Dear family & friends!
Carol & I are back in California. Our flights went well with God’s blessing and the help of Nathaniel at Butler Travel.
We have spent a week each with our ‘kids’ Eric and Julie- how great that was!
We have seen all of our folks and siblings now. How easy it is to stay in touch with cell phones and the internet here!
This morning, 6/21/10, we spoke with Naphtali in Lassin. He tells us that people are excited to enroll their children in our school this coming school year. He has already enrolled about 5 students per class in our school: grades 1 – 5.
Franklin has all the eucalyptus wood in his carpentry shop now. He lost his father recently though and we send our condolences.
Divine is looking out for our house. Our pastor stays there when he comes to Lassin to look in on ‘our’ church family.
I’m working at the physical therapy office providing vacation coverage and enjoying my ‘old’ friends.
Carol’s enjoying having running water, a cell phone, a car, you know – all those luxuries. She is leading a group of about 7 literature evangelists working in Porterville this summer in the afternoon and evening.
We’re full of good news. Soon after arriving in Tennessee to visit Eric, we went to the Gospel Ministries office to meet our host organization. We met Babi “Bobbi” who helps bring volunteers together with projects- she does such a fine job. She introduced us to Jessica and Kimberly- two of our new volunteers for the Lassin Primary School project. It was great to meet these two sweet and adventurous young ladies. Kimberly has a daughter, Kataya, who will be coming with us. We also learned of two Romanian young people that would like to join us also. If this all pans out, there will be 7 of us where there were 2; how wonderful ! All 4 ladies will teach, we guys will work on building projects.
Projects include:
- pouring concrete floors in each of the 4 school rooms, and plastering the walls
- completing the well
- purchasing land and building a church
- translating the ‘It Is Written’ ‘New Beginnings’ bible studies into the Noone language, then producing DVDs that can be distributed within the 10 village Noni subdivision. (This will give our volunteers a great Bible study giving opportunity)
Does this sound too aggressive? Well, nearly all of the labor will be hired out. This leaves me much more free time to produce the Bible studies. I believe that it is possible with God’s blessing and steady work.
Now, Carol and I want to thank each of you again for your prayers for the Lassin Cameroon project. We were able to see God work in our little mountain town day after day. He’s still busy! How encouraging it was to learn of the volunteers and knowing that God was planning to expand the school too.
Thanks to your support last year, we learned that there are already enough funds now to run the school all next year. (the school related projects are not funded yet)
If anyone would like to help sponsor our volunteers you can contact Babi at GMI (423) 473-1841 or at babi@gospelministry.org
Keep our volunteers in prayer too- they must raise funds, get visas, shots, health insurance and plane tickets.
In time there will be more photos posted, thanks for your patience.
Steve & Carol
Contact info:
Scrose2@gmail.com
(559) 793-6060 Pacific daylight time.
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