Monday 15 July 2013

PrayerletterJuly2013


July 12, 2013
Dear praying friends, thank you for your kindnesses and prayers on our behalf, as always.  Know that you, also, are continually being named before our Father’s throne.

We made it safely back to India last week, right on schedule, and we are very happy to report that we got our new 10-year visas while we were in the USA.  We tried them out for the first time upon re-entering India, and they appear to work just fine!  Thank the Lord for answers to prayer!

Since our last letter, the ministry in India continued as before.  I feel very privileged to instruct men who are in the ministry concerning the things of our Lord Jesus Christ.  It was thrilling to give a two-days’ seminar on The Life Of Christ, and one day, each, to The Pentateuch and the Book of Psalms.  Then, during a 3½ week period in April, I was able to conduct a complete semester’s worth of teaching on Pastoral Theology.  Let the Word of God inform the minds of everyone doing the Gospel ministry!  

Outside of Hyderabad, I traveled to two rural places, to teach two separate batches of pastors over a three day period.  In the first place I also spoke in a local assembly one day.  The topics were Ephesians 4.11-16 (Leadership, Fellowship, Ministry), for the pastors, and II Timothy 2.8, Amos 4.13 and a seminar on important doctrines covering Luther, Justification, Trinity, Deity of Christ, Sabbath, Intermediate State, Resurrection of the Dead, Eternal Punishment.  (Some cults have been hindering the ministry of the true Gospel in that locality for a number of years.)  For the second batch of pastors, in the second location, I taught a one day seminar on the Doctrine of Salvation.

Then in the last couple of days prior to packing our suitcases to make our two-month trip to the USA, I traveled to one town to teach for two days in a local assembly.  The six topics I spoke on were 1) The Inspiration, Authority and Interpretation of Scripture; 2) Galatians chapter 2, Justification By Faith, with a full explanation of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness; 3) True Christian Fellowship, by means of fulfilling the “One Another” Commandments; 4) I Corinthians 1.17, Baptism and The Gospel; 5) I Timothy 3.14-16, What Are Our Sunday Assemblies All About?; 6) Amos 4.12b-13, Prepare To Meet Thy God.

There were also a few days for tracting, and I met certain men for special times of fellowship, encouragement and mentoring on ten other occasions. 

 Please Pray:
  • That we would remain healthy and safe.
  • That our Lord would open up our eyes to the many opportunities around us for presenting the true Gospel to the non-christians, and motivate us with all the motivation of Him who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
  • For our daughter Mary, and her sweet family, to complete their own deputation process so that they may be able to depart from the USA for language training by the middle of August, and to their field in Africa by January.



Monday 1 July 2013

July 1

Tomorrow, we return to India.  We have been in the states for two months.  We were able to renew our Indian visa, and we are still praising God for that. We also had the opportunity to see all our family members.  The daughters and their families are all doing well, we enjoyed playing with our grandchildren. By the way, there is another one on the way for November.  Our second daughter and her family are leaving for the mission field of Togo, W. Africa in the next few months.  We were able to help them with the clearing out of there house by having a large yard sale.

Tomorrow evening, we fly out with Stephanie with us, her last trip to India.  She is starting her senior year of high school.  Her birthday is July 3 and we will be in the air on that day, with the time changes that we go through, she really will not have birthday this year!!

So today, we start to organize the suitcases and, take our last trip to Walmart and K-mart!  Yesterday we said our farewells to people at our church here in Miami.

We are truly ready to get back home!