Friday, July 27, 2012

July 2012 - Oregon + 1st quarter done!

Dear Friends,
First and foremost thank you so much for all that you do. Your heart, passion and sacrifice toward missions truly amazes us. Your prayers for the gospel to radically transform lives amazes us and encourages us to continue to preach the glorious gospel of God’s grace to all people. We appreciate and thank our Lord for you.

A little Family Update
In June, we took a trip up to Oregon to see both sides of Jason’s family. We spent time with the Barnharts on their logging property and Moriah loved playing with her cousins and seeing all the animals! We then traveled down to Creswell, Oregon and stayed with Grandma Byers. More time with cousins, aunts and uncles, a “tea party” with Great Grandma and the kids, it was a blast!




 
We are loving Heber City, Utah and have had opportunities here to share Christ so we are very thankful. Moriah is our main source of entertainment these days. She is 16 months now, has curly blonde hair and is cutting molars (ouch!). She confidently speaks a language that we don’t quite understand, mimicks “real words,” loves to kiss (mostly daddy!) and to imitate animal sounds like “mooooooooo.”

Getting-to-Thailand update
We were able to speak at Heber Valley Baptist Church (The Worship Center), which was a great opportunity and awesome to see old friends again (Jason was a Youth Pastor here). Also, we had an opportunity to speak at Provo Baptist Church, again this was a privilege and it was great to meet such wonderful believers in the Provo Valley- they are an amazing group!

On June 23rd, Creekside (our home church in Park City) organized a HUGE garage sale for us. What a great God we have and what great people He has to organize things like this. The Lord brought in a little over $4,000.00, our pre-Thailand expenses are most likely covered!


As for monthly support, we are at 25%! In football terms: the 1stquarter is over with, or in a mile race, the first lap is complete. Like in football, the first quarter is used to find your rhythm and plug into it. Therefore in the second quarter, you can go into it confident and focused on what needs to get done. We feel like we have found somewhat of a rhythm during this 1stquarter, so let’s approach this next quarter focused on Christ and His global Kingdom and move forward with confidence that God will provide.

Things to pray about:

1. Pray that more churches will open up for us to share our vision and God will lead more monthly financial partners our way.

2. That we communicate our vision well (please see where we will be sharing the vision these next couple of months).

3. God will prepare hearts in Thailand and here in North America to receive the gospel of Christ.
 
“Jesus Christ laid down his life for you, so that He could give His life to you, so that He could live His life through you!” (Bob George).

You all are so dear to our hearts!

Standing in Grace,

Jason, Jenn & Moriah Byers