NEWSLETTER
MAY 2007

 The World Baptist Fellowship has two national meetings each year.  The May meeting is always held at Arlington Baptist College in conjunction with the graduation ceremony.  This year’s meeting will feature tremendous preaching, Christ honoring music and great fellowship.  The graduating class of 1967 will celebrate its 40^th anniversary and the new ABC Family and Friends will have its inauguration.  The dates of the meeting are May 14-17, 2007 and it will be wonderful to see a great number of folks from around the country and around the world.  This is always a blessed and busy week for us because we hold a Mission Committee meeting during the week, as well as the normal everyday business of the Mission Office.  The 2007 Fall Meeting will be held October 15-17, 2007 at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Jasper, Georgia.  Dr. Ben Langley and the church family are already at work in preparation for the meeting and it will be a good one.  Mark your calendar now and make your plans to attend both of these great meetings. 

Coming for furlough in May and June will be Alan & Kathy Hart from Portugal, Skip & Dana Woodfin and children from Hawaii, John, Rebecca and Daniel Hawkins from Brazil, and Ed & Kayla Edington and children from Guatemala.  Pray for   these families as they prepare to return to the States for furlough.  Several others will arrive during the summer for furlough. 

Please continue to pray for Jerry, Bonnie and Timothy Bitner as they await the approval of their visas.  They cannot return to the field until this paperwork is completed and they have been waiting now for several months for the approval of their visas.  Miss Betty Alice Hall will be returning to the field soon as she completes her furlough travels.  Pray for her that the Lord will provide an increase in her monthly support as she returns to the field. 

Several of our missionaries are in need of prayer due to illness.  Miss Karen Werth is recovering from gall bladder surgery.  She made the short flight from Indonesia to Singapore for the surgery because the medical facilities are so much better in Singapore.  Ernie Brown is having some heart problems and is undergoing treatment in Ecuador.  Pray that his heart rate can be regulated with medication and that no surgery will be required.  Ben Mock underwent a heart catherization and we praise the Lord that no blockage was found.  Doyle Whaley in Guatemala has had some physical problems and is now improving.  Others who deal with ongoing health problems and who need our prayers are:  Dana McCutchen, Debi Harris, Monnie Bacon, Gloria Higgins, Mary Gagnon, Joe Hawkins, Sandy Janky, Juanita Bowen. 

Thank you for your continuing faithfulness in prayer and financial support for our missionary families around the world.  Financial support is needed and important, but the most important thing we all can do for our missionaries is to uphold them in prayer.  God can and will provide every need, but He does so in answer to faithful prayer.  Your investment in the lives and ministry of our missionaries is greatly appreciated.

Tommy Raley