Singapore2015

This time, as usual, we planned to land in Singapore and to be there only long enough to turn around and fly off to Cebu, Philippines, to do some teaching in the International School Of Missions there. 

But Ruth’s shoulder had been bothering her since August, and only had gotten worse, so that something had to be done.  Immediately upon arriving in Singapore she went to see a doctor who diagnosed her as having frozen shoulder, which led, the very next day, to an operating room.  Thankfully, the shoulder, which she could almost not move at all, is on the mend, now.

Back in Singapore for three weeks after the time in Philippines, and Stephen was invited to speak over a dozen times, including seven times on Sundays.  Ruth, however, unexpectedly needed to see the doctors  for another problem, which led to another trip into an operating room.  What weighed on our minds the most during these days was waiting for a biopsy result which finally came on December 23^rd—no cancer detected!  Our Lord Jesus is fully in control of every circumstance at every moment, no less when we are afraid for the future.  Now we feel relieved, of course, and glad that we may be able to fulfill our previous ambitions for ministry in India and in other places the Lord would be pleased to allow us to go with His Gospel.

 Christmas Eve Caroling

Dec 7-11,2015

This past week we were in Cebu, Philippines with the International School of Missions (Jesus Saves Mission).  Stephen taught each day on the topic Reformation of the 16th century.

 

 

 

pastor's seminar, Nov 2015

On November 12, 13, 14  Stephen was the speaker at a pastor's seminar held in Lome, Togo.  It was organized by our fellow IGM pastor Koffi Wodome

 

 

Some of the IGM pastors in Togo

 

 

School visit, Nov 2

During our first few days in Lome, Togo, Andrew and Mary took us to visit one of the Bible Baptist schools

Togo, Nov 1

On Sunday we were blessed to be invited to Salem Bible Baptist Church here in Lome, Togo.

The pastor is Koffi Wodome.  He is part of our International Gospel Missions family.

Children's Sunday school

 

Pune, Oct 2015

Some pictures of our trip to visit the 

SCHOOL OF MISSIONS, Pune, India

 What is the Gospel and how to preach and teach it

 School of Missions celebrates their 8th anniversary

 

prayerletteroct2015

The Schaefers 

   in India     

K-21 Ved Vihar
Trimulgherry, T.S. 500 015

South India      

phone:  (91) 98-49-70-97-47

email: schfrs@gmail.com

               

                                  October 14, 2015

Dear Praying Friends,

Thanks so much for all your love and support through many years.  May our Lord Jesus bless you with every blessing, by His grace.  By that same mercy of God, this has been a very busy quarter in which we've been able to conduct 42 seminars for pastors.  To one group of Bible students, I was privileged to teach John's Gospel, in the month of August (9-10 hours). 

I also gave Sunday morning sermons and spoke in other seminars and Bible Studies, at least 13 times in eight venues.

Ruth has spoken to ladies and has taught Sunday school teachers' seminars.  She's helped in a local Christian day school by teaching Bible twice weekly. 

Please Pray:

• That Ruth and I would finish up October well, for the sake of the Gospel, here in India.
• For us as we are planning a ministry trip to Togo for much of November, where I've been invited to speak to two different groups of pastors and pastors-in-training, for 20 hours, each.
• For safety in all our travels, and for the Lord to prosper us in our scheduled ministry time in Singapore and Philippines, in the month of December.
• That we'd carry on without getting too tired, and finish out 2015 well, pleasing the Lord Jesus, with the kind help of the Holy Spirit.

Chit-chat:                          The 42 pastors' seminars I've done with one Indian buddy in the past quarter brought this year's total up to 62, and we've now done more than 100 in the last two years.  Still feeling more ambitious all the time!                              Ruth remained in the USA for six weeks beyond my own return to India this time.  Thankfully, she got back here to me by mid-August, and I'm so happy.  She's

my other half, and I love her beyond description.                               Stephanie seems to be doing very well early in her second year in BJU.  Thank the Lord for that.  Her career as a history major sounds very interesting.                                    Due to the sometimes frenzied nature of my travel schedule during the past three months, and the energy required for teaching 2-3 hour seminars for pastors in the bake ovens they use for meeting halls here, I've gotten fatigued, and it's been extremely hard to do regular exercise.  As I'm 56 now, you may easily guess what this means. . . so please do pray for Ruth and me to maintain ourselves well for the Lord's sake.                                    We are eagerly looking forward to a visit to our daughter Mary and her family, who have been serving as missionaries in Togo, West Africa, for the past sixteen months.  We've filled at least two suitcases with “goodies” for them.  Togo is very different from what most of us are used to.  Look up Togo, and you'll see what I mean.  It's a very poor country.  May the Lord mightily use all the missionaries there to “make a huge dent” in the gates of hell in that place, til Satan's kingdom is crumbling everywhere.               

 “Serving with the International Gospel Missions” 

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