1 Chronicles 16:24
Gifted With the Journey
Declare His glory
among the nations,
His marvelous works
among all peoples.
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Prayer - Praises & Requests
Praises !
* All of the people who have fed us, paid
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for our meal, let us stay with them, given
toward a love offering, took the time to
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meet with us, joined the ministry of
BFAwe are blessed and encouraged!
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* We are at 66% support to return.
* Found cheap tickets, we fly July 11th
Requests
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* That we will be more like Jesus
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* Good and meaningful time with family
and friends while in the States
* We only have 4 months left in the states
and financial
* More prayer partners
partners that we need to return to BFA
* BFA students and families as they
prepare for missions trips this Spring
Break
* 34% remaining support
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Calendar
April
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Missions Conference in FL
May - June
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We are back on the road,
partnership raising and
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developing.
Pray we will be a light and a
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blessing to those we meet
with.there will be many
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opportunities.
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Featured Pictures Below
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Some of the people we have been able
to reconnect with. We would love to add
your picture to the collection!
Also, please help us network.
If you know people who would be interested
in the ministry of Black Forest Academy,
please connect usindividuals, churches
we need more people to partner with us.
Or, maybe you or they, would like to
come serve God here with us?
Volume 4, Issue 3 - March 2017
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Third Quarter of Home Missions Assignment
Our Home Missions Assignment (HMA) or furlough year is 2/3
! of the way over and we are starting to uproot the temporary roots we
have put downmostly these last six months in Ohio. We will be Joshs Highlight
quitting our jobs, which we were grateful to have, and saying
goodbye to colleagues and students on April 20th. We will be leaving
One of the best things about Home
Ohio to attend a missions conference in FL on April 25th. So, we will
be moving out of the condominium where we have been blessed to
Assignment is that it is often easier
to see God working in the little
stay since late October. From the FL missions conference we will be
going back on the road, support raising as we began our year. We will
things of life. Sometimes its a
surprise meeting sometimes its
be visiting people in a few states where we have not had much time
yet - IN, IL and WI.
a timely cancelation to a meeting.
Sometimes we end up surprised by
We so enjoyed being a part of the missions conferences in SC and
who feels the call of God to
partner with us financially, and
sometimes its a meeting that takes
in OH - I do not know what it is about us, but we normally are the
missionaries who are assigned to talk with the children, but we do not
a totally different turn as we find
ourselves speaking into someone
mind. One of the missions conferences themes was 1 Chronicles
16:24. We had children attending who did not speak English, so we
elses life.
Regardless, it is a blessing and a
did the verse in sign language, so that they could all be on the same
comfort to see God orchestrating
page, and have the same chance to learn it. It was fun!
the happenstance of life.
We were at one of our supporting churches and in the choir for
Christmas, and well be at another for Easter in the orchestra. Its fun
Katies Highlight
to have the privilege to step in and serve alongside the church family
We recently received an
for awhile, at least the musicians.
Another of our missions conferences had a theme of That All
opportunity to take part in some
Biblical Counseling (ACBC -
Association of Certified Biblical
May Know Him. I was to speak at the ladies brunch and I wasnt
Counselors) training. It involves
feeling led toward anything until the Lord developed this theme a
little further in my head. The word that is really a connecting word
or a transition word. It leaves room to fill in the first part of the
quite a bit of reading, seven books;
60 hours of instruction; writing
sentence. For instance, ____________________ that all may know
Him. I was challenged to think about my life. Is everything I am
papers; etc., but we really felt that
it would benefit our ministry at
doing, if I would fill in that blank with itdoes it fit the end of
sentence? Even things like getting enough sleep, how I spend money,
Black Forest Academy and wanted
to do it. We were even more
how I spend time. Can I fill in the TV show that I watch in front of
that statement and it be fitting? Interesting to evaluate my life in that
confirmed in this when we called to
register and we were told it had
been paid forbasically.
manner. I want it to be so. I am continuing to ponder.
The thing is, we were taking it, we
thought to help other people, but I
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think that the Lord wants to use it
to actually change us first/as well.
Local Culture
Circle of Friends
Question for you to consider:
We will still be visiting in
What if a German family came here.
to the states..what things do you OH, KY, FL (April)
think that they would say were a part
of the Americans local culture??? FL, TN, KY, IN, OH, IL, WI (May, June)
Do you think that they would call us FL (July); flying July 11th-
friendly? goal - oriented? busy?
Please reach out if you would
What do you think that they would like to get together.
say we will publish the responses 904-868-3157
we get to this anonymously in the next
newsletter we send out. Stay tuned.