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 […]
Category: Missionary Letters
Sam and Janet Grammer Oct 2016
Oct. 2016 Dear Friends in Christ, A Christian contractor from Alaska has given us a fair bid on the building of the radio station building and was willing to adjust it so we could stay within our budget and not go into debt on the project. However, he suggested that it would be better to […]
Dave and Becky DeFord September 2016
Dear Prayer Partners, September 2016 update Most of the update letters we send out to our friends and family […]
Sam & Janet Grammer Aug 2016
August 2016 Dear Friends in Christ, Our great grandson, Peter Chick was born last month and we asked prayer for him. Thank you! 2 weeks after his birth, he was finally released from the hospital and is doing well. We are now praying that he will accept Christ early in his life so that his […]
Gary & Bev Messick August 2016
Dear Ones in Him, As we begin our thirty-second year serving among the Native Americans of Arizona the years have been full of blessings and challenges and experiences that have stretched us in our walk with Christ, and it has been a wonderful privilege to be a part of God’s work here. The first half […]
Steve De Ford July 2016
Lamentations 3:24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. Greetings from sunny Arizona! We finished an unusually dry July with some much needed rain. But the late rain was just one of the many blessings we received from the Lord this past month. Early in the month several […]
Grammer’s July 2016 Update
July 2016 Dear Friends in Christ, About every 3-4 weeks, Janet goes to a local nursing home to visit one of the ladies from Tuba City. Because of the age of this lady, she doesn’t speak much English, so Janet takes a Navajo Christian (Helen) with her to translate. Together we sing in Navajo and […]
Messick’s June 2016 letter
“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16 Dear Ones in Him, In our last monthly letter, we asked that you pray about several prayer requests. We would like to share with you how God heard and […]
David and Becky DeFord’s June Letter
Dear Prayer Partners, Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Psalm 103:2 The months of May and June have been awesome as we have been witnessing the Lord’s working in hearts and answering prayer before our eyes. We were invited to do pulpit fill for Pastor Gary […]
David & Becky DeFord’s May 2016 Update
Dear Prayer Partners, May 2016 update “Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.” Psalm 119:111 There are many wonderful rejoicings to relay with this update letter. To begin with we were excited to be asked to be a part of celebrating 20 […]
April Letter from Grammer’s
Dear Friends in Christ, So what do we do now that we are no longer pastoring? Glad you asked. It’s quite diversified and yet in so many ways similar to what we were doing when pastoring in a single church. Many of our week-ends are busy with pulpit supply; mostly on the Navajo Reservation, but […]
Steve & Sherry DeFord Spring 2016
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