{"id":2058,"date":"2022-02-02T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2022-02-02T09:38:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:38:43","slug":"veldhuis-february-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=2058","title":{"rendered":"Veldhuis February 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Family and Friends In Christ,<br>\nBelated best wishes and prayers for a healthy and rewarding 2022 accompany our genuine\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>gratitude for the numerous persons and ways our Lord strengthened and provided for bus,\nbuilding, and property repairs in time for our December 8-10 Native Revival and the ensuing\nChristmas ministries.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unseasonably warm weather delayed fruit picking until after our revival, but the unforgettable\nthree days\u2019 fellowship, testimonies, preaching, and godly music set a perfect trajectory for the\nremainder of December\u2019s compressed opportune labors.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only the combined prayers, in person help, and perfect gifts from too many of you to name\ncould\u2019ve gotten hundreds of fruit bags and a clear Gospel invitation to almost each of our three\nreservations\u2019 homes in time for our Christmas service!\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donations of every sort throughout the year were the heart of dozens of age and\ngender-specific gifts- used in turn to invite individuals of any age to trust and receive God\u2019s\nunspeakable gift of eternal life in the Lord Jesus Christ as the full payment for their sin (II Cor,\n5:21, 9:15)\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several teens from the normally closed traditional Brown, Day, and Garcia families heard the\ngospel again, though none made professions of faith. PRAY for true conversions of those asking\nquestions about the Gospel as well as for the spiritual needs of the many nominal believers\nthrough weekly services, Bible clubs, and our revival with Pastor Joe Doyel of Emmanuel\nRescue Mission, Los Angeles, CA, February 6th-9th.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HUGE THANKS to the many who helped revive our 1982 20 passenger bus for daily pickups\nand to Treasure Valley Baptist Church of Meridian, Idaho for vastly improving our pickups for\nmeetings like this through their donation of a beautiful 66 passenger bus. The chance to replace\nour other \u201cbondo bus\u201d with this larger cruiser made weeks of sanding and painting it to Arizona\nrequirements more than worthwhile!\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.T.L. for renewing my C.D.L. through strict annual neurological and cardiovascular tests and\nfor healing Dawn sufficiently from Covid-aggravated bronchitis to carry on all her 15-passenger\nvan pick-ups and ladies and children\u2019s ministries!\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have scarcely scratched the surface of describing the unending needs and means of\nreaching Native Americans with the Gospel and so thank you for trusting us with the\nunmentioned challenges and faithfully furthering every labor through prayer.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PRAISES:\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;Never imagined bus and vehicle provisions and repairs\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;Jehovah-jireh\u2019s enabling and spiritual stirring through our best Native revival yet,\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDec.8-10, 2021.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;Spiritual impact of Jacob and Lydia\u2019s Jan. 7-8 youth rally on our teens.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;Long needed widening of our church drive while tackling large operational facility\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprojects.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;Protection of the Cocopah from sister Quechan Nation Covid outbreaks.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;Increasingly faithful North Reservation church and Youth Night attendees.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PETITIONS:\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;No loss of lives from misuse of huge annual Cocopah casino checks, Feb. 11-18.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;Enormous legal, spiritual, and mental needs of Lorie and Salvador\u2019s teen children.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;Resurrection week revival meetings at Maranatha Baptist Church with Evangelist Tim\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGreen.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;Millie, Salvador, Lori, and each of our safety and major health needs.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;Scheduling and preparations for summer camps and Neighborhood Bible Time.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;Dawn and my frequent lack of helpers with Jacob and Lydias\u2019 focus on their new\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tQuechan church plant.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u25cf &nbsp;Daren, our oldest saved man\u2019s healing from MERCA.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGratefully Yours In Christ,\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<em>Michael and Dawn Veldhuis\n<\/em>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Family and Friends In Christ, Belated best wishes and prayers for a healthy and rewarding 2022 accompany our genuine gratitude for the numerous persons and ways our Lord strengthened and provided for bus, building, and property repairs in time for our December 8-10 Native Revival and the ensuing Christmas ministries. 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