Update!

Hey friends and family! Sorry it’s been so long since our last update. Our lives have been fairly hectic lately. Time to catch you up! Since our last post, we’ve been working hard to collect all of the results from what God did in Puerto Rico. Thankfully we’ve been able to count 13,790 people who told us they made decisions to follow Christ with their lives! Needless to say this fills us with much joy to know that God let us participate in something so huge. During the month of June we finished counting the results and worked to wrapped up the final details of the national office. On the 18th we held a celebration meeting where we met with all the people who made the project possible, and celebrated together the results. After some emotional goodbyes, we left Puerto Rico on June 30th to head back to the states for a couple weeks.

Currently we’re in NC, visiting family, and preparing for our next assignment. We’ll be heading to Malawi, a small country in south east Africa on July 20th to work on the My Hope project there. A team has been on the ground since the beginning of the year, and we’ll come in to help them in the final push. We’re praying that thousands of churches will participate when a program is transmitted and DVD’s are distributed this November.

This will obviously be a huge change for us. We’ve spent the last 4 years working in Latin America, but we’re very excited for this opportunity. We’ve been so blessed to be able to work for this wonderful ministry, do God’s work, and live in all these amazing places. When we heard that Africa was on the horizon, we just kept thinking; who are we to say anything but yes? Africa will have its challenges. But when a person accepts Christ as their savior and chooses to follow Him, it’s as if they sign on the dotted line. He then fills in the contract.

Please join us in prayer for Malawi. It’s one of the most densely populated and poorest countries in Africa. Pray that Pastors will go to training meetings and get excited for their church to share God’s love.

We love you all, and appreciate your prayers.

Joe and Melissa