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Letter from a Dear Missionary Couple

Our missionaries are often serving in sensitive contexts which are hostile to the gospel. T&S are a missionary couple GBC supports in this kind of context. Due to their context, we cannot reveal their names. We receive a heart-warming letter from this dear missionary couple who has been away for many years. We give thanks for what God has been doing in and through them to minister to the Unreached People Groups, and we pray alongside them as they transit to a new assignment and city.

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In some ways, it seems like yesterday when we had just arrived in Singapore with two young children. It was during the SARS outbreak, and we were so impressed with the discipline of the Singaporean society. Over the six years we have served alongside you, we have learned many lessons of loyalty and hard work. Part of our hearts remains with you, even though it has been almost eight years since we moved from Singapore to the country where we have been serving. You have been our partners in our ministry from the very beginning, and we often pray for you as Paul prayed in Philippians 1:3-5.

We have been in the United States since last June and will remain here until the middle of May. This period has helped us to seek the Lord for physical and spiritual healing. We have found over the course of 14 years of cross-cultural ministry that we had picked up a few battle wounds that God has graciously helped us deal with. We are also realising that we are not as young as we once were, and doctors have assisted us to handle a few health issues that we had been trying to ignore for the past several years. With gratitude, we report that God has us ready, healthy, and excited to return to Southeast Asia for our 15th year of ministry.

When we return to the field, we will be changing assignments. Prayer mobilisation had been the primary thrust of our work for all our previous years, and GBC had graciously partnered us by funding our travels to various Unreached People Groups (UPGs) on our island. After six years of making such trips, we ended up visiting 49 of the 53 UPGs and sharing the Good News with hundreds of people – thank you for being part of this work. Upon returning we will be moving to a new city and our role will be focused on church planting and evangelism. The city we will be working in has over a million people and has several UPGs living there.

Our visa will continue to be sponsored by the Baptist Convention in our host country. We are pleased to announce that it appears that our visa application is progressing well and will be ready for our return in mid-May. This visa will allow us to continue working without having to make periodic trips in and out of the country. Many of you have prayed for our work visa, so this piece of news is an answer to all your prayers.

Our children continue to grow – you wouldn’t even recognise them from the little girl and boy you knew during our time with you. Our girl is a junior and she hopes to attend university in the States after graduating from high school next year. Our boy is in eighth grade, and almost as tall as his father. We are excited that one of the families in our new city has children the same ages as ours.

In our new position, we hope to use more volunteer teams. We also hope that perhaps GBC would be interested in coming to visit and work with us after we settle in. We have a training facility in our city that could host seminars on a variety of topics, and we know that GBC is gifted with professionals from a variety of disciplines. Thank you for continuing to pray for us. We miss you all.

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If you would like to keep in touch with this dear misisonary couple or find out more about how we can support and care for them, approach our Missions Committee.