November/December, 2005

Dear Friends and family,

We hope you enjoyed the Christmas season as much as we did. The Lord truly blessed us. We are so thankful for all those who thought of us at Christmas in the midst of your busy days. The special offerings were a real blessing, with less meetings in the month of December. Thank you, also, for the cards. Monica and the children were so excited to receive them and put them over the mantle.

The month of December was a very good month concerning our support level. We were expecting five new supporting churches. We did get five, but two of them were churches that we did not anticipate. Praise the Lord! We are growing more excited about returning to St. Lucia with each month that passes.

We have been in contact with friends in St. Lucia about the mission efforts currently in progress. Several more have been saved, including two the last Sunday of December. A young man named Oliver, who was saved while we were in St. Lucia in 2003, helped to preach a crusade in a small village during the last week of December. He was able to lead a young lady to the Lord! We are so encouraged to see the Lord working in the lives of those that God has allowed us to minister to.

The first week of November, we invited a girl on the street to attend a service with us. Sandra came to the morning service and accepted Jesus during the preaching time. We invited her to live with us until she could get cleaned up and back on her feet. The children allowed her to use one of their bedrooms, and shared the bathroom. We went to a camp meeting for three days and then to two more missions meetings. In only a week Sandra had taken in all she could handle. Thirty minutes before a Sunday evening service, she left. The Lord used her to help mature us in many ways. We have a greater burden for the lost, and the children are closer. They pray for Sandra often and ask others to pray for her as well. The Lord has given us wisdom on how to help others for the future.

Please continue to pray for us, that God will get us to the field in His timing. God bless you all!