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| Fairhaven Baptist Church and College |
Dr. Roger Voegtlin | Chesterton, Indiana
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 Dear Friends:
We are now on our deputation schedule. On Wednesday, August 18 we went to Crete, Illinois for a good meeting with Pastor Oeltzin. After years of hearing his German name mispronounced, he introduces himself as Olson. We had a nice time. They have a ministry of distributing bread and other goodies that are given by a local bakery, and they sent some home with us. Then beginning on Sunday, we had a missions conference with Pastor Bouslag at Bible Baptist Church in New Buffalo. It was only the second time that I have been a keynote speaker, and I considered it an honor. There were four other missionaries. The fourth night, the missionary was our son Marc and his family. We had a surprise - Cathy and Bryce Chapman drove from Niles and Becky and Ernie Ramsey drove from the area of Hammond, so three of our children were present. Our good friends Fred and Joan Hubele drove up from South Bend. We base out of their home when in the area there. We had a very special time together. Marc and family packed up on Thrsday and left for Hungary on Friday. Ethan and Kim Champlin were on the east coast, but we plan to see them in about two weeks.
This last weekend, we were in Calvary Baptist Church in Manistee, Michigan. It is our first time with Dr. Al Knutson in 25 years. We had a good service. We then went south to Muskegon, Michigan with Pastor Don Letson and the Broadway Baptist Church. A special blessing at that church was to hear that 2 young men were saved at the end of the service.
The church building project in Sunny Point is progressing, as shown in the pictures taken Sunday. The next step is putting a ring of steel-reinforced cement around the top of the building, followed by the roof. We have had some generous offerings which will make it possible to perhaps complete the roof. We continue to pray for the completion of the building. In the upper picture, the pastor’s wife is in the front with the white skirt. In the lower picture, the assistant pastor and pastor are shown in the window frame.
Kalow Palata, the pastor at the main church, has had more problems with his back. He requests prayer for himself and the entire church family. His son Gwatoes, who had the amputation, is having a very slow healing of the fracture in the amputation stump.
I have been spending considerable time correcting and improving our college presentations. I would appreciate greatly your prayers for that as well.
Prayer requests:
- Our spiritual growth
- Our ministry in the USA
- Safety in travel
- Health and strength for the work
- Sunny Point building project for funds so that it can be finished soon
- Main church and Kalow Palata’s health
In Him and Content:
Bob & Liz Patton
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Dear Praying Friends, 1 Corinthians 3:7 says “So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.” Truly God gave us an increase in our services yesterday, more than we could have...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Dear Friends, About two weeks ago, I told you about an older couple that was saved after decades of God's working in their life. Last Thursday, "Grandpa" Samnang was rushed to the hospital. Battling numerous health problems, he suffered...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Last week I made a mistake when telling the wonderful story of what God has done and is doing in the life of Samnang and Sokhom. The below is a copy of last week's email, but the part in red is erroneous. I must have misunderstood something the...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Dear Friends, A young man named Liep Heng started attending our church early this year. He came to us with many questions and quickly understood the Gospel, because, before coming to us, he had been reading a "comic" book called Good & Evil...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Dear Friends, This past Thursday (July 29, 2010), God gave me the privilege of leading a man and wife to a saving knowledge of Christ. Samnang and his wife Sokhom both have a 40 year history of God planting Gospel seeds in their hearts. About...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Greetings In Jesus' Name from Naples, Italy, I had just completed ferrying the last few things in our second trip this Saturday morning from the old church building in Casal di Principe to the new church in Lago Patria. A bit of hunger was setting...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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Dear Praying Friends: Thank you so much for your prayers on Rodney's behalf as he preached this past Sunday. God gave him a wonderful message to share with all of us. We have been disheartened lately to see the attitude of some of our church...[ abbreviated | read entire ] |
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