June 2009 Update

The month of June found our family very busy with lots of traveling for different conferences, a missionary conference in Austria and Foundations conference in Hungary with a team from Boise, Idaho visiting in the middle. To sum everything up God is amazing in how he continually refines and challenges us to walk worthy of the calling he has given us. Cynthia and I have been praying for a couple of months about how to better organize the way that we do everything. That would cover the house, ministry, raising our kids. The Lord is faithful to answer our prayers in a number of ways. 1st with the house we have 11 people that live in the house total. With that many people we were finding it difficult to keep the house organized the way we desired it to be. But through an email from a friend and some encouragement from my pastor we were able to sit down and decide how we wanted to efficiently run the house. This week starts the training process for all of us. The kids because of the more responsibility that we are going to be giving them and the parents to help train the children. Cynthia read something that really clarified for us what we are to be doing. " We are raising children to become responsible adults not large children". what that means is as Parents we need to constantly be adjusting the way that we do things also so that we can better serve them.

Secondly the Lord is faithful to continue to refine and challenge myself in how we can do things more effectively and efficiently. Throughout the conferences I found myself being

convicted of settling for being comfortable in how things are. I found that through my comfort I was actually limiting God's work in my life personally and in the ministry. What is awesome is that the Lord really encouraged me to be more aggressive in these areas and not to be content with mediocrity. I am excited about the things to come because I know that as we are obedient to the Lord he will bless.

Prayer Requests:

-Pray for the Lord to give us renewed vision for the ministry here

-Pray for the organization of the ministry in Romania and for good fruit to come from their new organizational efforts.

-Pray for the gift of administration for Brian

-Pray for the specific guidance in reaching out into the community

-Pray for power of the Holy Spirit, strength and wisdom for Brian and Cynthia