You can pray!

As I\’m writing this update, Bob is up on the housetop, putting the finishing touches on our new roof. We were so blessed by the friends from our home church who gave up a Saturday to help us with this project. There are a few more major projects and lots of finishing touches to be completed on our little house in Loudonville, but we really enjoy having a place to call \”home\” once again – even if for a short time.

So many of you are asking \”How\’s the new hip?\” After just 10 ? weeks, I can gladly say that my new titanium part and I are getting along just great. Most of the time I forget it\’s there which is how it?s supposed to be!

We recently had the privilege of attending state meetings in both West Virginia and Ohio. Not only were we blessed by the sharing of the Word, but our hearts were blessed once again by our contact with so many of our faithful friends and supporters. We were reminded once again how very special all of you are to us.

In our contacts with some of God\’s servants from our churches, we sometimes receive apologies that their church family cannot support us. We want you to know that in our journey of \”friend finding\”, we aren\’t only looking for financial support. We are looking for God\’s prayer warriors; we firmly believe that you are more important to us than our financial support. In fact, with you taking our need for support to the throne, we are sure that God will supply our need in His time. Please don\’t apologize that all you can do is pray.

Most of you know that we were hoping to return to West Africa in January. At this point, we don\’t have the support we need to return that soon, so we\’re moving our departure plans up to the late spring. Because of that, we have more Sundays available to come and share with our church friends – new and old – about some of God\’s blessings in West Africa during our last term and about where we believe He wants to use us during our next term.

Sometimes when I re-read my updates before sending them out, I realize I\’ve used the word \”blessed\” or \”blessing\” too many times. Truthfully, there\’s no other way to phrase how we feel when we reflect on God and how He chooses to work in our lives. Thank you, dear friends, for being a part of this blessed feeling.