The Lord is not willing that any should perish...
2 Peter 3:9
August 6, 2006
Dear Friends and Family.
We
want you to know how grateful we are to know that
folks like you are standing and praying with us in
our ministry and our personal lives as well. We
also appreciate your help to us through your gifts
of support. We want to pray for you as well in any
specific way that we can. Thank you for your
support of our ministry with New Tribes Mission. We
truly thank the Lord for His provision to us through
you.
Thank
you for praying for my (Linda’s) severe nerve pain
in my hip and down my left leg. (It has involved
several different nerves; not just the sciatic
nerve.) Just a couple of weeks before we had to fly
to Wisconsin to be with my parents (Mom had a
serious stroke June 19th), I was able to
have my third epidural lumbar steroid injection. I
was greatly helped by this procedure and it came at
this strategic time. I continue to have some pain
in my hip and leg, but nothing like I experienced
for several months. Thank you for praying for me.
The Lord is answering prayer and we thank Him for
His daily strength and healing.
If
you would have asked us, just prior to our recent
trip to Wisconsin, What is a priority right now in
your ministry with New Tribes Mission? The answer
would have been easy: “To finish the upcoming month
end/beginning procedures in our busy Medical
Plan/Life Insurance/Medical Emergency Evacuation
Insurance office.”
Then
we received Dad’s urgent phone call on June 24th:
“Please come to Wisconsin, as soon as possible. I
need you.” (We left the next day.)
Suddenly we had two priorities facing us at the same time!
We needed to be at work and we needed to be with our
dear parents in Wisconsin. We must admit that our
hearts skipped a beat or two, as we wondered how we
could we possibly handle both priorities at the same
time. Our Heavenly Father was still in control and
by His Grace, He allowed us to be with Mom and Dad
for 3+ wonderful weeks, as well as for us to
complete the month end/beginning procedures and to
keep up-to-date on much of our daily work, through
the wonders of technology. We were able to get
connected to a dial-up service on the internet
through Mom and Dad’s local phone service. This
allowed us to answer and send many e-mails, as well
as to work on the NTM Headquarters computer, right
from Mom and Dad’s kitchen. Telephone calls to and
from our office, using a phone card, were also a
blessing. We praise the Lord for His faithfulness
in allowing what we thought would be “impossible” to
be possible.
