Wow, what a week so far! We were blessed to be at Peace Haven Baptist’s Missions Conference. We will definitely miss Jarred and the college and career class! After the Sunday night service we went to Dairy Freeze with them, and got to hear about their passion for getting the Gospel into all the world. Many of them had been on missions trips to South America. We were encouraged to see a church so on fire for the cause of world evangelism!

 On Monday night a young couple announced their call to be missionaries in Nepal! We enjoyed Bro. Phil Martin’s preaching, and Pastor Jon Bowman really went over and above in taking care of us! Rebekah Bowman spent time with all the missionary wives, and was so hospitable! The missions director, Bro. Benge, made us feel right at home! We are thankful for everyone we got to meet while there.We pray the Lord continues to use them as they strive to be a witness for Christ in all the world!

We are honored to partner with New Life Baptist Church in reaching Japan with the Gospel! Darrel Cox, the missions director, called yesterday and said they had voted to take us on for support! Which brings us to 21% of our support! When we were there in March, we got to meet several wonderful people and became friends. Thank you for all you did for us and we miss you guys!

Pastor Rick Spence had been to Japan for a missions trip. While there he met a Japanese Pastor that was thankful for all that America had done for Japan, but then asked why the US focused on sending money but not the Gospel. Pastor Spence said it broke his heart to hear that man tell his story. It gives us something to think about doesn’t it? We will quickly send some money to help those in need, but recoil when it comes to actually taking the Gospel.

Pray for us as we travel to Staunton, VA tomorrow!

This past week we were excited to attend our mission board’s orientation! It was thrilling to hear from our veterean missionaries, and learn from their experience. I’m thankful to be a part of Vision Baptist Missions, but even more so to be a part of the family that VBM encompasses. There are many great mission boards out there, but few offer a close team of missionaries and even fewer that are close enough to call family. We may be small in size, but I would gladly spend and be spent for them and they for me. Our heart, our desire is to see the nations worship Christ!

We are blessed to be part of such a team of friends and co-laborers in Christ! On the left you can see Mark Coffey showing a map of where God has placed our team through out the world! The picture on the right is Robert Canfield talking about our ministry philosophy of Be-Do-Serve-Train. Learn more about it at www.bcwe.org.

For more information on Vision Baptist Missions, visit visionbaptistmissions.com.