{"id":1076,"date":"2014-11-03T23:54:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T06:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2015-01-03T23:55:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T06:55:40","slug":"steve-defords-fall-update-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Steve DeFord’s Fall Update 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friends of Indian Missions,<\/p>\n

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John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Thank you for your faithful prayers and support of the ministry.\u00a0 The last two months have been full of opportunities here at Hualapai Baptist Church.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Our ladies attended the Lancaster Baptist Church Ladies’ Retreat in September and were encouraged to pray for and seek Godly wisdom. They returned home refreshed and eager to share what they had learned. The following weekend our youth group went to a rally near Phoenix hosted by the West Branch of the Bill Rice Ranch. The key note speaker, Evangelist Chris Miller, followed the teens home and spoke for us the following day at our September Super Sunday. Then our family enjoyed \u00a0fellowship with brother Miller and his sons for the next few days in our home.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We began the month of October with missionary Amie Richard who challenged us all with the enormous need in Thailand.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One of the responsibilities that comes with being the director of the Independent Baptist Indian Mission is to try to help fill ministries that are without pastors or missionaries.\u00a0 One such mission came to our attention earlier in the year in remote Northwest New Mexico.\u00a0 Brother Cleve, my son Josh, and I went to visit the Star Lake Baptist Church October 12. This work has been without a pastor for several months. One of the local Navajo men is trying to hold together the work while a Colorado pastor assists in finding a full time pastor\/missionary. Pray with us that the Lord would guide us to His will for this church.\u00a0 Later that same week, my dad joined Josh and me on a quick trip to Utah for the graduation of Zachary Pike. He is the son of a member missionary who graduated from a Christian trade school. Zachary is looking forward to whatever the Lord may have in his future. If God has Native American missions in his future, we look forward to serving Zachary any way we can.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A local Kingman pastor was the special guest speaker at our annual Harvest dinner the evening of the 17th of October.\u00a0 We had a great turn out and \u00a0great fellowship around a full table and the Word of God.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The last full week of the month we were blessed to have Dr. Bill Rice III with us for revival meetings. We had nearly 100 guests during the week. And three of our youth earned a free week of camp! The highlight of the week was a young lady gaining assurance of her Salvation and a man, who has struggled with alcohol for his entire adult life, being saved. Pray for Falcon as he seeks victory in his life.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Finally, after weeks of attempts, Steve was able to have a Bible study at the Peach Springs jail. Two men came to the study. One gave a good testimony of his salvation years before. The second man was concerned that he could not give such a testimony and received Christ as his Savior. Please keep Skyhawk in prayer.<\/div>\n
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Thank you again for your partnership with us. We appreciate you all and covet your continued prayers!<\/div>\n
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For God’s Glory,<\/div>\n
Steve De Ford<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friends of Indian Missions, John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Thank you for your faithful prayers and support of the ministry.\u00a0 The last two months have been full of opportunities here at Hualapai Baptist Church. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Our ladies attended the Lancaster Baptist Church Ladies’ Retreat in September and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-47","category-missionary-letters","category-steve-sherry-deford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}