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Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Is the Door Reopening?

By |2021-08-02T12:54:01-05:00August 3rd, 2021|Categories: Mark B. (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

I Corinthians 16:9 Roughly 1,964 years ago, Paul spoke of a great and effectual door opened unto him. At the time, Paul was serving in the same part of the world to which God has called us. We have endured months of roadblocks and lockdowns [...]

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Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Up in the Air

By |2021-04-22T09:44:15-05:00April 24th, 2021|Categories: Mark B. (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

This Newsletter As I write this newsletter, I find myself some 30,000 feet or so up in the air. I am flying with my eighteen-year-old son, who is moving to the U.S. When we touch down in about three hours or so, my wife and I will have a to [...]

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Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Our Amazing God

By |2020-11-12T14:28:49-06:00November 14th, 2020|Categories: Mark B. (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

He Is Omniscient There are too many attributes of God to highlight in a single newsletter. We could dwell on His eternality, His immutability, or His sinless perfection, just to get started; but I want us to focus our attention on the three [...]

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Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Inching Back Toward Normalcy

By |2020-08-09T22:07:11-05:00August 11th, 2020|Categories: Mark B. (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

I once bought a get-well card for a relative. The text on the front read, “The doctor said you’ll be normal soon.” On the inside it continued, “That will be a first!” So, I preface this letter by admitting that normalcy may be a bit subject [...]

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Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Complications, Compliance, & Completion

By |2020-04-14T14:29:04-05:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: Mark B. (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: |

Never in our collective lifetimes has the world around us seemed more bizarre. The publicly admitted plans of global elitists play themselves out at home and abroad. It is as if we are all trapped in the pages of an Orwellian novel or in th [...]

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Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Best Quarter All Year

By |2020-01-29T10:28:07-06:00January 12th, 2020|Categories: Mark B. (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

While the ministry here in Eurasia is far slower than we would wish, it seems we are finally gaining some traction. We have had our best quarter yet in the area of opportunities to witness and in people receiving Christ. Our language school [...]

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Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Busiest Quarter All Year

By |2019-10-31T15:59:44-05:00October 26th, 2019|Categories: Mark B. (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

From our previous field, we reported every six weeks. As each newsletter from here represents a risk, we have chosen to report quarterly. Well, the last three months have been so filled with activity (not to mention earthquakes) that it is [...]

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Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Summer Surge, Summer Slump, Summer Service

By |2019-08-18T18:19:18-05:00August 20th, 2019|Categories: Mark B. (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

Fewer students attend our language service center in the summer. One would expect the opposite, as the summer months are when people have more time. The extra time, however, afforded people in the summer becomes filled with vacations and di [...]

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Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Counting Our Blessings

By |2019-05-13T17:09:49-05:00May 14th, 2019|Categories: Mark B. (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

The last couple of months have been marked by extraordinary answers to prayer and blessings beyond what we had asked or thought. My wife and I were in the United States briefly for our oldest daughter’s wedding near the end of March. The we [...]

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Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Seeing Progress With the Language

By |2019-02-07T22:52:11-06:00February 9th, 2019|Categories: Mark B. (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

Traveling Like Paul, I am writing to you from Rome; unlike Paul, I am not writing from prison. My wife and I have been in Italy for a week. While we’ve had a wonderful time, we are nonetheless anxious to return home tomorrow. Our trip serve [...]

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