ministry.
John
& Rebecca Hawkins have returned to
Brazil
for their next term of service. Ed
& Cindee Richards have returned to
Dominica
following a short furlough for medical treatment.
Dick, Tonya
and Caleb Burdine have returned to
Cambodia
for their next term of service. Mike
and
Debbie Lane
have returned to
Honduras
following furlough. The Bill
Rose family has returned to
Spain
following a six-month furlough.
Pray for each of these families as they resume their ministries
on the field.
After 25 years of faithful service, Ben
and Jane Mock and the children have left
Ecuador
for a new ministry. Bro.
Mock has accepted the call as pastor of the
Mt.
Zion
Baptist
Church
in
Jasper
,
Georgia
. Pray for them as
they get settled and Bro. Mock takes over the leadership of that great
church. We will greatly miss
them as part of the WBF Mission Family, but we are thrilled at the
ministry opportunity that lies ahead for them.
Please continue to hold up in prayer those in
our Mission Family who are battling illness:
Little Eliana
Densmore is now at home following another hospital stay in which she
was critically ill. This
little one has been in and out of the hospital during her entire first
year of life. She still is
very ill and needs your prayers.
Charlene Neill has
been able to go home from the hospital following her hip replacement
surgery. She has had a
difficult recovery thus far.
Mike Lane
has completed the first phase of treatment for prostate cancer.
He will return to the
U. S.
for a follow up treatment in September.
Doyle Whaley continues
his struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Dr. Wendell Hiers is
doing well in his recovery from prostate cancer surgery.
Dale Brown has
returned to
New Zealand
after treatment for MS. He
will continue to take daily injections of medication for the illness.
Juanita Bowen
is recovering from knee surgery.
Debi Harris, Joe
Hawkins, Sandy Janky, Mary
Gagnon, Monnie Bacon,
and Amber Cato all continue
their daily struggles with illness.
Pray for all of these.
We appreciate your faithfulness in prayer and
financial support. In these
difficult economic times it is encouraging to see God’s people
continue to be faithful in their efforts to give the Gospel to those in
the regions beyond.
Tommy Raley
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