Dear Family and Friends In Christ, The majesty and scope of God’s unspeakable gift to each of us make any reflections on His workings inadequate but inescapable this Christmas season. Mighty answers to so many of our last update prayer requests, however, demand a recognition of God’s wondrous grace and the vital role of your […]
Dear family and friends in Christ, Answers to prayer requests of our October 2022 letter were so profound that even unfortunate delays in thanking you could not detract from our gratitude or our gracious Lord’s rewarding your part in this native work. “For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which […]
Dear Co-laborers In Christ, Summer’s draining 110 + degree heat and destructive sandstorms came upon us with a fury matched only by the unending daily facility and vehicle repairs just in time for nightly use here for Neighborhood Bible Time and then weeklong excursions to distant camps. Too many prayer requests in our February letter […]
Dear Family and Friends In Christ, Belated best wishes and prayers for a healthy and rewarding 2022 accompany our genuine gratitude for the numerous persons and ways our Lord strengthened and provided for bus, building, and property repairs in time for our December 8-10 Native Revival and the ensuing Christmas ministries. Unseasonably warm weather delayed […]
Dear Co-laborers in Christ, Meaningful follow up of the glorious fruit of summer’s neighborhood Bible Time and distant weeks of camp ‘midst the challenges of desert weather and constant facility and vehicle repairs bespeak the untold value of your prayers and sacrifice for our ongoing native ministries. We owe you too much […]
Dear Co-laborers in Christ, Despite repeated unfortunate delays with this update, we can only thank you and extol our God of all Grace for turning this Covid-19 “valley of Baca [weeping] into a well” of life (Psalm 84:6). The promises of verses five and seven of this chapter further proved as true today as when […]
Dear Family and Friends In Christ, Through your prayers and the saving grace of our Lord’s Incarnation we were privileged to give the Gospel to families of the 7 Cocopah that passed away since our August letter and comfort believers with the assurance that “to be absent from the body [is] to be present with […]
Dear Co-laborers In Christ, Recent Covid-19 deaths of our godly Tribal Vice-Chair D. Begay and former Cocopah pastor’s wife Faye remind us of Biblical Jonathan’s faithfulness to God in life and in death. “Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths they were not divided.” I Samuel 1:23 As […]
Dear Family and Friends in Christ, Federal and local “shutdowns” or quotas on meeting sizes impose static limitations on Biblical missions, but could never alter the eternal truth that “ it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe” ( I Corinthians 1:21 b) How grateful we are for our Lord’s […]
Dear Colaborers In Christ, Remnants of food midst strewn trash greeted me one typical bus cleanup day with broken, stolen, or willfully defaced interior vehicle components and sadly gave entrance to ungodly questions as to whether in fact we were wasting our lives casting precious gospel pearls before swine (Matt. 7:6). Two hours later, however, […]
My first four month post radiation cancer treatment labs May 31st found the prostate Specific Antigens less than one-half of what theyd been and in the middle of the normal range for a healthy man of my age. We couldn’t be more grateful for all the prayers and gifts responsible for the health and means […]
Veldhuis May 2019 Prayer Update Dear Family and Friends in Christ, How good it is to freely appeal to our Lord’s eternal rewards when words fail and circumstances hinder our individually thanking and returning you the enormous blessing of your faithfulness this year. “For God is not unrighteousness to forget your work and labor of […]
