Welcome to the Missionaries...

As I write the blog today I am mindful that before the weekend gets here we will have the potential of many of our missionary women who will be joining us in May in the Dominican Republic reading our blog for the first time and onward. To you, our new readers, I welcome you! I encourage you to be excited as you watch God work on your behalf in the weeks to come as we ask our blog readers to pray for you, to give toward sponsorships, and to be a part of other things on your behalf. So, enjoy!

To all of you who read the blog faithfully, greetings as well. Patty and I made a trip to Clarksville, AR Saturday to meet with several women from Stillwell Bible Church. I had met the Pastor’s wife, Debbie Goodman, in January at a monthly meeting of Pastors and their wives at First Baptist Vilonia, AR. It is awesome to watch the opportunities God networks for us to be able to share with women’s groups about Pure Joy International.

We had a wonderful time of fellowship and food at Connie Watkins’ home. I shared with the ladies about Pure Joy and the different ways they could be involved. Patty got us connected so they could watch a video of our Costa Rica trip last year and get a feel for what the missionary women experience when we are there with them. After listening and observing, they asked some questions and have jumped on the opportunity to be involved, and we are glad! You women on the mission field will be too!

We topped out at 50 missionary women on Monday of this week and we have 5 women on the waiting list as of today. Our team is together and we are off and running in the planning and preparing stages of the journey.

Please begin to pray diligently for the financial resources to come in for these ladies. Notice the wording here. Pray for it to come in. Not you send it. Of course if God tells you to give please do. But, I’m saying let’s stir the heart of God to stir the heart of others to somehow, shape or fashion hear about Pure Joy and the Dominican Republic trip and be moved to give toward helping sponsor the missionaries. We (as of this writing) have 13 missionary women sponsored. Yeah God!!! There are 37 more to go. The cost to sponsor a missionary continues to be $500 per missionary for 4 days and 3 nights to pay for all their room and meals and retreat resources. Again it is exciting to watch how God brings it all together: pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, dollar bills, 5 dollar bills, 20 dollar bills, 50 dollar bills and hundred dollar bills. That’s what I’m talking about!!!

The point…it all adds up to our missionary women having time to recharge so they in turn can pass it on to their spouses and children, and in return stay on the field to reach the ‘nations’ all over this world with the Good News of Jesus Christ! Amen!  And isn’t that just the bottom line!!

Love you all a lot!

His,

Vickie

Psalms 57:9-11

 
I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
 
For your steadfast love is great to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be over all the earth!