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Pathway Prayers and more…

Posted by Dave and Carolyn Meyers on Friday, November 12th, 2010

Thanks for your faithful prayers and support these past few weeks during a lot of travel and ministry across the country! God has brought many people across my path who have needed hope, comfort, healing and prayer. As I got up each day this week and asked God to bring people across my path, HE answered in so many unique ways. On my flight Monday to FL God put a young mom next to me with her young 5 month old baby girl who needed some extra care and prayer all the way to Orlando.

In the middle of the week I got a phone call from a family friend asking for prayer as their daughter, Sonja has been battling cancer and treatments and was fearful of her check up that day.  I had the privilege to pray for Sheri the mom and Sonja the daughter via phone in the middle of the desert and asked many others to pray for them too.  (Update today:  Thank you for your prayers as I just got word early today that Sonja is now cancer free!  Praise God for great doctors, current medical treatment and HIS healing pathway prayers.)

Just today on the MO pathway flight, God allowed me to bump into a young disabled lady in line who was in tears as she missed her early flight and needed some special care. Then in line, I met some adult daughters helping their mother who is sight disabled who needed care through the line and to the gate. The daughters were relieved and called me their moms guardian angel! Funny…I have been called a lot of things in my life but never an angel. What was even more amazing was that of all the gates in the entire area…mom needed to go to mine. As I stepped off the tram with my new travel mom, I stopped to get some fresh Joe. After paying a ridiculous amount for such a small cup, I met up with mom and heard her say on the phone, “I better go as my guardian angel is here to take me to my gate!” :) As we got to the gate and parted ways I sat down and began to drink my coffee. I looked up and she (mom) found me and then began to ask me about my family. I told her about my great family and then she began to tell me about her daughters and her granddaughter who is in the emergency room in Orlando with a very high fever. Their entire family had been on a FL vacation and just yesterday had to rush her to the hospital, did a spinal tap and still don’t know what is wrong. I am praying for her on my flight right now. Would you pray with me for 2 year old Addison who is very sick today at Orlando Reg. Med. Center?

I hope to get some sleep on this flight home….yet God might have other plans.

Carolyn drives back from WI today with her mom and Megan arrives home from school this afternoon. I wonder what Pathway Prayer stories they will have to share with me?

Oh no…I must go…my flight is ready to leave… : )

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Carolyn…teaching

Posted by Dave and Carolyn Meyers on Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Carolynteaching Right now at the Missionary Training Center, the second semester class is taking a course called, “Child Protection” that Carolyn is teaching with some of her co-workers.  She is really loving the class and you can tell she is in her element of teaching about children and their care and protection. Her team in the MK Care and Education Dept. are doing a wonderful job in preparing our students for future missionary service and how to properly prepare themselves and their families for maximum impact in their life, family and ministries.

The third semester class is 100% engaged in our course called, “Culture and Language Acquisition Practicum.” However, we all call this class “Dobu.”   One thing that a tribal missionary must do before he can ever hope to teach the Bible is to learn the culture and the language of the people.   In order to learn a language the students take courses such as Phonetics and Grammar so they can learn how to make different sounds that they are unfamiliar with, and also arrange words in grammatical ways they may not be used to. For culture, they have practiced techniques and also researched kinds of cultures so they can think outside of their American culture and hopefully correctly access the tribal culture.

dobu1 “Dobu” is the class where they try to pull everything together that they have learned at the training center.  The “Dobu” instructors, about 10 in all, have been dressing up in complete tribal “disguises” and act out the “Dobu” tribal culture.  They speak some English, which is the trade language, but they mostly speak their tribal language where they served. Students are engaged in sessions where they are trying to learn language and culture using the tools they have been given throughout the training.

Pray for us as we continue to train the next generation of church planters.  Pray for these wonderful students as they prepare for one of the most difficult ministries in the world!

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