Upcoming Mission Board Meeting and 2014

Next week our Board of Directors will meet together for our final 2013 meeting. We look back over the past year and it is with great joy that we can see how The Lord has blessed us over the months. I would like to express thanks to our two board members, Kurt Boehm and John Weber. Their oversight, counsel, and work have helped guide Psalm 67 Missions Network through many challenges and have set a great course for 2014. I would like to also thank Savannah Weber for her help as "Missions Office Leader" helping us through the past year in giving direction to so many area and most specifically in the areas of helping organize two mission trips (Summer and Christmas Break 2013). Ellie Jackson has also been a great help in organize the blog, social media, and other areas of communication. Thank you to everyone who has taken part. There are so many others to thank for their years of service. Together we would also like to thank each and everyone one of you for your faithful support, prayers, and your encouragement! 

Please pray for us as we meet together next week and discuss the plans for 2014. You will find on the blog the dates for two planned mission trips (Summer and Christmas Break). Would you join us in praying over requests to requests that have been made in addition to this? We have been asked about conducting a Pastor/Leader training in Mexico and there are three small congregations that would like to partner. The need is always the same. We simply have more requests than we have resources (both laborers and financial support). We are not discouraged by this but we should be MOTIVATED to pray. The Lord who called us to this task owns everything and is The Lord of the Harvest. Would you pray for us that The Lord would raise up laborers to go and the funds for them to go? 

 Finally, speaking of this, we would like to call attention to the Pfleegor Family currently in their final preparations for the Lord's calling for them to go to South America to proclaim the gospel. Would you consider helping finish this up with making a contribution to this effort either a one-time gift or partnering with them? Their home congregation, Rockport Baptist Church in Arnold, Missouri is ramping up this effort by making their family the recipients of the Christmas offering. The Pfleegors would love to talk to you about this more. Please contact us today about how you can make a contribution toward this effort. You can contact Michael Pfleegor at mpfleegor@gmail.com. 

Aaron

Can you help hold the rope in December?

Over Christmas Break our mission team will work with a congregation along the border in sharing the Gospel in a Juvenile Correctional Facility, a soup kitchen for street children, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center as well as conducting daily Bible classes at the church facility. Our nurse will be conducting a medical clinic and there will be other community outreach plans. With all of this we would like to ask you if you are willing/able to "hold the rope" for those who are going.

Specifically we have a current need of:
- Additional 1-3 workers to go
- Financial help for those who would like to go
- Assistance for building materials - (approximately $300.00 USD)

If you are able to assist in any way would you please contact us at office@psalm67missions.net

Thank you for praying and for partnering with us!

Psalm 67 Missions Network

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December Mission Team Update

Our mission team for "Christmas Break" will be making their final weeks of planning. Would you please remember to pray for this team made up of members of four different congregations? Please consider following us on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, or subscribing to this blog that we might keep you informed on information during the trip.

There are some ways that you can be of help during the last minute preparations. Pray that the last part of the financial support comes in. There are some needs for some medical supplies, Bibles, etc.

On ongoing need for the office and also for this trip would be the purchase of a tablet. We have a specific one in mind as we are looking for one that would be compatible in the contexts in which we work. This tablet would be very useful during this upcoming trip and future trips because it is used for many things including, tracking and inventory of resources, team updates, video-communication for team meetings and long-distance contacts, records that are kept on mission trips to report to the missions board, and a whole lot more.

If The Lord would have you help with any of these needs at the end of the year, would you please let us know right away by contacting us at office@psalm67missions.net

We hope that you and your family have enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday!

Psalm 67 Missions Network


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Erin Pfleegor, Long Term Missionary

This has been quite a challenging few years with preparation for going to a foreign mission field long term. I didn’t realize what God had in store for us during this time. I knew it would be “difficult” but it has been more so than I had imagined. It has been a time of definitely seeing & remembering God’s faithfulness. We’ve gone through circumstances and struggles that have made us wonder if we should stop pursuing missions. Is God trying to tell us to stop this journey of getting to the foreign mission field? Or are these struggles intended to strengthen us in the Lord? It has made me think of what it says in I Peter 1:6-9—

“In this [salvation] you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it be tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”

I’ve struggled during this time with knowing and understanding where the line is between using godly wisdom in making decisions and just going ahead, trusting God even when we don’t “see” how it will work out! Even when it “seems” impossible! Is there a certain line between trusting God and using wisdom? This has been an amazing time to see God working! In so many ways, we have seen things that have happened that could ONLY be from the hand of God! And then we’ve had the blessed opportunity to share with others these amazing acts of our faithful, all-powerful, loving Heavenly Father! We see how God is providing in seemingly small ways that are only strengthening our faith and character for even more difficult times. It will be difficult leaving the U.S., where we are surrounded with friends and family members, to go to a new country, surrounded by many “strangers” who do not trust Jesus. We are going in order to bring the Fame of God’s Great Name to a people who do not know the One True God. Among the people we are reaching out to in Suriname, there is only 1/3 of 1% who are evangelical Christians! We are giving up many of our comforts, but that is nothing, for the sake of the lost and them hearing the Good News of Jesus Christ dying for sinners such as us!

Also, we know that God has a purpose for this support raising process taking so much longer than we had expected. God is good and his ways and timing is perfect! Should we doubt Him? Should we question what He is doing? Is He teaching us? Is He growing us during this time? He has proven Himself faithful in so many ways! Even when we don’t see how it’s going to work out, we are going to keep trusting Him and keep pressing on through this journey!

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5 & 6)

Can you pray for us? - December Mission Update

To our faithful partners we would like to ask you to pray for us. We apologize for not getting more information regarding the December Mission out to you. Here are some specific prayer requests that we will share with you and we will follow up with another post that will include detail of the work that will be completed in Mexico.

First, please pray for Pastor Candido, his wife Sara, and children Ismael and Abdiel. Ismael will be serving as a translator for the first time. He is studying English as well as other subjects here in the United States. Abdiel is a student in what we would consider "middle school" in the United States. Pray for them that they might be encouraged because they have a desire to reach their community with the Gospel. The family is very gifted musically and they use this to reach out to others in their area. Please pray that they might be strong and fearless as they minister in an area that has been ravaged by war for many years.

Second, please pray for old friends who might join us. There are people from the village of Centenario and other areas that we would like to see come and stay with us that we might continue the task of making disciples. This will present some logistical challenges but we are excited about the opportunity.

Third, please pray for our team members. Pray for unity and vision. We will share about their tasks at another time. Pray that they might raise their funds for the trip. URGENT NEED - We really need a nurse to be able to attend with us to managed a medical clinic to be conducted at the church building. As soon as possible we need to raise $575.00 for this to happen. Would you pray that this might be raised, and as The Lord leads would you mind contributing to this effort?

Finally and most importantly, we pray that The Lord would be glorified in this time. Pray that we would be our vision and our very great reward.

Thank you friends. Thank you for your faithfulness over the years. Thank you for your partnership, your love for Jesus and His church.

Psalm 67 Missions Network


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