Ten minute AV presentation:

A couple of weeks ago we were privileged to share at Fellowship Bible Church, Shenandoah Junction WV.  The tech crew kindly provided us with the audio of our presentation.  I put it with the slides we used so we could share this 10 minute presentation with more of you.

Prayer & Praise:

I just edited an email that I sent to someone who signed up to be on our mailing list.
Included in the letter is a list of items for prayer and praise.
I figured I'd post it here:

Here are a few items to pray about about, and matters for which we are thankful:
 

• We will be traveling during the second half of November, but not together.
  HM will be flying to Guam, leaving 11/15.  It will be about a 25 hour trip.
  On 11/27 I fly to Palau.  It is about a 2 hour flight.
  I fly home on 12/1.  That trip will take about 35 hours.
  Kathy will drive from Covington VA to Monroe LA to spend Thanksgiving with our sons and their families.  She'll leave the car there and fly home on 11/30.
  (When we fly back to the USA in early May we'll land in Monroe, attend our granddaughter's high school graduation and then drive home.)
  Pray for safety as we travel, and that we will be a good witness.
• While in Guam HM will be learning procedures for record-keeping, reporting, etc., in regard to running the Teaching Facility in Palau.  I'm looking forward to fellowship with friends, colleagues, & students there.
  In Palau, I'll be meeting with key people and seeking to move the program ahead.
• Especially for Kathy:  We have lived at 2106 S. Carpenter Drive for more than 40 years.  We have rebuilt the little house a bit at a time.  We have various things to do to get the house ready for a 4 month absence.  I'm trying to get some stuff done this week, before my 2 week trip to Micronesia.
• Ditto, various business arrangements.  
• This is the final piece in our transition out of a 42 year ministry at Covington Bible Church.  There is some emotion involved.
• Pray 7.  7 is the "foot-in-the-door" number to being successful in Palau.  We need 7 students.  We'd like to have many more.  The news I have gotten from PIU is that there is interest.  Some correspondence is already going back and forth.
• The last numbers I have indicate that we are at about 31% of what is needed to finance our project for the coming year.  Pray that our account will fill up.

 

Here are a couple of things we are thankful for:

• This past weekend we were at the LMUSA headquarters in Schooley's Mountain, New Jersey.  Kathy spent a couple of days helping get a new guest apartment ready for mission related visitors.  Shopping and decorating for Jesus!  HM was there for the LMUSA board meeting.  He also met with 2 new families who have been appointed as missionaries with LMUSA.  It was great to meet them and to get some on the job training for working with "new recruits."  Since Kathy and I are new recruits, we were worked on, while we worked with.  :)
• That I, HM, had enough Frequent Flyer miles to book this 2 week, training/promo trip to Micronesia, and to book Kathy's flight home from LA. 
• The churches where we have shared about our ministry have treated us very warmly.
• That 31%.
• The momentum at PIU is moving in a positive direction.
• That we are healthy enough, at this stage in life, to pursue this new ministry.
• Again, thank you.  Stay in touch.

Thanks.