Epoch

Praise God!
We are all ‘littlefaiths’ aren’t we?
We wait for God and He is faithful.
We say we are patient, but we are not.
We wait because we have to.
We say “your will oh Lord”, but we long for our way.
Praise God!
He is faithful!

How it all works out we can’t even imagine, but it has worked out every time.
Biblical history…
Our walk of faith…
He is faithful.

We are seeing fruit in the lives of kids and grown-ups.
Answers to prayer.
Unanswered prayer for which we are grateful

• We start a guitar class and bible study on Wednesday
• The chaplaincy is going well and kids are asking questions.
• The church is growing and the gospel is preached.
• We are seeing real cross-denominational ministry opportunities.
• We found a house to buy IN Alva.

It had to be IN Alva.
17 months of watching and various disappointments.
It seemed like every six weeks we would find a new option and watch it NOT work out.
We sold a condo in LA (71% return on 5 year investment) and banked the cash short-term in a CD that covered the debt service.
But the exchange rate effectively cut any $ in half.
Just recently, our CD matured to a very small rate of return at rollover, so we moved the money into a simple money market and were looking at paying a bit on the loan each month

But when we finally found this property, and got turned down...again,
the economy began its latest pangs and the sellers came back willing.
We are now buying a small cottage at the lowest exchange rate since we arrived. (Since 2006 actually)
Any time sooner and we would not have afforded this one.

Please do pray:

• Lots of older folks are sick at our church.
• The Fraser family is ‘full of cold’, as they say.
• We are a bit stressed with a house full of boys.
• Liz and I are meeting with a family counsellor to learn how to communicate better.
  (more like a third party to help us honestly apply biblical truth)
• I also have a habit of keeping up my best face for the public and being less encouraged at home so consistency in witness at home is key.
• In the last year and a half: Home sale, international move, new pastoral ministry, missionary culture shock, new baby, home purchase, financial questions = stress…
• Some kids are really giving us trouble at the kids club:
  Pornographic MP3s on their cell phones
  Cheeky influence during the lessons
  So we kicked them out.
  Now I’ve got Prank phone calls and ring and runs at my home.
  Pray. for my witness, these kids aggravate me.
  These feral creatures need parenting and love, but they are infectious and rude.
  I can only reach so many people in a week and I think our investment is better suited to training up good kids and not coddling reprobates who scoff at God!
  Though I learned at SoM how much CC depends on we recovered reprobates!
• That salvation would visit the homes in our sleepy burgh of Alva
• for our home purchase to move ahead

He who began a good work…; I can do all things through Christ….; God is good!