Our team is locked-in as of this morning, and tickets are being purchased today. Weekly prayer times begin this week in Illinois, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nevada, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Springfield, Missouri and/or whatever country that team member is in at the time. (Smile)
It is time to sincerely pray about missionary support for this trip. Please seek God and find out if you are supposed to be helping support a missionary. They come to the conference free of charge except for paying for their travel to and from. Cost per missionary is $700. This takes care of them for 4 days, 3 nights, and all conference materials. If you want to pay by check, send to the address below and put ‘missionary’ in the bottom left corner.
Pure Joy International, Inc.
P.O. Box 36
Plumerville, Arkansas 72127
If you want to pay by credit card, debit card, and/or PayPal please click button on the right of this page that says donate and follow the instructions.
Pure Joy International is a 501(c)3 and all your donations are tax deductible. Thank you in advance for your ministry to these women/families that are serving overseas to make a difference for the kingdom’s sake.
Last week I talked some about not putting people (especially missionaries) on a pedestal because of how that affects their lives. This week I want to talk about change... something most of us don’t really do well with, if we are honest. Imagine this, you move to a foreign country that God has led you to. You do not know the language and you do not know anyone at all that lives in that country. Your purpose initially is to learn that language. So, while you are learning it through tutoring by a local, the web, or just by being there and engaging with locals, etc., you and your family still must eat and get around. Along with this you are dealing with having left parents, siblings, extended family, and friends behind. Some have even left children and grandchildren. You also are living in a culture that is unfamiliar to you as well as trying to understand their ways. If you have children they now have no friends, initially to speak of, and you don’t just want to let your children be around people you don’t know yet. So, you and your family are ‘it’ for the first months in this new place. To top it off, you are learning to live together as family, probably for the first time ever, because no one is working yet or running off to school. If you are single, there are no words for the adjustment. That is a lot of stress, and certainly can make a person wonder if they really heard from God. Yet, knowing that they really heard from God is also what can keep them there as they walk it out.
This week would you join me in praying for missionaries around the world who are new to the field. Also, those who are returning from being in the states, raising money to live on for the next several years before they come home again. Pray for those who have never adjusted but have continued to try and ride it out. Pray for them to get direction from the LORD and peace with that direction. Pray for those who are experiencing change within their sending organizations and are trying to understand if God wants them to adjust to the change or go a different route.
Sometimes when our folks who go overseas leave our sight we forget the big changes they are up against. Let’s tighten up our prayer time on their behalf.
Love you all,
His,
Vickie
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