Mark and Sabrina Holmes Prayer Letter: Furlough Activities

2024-07-25T11:58:14-05:00July 28th, 2024|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , , |

Our family arrived in Miami on May 7 for a short furlough to celebrate Victoria’s high school graduation, firstly with a “senior trip” to the Florida Keys. On 14 May, she walked at Abeka’s homeschool program in Pensacola, and the next week [...]

Mark and Sabrina Holmes Prayer Letter: Expanding Our Influence

2023-12-10T06:52:59-06:00December 12th, 2023|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , , |

At the beginning of September, I got the chance to close out our three weeks of youth camps by conducting the SMITE graduation in Nigeria’s southeast. In total, the Student Missions Institutes for Training in Evangelism, held in Ogbomoso, A [...]

Mark and Sabrina Holmes Prayer Letter: Expansion of Seminary and Institutes

2022-12-01T11:09:09-06:00December 3rd, 2022|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

On the first weekend in September, I had the honor of preaching in the church Missionary David Maskey started nearly 30 years ago in the southeast part of Nigeria. That Friday was the conclusion of our 7th Student Missions Institute for Tra [...]

Mark and Sabrina Holmes Prayer Letter: U.S. Milestones and Nigeria Return

2022-09-29T19:04:21-05:00October 1st, 2022|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

On August 18, we returned to the field to begin our 18th year as FBMI missionaries in Nigeria. For the first time as a family, we endured four flights, but everyone adjusted well, and God has kept us healthy. Missionaries Graham and Olivia [...]

Caleb and Emily Christiansen Prayer Letter: SMITE

2022-09-19T19:52:52-05:00September 21st, 2022|Categories: Caleb Christiansen Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , , |

This prayer letter has been delayed longer than I would like. Since our last prayer letter came out in July, we have had some major sicknesses in our family. Each week since we sent our last prayer, at least one member of our family has bee [...]

Mark and Sabrina Holmes Prayer Letter: A Lot of Firsts

2021-11-24T18:33:42-06:00November 25th, 2021|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , , |

During our 17th year of service in Nigeria, we continue to see encouraging firsts throughout our ministry. On September 16, 25 pastors joined me to dedicate with prayer the first-ever, fully equipped production studio for our independent Ba [...]

Mark and Sabrina Holmes Prayer Letter: Welcoming a New Missionary

2021-09-12T17:03:13-05:00September 15th, 2021|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

Miraculously, we are well on our way to pulling off six Pastors’ Conferences, three youth camps, and two seminary semesters in 2021. The fourth of our scheduled Soul-Winning & Leadership Conferences was successfully held during the seco [...]

Mark Holmes Prayer Letter: Evacuation Flight and Furlough Events

2020-08-02T14:32:57-05:00August 2nd, 2020|Categories: Dr. Mark Holmes Family, Prayer Letters|Tags: , |

On Friday, May 8, my family boarded (what has been up until now) the last flight out of Abuja, arranged by the U.S. Embassy. There were stops in Togo and Liberia and an aircraft change in Dublin, making the trip duration a full twenty-four [...]

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