Our family has just returned from a road trip vacation and want to try to get on track with the work of getting our family ready to go by November of this year. This doesn't mean we will be leaving at the time, unless the Lord has that planned, but we want to be standing ready to serve our Father whenever He sees us ready.
You can be praying for ways for us to reach others outside of our wonderful church family for financial support. This can happen in many ways from us sending information to churches we don't really know, to having friends who go to other churches give information about us to their pastor or missions directors, or to having friends give dinners/lunches/desserts for people outside our immediate circle whom we can share our mission plans with. You can pray for the Lord to open doors to the people who have a heart for supporting missionaries on a long term basis. We believe God can provide more people than we can imagine!
On June 11th, we had a wonderful visit from Mike & Janet and they shared with 35 people what they are doing overseas and how they saw us fitting into the ministry there. It was very encouraging and refreshing for us to see them. It was like they helped rekindle the flame in our hearts to be there working among the people of Ch. There are some things you can be praying for in regards to what is going on over there and there are some things to be praising the Father for.
Here is some information directly from Mike & Janet for you to take to the Father in praise and prayer:
* We received notice yesterday that the local security bureau will be making undercover inspections of all the training centers to make sure all the regulations governing foreigners are being followed. Fortunately this came as a forewarning but it means that the "games" paranoia is expanding. Often these kinds of activities amount to harassment so, please pray that we will not experience unnecessary difficulty during this time. They also told us that the provincial security bureau will conducting their own undercover operations which means they don't trust the locals to do their job well or perhaps that they are looking for some specific kind of "results". We know we are here at His direction. We want to be wise and innocent.
* Visa regulations have changed again. Now it is necessary for all foreigners to apply for work visas from their home country. That means we can no longer get them here or even go out to HK or Thailand to apply for them. This is an additional burden that we will have to find ways to overcome.
* We have almost 35 young people heading out of the city on short term mission trips to a number of locations in Ch. Some will do English camps in house churches and other groups, some will be collecting language data among minority people's villages for the development of better evangelistic material, and some will be doing relief work in the earthquake areas. Pray for their safety and for the unity among them; they are from a number of different schools an different church groups that don't have a good sense of unity. Janet will be involved in the next week or so with the final training of the English teaching teams and Jake & Mike have the responsibility to prepare them spiritually.
We appreciate all of your prayers on their behalf.
Blessings,
Kim & Paul
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