“Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.” II Timothy 2:15 (NIV) G reetings of joy and gladness to you today. I trust you are doing well and enjoying the rich blessings of God in your life. As I write, our nation is entering its Memorial Day holiday in which we give special honor and remembrance to all our military personnel, both past and present, for their heroic sacrifice to defended our nation, and others, in the pursuit of liberty and peace. They are worthy of our honor, and we gladly give it. It reminds me of another set of military personnel who are also worthy of honor for their personal sacrifice and dedication to the advancement of liberty and peace. They are an army for the Lord. They have, and do, serve Him in full-time leadership ministry for the advancement of His Gospel which brings salvation (liberty) and peace from God the Father to all who ...

Greetings from beautiful Redding! A s you are reading this we are in the final days leading up to Claire’s marriage. We are very happy to be welcoming Joshua Smith into the family. He is a wonderful young man of God and we’re thrilled to count him among us.   As you can imagine, things are a bit hectic as we pull together the final details of the wedding and as family members begin to arrive in our lovely Redding. It is an exciting and blessed time, but as always life is not without it’s challenges. Mark was injured on the job and his shoulder is not healing as we had hoped. Currently, he is in physical therapy in hopes that surgery can be avoided. We ask for you to join your faith to ours in prayer that surgery is not necessary. KENYA   The September trip to Kenya is taking shape and we have a rather ambitious itinerary.  Gordon has scheduled conferences in Nakuru, Bondo, Kisii, Saiya, and Nyeri.  He is estimating more than 500 will attend these conferences...