April 23, 2008 Issue

Focus Church: Good Hope Baptist Church
Pastor, James & Helen Ruth Morgan
Associational Focus: Praise for the 7 who finished the ESL Classes this past weekend and for our SemiAnnual meeting.

Please remember VBS! So much of the work is being done now to have a great VBS in just a few weeks.

Remember those preparing for mission trips. If your church is going please let us know so we might pray as you go.

Remember churches in revival, this weekend Midway will begin revival Sunday evening.

NAMB Focus:
Email address included so you can send a word of encouragement.
4/23/08 Brenda Crim
8310 Summerset Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99518
brenda.crim@gmail.com
Brenda serves the collegiate ministry for the Alaska Convention. Pray for Spring Pungowiyi, an Inupiaq Eskimo, serving on staff at the Baptist Collegiate Ministry in Anchorage.

4/24/08 Amaury Santos (Stephanie)
205 Convention Dr.
Cary, NC 27511
asantos@ncbaptist.org
Amaury is senior consultant for Hispanic church planting for the North Carolina Convention. Pray for sponsoring churches anxious to reach Hispanics, for mature Hispanic leaders, and for traveling and health mercies for Amaury, his wife, and three young sons.

4/25/08 Charles and Lynne Stebbins
5644 Chestnut Fork Rd.
Bedford, VA 24523
admin@stebbinssafety.com
Charles and Lynne serve as MSC missionaries with the New York Convention as Disaster Relief directors. Pray for needed finances as they attempt to reequip their feeding unit after the theft of some of their equipment. Pray as they provide Disaster Relief training from April into next fall in New York, New Orleans, and Tennessee.

4/26/08 Cecil Dale
714 S. Eighth St.
Norfolk, NE 68701
cecildale1@msn.com
Cecil is an associational missionary for the Kansas-Nebraska Convention. Pray for new churches and church planter/pastors for the Nebraska towns of Craig, Lyons, Randolph, Columbus, Genoa, and Grand Island.

4/27/08 Tim and Andrea Whitesides
936 Cranston Dr., SE
Calgary, AB T3M 1E3
CANADA
Whitesides_tim@yahoo.com
Tim and Andrea are church planters in south Calgary. Southwinds Church, less than a year old, meets weekly for worship in a community center. Pray they will reach the people of this city and pray for the Southwinds team as they develop relationships with the families who attend these activities.

4/28/08 Joe and Cindy Boney
414 Spruce Rd.
Kamiah, ID 83536
joe_cindyboney@yahoo.com
Joe is associational missionary and law enforcement volunteer. Cindy is education coordinator. Pray for a church planter for Fellowship Church in McCall that was birthed in November, 2007. Fourteen attend regularly and four ministry points have been located in a 45-mile area. There are no Southern Baptist works in this area.

4/29/08 Betty and Burl Traylor
7750 Cranbrooke Rd.
Jacksonville, FL 32219
mrburl@bellsouth.net
Betty and Burl are MSC missionaries serving as directors of Sidewalk Fun Day School in low-income areas. Pray for God to enable them to open new sites, to provide a new truck to pull the twenty-foot trailer, and to meet all other financial needs - both personal and in the ministry.

IMB FOCUS
NORTH SUMATRA MALAY OF INDONESIA (MAY-lay). In February, you were asked to pray about a series of training sessions for men concerning community development that would take place in one village of North Sumatra Malay. Give thanks that these meetings allowed the men to learn important principles from the Word concerning using talents, time and money wisely. After these training sessions were completed, the men formed a committee to choose one project from among the eight ideas that emerged from this training. Please continue to pray that as this committee of men meets, they will learn to work together, trust each other, and consider the needs of the whole village rather than their own personal gain. A major obstacle seems to be the lack of trust men have for each other. This is evident between families as well.

CRIOLLO OF NORTHERN ARGENTINA (cree-OL-yoh). Missionary David Holt, the strategy coordinator for the Northern Argentine Criollo, has a vision for reaching the hard-to-get-to populations in the interior of the province of Corrientes. He plans to unite the tourism industry with evangelism. "Corrientes has much to offer outdoorsmen, especially those interested in hunting and fishing. Many of our people, the Criollo, are employed in the tourism trade as guides, equipment experts and the like, throughout the hunting and fishing businesses. The Northern Argentine Criollo Strategy Group is working together to focus on regions of the province ideal for hunting, fishing and evangelism. We plan to bring in Christian hunters and fisherman as evangelistic volunteers. Among the Criollo people, the men are the hardest to reach, mostly due to a wrong idea about who Jesus is. Bringing in Christian men who treat their Criollo guides with respect and agape love, while sharing their interest in the outdoors, will open doors to sharing the gospel and create opportunities for missionaries to follow up with those interested in learning more about the real Jesus Christ. Please pray with us that the details for the strategy will be worked through, and that God will continue to work in the hearts of those whom He is preparing both to give and to receive the message of the Good News." http://www.nacriollo.com/

TSWANA OF BOTSWANA (t'SWAN-ah). While taking her own children to a Friday children's meeting at Gaborone Baptist Church, missionary Lisa Jones was overwhelmed at all the neighborhood children who were in attendance. These meetings have been going on for years, and the church has been so faithful in reaching out to the children of Gaborone. They sing, they play games and, most importantly, they hear and respond to the Word of God. Please praise God for these children's meetings as well as for the pastor's wife and the youth who lead these beautiful children. Also ask God to use these times to raise up the next generation of Christians in this country. Pray that they will carry the message of the gospel to the nation of Botswana.