\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tMay:June 2022 Update\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother:
\nDear Ministry Partners and Praying Friends, May\/June 2022\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you for keeping us in your prayers the last couple of months. Much has happened\nsince our last letter including some special recognitions. We honored mothers in May and saw one\nsalvation decision that day as well. Then we celebrated fathers in June with Faith Baptist Church\u2019s\nmissions team that had come out to assist with Vacation Bible School. We were invited to honor our\nlocal police department, where Steve serves as Chaplain, during National Police Week. He gave the\ninvocation at a special assembly and Sherry\u2019s class led the Star Spangled Banner.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We also saw the completion of another year of our home school co-op. This year was Sherry\u2019s\nlast year teaching in a regular class setting. She will still be assisting the mothers in the co-op with\nwhatever needs they may have teaching their own children. The academic year ended with a field\ntrip to Bearizona, a wildlife park in Williams, AZ.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Camp season has now begun. The ladies of the church enjoyed their annual \u201cGetaway\u201d at the\nBill Rice Ranch West Branch. Mom (Becky) De Ford was the guest speaker. Mom came back to the\nhouse with Sherry after the event to spend a few days, but our visit was cut short as Sherry tested\npositive for COVID. A couple days later Steve also tested positive. We had avoided the virus up to\nthat point, but we have now been fully vaccinated, boosted, and infected! A couple weeks later, our\njuniors went to \u201cWest Branch.\u201d Praise the Lord two of our unchurched campers received Christ as\nSaviour. Since then ten teen girls have gone to camp. They had great time, and decisions for Christ\nwere made. None of the boys went due to scheduling conflicts, however, they are registered to go\nlater this summer.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I mentioned above, one of our supporting churches (Faith Baptist of Morristown, IN)\ncame out to help us with Vacation Bible School. We had a Wordless Book Theme this year which\nwas new to our people. We averaged 33 with a high attendance of 42 children. Several children\nwere dealt with for salvation, and one boy was saved. While the missions team was here the men\ninstalled a new driveway for us. After 14 years we can now pull onto our property with a relatively\nsmooth ride! Two culverts were installed to help during the monsoon season.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you to all those who prayed for and contributed to our vehicle need. A generous\n$10,000 matching gift was offered that helped us raise enough money to purchase a 2005 motor\nhome for our furlough this fall. We still hope to raise enough for a dependable vehicle to pull along,\nbut we are grateful to have the essential part accomplished. Our goal was between $30,000 and\n$40,000 for both vehicles. Over $25,000 has come in so far. We are eager to see nearly all of our\nsupporting churches east of the Mississippi River in the coming months. By the end of this trip we\nwill have reported to all of our eastern supporters within the last two years. For those of you in the\nwest, we hope to see you all soon as well.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For God\u2019s Glory,
\nthe Steve De Ford family\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
May:June 2022 Update Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: Dear Ministry Partners and Praying Friends, May\/June 2022 Thank you for keeping us in your prayers the last couple of months. Much has happened since our last letter including some special recognitions. We honored mothers in May and saw one salvation decision that day […]<\/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":[64,7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-64","category-missionary-letters","category-steve-sherry-deford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","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=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}