Dear Partners in Prayer,

We are seeing God at work in so many ways, thanks to your prayers!

Praise the Lord with us:

1. Steve was able to return to the Dafing village of Nian for 5 more days of evangelism.  Many of the villagers came out to hear God’s Word preached, and many more came to talk with Steve and the pastors who accompanied him. Please pray for spiritual fruit in Nian!

2. Debbi just returned from a regional visit in her role as educational consultant. She and her colleague, Deanna Harrison, met with many missionaries and school administrators in Senegal and Mali.  They met with parents who have their children in several different educational options – boarding, home school, international school, and French school.  Praise the Lord for safe travel and for the opportunity to be of help and encouragement to missionary families.

3. Bomboela Training School has now finished its dry season session.  Twenty young people received Bibles as a reward for their hard work in learning to read.  What a joy to see our Dafing churches filling up with Christians who can read God’s Word!

These next months will be full for us as we finish up our two-year term and transition to the U.S. for a six-month home assignment.  Please pray for the following requests:

1. Our dry season ministries are now coming to a close. By the end of this month the rains should be starting and the villagers will be heading to their fields to prepare them for planting.  Burkina is still largely a country of subsistence farmers who depend on adequate rainfall for survival.  Pray for an abundant rainy season!

2. Pray for Jamie Chapman, an intern from Toccoa Falls College who will be with us for 6 weeks beginning May 19^th.  She is a missions major and a TESOL minor and is coming to see what cross-cultural ministry is like and to participate in a variety of ways.

3. Pray for Elizabeth as she completes her Senior year of high school and prepares to begin her college education at Toccoa Falls in August. We are planning to be in the Pittsburgh area for the last 2 weeks of July and will then be living in Toccoa, Georgia for a six-month home assignment.

We pray that God will bless each of you for your faithful intercession.  Thank you for your encouraging messages and for those of you who have made financial contributions to our ministry here.  We appreciate you and look forward to seeing many of you while we are in the U.S.!

Love in Christ,