The Island Update

“Let them give glory to the LORD and proclaim his praise in the islands.”

Isaiah 42:12      

It’s graduation time in the States and as we hear of our friends finishing up another year of school and moving on to new things we are reminded of how much has changed for us in the past year. We are thankful to report this month that we have finished full-time language study!

After nearly four months of daily study we have moved into full time ministry. We love it! Each week we meet with our friends and try to share the love of Christ with them. We meet with our friends that are believers and try to encourage them to continue growing in their faith and share with others. We also spend time each week going to local university campuses to promote our English center and hopefully meet new people.  No two weeks are alike; in fact no two days are alike. It’s definitely a good change of pace for us.

We have been blessed to recently meet several young married couples and begun building a relationship with them.  A typical evening with them includes eating, lots of confusion between our language and theirs and just hanging out and talking while playing pool.

We are still teaching English classes two days a week.  Last week Roger’s class came over to our house for some good ole American food. The mashed potatoes, barbeque chicken and brownies were a big hit. In fact, they liked it so much they are coming over again this week so that they can learn to cook those things.

Of course, our purpose in being here is to share our faith with those around us and encourage those that already believe.  Now that language school is finished we are finding many opportunities to do just that. Please remember us and pray that over each cup of coffee or plate of rice we share with friends that our conversation will be led towards Christ and His love for us.

Please pray with us this month:

• For Roger’s friend T, that he will recognize that Jesus is the only Way and will continue to talk with Roger about this
• For Courtney’s friends at the gym, that she will be able to share with them in their heart language
• For our continued language study, that we will be faithful to study on our own
• For the new people we are meeting, that we the conversations we have with them will be a witness of our faith in Christ

Praises:

· We had three couples attend our new chat club

· We have recently met several new married couples

· Language school is finished!

· Roger finished all of the work for his seminary classes.