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 […]
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Veldhuis Fall 2015 Prayer Letter
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 […]
May/June 2015 Veldhuis Prayer Letter
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 […]
Veldhuis January 2015
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 […]
March 2014 Update from the Veldhuis family
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 […]
Veldhuis December 2013 Prayer Update
Veldhuis December 2013 Prayer Update Dear Family and Friends in Christ, November’s first rain in months pushed the year’s total precipitation to two inches and brought a welcome reprieve from persistent 110 degree temperatures. Citrus ripened and ushered in Christmas ministries early December when night time temperatures finally dipped below 40 degrees. The Christmas mandate of teaching […]
Velduis May 2013 Prayer Letter
Dear Family and Friends in Christ, The last few months’ opportunities and pleas for salvation or growth were so convicting one can only marvel and grieve as Jeremiah did at how a whole nation could “…reject the word of the Lord…and provoke [him] to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities” (Jeremiah 8:9, […]