Update - Dec ‘08
posted by Jesse on Friday, December 12, 2008 at 10:57 pm
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Fifty-three days and counting! Over the past few weeks since you last heard from us, we have been incredibly busy in our preparation for heading to Togo on February 3rd. God is providing in so many unexpected ways, and we give Him all the glory for it. We discovered shortly after getting to Oregon that our home church, Greater Portland Baptist Church, was going to give their Thanksgiving offering in order to help out with some of the costs involved with the shipping and set-up in Togo. We just found out the other day that over $7,000 was given! We can do nothing but give God all the praise for moving the hearts of His people to do this.
Even though we are extremely busy right now with all the packing and logistics involved in our move, God is giving us some great opportunities to serve Him at the same time. Last night Tiffany and I were able to go with a group from our church into a maximum security juvenile detention center where we had a special Christmas party for the men there and gave them Christmas stockings filled with gifts, including a Bible. At the end of the party, the gospel was presented and several people believed on Christ and were saved. It was a great privilege to be a part of what God did there. Please continue to pray for these guys as they will be discipled in the coming months. Also, please pray for me as I will be preaching at the Portland Rescue Mission on the 15th of this month. My desire is to present the gospel as clearly as possible straight from the Bible. I’ll be speaking from Romans chapter three.
We are working on finalizing all of the details with our shipping company, so pray for wisdom in that as well. We have a LOT of packing to do in the next 10 days or so, so if you don’t hear from us for a while it’s probably because we have collapsed from exhaustion!
Thank you again for praying for our big move, and for supporting us through it! You are such a blessing to us.
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