What a great way to get to start our New Year by telling you that all the missionaries for our Central Europe trip have been sponsored. We are praising God for His goodness and your donations. In fact, we received such a generous donation at the very end of the year that we could go ahead and pay it forward to 13 more missionary women for the next retreat in Fall of 2017. There are no words to express how Amazing God is and to be able to watch His people allowing Him to work through them to accomplish His good will and purpose. Thank you to all of you that consistently partner with Pure Joy International through prayer, giving and gifting and going. The team is full and busy with all the preparations that take place before we leave the country. Speaking of which we are only 5 weeks out from stepping on the plane. Wow! Pray for us that all details will be taken care of and we don’t miss anything. Our theme for this trip is “Consider your ways” from Haggai 1:7.
I also want to give a salute out to a friend that literally prays for this ministry staff, teams and myself throughout the year daily and yes, I did say daily. At the end of each year she sends me a sweet card of encouragement and inside it is an index card filled with the days she prayed for us. Thank you, Donna Rychilk, that you, along with so many, are standing in the gap for Pure Joy International as we minister to our missionaries in foreign lands that need rest and encouragement. Also, thank you to so many others that I know pray for this ministry by name weekly. You are such a blessing to us.
This month we will be having our Annual Pure Joy International Board, Staff and Advisors meeting up on what we have lovingly named God’s Mountain. Again, God’s goodness that a local family allows us to have their beautiful log cabin getaway home for three days and 2 nights to review our year and seek God for the coming year. Please pray for us as we meet. As you know things around the world continue to get more and more difficult for our fellow believers that are serving Him across the seas. Christians are routinely attacked and killed for the sake of their beliefs daily. As bombings occur more frequently these days and stand to increase in the future we need to be wise about where we go and when. Pray God will continue to give us discernment as to where to go, the timing to be there and the resources to always serve Him with excellence for His Glory.
May this year be the year that many of our family and friends along with a lost world find the Joy of knowing Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.
One of our prayer partners and friend that I was telling you about earlier claimed this verse for me in 2016. I am claiming it as my verse for the year 2017 personally and for the Ministry of Pure Joy International. Please join me in standing on this truth of scripture this year.
Jeremiah 32:17 (ESV)
17 ‘Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
Love you all and looking forward to what He is up to through all of us that have a heart for the ministry of Pure Joy International.
His,
Vickie
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