Category: Veldhuis’

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 […]

Dear Family and Friends In Christ, Increasingly out of control and depraved national and world events point to our Lord’s soon return and stir us more than ever to labor to our fullest in His harvest. “Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of […]

Veldhuis Fall 2015 Prayer Letter Dear Praying Friends and Family, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,(and we beheld His glory: the glory of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth…And of His fullness have all we received and grace for grace. John 1:14-16 Our Lord’s miraculous protection and […]

Dear Family and Friends in Christ, Where we’ve grown accustomed to contending with thorns in the desert, we were shocked back to reality in the mission work by the deadly effects of thorns of worldliness on the Cocopah. “…that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth and are choked […]

Dear Co-laborers in Christ, Yuma’s third or fourth measurable rain of 2014 ushered in our nationally coveted winter temperatures in the seventies and assured the presence of Navajo evangelists from snow-covered northern Arizona at our November 3-5 revival meetings. BLESS the Lord, each of you, and Heritage, Maranatha, and True Vine Baptist churches for the […]

Veldhuis April 2014 Prayer Letter Dear Prayer Partners in Christ, Three Cocopah deaths, record numbers of prison Bible studies, and serious family health problems since our December letter multiplied the demands of Native labors and made your faithfulness that much more precious. [“…we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust […]