{"id":2429,"date":"2023-02-25T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2023-03-31T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T01:25:46","slug":"veldhuis-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=2429","title":{"rendered":"Veldhuis February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/strong>Dear family and friends in Christ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u00a0Answers to prayer requests of our October 2022 letter were so profound that even unfortunate delays in thanking you\u00a0could not detract from our gratitude or our gracious Lord\u2019s rewarding your part in this native work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u00a0\u201cFor God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which we have shewed toward His name, in that ye\u00a0have ministered to the saints, and do minister\u201d (Hebrews 6:10).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u00a0To God alone be the glory for making our November 21-23 annual Native revival the best attended and most spiritually\u00a0enriching one to date. Maranatha Baptist Church\u2019s provisions of 40 plus meals a day together with your enormous gifts\u00a0
for housing and fuel for some 25 out of state Navajo preachers and church people brought many floundering or lost Cocopah back to church and face to face with eternity.
\u00a0Nightly temperatures finally dropped into the 40\u2019s in early December causing citrus to ripen and allowing us to make\u00a0200 \u201cGospel Fruit bags\u201d of tracts, peanuts, and fruit. These gained otherwise restricted access to almost every Cocopah\u00a0
home to personally witness and invite them to our church Christmas party and ministries. THANK the LORD and each of you for the dozens of souls of every age who heard the gospel and received thrilling Christmas gifts as tangible\u00a0
illustrations of God\u2019s \u201cunspeakable gift\u201d at our December 21st Christmas party or at special services on Christmas and\u00a0New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u00a0Despite no new salvation decisions, we are thrilled with the return of the largest family\u2019s children to all weekly services after months being kept at home by their parents. All the Golding children are also faithful; the Browns are probing the\u00a0gospel; but the May\u2019s joined many teens in turning from the grace of God to tradition and pleasure.
\u00a0P.T.L. and PRAY for the spiritual and personal needs of the many tweens and juniors who come faithfully from all three\u00a0reservations despite often appalling conditions at home. The joyful, emotionally charged faces filling our bus and van\u00a0mirrors on the long rides to church testify better than words could to the value of your prayers and sacrifices or the\u00a0genuineness of tears of gratitude to you and our Lord for the grace to serve Him this way.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u00a0The miraculous restoration and glorious thousands of miles\u2019 2023 use of our 94 minivan and 82 bus for senior and small group pickups evoke constant gratitude on our part, as both vehicles had been declared irreparable by Yuma\u2019s best AAA auto center.
\u00a0The fruit of your faithful prayers and provisions are too fresh and real to take them for granted or fail to request them\u00a0for opportune upcoming ministries or needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


PRAISES:
\u2022 Your untold kindness, prayers, and blessed provisions despite our infrequent updates.
\u2022 Adults, Brian, Daren, Edward, and Millie\u2019s faithfulness despite huge physical needs.
\u2022 Valerye and her foster children’s return to church.
\u2022 Dawn\u2019s improved diabetic meds and Michael\u2019s January skin cancer surgery.
\u2022 Miraculous recommissioning of all essential vehicles and the clearance of Michael\u2019s annual\u00a0
\u00a0C.D.L. physical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


PETITIONS:
\u2022 No loss of life from excesses of this month\u2019s giant annual casino payouts.
\u2022 Men’s retreat at Bill Rice\u2019s West Branch, March17&18
\u2022 Ladies and Girls Devotional and Craft Day March 25th
\u2022 April 15 special Resurrection Sunday Services.
\u2022 June 19-23 and July 17-21 Bill Rice West Branch Camps.
\u2022 Neighborhood Bible Time (our VBS) prior to or between camps.
\u2022 Salvador, Lorie, and the children of their blended family’s enormous spiritual, physical, legal, and mental health\u00a0needs.
\u2022 Health and personal needs of Daren, Edward, Karen, Lorie, Millie, Salvador, and Samantha.
\u2022 Health and Strength to go beyond the few North Reservation\u2019s saved teens and begin a regular Bible club for all.\u00a0
\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gratefully Yours In Christ,\u00a0
\u00a0Michael and Dawn Veldhuis\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear family and friends in Christ, \u00a0Answers to prayer requests of our October 2022 letter were so profound that even unfortunate delays in thanking you\u00a0could not detract from our gratitude or our gracious Lord\u2019s rewarding your part in this native work. \u00a0\u201cFor God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which […]<\/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":[69,7,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-missionary-letters","category-veldhuis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","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=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}