September 2024

• The opportunity to be part of PMU’s initiative to pursue reaching people and language groups that have never heard the gospel of Christ.
• His sustaining strength and kindness through a summer that has been packed with many opportunities to serve His Kingdom.
• Allowing Kelly and Micah to join Casey in Olympia, WA for PMU’s Annual Meeting and the BP Synod.  It was Kelly’s first time meeting many friends from the Pacific Northwest.

• Kelly’s radiation treatment to continue to work and ultimately prove effective when we receive results of a scan scheduled for October.
• Preparations being made and teams being assembled for Team Timothy New York, English Camp in Brazil, and the Internship at SOLA (see website for details).
• New missionary candidates and church planters to step forward and pursue service to Christ in the Great Commission.

September 2024

Thanking God for:

• The strength the Lord has provided for the members of the churches as well as the leaders in Myanmar .
• The relative safety of the Christians we know in the country.
• The promise of 1 Peter 1:6-7- “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love.  Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith –the salvation of your souls.”

Please Pray for:

• The end of the military conflict and that it would be followed by peace and justice.
• The safety of our friends in Myanmar as the conflict has moved into areas of the country that are closer to states and cities where believers we know live.
• The hope of the gospel as well as humanitarian aid to move throughout the country freely.

August 2024

Thanking God for:

• A great time at the Bible Presbyterian Synod in Olympia, WA.
• The help we had this summer from our intern, Jimmy Blizzard.
• All the coffee and tea donations that have come to us.

Please Pray for:

• New intern candidates to apply to our opening for next summer. (see www.discoversola.com)
• Hiker, “Forest”, from French Canada who accepted a Bible.
• A few more donor churches to support our mission work.

August 2024

ANNUAL COUNCIL MEETING UPDATES

Thanking God for:

• His provision financially, to continue to operate within a healthy budget to maintain ministry needs and growth.
• Our council members, who have committed many years of service to the work of world missions with PMU.
• The approval of Pastor Jason Waeber as a PMU church planter with Foothills Reformed Mission Church in Adams County, OH beginning in January 2025.

Please Pray for:

• PMU’s vision for missions in this Third Millenium (3M) that focuses on sending teams of missionaries to serve among people groups who are unreached by the gospel of Jesus Christ.
• Continued safety for the missions in Myanmar
• The work of the Leamans with SDG and their furlough travels.
• The Douma family as they continue to host hikers without the additional help of the summer intern, Jimmy Blizzard, who was a tremendous help in their ministry.
• Guidance and direction for our church planters.

August 2024

Thanking God for:

• The opportunity to provide pre-marital counseling to two couples this summer: to a young minister and his fiancée, and to a young police officer and his fiancée.
• The continued health, spiritual vigor, and service of our local ruling elder, Wayne Kanis.
• The perseverance of faithful church members in the difficult work of church planting!
• The enduring support of Grace BPC, our mother church, and PMU for Cornerstone.

Please pray for:

• A family with young children to continue visiting at Cornerstone and to find a church home with us.
• The health, safety, and spiritual vitality of the mature saints at Cornerstone, several of whom have significant ailments.
• Cornerstone’s hosting of ScriptureFest on August 25th: an event in the community for the reciting of Scripture (this time, Revelation) that it might be a great blessing for all who attend.

April 2024

Thanking God for:

• A productive time in South Carolina where I visited two BP churches and attended a Mission Conference.
• A blessed time of preaching and singing at small group meetings.
• An encouraging number of Korean evangelical booklets that were taken from the markets where we placed them.

Please Pray for:

• Safety and fruitfulness from my upcoming visit to BP churches in the Florida Presbytery.
• Male church members who could be trained as church officers.
• Regular attendees to become dedicated church members.

July 2023

Thanking God for:

• Pastor Brotto and his wife, Ale, who will help the team lead the English Camp in Brazil.
• A reopening of a direct flight from Ft. Lauderdale to Recife, Brazil. This helped logistically and enabled us to allocate more of the funds raised to ministry projects.
• The Leamans, Brottos, and others who are already in Brazil making preparations for the ministry.

Please Pray for:

• Elder Kim Connor who will be giving morning devotions to the campers.
• Pastors Brotto, Leaman, and Southerland who will be preaching in the evenings at the English Camp.
• The entire team—for their various projects and camp ministry assignments, for many gospel-oriented conversations, for their health and safe travels.
• For the Holy Spirit’s work in the hearts of campers who will be hearing the gospel and called to salvation through faith in Christ.