A Typical Day? No Such Thing!

Occasionally, we're asked, "What's your typical day like?"  There is never a "normal, typical day" in the life of most missionaries and definitely, not in ours!  For the past eight weeks, in addition to the steady flow of overseas visitors, we have had a work team of local men carrying out maintenance and renovations to the house which we rent.    

This 70-year old house really feels like home because we have lived here for the past 12 1/2 years.  It was way past time for this maintenance to be carried out.  The entire exterior of the house has been painted, including the front fences, the carport gate and it looks so nice again.   However, the workmen are now on the rooftop pulling up the roofing tins and installing steel brackets around every rafter to make the house "cyclone-proof".  It has turned out to be a very noisy undertaking.  So, while the whirlwind of our daily life continues, we also dealing with whirlwind of noisy hammering above our heads. 

Pray that this work will soon be completed so as to not prolong the disturbance to our home school and the office work that Becky does here at home.  You can see from these pictures that the job they're doing is a BIG one!

A Parade of Visitors

There has been a "parade of visitors" passing through our home in the past two months and what a blessing they have been!

In mid-June, we were privileged to have our home-church pastor and his wife to visit with us for a week. Pastor Greg and Gail Allison, from Durham, NC, made their way to Fiji. We had a marvelous week sharing our HEARTS, our MINISTRY and our PEOPLE with them.

Following their visit, we were blessed to have Becky's parents with us for almost four weeks...John and Syble DeBerry from Myrtle Beach, SC. They seemed especially glad to see their growing grandchildren, Jeremy (15) and Katelyn (11 1/2).

Just a few days after Mom & Dad left Fiji, Miss Jan Johnson, the CEF Asia Pacific Education Consultant for this region arrived to be a guest in our home for one week. "Miss Jan" assisted us with conducting a 10-day training course. We were delighted to have her with us.

Within two hours of Jan's departure on August 11th, our next set of house guests arrived. We are pleased to have Carol Bratcher and Grace Stephen with us. These ladies are missionaries having just returned from their furlough. They have spent many days and hours looking for a house to rent. They are hopeful that a house they've seen and like will be available for them sometime around Sept. 10th.

Our next visitor from eastern North Carolina is Mr. Tommy Boyd due to arrive September 14th. Although he's coming on an official visit to Fiji for the U.S. State Dept., he is from a supporting church and is adding a couple of extra days to his itinerary to visit with us. We look forward to meeting him and having him in our home!

The Reason We Live in Fiji is...

...so that precious boys and girls like these will have access to the Gospel and come to know the Savior!

"Even so it is not the will of your Father...that one of these...should perish."

Matthew 18:14

Commiting to Faithful Men & Women

Teaching children effectively is precisely our goal in providing teachers with quality training in child evangelism.

It was our great joy to train NINE adults recently in our CEF Teaching Children Effectively~Level One 30-hour training course. The 11-day program began on July 30th and ended on August 10th. It was a grueling test of stamina both for the staff and the students, but God gave amazing results. We praise the Lord for this special group of people ~ seven women and two men who attended the training.

Pray for this group of students as they are now required to complete five teaching assignments among children in order to receive their certificates. Pray that many boys and girls will come to know the Lord through their teaching and sharing the Gospel.

Have You Heard?

Have you gotten the latest news on The Moriah Project?

CLICK HERE to visit the Moriah Project blog to see how far God has brought us. We continue to trust the Lord to do "great and mighty things which we know not", so as to make it possible for CEF Fiji to begin construction on the new office and training center immediately.

We are trusting the Lord for USD $330,000.00. Of this amount, we have a little over $10,000 on hand. God is trustworthy... so, we trust Him to provide for this need. Our building permits are in hand and all we need is...the money.

We need a MIRACLE and He is able! But we also need some people who will seriously PRAY for God's provision. May we count upon you?