Dear Family & Friends,
“After some days Paul said to Barnabas, ‘Let’s return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing.’ Barnabas wanted to bring John called Mark along with them too, but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work. They had a sharp disagreement, so that they parted company. Barnabas took along Mark and sailed away to Cyprus, but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters. He passed through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.” Acts 15:36-41
The passage above is part of the text John will be preaching from today at the Kaohsiung Good News Christian Church. We see through this passage and others related to it that God can and does use situations and people that men often believe to be unusable. We pray that God will use the situation at the Good News Church to bring glory to His name and growth to his church. This Peter Ho last Sunday. Eugene Tzai will be preaching next Sunday. Please pray for the transition to go well.
Please continue to pray for our VBS, which starts tomorrow and runs through Friday. There are over 50 children signed up at this point, so we can still accept a few more. Please pray that God will use this week as a way to open the door to many families in the Ba Gwa area.
This coming weekend we will be hosting Jim & Mary Thurber. Jim was one of the main speakers for the missionary conference we attended earlier this summer. Jim will be training the Stiles, Nathanael, a few others, and the two of us in an evangelistic presentation that he has used in many places all around the world. We ask for wisdom as we consider how this presentation may need to be adjusted to be best suited for Taiwan.
We want to update you on Bethany’s in-laws, Lorne & Kathy-Lu White. Kathy-Lu now has a surgery date that is set for August 24th. This is a praise that they now have a date, but it is after their daughter, Elyssa, will have already returned to Taiwan for school. Also, this summer Lorne injured his leg and has been recovering for the last few weeks. Please pray that he will be fully recovered before the surgery date.
If you read to the bottom of our prayer note last week you probably noticed that we left out a couple of paragraphs. I guess that is testimony to how tiring the camp week was. In the summary section, we had asked for prayers for transitions at the Good News Church and for the family of Don Bickers. You know about the situation at Good News, but probably not the Bickers family. Don Bickers passed away not long after Cheryl’s Great-uncle Wesley. He was a long-time friend of Cheryl’s parents and ours. He too is now beginning to enjoy his reward.
Thank you again for supporting our ministry and us through your prayers.
God Bless,
John & Cheryl
1. Please pray for God to be glorified through the transition of leadership at the Good News Church.
2. Please pray for our VBS to bring us into relationship with many families in the Ba Gwa area.
3. Please pray that this evangelistic training will be useful for bringing Gospel to many people around the world.
4. Please pray for the Whites as they prepare for transitions and surgery.
Posted on July 24th, 2010 by dunns
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