This week we said goodbye to Cherith’s parents as they boarded their plane for the USA.  We are so thankful for the time that God gave us with them here with us.

The children were able to really get to know their Grandparents as they spent lots of quality time together.

We were able to take a trip to Holland with them where we made some wonderful memories together including visiting the hometown of Cherith’s grandmother.  On the Sunday we were there, we travelled to Bergen Op Zoom for the morning services of the BMM church plant where Daniel and Heather Boyd are serving.  Seeing God at work in Holland through the Boyds was a blessing and an encouragement to us as we returned to Saint Medard. 

Cherith’s parents jumped right in to help us in any way they could.  With their help, we were able to do the long overdue project of sanding and repainting our chipping shutters.

They were able to encourage our folks at church too.  They took part in our services, participated in a fellowship dinner and afternoon together, and Dad even preached for us.  We were also able to visit some unsaved friends together.  

Praise for:

- safe travel and a time of blessing and encouragement with Cherith’s parents during their four weeks with us.

- the progress made in our mailbox campaign for church flyers this summer with help from Cherith’s parents.  We are now over halfway through Saint Medard with our second flyer.

- God’s healing for little Timothee Letellier after a bout with fever.  It was feared to be a relapse of the leukemia but ended up being a virus.

- the work that God is doing through the Boyds in Bergen Op Zoom.

Pray for:

- Cherith’s parents as they begin their ministry of travelling and reporting in churches in the USA.  Pray for God’s direction for future ministry opportunities in Michigan.

- A, a young person newly arrived in the area, recently saved through the ministry of fellow missionaries in another country.  Pray that God will help her to grow in her faith as she faces all the changes of a new country, and that she would be used of God to bring her family to Christ.

- God’s wisdom and enabling as we minister. Pray for receptive hearts in church and that God would draw more people to Himself.

- planning for our English outreach and a film outreach this fall.

- God’s provision of a larger, more adequate building for our church.