Travis and Renee Whitman Connecting you to tribal missions in Paraguay July Praises and Prayer Requests
Praises!!!
The Lord is faithfully increasing our support – we are at 56%!!!
The Lord has guided us!! He has answered our prayers about when to leave for Mexico for Spanish study! We will not be leaving in July, but are waiting until our support is a bit higher. We are aiming to leave around the end of September. We feel like we can breathe now!
We’re having a great summer in Ohio! We’ve been able to get together with friends and are making fun memories with our families before we leave!
Prayer Requests:
Using our time wisely; we are so inclined to live for ourselves, however, we desire to be a blessing and
expose people to the great need for missions!! We also have much to do to prepare for Mexico and Paraguay. Speaking opportunities in our area
Support level would continue to increase
June Update
In the month of June we…
Watched God grow the corn in our garden really tall!
Got to speak at Community Brethren Homes, where Renee’s Grandma lives!
Made a camping memory with Renee’s family!
Our increasing support level blows us away! Thank you!! It encourages us to give thanks to the Lord and praise Him for “His wondrous works”!! It also encourages us to be accountable for how we use our time, even here in the states!
Decisions, Decisions!
New Information!!
We were recently informed of a U.S. Policy that states that after we return from Mexico next summer we must be on our way to Paraguay within 30 days. This was a surprise to us!
What’s the Big Deal?
PRAISE: A Financial Update
PRAISE: A Financial Update
As most of you know, New Tribes Missionaries are not salaried. We depend on God’s provision through the faithful monthly support of local churches and individuals. Presently we are at 55% of our recommended monthly support level!
Thanks so much for your support and prayers. It is a privilege to serve together with you to reach those in Paraguay that haven’t heard!!
May Update
“I will bless the Lord at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.”
Psalm 34:1
We’ve been enjoying this verse recently. There are so many reasons to praise the Lord… and the spring season is definitely one of those reasons!
Another reason for us (personally) to praise Him is our past trip to Virginia, Washington DC and Pennsylvania!
April Praises and Prayer Requests
Praises
Family: Our marriage is doing well! Our boys are happy and healthy!
God protected us from a potential accident on I-75!
Ministry: Our monthly support continues to rise – 35%!!! Great trip to Tennessee!
Speaking opportunities we did not plan for and the Lord helping Travis through those!
Prayer Requests
Family: That we would be able to spend daily time with the Lord, even when we are not at home. Canaan and Isaiah as we continue to travel to “strange” places and visit people they do not know – and that we would be sensitive to their needs.
Ministry: We need to go to Mexico for a year to study Spanish and they would like us to begin in July instead of August. In order to do this, our support needs to be at 60% by June!
Paraguay: They need rain…bad.
3 couples in Paraguay have been hearing the Bible taught to them, beginning with Creation. They will soon be hearing about Christ’s death and resurrection – pray that they will understand and believe the Truth!
Calendar Prayer Challenge
Some of you have shown interest in partnering with us through prayer – thank you!! Prayer is vital to this ministry, we need people to go with us to Paraguay on their knees!!
Our goal is to have at least one person talking to the Father on our family’s behalf and the unsaved Paraguayans behalf each day of the month!
Sound like something you’d like to do? Pick a day of the month that is open (below) and e-mail us!!
February Praises and Prayer Requests
Prayer Request: We are off to Wisconsin starting Valentine’s Day to approx. Feb. 25. Please pray that we would be a blessing to our friends and church family there! Pray that we would trust the Lord and not focus on raising monthly support. Thank you!
Praise: The Lord has provided an awesome basement apartment for us to stay in while we are in WI!
Praise: Our current monthly support is at 20%!
January Update
Happy Winter!!!
(That is how most of you feel about winter, right?!!)
Family Update
We are well settled into the same Ohio farmhouse that we stayed in this past summer! That was a huge blessing! Travis has been helping out by feeding the cows that live in the barn here!
We recently received 13 inches of snow!! It went up to the boys’ knees! Below, Isaiah is measuring it and Canaan is climbing through his snow tunnell!
How much snow do you have?
Ministry Update
Graduation!
We did it! On December 19, we, along with 95 other sudents, graduated from New Tribes’ Missionary Training Center!! We spent a year and a half with this class, growing close to many of them, and now we are heading out to the far corners of the USA and eventually around the world! Some of our good friends will be in Brazil, Papua New Guinea, and Cambodia!! Bitter Sweet!
We are so thankful for the other families that the Lord is leading to Paraguay and look forward to serving with them (see below)!!
