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Answers to your prayers
Every one of these requests has seen an answer in the past month. We praise Him for His provision and thank you for your faithful fervent prayers.
--Approval of the US non-profit application needed to support Olive Tree Counseling Center arrived today!
--Corinne’s full support came in, she is commissioned by her sending church tomorrow, and moves to join us on the 26th! She has arranged a 1-month home stay with a believing local family to learn language and culture, in conjunction with formal full-time language study. Please pray for her to find a good apartment to rent.
--Amber’s 2-week visit to experience life and ministry here ends today. It confirmed that this is indeed the answer to her long-term calling to minister in this country using her gifts and training. We reminisced last night about our first meeting at the Mental Health & Missions Conference in 2015, and how in 14 months she has finished her counseling licensure, taken additional specialty training in working with children and counseling those experiencing crisis and trauma, joined a sending organization, and begun to raise support to join us in January 2018.
--Our son in law's (Matt) family after the loss of his step-father. The funeral service was very special, with family from around the country able to attend in spite of bad weather. There has been wonderful support for his Mom.
--Becky's nephew, Josh: He is 1/3 of the way through the radiation treatments for the cancer, the doctor is pleased with the progress, and he has not suffered a lot of side effects to date. Physical and occupational therapy continue to work on regaining the ability to walk. We continue to pray for the tremors to go away, which would allow so much better functioning in all areas and for His peace for him & the family in the midst of all this.
--We received our passports last week and begin collecting the many documents and approvals to update our residency permits this week. Please pray we are able to complete the process before travel in April.
--Our desired continued growth in balance: With four full-time counselors in the office for the first time, work/rest balance is improving greatly.
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Our own race
We’re memorizing I Corinthians 9:24-27 as we prepare for the local half marathon, realizing that physical health is only one part of being healthy. We want to finish the race of life spiritually, emotionally, and relationally healthy as well.
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High fives to conclude our
recent counseling staff retreat
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January Ministry
Many agencies have their annual field conference in January/February during the school holiday here. We were asked to provide individual counseling and seminars at two of them this month. Although this is it's own marathon of seeing many people for just one or two sessions, we were so encouraged to see how God used the time we did have to strengthen and encourage weary or struggling workers. And we had the joy of learning worship songs in the national language and worship with both expatriate and local staff daily. It seems like a small taste of what heaven will be like—people from many cultures worshiping Him together!
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For more answers to prayer click on the picture above to watch a two minute video about the progress of Bible Translation in 2016.
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