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| Steve & Tiger |
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| Steve by Gabrielle |
God never ceases to amaze us. We remember that during our training at YWAM Perth back in 2009 one of our instructors told us that God’s path for missionaries is often less linear than zig-zaggy. We don’t always move directly from Point A to Point B; instead we take a rather complex road to the same destination. We seem to be living proof of that during these past five years. Our desire has been to serve faithfully with Create International and God has made that happen despite many challenges. He has faithfully used you as a part of our team to make that vision a reality. Now that vision is expanding! Some very recent circumstances have lead us to start making a slow return to the United States. God has orchestrated this return very beautifully, despite many initial reservations on our part. Honestly, we expected to be in Thailand for years to come, and planned accordingly, but as it turns out God has made other exciting plans for us.
Our beloved leaders here at Create International in Thailand have graciously granted us permission to forge a new Create team with the primary objective of leading short term teams to produce evangelistic short films for unreached people groups in fulfillment of our 20/20 Vision. We could not be more excited
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| SFM Cast & Crew for our short Thai film |
about that! We will also be tasked with some mobilization and training and our schedule for 2013 is already filling up quickly. You can learn more about the 20/20 Vision here: http://www.createinternational.com/partnering/2020-vision
Our new team will use a different model to multiply the efforts of Create International by producing more films to achieve our goals. For 2013 we will be located in Massachusetts and asking God about where we will be based in the future. You’ll be hearing more about this in the months ahead as the details become more concrete. In fact, you may even have an opportunity to join us on one of those gospel film expeditions. How would you like to be an active part of making an evangelistic film in another culture to help reach people with the gospel of Jesus Christ?
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| Yes, that is a real tiger |
In the short term, Allyson and the girls will be immediately returning to Falmouth, Massachusetts to enroll the girls in school there. Meanwhile, Steve will remain in Thailand to continue leading the School of Frontier Media into December. Additionally, Steve will direct and help produce the next evangelistic film in India. We’ll be telling you more about this outreach in the weeks ahead. Thanks in advance for your prayers for this expedition to India.
Steve will be reunited with his family at Christmas and we’ll then begin a few months of furlough after two years of service. We hope to have an opportunity to meet with many of you face-to-face to hear about our future together in this mission. We covet your prayers and your continued financial support in this major transition. We can’t do this without you and we are so grateful for your ongoing partnership with us to make God known through media in the hardest to reach places on planet Earth.
Praises & Prayer Requests:
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| Rachel and Mara, Sisters in the Lord |
* Praise God for returning Allyson and the girls safely back to Falmouth in time to begin the school year
* Thanks be to God that Rachel’s friend Mara became a Christian while on her visit here with us in Thailand
* Thank God that Sam is able to start his junior year at UMASS Amherst this fall and pray that he will continue to do well academically
* Pray for Allyson, Rachel and Abigail to have a successful transition to life back in the United States after a year in Thailand
* Pray for Samuel’s physical and spiritual well being, he still suffers greatly from eczema and we long to see him healed as a sign of God’s care for him, and for his salvation
* Please ask the Lord to wipe out our medical debt for Abby’s hospital stay back in May ($1250) . . . with all of our current expenses we have not yet had the extra funds to reduce this emergency medical debt
* Pray for funds for travel expenses for Steve and all the SFM staff and students for the upcoming outreach to India in late September (each person needs $2000)
* Pray for the six students in the School of Frontier Media to continue to make the most of their experience here and that God would speak to them about their future missions work
* Ask God to give Steve increasing wisdom, patience and sensitivity for the ongoing administration of this media missions program
* Ask God to provide all that we need to successfully make this gospel movie later this month in India
* Please ask the Lord to provide more regular support to cover increased monthly and quarterly expenses
* Pray that God would continue to give us all His wisdom as we continue to follow his leading on our lives.
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| Rachel leading worship with the student band featuring Kyla, Melissa and Paul |
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