Christ be Honored

What fun to hear of God’s answer to prayer this week. The Christmas package we mailed last October just reached our daughter in her place of service. We watched her open it via Skype. She especially appreciated the wool socks from Romania that we sent to help her in the cold weather of her country. Thank you for praying. Now we can give God thanks together.

God has given special times with family this week, more opportunities to speak to groups, and good visits to the sick. Please keep asking the Lord to make us a blessing.

Bob Bixby, a Baptist Mid-Missions missionary in France and friend of ours, was called home to heaven yesterday. He had a life well lived for the Lord and was used of the Lord to impact many lives for eternity. We pray that God will be glorified in our lives and in our deaths.

 “…But that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.” Phil 1:20

Visas

God continues to bless and use us in speaking various places on missions and the Lord’s commands to go, give, and pray. Pray for Christians to listen to God’s leading and follow him. Please pray for some unsaved friends we have contact with that need to turn to the Lord. Some are in Michigan and some in Cambodia. What a privilege to share the good news of salvation.

Please keep praying for our Bangladesh visas which are being processed right now in the Bangladesh embassy in Washington DC. These are for our three months' work there beginning in April.

Please pray for the Baptist Mid-Missions hospital in Bangladesh and the need for doctors and teachers. Pray for the Christian school and the children attending there, and for the Bible school and the students and staff. What a great God we have.

“Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power…” Col. 1:11

Details

God has given us wonderful fellowship with friends who pray for us and support us. We count on their continued prayer even after we change to retirement status. God will keep on demonstrating his loving care and power.

We went to get typhoid immunizations today and got the tablet form. Nice.  Only a couple more immunizations to get.

Airline tickets are purchased now for going to Bangladesh. Thank God for these.  

We plan to visit Cambodia on the way back in July for a few days. It will be good to encourage the Christians.

Now we are working on applying for Bangladesh visas. God helped us getting the photos today and making progress on the forms. Please pray for all to go smoothly in securing these visas.

“You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.” Ps. 73:24

Blessings

Praise God for the good meetings this past weekend. It is encouraging to be with God’s people and to tell what God has been doing. We have several meetings with individuals scheduled ahead yet. Thanks for praying as we travel and serve the Lord on furlough.

We thank God that my cataract surgery January 31 went well. Thank you for praying. At the beginning of March I get new glasses. We thank God for good health and good healthcare available.

This week we are in the process of purchasing airline tickets for Bangladesh. Please pray for God’s guidance in this. The plan is to work at the Baptist Mid-Missions’ hospital and schools there from mid-April to mid-July this summer. Next week we are scheduled to get our immunizations updated.

“God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.” Ps 67:7