Day 3: Week of Prayer

 

Global Migration Prayer Requests

• Ask God to guide and strengthen CBF field personnel as they are present to those traveling the refugee highway.
• Ask God to provide the necessary resources as CBF field personnel welcome displaced people and help them acclimate to their new environments.

Day 2: Week of prayer

Global Poverty Prayer Requests

• Ask God to use the long-term presence of CBF field personnel to bring relief, opportunity and hope to those experiencing poverty.
• Ask God to provide all that is needed for CBF field personnel to be present and to seek economic justice on behalf of those who are in need.

Day 1: Week of prayer

 

Global Church Prayer Requests

• Ask God to use the presence of CBF field personnel around the globe to be an encouragement to local churches and followers of Jesus.
• Thank God for the opportunities to be present with our brothers and sisters in Christ around the world in ministry and worship.

25 years of presence

How long have you lived in your current home? Keith and I have been here, in this house, in the Netherlands for 25 years. Your prayers and your gifts to CBF's Offering for Global Missions make this on-going presence possible. Thank you! 

Leaving Iowa, first leg of journey to new home in the Netherlands,

October 1996

In front of our home, Spring 2009

Recording Jesus video in Western Kalderash,

London, app. 2004

Keith preaches at outdoor worship service,

Vulcanesti, Moldova, 2001

Mary & Keith at dedication of Bethlehem Baptist Church building, 

Vulcanesti, Moldova, October 2009

Mary sharing media resources in Ursari Romani,

Moldova, 2018

Recording Sinti Jesus video,

Germany, 2006

Recording Polish New Testament; 

Ellen part of recording team.

Posnan, 2013

Women's program, Bethlehem Baptist Church, 

Vulcanesti, Moldova, June 2010

Papiamento New Testament recording,

Curacao, Summer 2019

Family photo, the Netherlands

September 2021

Home Again

"Every person has value and every life is significant."

This is a quote from Vicki Normoyle, a lovely woman who was unexpectedly called to her eternal home precisely two years ago today. She supported our work with faithful prayer. She meant much more to even more people.

Her life was definitely significant.

Your life has value, too.

Still praying, Mary & Keith

P.S. This building in Virginia reminds me of the house I grew up in in Illinois. My old home is still a house. This building is a location of Northwestern Community Services, a mental health agency where Vicki Normoyle worked for 30 years. They renamed this center in her honor.

P.P.S. Keith arrived safely back home in the Netherlands after visiting, among other places, his father's home in Louisiana. 

This past week Keith flew off to America via:

    Train from home to airport in Amsterdam
    Plane from Amsterdam to Atlanta.
    Pick up luggage, go through customs, catch flight to Orlando.

    Overnight in Orlando, meet Jesus film person face-to-face.
    Fly from Orlando, Florida, to Monroe, Louisiana.

    Visit Holmes family there.

This is him, waiting for his third flight. 

And this is him, visiting his dad, step-mom, brother Ted and sister-in-law Beverly, who came there from their new home in Great Britian. Bev is taking the photo.

Thank you for praying with us as he travels on: 

 To Texas by car

 Back to Louisiana by car

 Back to Orlando by plane for

Training in the new software used in dubbing the Jesus film.

Then, Lord willing, back here again.

Wishing you all traveling mercies, wherever your pilgrimage leads you!

Rejoicing!

 Last month 11 people, young and old, were baptized at Bethlehem Baptist in Moldova.

They celebrated, and we are celebrating with them!

The service lasted for three hours. People kept wanting to tell more or sing just one more song . . . .

We are praising God for these new believers. 

We are also praying with the local church for the new believers 

to continue growing in faith and 

to find their place of service in the church.