Happy summer time! Just looking at the sunrise this mooring, Philippians 4:4 brought refreshment in my heart as I read it out loud “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.” It’s my prayer that regardless of what kind of situation is trying to steal your joy, that in the middle of it all you will Rejoice!
Talking about rejoicing, May came with its downsides, but the grace of the Lord has lifted us higher and higher. At the beginning of this month we had a funeral of a young man who died in Delicias of an unknown complication in his body. The doctors were unable to trace exactly what was wrong, as several tests come out to be negative and nothing was wrong. It finally come to the conclusion that it was something spiritual that was bothering him, as he acted differently and died trying to name some dead people. On my side this is a deeper realization about how much the spiritual battle ground is rough in the villages that I visit.
Just after a week, Tita (the young missionary student nurse who went to Haiti) her father got very ill, and finally died last Friday. In the same week, Stephen’s mother Elizabeth Tolman was diagnosed with a fatal kind of cancer that has spread all over her body. She had an operation and is still in intensive care, doctors have little hope about her survival.
Ministry News
All the above seems like bad news. But, in all this, God’s faithfulness has not failed us and is still with us in every area. As a result of the young man’s death we have seen 6 people come to the Lord in Delicias, and those who have the Lord being strengthen and really desiring more of the Holy Spirit in their lives!
I spent the last week traveling and preaching in different village churches including an open air street meeting were 2 young men aged 19 and 24 received the Lord, and made the decision to leave the drug business and go into rehabilitation! During these meetings many were touched and encouraged in the Lord especially in stepping out in missions. As both young and old approached me with questions from the desire for the Lord to use them in their lives as missionaries and ministers to serve their own people. At the end of one of the service a lady approached me and said she had come to church with a very bad migraine, and had got healed! Praise the Lord!
Mission Possible
On a project note, the “Mission Possible book” is making it’s through the final stages before its publication in the next few months. Thank you so much for your support and prayers; and for those of you who gave me your vote on the cover design. Mission Possible is meant to be a practical tool. A guide for those who feel called to ministry. Particularly away from their own countries, communities or boundaries. It is inspired by the questions I receive from others about the mission field, and my own experience. Such a book would have been a valuable tool in my own preparation for the mission field. Mission Possible covers some of the issues I've found to be critical in missions, such as culture, finances, the gift of singleness, interracial romantic relationships for single missionaries and much more. It’s my prayer that the book will serve those preparing for the mission field, and ministry at large.
Prayer Request
I thank you so much for standing with us in your prayers and support. I give thanks for you, and making mention of you in my prayers. That as we stand together, regardless of what the tough may be, the Lord is on our side, and we will rejoice as over comers of anything the enemy brings out way.
Please pray for
1. Our dear sister Elizabeth Tolman’s. That God’s grace will be available to strengthen every fiber in her being.
2. The spiritual wisdom we need to walk in the full amour of God
3. Last but not least,Safety! At the time of writing this, gun fires are going on outside the property where we live. And people are advised not to get out of their house as the Mexican military is tackling the gang bases. Please we need your prayers, very much pray for our safety!
May you be strengthened by the Almighty in your spirit through this month, “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice!”
Much love and blessings
Donald
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