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,
