Christmastime went better than we had anticipated. All of the holiday functions surrounding our youth and adults came to pass. Everyone received at least one gift. Everyone received food. Very few, if any, of our people were familiar with C [...]
* * *TENGA EN CUENTA: La carta en español sigue a su carta en inglés. Gracias. * * * In our last letter, we shared the progress on the property in Ecuador. Now I would like to tell you about our progress on the airplane (pictures are on th [...]
I’m not going to try to pretend that this update is not severely overdue. Thank you for your patience as we spent the holidays with our families, packed up what we wanted to bring back with us, said goodbye to our loved ones, traveled back [...]
Praise the Lord! We have raised $3,500 out of the $12,000 needed to preach to 8,000 families at the refugee camp in Thailand that is the farthest away, five hours away from nowhere. Here is the link to the camp: https://www.theborderconsort [...]
Vacation Bible School The church we have been helping in held their summer Vacation Bible School the second week of January. It is a great time to invite new children to church. Last year, our family brought close to 30 new young people to [...]
After Jolie’s experience, we've been challenged in our church to pray more and to become prayer warriors. Since then, I have been praying every day with a brother from our church. It has been a big encouragement to both of us. He just told [...]
Thank you so much for all your love, prayers, support, cards, emails, gifts, and other acts of kindness this past year. Only Heaven will truly reward you for all you have done to help us reach precious souls with the Gospel. We are so excit [...]
“A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.” -Proverbs 16:9- We planned a special day early in December and saw multiple blessings! As we planned our service, we were faced with the challenge of having an evening bapt [...]
Praise the Lord for your faithfulness in service for world missions. Thank you for all of your prayers and extra Christmas blessings that have made a tremendous difference here in reaching and helping people. God has kept us healthy, in spi [...]
WELCOME BABY! We were blessed to welcome our newest member of the Hannel family, Daisy Grace, on January 8, 2024. She was 6 pounds 13 ounces and 19 inches long. Lauretta and Daisy are healthy and doing well. Pray for the transition of addin [...]
