Reports from the Mission Field

Injuries, delayed flights, family deaths, and more have kept us in the states far too long for our liking. Now all that is coming to an end. Lord-willing, in a couple days, we will be landing in Kyiv after almost twenty hours of traveling and crossing nine time zones.(Image on right: Eric Beth surprise little Eliora a few days before they leave to Ukraine. Eli woke up t...

Warmest greetings from the whole Halbert family. We are excited to send this update and share with you about all the the Lord has been and is doing to get us to Honduras. It is always a joy share with you and we hope and pray that you are encouraged as you read, praise the Lord with us, and pray for what the Lord is doing in Honduras. SUPPORT RAISING UPDATEIn February, ...

Dear Christ Covenant Family and Friends -What a blessing and delight it is to be able to give you an update about the work in Honduras. We recognize that it has been a while since our last update (therefore this update might be a little longer), and we would like to let you know a little bit as to why. A few years back, I wrote an article for the Washington Post about em...

Dear prayer partners, We only have 2 more months left in Taiwan before we return to the US for a 1-year home assignment. Here's how you can pray: --On May 16 we will ordain Jordan Yao as the new pastor of Sanhe Church and officially turn over the ministry to him (invitation card pictured above).This has been a 10-year work that is almost complete! Although the church s...

NEW TRAININGBecause CIT prepares and debriefs people from their international experiences, additional training in trauma healing is a valuable addition to our tool belt. Seven of our staff including George took the training entitled "Healing the Wounds of Trauma"created by the American Bible Society. We took the course, passed the test, were evaluated in our facilitation s...

THE CLOW COMMUNICATORMarch 2021 Since our last newsletter, we have had the opportunity to visit in person with Naperville Pres in IL. For those who don't know, that is where we were living when God called us to serve with MTW. It was a sweet time to see dear friends and even meet some new ones. Due to COVID and a winter storm, we didn't get to see as many as we would have...

The opposition of the entire world cannot frustrate the plans of God. But from our perspective, it can certainly appear that circumstances are conspiring to limit the work of God. In these times, we need to wait, pray, and trust that God's agenda is moving forward even if we cannot see it happening. GOD'S AGENDAChrist's Kingdom Continues to AdvanceI preached recently fro...

Here are some updates from the current semester! First of all, it is quite snowy and icy in here in Richmond. So class cancellations, low mobility, etc. have been the norm for a couple weeks. Apart from that, Bible studies and our weekly meetings are going strong. The two pictures you see are of our Junior Men's Bible study as well as a recent weekly meeting. Our staff te...

Dear prayer partners, As you can see from the pictures below, we've been very busy! We just held our first church retreat which was a great success. About 30 people came for an overnight trip to a campsite in central Taiwan. We had a good combination of fun together and spiritual input. Jennifer was able to share the gospel with several non-Christian youth and Thomas ga...

Prayer walk with the staff team to pray over the student, resident halls, and academic buildings as classes start and students begin coming back. UTC started classes for the spring semester on January 19th, but were completely online until February 1st. The university asked all student organizations to also remain virtual until the 1st as well, so all of our m...