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On-Line Reading:
Dick Bieber's Teachings: http://mmirror.net/
On-Line Bibles: http://www.biblegateway.com/
Christian Classics Ethereal Library: http://www.ccel.org/
Read thru the Bible in a Year: http://www.dailybible.com/
Friends:
Messiah Covenant Church http://www.messiahdetroit.org/
Beth Messiah http://beth-messiah.com/
Christian Fellowship Church http://cfc316.org/
Ambleside Community School www.amblesidecommunityschool.net
On-Line Christian Music: http://www.wordoftruthradio.com/listen_wotr2.html
Missionary Friends and Mission News:
In Dearborn: Christy Patterson Serving with Intervarsity at U of M Dearborn Campus:
http://intervarsity.org
"Please be praying for the students' responses to the Holy Spirit as God moves and convicts hearts and impresses upon them what He wants each of them to learn" ~ Christy
In Detroit: Covenant Community Care www.covenantcommunitycare.org
New Life Rescue Mission - 2600 18th Street Detroit, MI 313-237-0390
Bill Kelly ~ John Kelly
http://julieslist.homestead.com/EmergencyHousing.html
From Mexico: Peter & Laura, Wycliffe Ministries (August, 2008 letter below)
From Guatemala Hope for Tomorrow: http://www.hopefortomorrow.us/
& India (July, 2008 update below)
From Africa Sheltering Wings Orphanage (letter below):
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From: Timothy Fix
[mailto:tfix@hopefortomorrow.us]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:25
PM
We’ve been here now for three days
and the rest of the team is here with us training for the scheduled more than 80
schools! The drama is excellent and very high impact! Please pray for the souls
of the thousands we are about to present the gospel to. We are very expectant
about what the Lord is about to do! The well drilling team is coming tomorrow so
please pray that we hit good water at a reasonable depth without hitting rocks
that have to be drilled through! I hope to give a good report of what the Lord
is doing here in Guatemala very soon as He
allows.
Blessings
In His
grip
Your
missionary
Tim Fix
From: Timothy Fix [mailto:tfix@hopefortomorrow.us]
Sent:
Wed 7/16/2008 10:57 PM
Subject: Update from the field Guatemala July 16 2008
I
wanted to follow up on our previous update. Today the team after
having
finished the third day of intensive training took to the streets
and
performed the drams that they have been learning. Pastor Mark estimates
that
more than 30 soals received prayer for salvation today. Tomorrow the
team
leaves in two busses for the surrounding schools the first few of more
than
eighty scheduled between now and when we return on July 25th. Your
prayers
are critical to this work please invest a moment before the Lord
right now
on behalf of the team and those who are about to hear the message
of
salvation. Also the well drilling team set up the rig today and spent
the
entire day wrenching on it they hope to begin drilling the first
well
tomorrow please pray that we hit good quality water at a reasonable
depth.
Blessings
In His grip
Your
missionary
Tim Fix
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In West Africa Bill & Claudine Served Recently at Sheltering Wings Orphanage
www.sheltering-wings.org
Read Ruth Cox blog below:
January, 2008 Dear Family and Friends, January 25, 2008
Wow! How the time flies by! I have so much to tell you.
My trip home was just wonderful. We have a new baby in the family named Claire Marie. She arrived Nov 2nd and her proud parents are Todd and Amy Shaw. Claire and older sister, Lillian, are both doing very well. The joy of being home for the holidays greatly overshadowed any inconvenience or minor discomfort of the snow, ice, and cold temperatures of the mid-west winters. It had been many years since I had driven on snow and ice but thankfully my schedule was light and it was rare that I needed to be out in it.
Three of our children were adopted this past quarter and left Burkina. Assya is now living in Italy with her parents and 2 older brothers. Mathieu and Mariam are both now French citizens and are living with their respective families in France. We have received news from each of these families and the children are all doing well and are quickly adapting to their new environments. We are thankful to God for these courageous parents who are willing to persevere through the tedious process of international adoption and welcome our children into their homes
Just this week, Stephon, became a US citizen. Stephon went to the States on a medical visa and the family receiving him asked whether he was available for adoption. After a home study was completed here in Burkina, it was documented that his mother had abandoned him when he was about 9 months old and his father was unknown. His case passed through the Burkina courts and he was declared adopted by his American family. Subsequently, on January 24, 2008, Stephon had his day in court in America and was adopted. This is a picture of Stephon and his family.
Last summer we changed our regular routine and hired tutors in French and in math to come to the orphanage and work with the children in secondary school. Everyone really worked very hard. When the children were not in class or doing class exercises, they were working in our fields of millet and peanuts.
Well, the grades are in for the first grading period of this school year and the hard work of last summer is paying off. Several of our children received very high marks, well above average! All but two of them had 10 or above. . . 10 is a passing mark here. . . and the two who are under ten have 9.88 and 9.87. For these two it is very possible for them to work very hard and still get an average for the year of 10 or more.
The children in our primary school continue to prosper. They also did remarkably well in their first grading period accomplishments. The sixth graders are working especially hard this year because they will be taking a standardized test at the end of the year. This is a pass/fail test which will allow them to continue to 7th grade if they pass or force them to re-do 6th grade if they fail. Please pray for this group of students. The pressure is very intense. Please pray also for wisdom for their teacher, Innocent, as he does all that he can to prepare them for this test.
We have received 3 new babies into the orphanage in the past 6 weeks. Céline was born in October, 2007. Her mother and father are cousins, from the same extended family. Because of the shame of this situation, Céline is not welcome in either of her parents’ families. After a thorough home study by Social Action, Céline will most likely be available for adoption. This is little Céline.
Dafimatou and Bassirou are both 4 months old and both of their mothers just recently died. Because there is no one in the families who can care for the infants, we will care for them until they are 12 months old and then they will integrate back into their families.
In mid-December a team from Friends In Action came to Yako and drilled a well for the orphanage. They found water, lots of water, but for the moment there is a problem of a lot of sediment in the water. We are hoping that the sediment will settle and if not, there is a solution of putting small, clean rock down the hole and allowing this rock to serve as a filter for the sediment. The team will be back in mid-March to again test the quality of the water to see if it is safe to drink. We are gathering estimates for a water tower and a tank which we will build when we are sure that the water is good.
Our last but very exciting piece of news is that we have received a very generous contribution which will provide for the construction of a clinic on the orphanage property. We have blueprints and estimates but these are almost 3 years old. The blueprints are still good, but I have been going back to the contractors asking them to review the estimates and see if we can build with these prices. Very favorable estimates are coming in so hopefully we will be starting construction soon on the long awaited clinic.
In preparation for the clinic and also to meet an immediate need for the orphanage, we have hired ZONGO, Josie and TENKODOGO, Beatrice as nurses. Josie was the very first child to come to the orphanage and Bea was with us for 4 years before we sent both of these girls to nursing school. They graduated last summer and have been working at the orphanage, at our local hospital, and at Dr Zala’s clinic in Ouayaghuia since then in order to improve their practical experience. Both girls excelled both in their studies and in the practical application of what they have learned. Already, they have been a tremendous blessing to the orphanage and as the clinic is realized, they will also be a blessing to the community of Yako.
In closing, please pray for all of our local workers. Each one of them is a blessing from the Lord and they do their work as a ministry until the Lord. Pray for their health and the health of their families. None of our projects could survive without the faithfulness of our workers.
With love and blessings!
Ruth. . . Mom. . . Grandma
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mail: Apartado 4
Mitla, Oaxaca
70430 MEXICO
August 29, 2008
Dear Praying Friends,
Greetings in the Lord from gray, rainy Tlaxiaco. We have had so much rain this month that we think Tlaxiaco could be renamed "Mudville" after the fictional town made famous by the 1888 poem "Casey at the Bat". Sometimes it's hard to get laundry dry--lots of days we have a rack full of damp clothes inside the house. Actually, rain is a blessing which we pray for regularly. Without the summer rains, the Mixtecs would not have a corn harvest, and then they would have no tortillas to eat. Praise God with us for the good rains this year!
We have asked you to pray that Ray would be available to work with us on translation this month, but he has not been with us. Instead Ray has been busy with village projects and housing building. His older son sent Ray money to begin to build another house in the family compound, and that has taken all of Ray's time.
I encouraged Ray to take time off from house building to attend the annual meeting of the organization of native translators. The main speakers this year were people from the government's new agency for promoting the use of indigenous languages. Ray enjoyed learning about their work and their future plans during the three days in Mexico City. One idea is for Ray and other indigenous language speakers who have become gifted translators to receive official certification as translators for government programs. Ray has already worked with this agency to translate and record an official document into Mixtec. His recording is played on the radio and tells about the new legal status of all of Mexico's languages.
During Ray's absence, I, Peter, have continued the time-consuming job of editing all the Scripture recordings I have made with Ray. Praise God that I have almost finished this job! Now I need to find a second reader to record all of the titles and section titles. The different voice will help listeners recognize the difference between the actual Scripture text and the added titles. Please pray for a good person to be available for this.
Laura has further edited and improved her Introduction to Linguistics course, based on her experiences from her class this summer. Please pray for wisdom for her next projects: the second volume of How We Write Northern Tlaxiaco Mixtec and the popular grammar of Mixtec. These are major projects and will require some native speaker checking.
Thank you again for your prayers for us and for the Mixtec people! You are a blessing to us.
Gratefully, in Christ,
Peter & Laura Gittlen
peter_gittlen@sil.org
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