Tooth Tales – December 2019
Dear Friends,
We’ve been moving around the country again! Our first stop was Ankeny IA to participate in Faith Baptist Bible College’s missions conference. It was a good week with challenging preaching.
Jack had two workshop sessions and some good interactions with students about restricted access nations. We saw a number of good friends there, including one from New England! We plan to be back on campus in January and hope to build on some of the relationships we established with students there.
Our next stop was Greenville SC as we had meetings with GFA Missions to help us become more familiar with our new sending agency. It was an intense time as we tried to accomplish as much as we could in just a few days. We were able to tentatively schedule a survey trip to two restricted access countries in August and meet with a medical doctor who is interested in joining us on an evangelistic trip this summer. We also talked at length with another medical doctor who is interested in going with us and has many contacts in a restricted area of Asia.
We had previously scheduled a church meeting in Pennsylvania and we were able to go from Greenville to Leola to present our ministry at Community Bible Church. We were looking forward to being with Pastor John Duty and his wife and the people of this good church. This is also the home church of our mentors, Henry and Cathy Heijermans, which made the visit extra special. We had a wonderful time with the Heijermans at their apartment the next day and were encouraged by how well they are doing. We are so thankful for the part that they played in steering us into missionary service 23 years ago and encouraging us along the way.
The last stop during this busy period was closer to home. We were a part of a missions conference at Merrimack Valley Baptist Church in NH. It was great to meet their new pastor, Greg Odiorne. We are now home (mostly) for the month of December and concentrating on getting ready for our ministry trip to Myanmar early in January. Please pray for us as we go to serve among the Dawei people again, an unreached tribe in southern Myanmar. We hope to return to many of the same villages we visited last January and are praying that many of the same patients would come again to hear of Jesus’ sacrificial death for them. Please pray that their hearts would be more open to spiritual truth and that they would break free from the tight grasp of their dominating religion.
Thanks so much for holding us up in prayer. We are tired but excited as we are seeing the Lord open doors for us already and provide direction and contacts in places that we knew nothing about a few weeks ago. We came away from the conference in Iowa with a renewed sense of urgency to reach into some tough places. Time is short and we know that God is not willing that any should perish. Thanks for being willing to go with us, in prayer, on this new path of faith and service.
We wish you all very blessed Christmas!
Sincerely in Christ,
Jack and Jennifer