June 2024
Dear Friends,
As Cassie and I write this quarter, we do so with grateful hearts. Our airline tickets have been purchased, our visas have been acquired, and, Lord willing, we will be leaving for Africa on July 8th. For those of you that have given to help with the expense of our next missions trip, we are very grateful. Since all of the trips we make like this are at our own expense, we honestly could not have made it without your help. Thank you so very much! We would also appreciate your prayers that God would keep us safe and well as we travel. We certainly desire to be a blessing to the missionaries we will visit as well as to the people we will minister to and share the Gospel with while there. Lord willing, we will be returning to the states the last week of July. Rest assured, it is our heart’s desire that fruit would abound to your account as a result of our partnership together.
We also praise the Lord for a wonderful “Reach the World Youth Conference” that was recently held here at our international headquarters in Hoschton, Georgia. We had a record number that attended the conference this year, and the Lord met with us in a very special way. Please help us pray that each seed that was sown would bring forth an abundant harvest of another generation of missionaries for God’s glory. We are already planning next year’s conference. Please mark Saturday, April 12, 2025, on your calendar and start planning now for your youth group to be a part. We hope to see you here!
These are certainly busy days at our home office as we are in the process of planning and preparing for our next scheduled reFRESH week June 17-20. This will be a week of preaching, fellowship, and teaching several of our missionary families on such topics as the power of prayer, husband/wife relationships, and culture shock. We are praying that God would work through these few days to encourage and equip our Macedonia missionaries to continue for the cause of Christ with a renewed zeal and fervency. Please join us in prayer to that end.
In closing, Cassie and I want to say thank you again for your prayers and faithful support. It was ten years ago, the first Sunday of May, that we stepped out by faith to begin deputation and raise the needed support to serve in the position at Macedonia to which God led us. I can attest to the fact firsthand that where God guides, God provides. He has used each of you to help supply our every need. We do not take that lightly, and we certainly do not take it for granted. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you. Therefore, by His grace and with your help, we continue by faith.
For the sake of souls,
March 2024
Dear Friends,
Cassie and I are so grateful for your friendship and your faithful prayers as well as your financial support. What a joy it is to labor with you to reach a lost and dying world with the Gospel.
After taking a few days for time with family in December, we have kept a full schedule since the first of the new year. While staying in close contact with our office, we have traveled each week in meetings. Our travels have taken us as far north as Pennsylvania and as far south as Florida to “fan the flame” of world evangelism. It is a great joy to assist pastors in helping their church family see the need to do more than they have ever done before to get the Gospel to the world while we still have opportunity. Truly the hour is late, and the need has never been greater. Thank you for your continued prayers for safety as we travel.
Whether I am in the office or on the road, a new year always brings the task of preparing tax forms for all of our missionary families. As a result of the diligent efforts of our staff here, I am glad to be able to report that job has been accomplished for another year. Honestly, very few people ever stop to think about things like this when it comes to world evangelism. However, it is a need that must be met for missionary families if they are to remain on the field doing the work of the Lord. It is our joy to assist them and their sending churches in doing so.
In addition to the many administrative tasks we undertake on a daily basis here at our office, we also have several things to prepare for and to look forward to in the new year. Lord willing, this coming April 27 our home office will host the next “Reach the World” Youth Conference. This is an exciting as well as enlightening day here that we are trusting God to use to help raise up another generation of missionaries for His glory. Has your youth group registered yet? For more information you can log on to mwbm.org. Please pray with us that God would bless this day in a very special way. We hope to see you and your youth group here for the meeting.
Cassie and I are also excited about a door of opportunity that God has opened for us to travel to Africa this summer. While there, we plan to visit three of our Macedonia missionary families. We will travel to Burkina Faso in order to visit with Missionary Keith Shumaker and his family. After a few days with the Shumakers, we will travel on to Ghana to visit with Missionaries Dwayne Harrison, James Ruckman, and their families. While in Ghana we will not only be a part of a national pastor’s conference, but I will have the opportunity to preach in several church plants as well. It will be a busy two weeks, but we are believing that it will be most productive for the cause of Christ. Would you please pray that God would use us while in Africa? Would you please help us pray for the financial needs of the trip? From all indications the airfare alone for the two of us will be between $6500 and $7500. Since the trips we make like this are at our own expense, we are trusting the Lord to help meet the need. We truly believe it is God’s will for us to be in Africa this summer. Thank you for laboring with us in prayer. GOD IS ABLE!
Recently while in a missions revival at the Grace Baptist Church of Baldwin, Florida, where Dr. Dewayne Jowers serves as the pastor, a young man by the name of Stephen was saved. A young lady by the name of Gracie also surrendered her life to be used of the Lord in missions. God is still in the business of changing and using lives today!
Therefore, by the grace of God and with your help, Cassie and I continue by faith. Thank you for laboring with us.
For the sake of souls,