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Partnership Development What a joy to join hands in partnership with people who believe that God wants them to be a part of tribal missions in Brazil through their prayers and financial support of our ministry! We now have 47% of the recommended support for our family. This is up from 24% that we had end of December. You can see that God is doing something! And we count ourselves blessed to be looking for financial partnership now, with the economy already in a ditch – because we don’t figure the people jumping on board are fair weather partners! They are sacrificing to do what they are doing. Thank you God, and thank you to all of you who are a part of this. Missions Awareness It is so neat for me, Danica, to watch people be challenged as Jevon speaks about tribal church planting. He has had opportunities to share in 6 churches these past two months on Sunday mornings, as well as sharing his presentation in many more intimate settings. Some of the people in these audiences seem to have had little or no exposure to tribal missions previously. Because of his experience growing up with an indigenous people group in the jungle, Jevon has a unique perspective to share as he weaves in first-hand stories with what the Bible has to say about missions. We also have gotten to give 3 different groups of kids a taste of missions, here in Oregon. And so the original demonstration we did for our own Salem kids has grown into a full-blown skit – paint, wigs, and all! Kids are so fun to talk to, and we ourselves are reminded why we do what we do when we put it into visuals and concrete terminology for kids. We couldn’t give away the whole thing in an e-mail but Jevon picked some clips, pasted them together, and put them here for you: (four minutes, eleven seconds)
Marriage and Family This weekend, Danica’s mom met us at a hotel in Sunriver, OR, and took care of the kids there for the weekend so that we could focus in on the most foundational relationships to our life, family, and ministry: our relationship with God, and our relationship with each other. We attended the Weekend to Remember Marriage Conference by FamilyLife. Our prayer going into it was that God would shed some light on some blind spots or things in our marriage that we should be working on right now. That is what He did. We also had a very special time together, putting other things aside and remembering what we appreciate most about each other and all the reasons we got married in the first place! Now our prayer is that we will each be empowered to apply the things God taught us build each other up and strengthen our relationship. As Cali called from the backseat on the way home, “Mommy, are you going to be better to your husband because of you listened to a marriage conference?” 🙂 Well, thank you God for accountability! Have we Lost you Forever? We got a call from one of the families we LOVE in Wisconsin this week. I believe the question was, “when are you coming back, or have we lost you forever?” 🙂 Well, it does seem like God is brining our time here in Oregon to a close soon. After two more weeks here, we will pack up the van and start inching our way south along the Oregon Coast and down through California, visiting some supporters, and hopefully gaining some new ones on the way. Our last stop is some of Jevon’s cousins WAY down at the bottom of California. Then we plan to come home to our sending church in Wisconsin. So its looking like we may get back before the end of April. But we hold all of our plans very loosely these days, just in case God decides to change them. We don’t want to miss opportunities. Thanks for keeping in touch. We love you and miss you. Many of you have asked us to pray for you, too, and we are. Oh, and speaking of praying for you…we are trying to make a file on the computer of people’s faces and the things they asked us to pray for us most recently. So if you have a picture of yourself or your family, may we have it for our own people/prayer list please? Thanks! We want remember you, too! |
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Jevon and Danica Rich |
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