Mark B. (#6501)

Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Counting Our Blessings

2019-05-13T17:09:49-05:00May 14th, 2019|Categories: Mark B. Family (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

The last couple of months have been marked by extraordinary answers to prayer and blessings beyond what we had asked or thought. My wife and I were in the United States briefly for our oldest daughter’s wedding near the end of March. The we [...]

Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Seeing Progress With the Language

2019-02-07T22:52:11-06:00February 9th, 2019|Categories: Mark B. Family (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

Traveling Like Paul, I am writing to you from Rome; unlike Paul, I am not writing from prison. My wife and I have been in Italy for a week. While we’ve had a wonderful time, we are nonetheless anxious to return home tomorrow. Our trip serve [...]

Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Escaping the Fire

2018-10-19T13:29:49-05:00October 21st, 2018|Categories: Mark B. Family (#6501), Team Eurasia, Team Updates|Tags: , |

Our attention was first arrested by the incessant drone of helicopters overhead. We live in an area where helicopter traffic is not all that unusual, but the intensity of this was beyond anything we had ever heard or seen. I took a walk to [...]

Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Baptisms in Asia Minor

2018-07-06T21:24:11-05:00July 8th, 2018|Categories: Mark B. Family (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: |

The field to which God has called us is the very same land in which first-century Christianity enjoyed its most remarkable growth. Within a few short years of the arrival of the good news in this region, it could be said that all of Asia ha [...]

Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Tearful Departures and Joyful Arrivals

2018-04-04T18:43:31-05:00April 6th, 2018|Categories: Mark B. Family (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

This spring has been a bit of a roller-coaster ride. We said goodbye to one family that had been here less than a year but felt God was moving them to a new field. Around the same timeframe, however, we welcomed some new arrivals. One of ou [...]

Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Property Acquisition

2018-01-18T14:55:16-06:00January 15th, 2018|Categories: Mark B. Family (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

Purchasing property in a foreign country is a daunting task. We did it in Europe, but that was after we had been there long enough to be fluent in the language. As many of you know, we were told by immigration officials that purchasing prop [...]

Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Back Home

2021-02-12T11:22:30-06:00November 4th, 2017|Categories: Mark B. Family (#6501), Team Eurasia, Team Updates|Tags: , |

HOME SWEET HOME Back Home in the USA Recently my wife and I traveled back home to the U.S., along with our nine youngest children. The USA is home to us, not just because of it being the place of our birth, but because of the people we love [...]

Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: A Summer of Miracles!

2021-02-12T11:20:46-06:00July 14th, 2017|Categories: Mark B. Family (#6501), Prayer Letters, Team Eurasia, Team Updates|Tags: , |

Summer of Miracles! For my family and Team Eurasia, this is truly shaping up to be a summer of miracles. We’ve seen so many answers to prayer, and some of them have been truly amazing. One answer to prayer should result in some financial br [...]

Missionary #6501 Prayer Letter: Something Worth Believing!

2017-03-18T11:37:04-05:00March 20th, 2017|Categories: Mark B. Family (#6501), Prayer Letters, Team Eurasia, Team Updates|Tags: , |

 Something Worth Believing An 18-year-old has been attending our language school for several months. He attends public high school as a senior and was taking classes because he needed at least an 800 on his SAT to attend the university of h [...]

Missionary 6501 Prayer Letter: Giving Thanks!

2016-11-26T17:54:41-06:00November 28th, 2016|Categories: Mark B. Family (#6501), Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

Giving Thanks Thanksgiving has long been my favorite holiday of the year. Every year we have much for which we can give thanks. This year is no exception. A Blessed Conference! In October, my wife and I were privileged to spend about eight [...]

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