Second Core Support Team Meeting

Sunday evening we got to know our core support team members better as we met for the second time at Ray and Joanne Moore’s house. We had dinner, great fellowship, and talked about the book, Serving as Senders by Neal Pirolo. Everyone shared from their hearts where they would like to help and we have assigned team members their tasks.

We are blessed to have such a great group of people who have felt led to join our ministry. They are all excited and ready to go, each with something unique to bring to the table. I am positive this is going to have an amazing affect on our ministry. As we head to Russia for the month of December we will have a good trial period to see how everything works.

Please pray for them and us as we start this new chapter of our ministry. Pray that we would all have discernment as the Lord leads us so that we can effectively minister to the Russian people. The team consists of Ilene and Corey Emmons; Ray and Joanne Moore; Jennifer Blythe; Brendan and Jennifer VanBuege; Paul Marquez; and Steve and Becky Stockwell.

We want to thank each one on our team for coming along side us! It is a huge encouragement. We pray that the Lord would bless you and lead you as we minister together.

IBS With a Fellow Missionary

For the past several weeks Amy Darouze has been coming to our guest-house to learn the Inductive Bible Study method. She is also a missionary who is right now preparing to head off to India. I have known Amy for years and she has always had a heart for missions. Her mission is to go and train locals in India, and we hope that she will be able to use IBS to work in the lives she comes in contact with.

We have been doing a very loose form study through the ICM manual. We have been doing assignments from the manual, as well as studying other parts of scripture practicing outlining and charting.

We have enjoyed our times of fellowship. Amy has expressed her excitement as she learned to see things in the scriptures in a deeper way, finding things she had previously missed. I too am amazed at how each time I review a well known text that something new always pops out at me.

Pray for Amy as she heads to India in January, and for us as we go back to Russia for a month, then return in January for a mission’s conference and to raise much needed support.