MISSIONARIES

NEWS, PRAISE AND PRAYER

Marvin & Marilyn Donnell

Missionaries in Australia

PRAISE:  Praise that the Australian dollar value has fallen and given us a little respite on their monthly support.

PRAY FOR:  finances due to car and medical expenses.  Marilyn will be having an operation yet this year for further abdominal repair, as she is experiencing increasing unmanageable pain.  Folks at Redlands Community Baptist Chapel to grow spiritually and increase in numbers, fruit to remain from our witnessing, visitation and advertising; the new advertising to be letterboxed on a regular basis; and the Lord’s leading regarding furlough time.

Daniel & Christy Elmer

Missionaries to Zambia

PRAISE:  We are thankful to the Lord for the opportunity to serve, encourage, challenge, and share with those we meet what God is doing on the other side of the world.

PRAY FOR: Safety in traveling.  Elections in Zambia.  That the Lord will be glorified and we will encourage those we meet while we are on deputation.  Housing in Zambia.  Teachers and students of CABC

Gary & Wilma Sammons

Missionaries to the Collegians of America

NEWS:  Gary has been seriously ill and has been in the hospital

PRAISE:  That Gary’s bowel obstruction is dissipating, his cough is subsiding and overall Gary is feeling much better.

PRAY FOR: Gary to continue to get better.  That the antibiotics continue to work on his pneumonia.  That the tests he will have on his heart next week will show what the cardiologist will need to do.  Right now they will be taking a non-evasive approach so that means no heart catherization.

David & Lynn Champlin

Suriname, South America

PRAY FOR:  Pray for the men Dave works with. Pray for my students. Pray for the final departure from the mission station. Pray for Kim’s recovery.

Ethan & Kim Champlin

Missionaries to Suriname

PRAISE:  The Lord blessed during the Hicks' visit with us, and their visit was beneficial both to them and to us.  Hicks also had a safe trip back to the US.  We are also thankful for some more donations toward our church bus fund, bringing us up to about half of what we need to purchase a bus.  And, another blessing was receiving the final payment on our Ford 350 truck that we sold about 17 months ago!

PRAY FOR:  The Lord to make clear His will for Seth's summer plans.  If anybody knows of a home/job position that would be open to him, please let us know.  On the other hand, if you would like to contribute toward Seth's coming to Suriname for the summer to help in the ministry here, please send funds to BWM with the designation "summer work project"(not to Seth personally).

MISSIONARIES

NEWS, PRAISE AND PRAYER

Jake & Stephanie Taub

Missionaries to the Far East

NEWS:  God has provided a much bigger building for the church.  It will seat 120 people comfortably.  It is a store front building, which makes it a little conspicuous for an underground church.

PRAY FOR:  That God would fill this new building several times over with student meeting Jesus; second for God to secure the area for us; and third that we will be able to meet all the financial needs that this new building introduces.  We’re attempting to establish a legal business that will provide us with a credible front for the church, as well s our continued residence here in China.

Bob & Patsy Green

Missionaries to Spanish Speaking America

NEWS:  Bob entered the hospital on the 2^nd for a procedure called a “catheter ablation”, on my heart.  The doctor was very satisfied with the results.  Though I am weal now I should be able to regain my strength and continue to serve the Lord for years to come.

PRAISE:  That the procedure went well.

PRAY FOR:  Carlos Fuentes and the people of the Hispanic church in Hendersonville, NC as they pay off the property debt and seek to build their own church facility.  They will see souls saved and lives change among the Hispanics in their area.  The development of the camp property and ministry in San Miguel, El Salvador.  For a possible trip to El Salvador.

Eddie Wang

Missionary to the Far East

NEWS:  My 28^th mission trip was among my longest, but it was eventful.  It started on April 25, spent much of June and July working with the pastors at our island training center and then went to China for the Olympics in August and at last arrived home in October.

PRAISE:  We were able to recruit 24 men for the M Group. Have already lined up 14 men for the N group that will start training in July 2009.  8,000 VCDs were produced (recordings that contain lessons to learn English and also presents a gospel message) and were handed out during the Olympics.

Robert & Brenda Oetman

Missionaries in S. Korea

PRAY FOR:  The continued growth of the Bible College.  Also pray for the people of Korea who have been shocked by a string of high profile suicides.

PRAISE:  They baptized two women in October who came to the Lord through the testimony of their brother who has been a member of their church little over a year.

MISSIONARIES

NEWS, PRAISE AND PRAYER

Tom Rooney & Family

Raising support to be Missionaries in England

NEWS:  Our meetings have been a labor of love as we see the love the brethren communicate the love of the lost and fellowship in the Lord from NY to Nebraska and from Michigan to Virginia

PRAY FOR: That the door will remain open and the Lord will continue to overcome the obstacles to getting the gospel to the people of England.  Revival in the US and the UK; For British men, women and children to come to Christ, for meetings in 2009; for our family to be a blessing to the churches where we have meetings; for our spiritual preparation for the work in Lincoln, England.  Pray that the Lord will bring their support to 80% by January.

Rod & Tina Poplin

Seeking Support for South Africa

NEWS:  God has allowed us to have a full schedule of meetings that we pray he will use to bring in the remainder of our needed support.

PRAY FOR:  Us to be a blessing and that God will use us to challenge folks to seek God’s best for their lives; God to supply a buyer for our home.  That God will bring in the remaining support and outfit & passage funds - $500 more a month be able to start drawing a regular “salary” from the mission.  Decision Brittany needs to make about what she is to do after high school – 2009.

Ron & Barbara Hood

Missionaries under Spiritual Success Institute

NEWS: Ron made a trip to Barbados to see if they could minister in the public schools there.  Could not find housing, so this is on hold for now.  Barbara and Ron spent a week in Colorado involved in meetings at Grand Mesa Baptist Church.  They have been having a ministry to some of the military personnel stationed in the war zone by means of our Scripture memory materials.

PRAY FOR:  Seeking an opportunity to preach to our military personnel stationed in Kuwait and Qatar.  Pray for an opportunity to minister in Barbados.

Kari Marshall

Missionary to Nigeria

PRAISE:  That I haven’t been sick

PRAY FOR: Creative and productive ideas for teaching.  Continual love for God and for those around me.  I have several opportunities to reach both students and their families, but I must be open.  Pray that my immune system will continue to fight off “student-cooties”.

Rene Marshall

Missionary to Nigeria

PRAY FOR: Local and abroad-based financial support for the camp ministry, Safety as the pre-holiday season brings an increase in robberies and other forms of problems; One-on-one visits/discipleship; may the activity of God around ECYA be so powerful that it would compel others (such  as local churches) to join us; and Discipline in continuing to practice and learn the Hausa language.