Reports from the Mission Field

Dear faithful friends, We would like to inform you about the blessings we had these past months. We continue with Barber on the Way, where once a month we go out on the streets and give haircuts to the homeless people wherever they are. We see happy faces and hear encouraging words from the passerby for this initiative. It was a great blessing for us to have a group visi...

We pray the Lord will give you a blessed and Christ-filled Advent Season! We love this time of year because it begins with Thanksgiving and closes with the remembrance of the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.May King Jesus who became a man, lived and died in our place, and rose again in victory be the joy of your heart in this season! A Road Trip to RememberThis message o...

The McIntyre Prayer Inquirer Dear prayer supporters,Thank you for your faithful prayers and financial partnership throughout 2019 that made our work in Taiwan possible. Here's how you can pray as the year comes to an end.1) We have just appointed 2 new church coworkers (elders) for the upcoming 2020 calendar year. One of our previous coworkers, despite our best efforts ...

Thank you for praying! Here's some ofwhatwe've heard following Sunday's launch service. "I never thought I'd be able to worship the Lord again in Farsi!""I was so excited to be a part of this service- I felt like I was flying all day!""It felt like we were a fa...

Grace and peace to you. We always thank God for all of you, making mention of you in our prayers and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 1:1-3 We are thankful for YOU, our friends and supporters! The Apostle Paul modeled for us when he often opened his book...

Here we go! The church plant is launching! After much work in building relationships and developing our small groups, the Greek Intercultural Church is ready to launch with its first worship service next Sunday evening, October 20th! Philip will be preaching (in Greek), and the whole family will be involved in leading and helping in some way. We will meet for worship on...

Dear Family Friends, Many tears and prayers describe what has been going on with us since I wrote our last newsletter. The process of trying to get a visa to the UK has been arduous and frustrating! Of all the countries where we have lived, we have never experienced such difficulties in getting a visa! During the three month wait, we lost the apartment we were renting in...

On October 4th, 5 of our church family went to visit our church partner in Athens Greece. Many of you know that Christ Covenant is partnering with the First Evangelical Church of Athens in their church planting efforts. They have already started three self-sustaining churches in the last several years and two of those churches are starting another church. The most recent...

JINJA Merle Stoltzfus and I completed 4 days of the conference in Jinja. The Lord moved in a thrilling way through the week and it was obvious that your prayers brought great blessing to the pastors. They came from a broad area, one travelled over a two day period to get to us. The conference is due to the vision of Good Shepherd's Fold to encourage and train pastors thro...

Dear Christ Covenant,We are continually grateful for each of you and how the Lord uses you to encourage and support our family.We write to you today with some both exciting and sad news. Over the past several months, it has become apparent that our time here in South Africa with East Mountain and United World Mission is coming to a close. We are grateful for the time the L...