Missions Prayer Sheet for December 2016

Prayer is Your Missionaries’ Greatest Need!

December 2016

Our Retired Missionaries

Virgil and Dolores Bunjer

• Retired missionaries from Germany, living in Ankeny, IA
• Have a ministry to senior missionaries for Baptist Mid-Missions

Louis Miller

• Louis Miller went to be with the Lord on November 10^th.

Allen and Marilyn Adler

• Native American ministry, Townsend, MT

Ron and Kathleen Weber

• They are moved into their new home – 2 streets from one daughter and 2 miles from the other daughter – and 2 miles from the Church they will serve in! (Address: 1 Londonderry Dr., Flemington, NJ 08822)

Joan Nichols

• Living in Ankeny, formerly served in Latin America
• She has had to be in the hospital again with another bout of pneumonia.

Wyzetta Titus

• Widow of Gerald Titus faithfully serving the homebound in her area of VA

Lois Wantoch

• Serving in her Church in NE after years on the Amazon.

Bonnie Abbas

• Living with her sister in IA since leaving S.A. due to health reasons.
   

 

Missionaries We Support Financially and with Prayer

 

Norman and Susan Smith family (www.smithlife.net)

• Serving in Kumamoto, Japan – workers needed!
• Seeking to build bridges to individuals and establish Churches – ten students now attending the just-started Bible School! New visitors at Sunday service.

Darrel and Lori Jingst

• EBI (Spanish Literature Publication) in Sebring, FL

Mike and Peggy Carr

• Missionary Builders with CBM, building presently at Fort Ashby, W. Va.
• The good weather has helped progress on the new building. See mission’s map for newspaper article about the project!
• The pastor of the Church faces a potentially serious health issue.

Dan and Peggy Whitcher (www.danandpeggy.com)

• Church Planting and Development Coordinator, Baptist Mid-Missions

Brad and Marie Hansen and family

• Baptist Church Planters, Bussey, IA
• Visit the church website: busseychurch.com

Dennis and Peggy Robinson,

• CBM, Missionary Builders

Ed and Cheryl Bunt

• CBM Church Planters, Chatsworth, Illinois
• New folks have been attending services.
• Pray for the many holiday events. Pray for the Bunts as they enthusiastically carry on!

 

 

Missionaries We Support With Prayer

 

Lars and Phyllis Wessberg

• Missionary Evangelism with C.O.M.E.

Steve and Kelley Frerichs,

• Church Planters in Lima, Peru

Cathy King

• Pray for her ministry to women with Sabrina’s Hope.

Blane and Kelly Barfknecht Family (www.chalcohillsbaptist.com)

• Church Planters with BCP
• Chalco Hills Baptist Church in the Omaha area of NE

Lucas / Kimberly Warner (www.facebook.com/WarnersinRomainia)

• Serving in Romania with Baptist Mid-Missions.

Nicole Carr

• Serving with Baptist Mid-Missions in Romania.
• Praising the Lord for recent opportunities to put her talents to use. Pray for the children and teens as they present the programs at Christmas. Pray for more church planters in Romania. (Two of Nicole’s colleagues are moving back to the US to work at BMM home office.)

The Boyds

• Missionaries to Colombia with ABWE
• Visit: BoydHome.com

Henry John Family

• With Baptist Mid-Missions serving in their native India
• Molly needs a kidney transplant. Bulletin board letter tells updated information on Molly’s recent hospital stay.
• Pray for the 5 Church plants now underway in North India. Funds are needed for Seminary modules and to buy land for a permanent location for the seminary.

Pat and Bonnie Ryal

• They are being assigned by ABWE to International Health Ministries for short-term work around the world. Description: “active retirement.”

George and Dottie Hatfield (http://ghatfield.ebm.org)

• Campus Ministries at ISU in Ames. Second semester leaders needed.
• Pray for the Sharbaughs and for the rest of their support to come in!
• Praise the Lord that intern Monica Richards has earned her Doctorate in Linguistics which impacts her ministry to the Chinese and Korean women.

Rhonda Green RN

• Micronesian Medical Missions, Baptist Mid-Missions, Guam.

Anna Beth Wivell (www.annabethwiv.com)

• With Baptist Mid-Missions, translator of the Scriptures.
• She returns to Chad with a complete change in missionary co-workers! Pray for all to adjust.
• Besides translation checking, she is busy hosting several short-term missionary guests.

The Mapes

• With Baptist Mid-Missions – Ghana.
• Pray that support will speedily reach the goal so that they can return permanently to work in the ministry in Ghana.

Timothy and Jane Silcott Family (www.silcottministries.com)

• With COME bringing an evangelistic outreach to small Churches.

Pat and Wendy Campbell

• Baptist Mid-Missions, Missionaries to Peru
• They are preparing to return to Peru near the end of February. Seven recently graduated from the seminary there.

Wesley and Sonia Chatla

• International Gospel Missions – Church planting in India
• A temporary meeting place for the Machilipatnam Church has been found. Pray that there will soon be funds to get land and to build. 250,000 people in this area need the truth.

The Phillips Family (www.phillips5.net) 

• Team Church Planters in Chicagoland with Baptist Church Planters.

Mark and Leslie Boyd and Family

• Missionaries to Germany
• Two individuals are close to accepting Christ. Pray for Leslie who broke her right big toe – a problem with six kids to keep up with.
• The Snells are at 61% support. Pray that they can join the Boyds a year from this coming summer.
• An evangelistic meeting is being planned for December 18^th. 2000 flyers have gone out! There is much excitement.

The Snells

• Baptist Mid-Missions to Germany on deputation.
• After the holidays in CO, they have IA, IL, and MN meetings through Feb.

James / Christen Taylor – Brazil (www.taylors4brazil.blogspot.com )    

        They are back safely in the USA and are thankful for the Minivan.

New phone # and e-mail address are included in their letter.

John and Bev Leonard (www.prayforjohnblog.wordpress.com)

• Baptist Mid-Missions, in Brazil
• Seven people are very interested in accepting Christ but have yet to make the decision. Pray for them.

David and Patti West

• Gospel Mission of S.A. Less than 25% of support to go!
• They will be going to language school in January. Pray for the scheduling of meetings between the semesters of language school

The Tylavskys

• Church Planters with CBM
• Pray that they can soon join their coworkers in the DelMarVa area.

Joy Akkermann

• Baptist Mid-Missions headed to the jungles of Peru
• For when she moves permanently to the jungle, Joy has found a place to live next door to her co-workers. Praise the Lord!

The Campbell Family (www.campbellfamily)

• They have resigned from ABWE. Now with Village Missions.
• There are 17 Village Missions churches across the U.S. that need a pastor.
• By next summer, the Campbell family hopes to be ministering in one of these churches. Prayers needed!

Mark, Anahi, and Sophia Self

• Church planters/Serving in Argentina
• Some matching funds are available that would make it possible to finish the main floor by their fall of 2017. Pray God prompts folks to give by the end of January.
• The building project has brought inquiries about the Church and new attenders at the Bible studies!

Rick and Elaine Fessel

• Assisting the German Missionaries in Eichstatt, Germany (BMM)
• Pray for their visa renewal to go smoothly. Continue to pray for their work with the refugees. Pray for Pastor Willi and his family.

Ben and Katie Wooster

• CBM Builders.
• Their support level is at 81%, and they report all has gone well at the W. VA worksite. Pray for their travels back to IA for Christmas. Ben’s truck has had some issues. Pray these are getting fixed promptly.

The Hemsworths

• On deputation to serve at Missionary Acres – now at 29% support.
• Check out their new website: hemsworths2ma.com
• Ron continues his advanced EMT class through Jan.
• There is a “well” issue at Missionary Acres. Also, pray for the remodeling of the Hemsworth’s house there. June 2018 is the target date for the family being at their post!

The Barry Farlow family

• Serving with Baptist Mid-Missions in Brazil in Church and Seminary teaching.
• The Church the Farlows are working with is building a pastoral home so that when they get a pastor, they will have his home ready.
• Pray that the publishing building sells so a replacement building can be purchased in a different area. (With a bad economy, this is a hard request!!)

 

 

LET’S PRAY, GIVE, AND GO TO OUR NEIGHBORS AND CO-WORKERS! IF WE ARE ALL FAITHFUL IN OUR TASK, THE JOB WILL GET DONE! Pray for FBBC and Seminary students on break, Pastor Capon, State GARBC Rep.; the online Bible study for kids at www.iToadU.com ; Shepherd’s; Alpha Women’s Center (needs a Spanish-speaking volunteer); our KJAN Radio Broadcast and our website: www.fbcbrayton.org ; IARBC statewide ministries; Baptist Children’s Home Ministries; and Memorial Christian Hospital in Bangladesh (When funds come in, the matching grant will be released, and Phase II of the construction on the new hospital will begin! OB is having patient overload. Pray earnestly about this difficult problem. – See letter on hall bulletin board for details.). Pray for Israel/the Jews. Pray that we will see those who need the Lord in our own neighborhoods. Patch Clubs and the Youth Compass ministries resume after the first of the year. Pray for more willing workers to help out each Wednesday night. Pray families in this area will see the need of boys and girls to hear the Gospel and to grow spiritually through: Sunday School, Children’s Church, as well as the Patch/Compass ministries.