From 1/16/09

Hi friends! I just wanted to give you the latest news and prayer requests for our team going to Taiwan.

The team from First Baptist Humble includes 10 ladies and another who now lives in the Dallas area but was a member of our church, so that’s 11 total. There are also 4 ladies from Oklahoma City that will be meeting up with us in St. Paul.We recently purchased our plane tickets. We got a good price, just a little over $1000, but we are making lots of plane changes along the way. We leave on Thursday, March 12 at 10:50am and 4 airports and 22 hours later we arrive in Taipei, Taiwan. THEN we get on a bus for a 2 hour trip to Taichung where we will be staying/working. We will be helping with a 4 day women’s retreat for the Taiwanese ladies. We are not actually certain what exactly we will be doing yet, but as time gets closer, we will have a better idea of the number of women attending and their needs. One of the resources that we are going to use is a book called “Lies Women Believe and Truth that Sets Them Free” by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. Some of the ideas from the book will be the basis for some of the classes that we help facilitate. I think more than anything we want to love on these ladies and show them that there is a personal Christ who wants a relationship with them and loves them dearly. They have no concept of this…their gods sit on shelves. We realize that we may not see a great harvest while we are there, but we intend to plant lots of seeds and to SHOW them God’s love.

Here are some prayer requests:
-We are having a garage sale to help raise funds for the trip on Jan 31. Please pray that all goes smoothly and that the weather is accommodating.

-One of the ladies going with us recently found out that she is pregnant. She is still going with us…she said God told her to go and He knew she would be pregnant, so it will all be OK. She will be right at 20 weeks when we leave. 22 hours on a plane/in airports is hard enough when you are NOT pregnant, much less when you are. Pray for her pregnancy and that we will be super aware of any way that we can make her more comfortable.

-Pray for Renee Hord, the missionary that we will be working with. She is just recently home from a trip to the States for the holidays. She is getting the ball rolling and will be starting the registration and all the plans for the retreat soon. Pray for an extra measure of protection for her.