Category: Veldhuis’

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 they’d 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 […]

Nov & Dec. 2018Dear Friends in Christ, Each November, we try to fly back to the east coast to spend Thanksgiving with our family.  This is the only time we get to see each other for most of them and we always look forward to the visit.  This year, our family surprised us with a […]

Veldhuis October 2018 Prayer Update Dear Prayer Partners,             Long-awaited daytime temperatures below 100 degrees arrived late September heralding the onset of Fall and a possible reprieve from summer’s heat, wind, and work. The first rain in months, however, was not to be outdone by sandstorms with its’ own destructive winds and recurrent power outages. […]

Veldhuis Summer 2018 Prayer Update             “Brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified…and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men.”(II Thess. 3:1&2)             Sparse correspondence on our part since the February update reflects the intervening months’ relentless Cocopah challenges rather than our […]

Veldhuis February 2018 Prayer Update Dear Co-laborers In Christ,             Despite the many regretful delays with this update, fruit since our October letter has been too substantial to overlook thanking our great Jehovah-jireh or you for each victory.             “God is able to make all grace abound toward you that ye always having all sufficiency […]

Veldhuis October 2017 Prayer Update   Dear Praying Friends and Family,            In contrast to our recent “monsoon” season’s waterless tumbleweed whipping sandstorms, we have used every available means to water the seed sown through summer ministries and maximize the fruit of your provisions since our August letter.             Only eternity will tell the role […]

Dear Co-laborers in Christ, Folded but unmailed updates as far back as June together with repeatedly delayed R&R of any sort or building and vehicle repairs bespeak the priority of Cocopah ministries over almost anything else in our lives. Thankfully, untimely correspondence on our part could not jeopardize your faithful enabling any more than it […]