Current Events and Updates of the Ministry

Our road this morning, This is what we have been fighting since the end of October

I want to wish a happy New Year to each of you from a wet and soggy Mexico. I thrust that you have had a family-filled Christmas season and have enjoyed a wonderful time as you celebrated the passing of 2013 and the arrival of the New Year. 2014! Wow, who would have thunk it? 

Theresa and I spent a quiet Christmas day at home and enjoyed simply being together. There was plenty of activity over the week with the visiting of friends and church activities. Also, the guys and I worked on the construction all except Christmas and New Years day. So, we were kept very busy and certainly had no occasion to either be bored or to feel lonely for “home”.

On Sunday night I took Theresa to the Tampico airport in order to catch a 7:00 am flight out of Mexico for Winnipeg. She will be spending two weeks in Manitoba with family. So, I will be batching it alone in Cd. Valles for the next two weeks.

This morning the guys and I headed out to the construction site again amidst heavy rains.

The roadway into the missionary training center farm this morning – the rains just won’t stop, but thank God for the tractor

Truthfully, the rains simply have not stopped for the past months except for several days at a time – just enough to allow things to get some drying before the rain begins again.

As I wrote in my last blog, we did get the floor poured on the 20^th of December after being unable to do so since the end of October. This, nearly two-month delay, has thrown every wrench that it is possible to throw into the plans and schedule for the construction project on the missionary training center. We are way behind schedule and very much pressed for time now in order to complete our part before the Ontario team arrives to finish out the interior of the building. However, since we got the floor placed on the 20^th, we have been working hard despite continued bad weather conditions.

In fact, we have had almost steady rain since the floor was poured, except for several dry days here and there along the way.

This was the entry onto the training center land this morning. The land is the fenced-off area on the right, and the entry is where the wider gap is in the fence line

This morning we awoke to continuing heavy rains (after one dry day on New Years day – go figure!). We had rain most of the week between Christmas and New Years day as well. So far, for the past several weeks, we have been able to creep our way slowly to the farm site without getting stuck in the soup on the road. However, this morning when we reached one particularly deep mud hole we hit bottom and got hung up on the middle of the van. There was nothing to be done except to trudge back through the muck to a neighbor’s place where we have the tractor sitting, drag out the chain, and pull the van (and other neighbor vehicles) through the muck and slime onto terra firma once more. This enabled us to get in and out from the farm site today.

I am not sure what we will do tomorrow if it keeps raining. But, with the tractor handy and

Making concrete the hard way

a good chain, we know that we can at least get to the farm. Once there, we are good to go since the work now is under the roof of the “galera”. It just makes getting to the site rather nasty.

But, all of that said, things are looking very good on the new building. Working with concrete is slow-slogging, and does not have the satisfying “pizzazz” of working with frame construction. Laying the blocks themselves is relatively fast going, and the daily progress is gratifying. But the concrete beams and supports that must be framed in and poured – all of the concrete mixed on the ground with a shovel and poured into the forms from buckets – is very tedious and back breaking slow work. But we are eating away at the elephant, and slowly but surely we are getting it beat.

With God’s help we will have a building ready when Fred and the team from Listowel Community Church arrive to complete the interior on the 24^th of this month.

Pouring the corner beam

Thank you for your prayers for us as we work.

There are a couple of other things of interest to report as well. First of all, on Friday the 10^th we will be hosting the alliance of pastors at the Bible Institute for their monthly leadership meeting. I have had the privilege of being a part of this pastoral alliance now for the last several months, and it has been a time of relationship building for the leadership across the churches of the city, cutting across denominational lines. We are privileged to be able to host the next meeting of these pastors in the Bible Institute building, thus giving the work of the Bible schools a higher profile since for most of the pastors we are still a relatively unknown element.

Secondly, there is now a Christian FM radio station located here in Cd. Valles. It

Lunch is served – Javier and the building crew

experimentally began to broadcast about a month ago. Since its first transmitting it has been able to increase its power output and is now broadcasting across a relatively large area of the Huasteca. The Lord willing we will be getting two, one-hour spots on the air on a weekly basis. Javier will probably be the one who will be on the air. The idea is to be able to use the airtime as an evangelistic outreach, but to also be able to promote the Bible Institute, Project LAMBS, and the missionary training center – Casa del Obrero. We realize that whereas it would take us years to visit communities one-by-one to promote the Bible schools, by using this new tool of radio, thousands can hear about the work every week. Please pray with us in this. It is a big commitment. First of all, there will be finances needed for paying for air time. But in reality, it is pretty minimal – amounting to approximately $17.00 dollars per hour of airtime. But the really big commitment will be for Javier to always be able to commit to preparing material for the broadcast. Still, we believe that this is a tool that God has made available for us to use, and that we must make use of it immediately. The timing is unique since it coincides exactly with the time when the missionary training center will be ready to open its doors to staff and students.

The building as it looked when we packed it in this evening after another day of work

In this regard, please continue to pray with us for staffing for the missionary training center. As I have mentioned several times before in previous blogs, this will be a very difficult spot to fill, and it must be God who provides exactly the right couple for the position. We are praying that God will lay it on the hearts of just the right couple to fill this much-needed position quickly so that the missionary training center can begin to fulfill the vision for which it has been birthed.

Well, it is close to midnight and six o’clock comes quicker that I like it to. So I had better get to bed. As always, thank you so much for your love and prayers. We are blessed to have friends like you in our lives.

May God’s richest blessings rest on your lives in this new year,

Steven and Theresa

Cement truck ready to begin pouring the floor in the Galera-House

At long, long last I have some good news to report concerning the building – today we finished the floor on the soon-to-be staff house on the Missionary Training Center farm. “Soon-to-be”, of course, is “por fe”, and “primeramente Dios”, as one is quick to add here in Mexico. But this is most certainly true for us. It is only as God first wills and provides for us that this work will be able to proceed. Also, all must be spoken in faith and by faith.

As you are well aware, if you have been following my blogs at all, our work on the building came to a grinding halt at the end of October when the rainy season just would not end. Finally the road dried up enough so that we could get the trucks out to the site this morning and we quickly took advantage it.

We now have a wonderful looking floor setting up under the “galera”. We also had 500 concrete blocks delivered today so that the guys can begin laying the exterior walls tomorrow morning. We hope to get another load or two of blocks delivered tomorrow because rain is again in the forecast, and we want to make sure that we don’t miss this narrowing window that we have open.

So, at long last, the wait has ended, and we can begin with the actual build – thank you Lord!

The long-awaited floor begins to take shape

The pressure still remains to finish with everything before the Canadian team arrives, but at least now it is beginning to look like it might be possible.

I am finding it pretty difficult to get into the “Christmas mood” I am afraid. First of all, having the on-going pressure of the last weeks on my mind hasn’t helped. Also, it is pretty hard to get too “Christmassy” when its 85° F in the shade. Christmas lights around dusty palm trees just don’t seem right to this old, back-woods Canadian boy. Then, honestly, Christmas right now is kind of a nuisance for me as we are finally able to work on the building, and I can’t be bothered with taking time off for festivities.

Bah, humbug!

But isn’t it wonderful that Jesus is not limited to me having warm, fuzzy feelings of Christmas. He is not a part of the commercialism that we have made the season into anyway. Jesus is Lord, and it is his birth and incarnation that we must focus on and celebrate now during this special season. What an incredible mystery – God became flesh – Emmanuel; God with us.

Nothing is very easy here, even with having the concrete delivered by truck. All still needs to be floated by hand

I suspect that I will not be posting an entry again before Christmas. I wish each of you a very special blessing as you celebrate the season with your friends and family. May it be a meaningful and wonderful time together. May your home be filled with laughter and friends. But most of all, may your heart be filled by the King of kings – the Lord of lords. May you find not only the baby in the manger, as wonderful as that was, but may your season be filled with the Awesome One who is seated on the Throne.

Theresa and I wish each of you a very special Christmas season. We also want to thank you again for your love and friendship. Thank you for your support; both in pray as well as financially. We have been very blessed to be surrounded with loving and caring friends such as you.

Merry Christmas.

Your friends,

Steven and Theresa

Piñatas being displayed for sale in front of our neighbor’s house. (Would you call this a plethora of piñatas?)

How is it possible? It would be kind of funny if it didn’t hurt so much!

I can’t believe it, but we have been skunked again by the rain. On Monday we got the whole floor ready for an early Tuesday morning delivery of the concrete. We finished the final leveling and got the framing up for the border. We then confirmed the concrete delivery for Tuesday morning and ordered 2,000 cement blocks to be delivered to the work site for Tuesday as well. We arranged for three more guys to help us in the morning, and called it a day.

When we arrived at home on Monday night we were confident that finally, after being stymied for over a month by the rain and muddy conditions we could now finally, at long last, finish the floor so that we could begin to build the actual structure of the staff house at the Training Center so that the work of preparing missionaries could begin.

Our work crew arrived at my house to a steady drizzle in the morning. We drove out to the job site still confident that we could get the floor in without any problem as long as we didn’t get any heavier rain during the day. We set up and awaited the truck which was scheduled to arrive at around 9:00 o’clock. Shortly before the scheduled arrival time we got a call saying that they wouldn’t bring the trucks in because of the extremely bad and rutted road conditions (that part was undeniably true) because they were afraid that they might slide off of the road due to the now-slick conditions.

Honestly I think that they could have made it because the road was not yet muddy, and I would have tried. But

Theresa with the serapes that she is helping the women sew

then, I suppose that I’m not the one who would have lost over $800 dollars worth of concrete because it would have had to be dumped in the ditch beside a truck hopelessly stuck and disappearing in muck. At any rate, there was nothing to be done except to accept the inevitable and go home, praying for quick drying conditions. I was still hopeful because the forecast was pretty good beyond a midweek hiccup. After that little blip on the screen the prediction was for good, sunny weather. I was optimistic!

On Monday we had begun having problems with the van – our work horse – without which we could not get anything done. I had hoped that things would kind of resolve themselves and that we could put off servicing it for several days. But as we headed home on our soggy, dejected Tuesday afternoon it became evident that all was not well in Mudville (with, or without the mighty Casey), we were about to strike out. The van would not make it any further without service.

Decorating Christmas cookies

But we had been told that it would take a couple of days of drying time before the trucks would deliver our concrete, so this was good timing. I could confidently take the van in and get it worked on without any conflict.

I took the van in for repairs on Wednesday morning as had been arranged (it ended up being a badly plugged and messed up fuel pump, pump filter system, etc., etc. Of course, all of this is now inside the tank and not easily or quickly accessed).

At about 10:00 o’clock on Wednesday morning, just after dropping off the van, I got a call from our concrete guy to tell me that they were willing and ready to roll now – right at this minute! He only had until 1:00 o’clock to finish though. Besides, he informed me, it was supposed to start raining in the evening again. You have got to be kidding! How were we supposed to drum up a work crew immediately? Besides we didn’t have a vehicle. We would have to wait, praying that the van could be finished by the evening and that the rains would not come.

The van was finished and picked up by about 9:30 on Wednesday evening, and I arranged

Theresa and her puppet sewing students

my crew for the next morning for an early start and a good pour, confident that God would not let us be thwarted this time.

The drizzling rains began at about 10:00 pm and became a steady downpour throughout the night. The rains have lasted the whole day now, alternating from steady mist and drizzle to heavy downpours. As I sit here writing at 9:30 pm it is still raining. Of course, this all means that the “road” – actually just an access with no base other than clay and black dirt and which has been churned into soup and muck now for three months – will once again be inaccessible for several more days at a minimum before any traffic can use it. This is especially true for heavier vehicles, such as the trucks that we have been so desperately waiting for now for close to six weeks.

So God, we are skunked once again! What is going on? I am now beginning to get somewhat desperate as the gun is getting pressed closer to my temple. Christmas is only days away, as is New Years. The work team from Canada is arriving on the 24^th of January to finish out the building. Their tickets are already purchased! We, for our part, are no closer to being ready for them than we were at the end of October when the rains first stopped the work.

We could use a little bit of prayer – please!

Onto a brighter note…Theresa and her sewing students enjoyed an afternoon of wrap up with a nice fiesta. There were lots of cookies, coffee, making Christmas ornaments and

Theresa’s sewing students at the wrap up party in our livingroom

decorating sugar cookies, and other “women” things. I was stuck in the house for some of the afternoon due to the rain but I cloistered myself safely in my office because there was far too much “female stuff” going on for my liking. But from all of the chattering and conversation it did sound as if they were having a good time together. Their classes have now ended until the new year.

I think that I will close off this rather discouraged blog. Like I said in the first line – it would actually be kind of funny if it didn’t hurt so much. I really can’t figure out what is going on. When we began the construction in the middle of October I though that we would have tons of time on our hands before the Canadian team arrived. Now, it will be nip and tuck just to finish at all, and it isn’t very funny anymore.

May you be blessed as you prepare for Christmas.

Your friends,

Steven and Theresa

Some of Theresa’s students showing off their latest sewing creations

How is it possible that we are head-long into December already? Twenty days, 6 hours, 30 minutes, 21 seconds (according to the computer countdown) until Christmas. How did this happen?

Let me bring you up to date on the goings-on here in Cd. Valles since my last blog entry almost a month ago.

We are blessed to have been able to begin on the Training Center farm site again on Monday of this week. I will say what I never thought that I would have to say here in Valles, but we are blessed that the rains have finally stopped, and that at long last we are getting some drying weather. As I wrote in my last entry, this has been an extremely soggy and very unusual year here in our area of Mexico. Usually we are praying for any moisture that we can possibly receive. This year we have been deluged with storm after storm to the point where there seemed to be no end to the rain. It is almost unheard of for the wet season to continue into November. But this year our rains just did not end. At the point where we would think that there might be hope for drying conditions, it would begin to pour again. This week we finally can get to the farm without sinking into several feet of slimy mud on the main road, and even onto the actual farm site itself. We are very thankful for this, and know that we will also be very grateful for the soil moisture in April and May when the extended dry season hits us as it always does.

On Monday Javier and I began to dig post holes in order to put up fencing around the

Sushi at the Frey’s house – thanks to Theresa’s expert touch

approximately two acre area where the buildings and orchards will be at the Missionary Training School. Despite the still, somewhat water laden conditions of the soil, we managed to put in the last of the fence posts yesterday. Today I was able to begin cultivating the dryer areas around the building and orchard site with the tractor and subsoiler while Javier took machete in hand and began the backbreaking process of weeding the newly planted sugarcane which finally looks like it might be able to catch its breath long enough to grow. We are blessed to be able to begin this work again.

As you know, we were beginning to feel like we were behind the eight ball with time breathing down our necks. The work team from Ontario is scheduled to arrive to finish the staff house on the Training Center farm on the last week of January. Javier and my part in this whole thing is to have the entire outside of the building up and ready for the Canadian team to finish out the interior when they arrive. On the 26^th of October we had everything ready to pour the floors, but at that point the work on the building ended due to the muddy conditions and inaccessibility to the site. In the mean while we had the windows and doors built (here one buys metal doors and windows made by a local welding shop), and busied ourselves with the myriad of other work that always needs to be attended to as well.

Steven setting up for film ministry in a little church in Pujal

Now, primeramente Dios (the Lord willing), if we do not get any more rain over the next weeks we can actually get back on schedule and get the building up before the team arrives at the end of January. We are praying that this will be so because their tickets are now purchased, and they are committed to come at that time.

Tomorrow morning we have a Directors meeting which will see a large changeover on the OUpC Board. As you will recall, Obreros Unidos para Cosechar (Laborers United for the Harvest) is the Mexican nonprofit which covers the three-fold ministry of the work that Theresa and I are involved with here in Mexico – that of the Bible Institute (Luz de las Naciones), Project LAMBS, and the Missionary Training farm (Casa del Obrero). Two of the three Board members will be stepping down due to other commitments in their lives and ministries. Please pray with us as we seek to replace them with the people that God desires for this vital work.

The Bible Institute and Project LAMBS have wrapped up for the 2013 year and everyone is

Salsa – life just ain’t life without it!

grateful for a break over Christmas and New Years. Fred Erb (from Listowel Community Church, who has been covering the work of Voice in the Wilderness Ministries since its inception), will be here for the joint Bible Institute / Project LAMBS graduation on the 7^th of February. What an amazing blessing to see men and women trained and prepared for ministry through these Bible training schools.

Please continue to pray with us that God will bring the right couple to work with us on the Missionary Training Center. As soon as we have the staff house completed on the farm at the end of January we need someone to live on campus; maintaining the farm and being available to mentor and disciple the trainees. This is not the job for just any run-of-the-mill couple, and we desperately need God to show us who this couple should be. To date we still do not have anyone in mind, and no one has come forward.

Zacahuil – a well-loved food only made in the Huasteca of Mexico (No, they are not body bags)

Theresa’s classes are also beginning to wind down somewhat in anticipation of taking a break over the year-end. The first group of women – the class that began in our living room almost two years ago – is now at the point of finding their own wings. Several of the women from this group are actively taking on work-for-pay sewing jobs with which they are helping to support their families. A couple of these women are planning to develop a “taller” (pronounced tie-air), or a little cottage industry, where they will be able to dedicate time specifically to taking on sewing work for a source of income for their families. Theresa and I are planning on helping them in this endeavor by giving them some of the donated sewing machines for their business start-up.

The other class is not that far along, but according to Theresa they are also doing extremely well in their training. Besides all of this, they are having a good time learning. I would say that this is all a pretty good track record, and “mission well accomplished” on Theresa’s part.

Theresa’s hope is to launch another beginner’s class in the new year. She is hoping that this

Rendering down the chicharon and other delectable parts

new group will also contain some women who are not yet Christians so that it can also be an evangelistic opportunity to show them the Lord “with skin” in a real-life setting.

We are not exactly shoveling snow around here – today it was a nice, pleasant 84.3 ° F in the shade. Still, this is sure a lot nicer than having the usual 30 ° F or more tacked on top of the 84 °. The really pleasant thing at this time of the year is that it drops down at night so that (most of the time) it is very comfortable sleeping with the windows open. But then, as some of our friends who came down in the winter thinking that they would find lovely, hot weather can contest, when it does get cold in Valles, it gets cold. The problem at those times is not the actual temperature per se, although it does get to just a whisker above freezing at rare intervals, and for short periods of time. But the trouble is that there is no way to warm up when it does get cold. None of the houses are built with any way to heat them, and most of the time that is the absolute farthest thing from one’s mind, as trying to find some way to keep a little cooler is usually

Chicharon may not exactly be on the heart wise menu, but, man is it good!

the main focus. But cement block walls, concrete roofs, and several inches of gap under outside doors and having single-paned windows that may or may not actually close do not make for a good combination in either extreme – hot or cold. Whoever invented concrete block houses sure didn’t do it for comfort. Actually the old mud and stick houses with thatched roofs that one still finds in the villages are by far the best way to go (as long as you don’t mind spiders, bugs, scorpions, snakes, etc. as housemates). Forget cement which has the worst properties for both heat and cold. But, it is fast and easily utilized.

I fear that I may be beginning to ramble and I think that I should close. We are both fine. The Christmas tree is up, bringing a bit of seasonal cheer to the Frey household in Mexico. We thank each of you for your generous financial support, your love, and warm friendship. We love you and are honored to have you as our fellow laborers.

Your friends,

Steven and Theresa

Sunrise over a sugarcane field on our way to the Missionary Training Center landsite

Another wet rainy day in Cd. Valles!

Yesterday I was at the point of thinking that maybe in several days I would be able to get the tractor out onto the land again to begin cultivating for weeds, when somewhere in the middle of the night I awoke to hear water pouring off of the roof through the rain gutters. Mercifully the front has also brought cooler weather with it, so the temperature this afternoon is a “cool” and overcast 71° degrees – much appreciated – still, this sets us back once again on our work.

But, let’s start further back and bring you up to date.

In the last blog entry dated October 19^th we had just begun the footings and foundation work on the staff house / storage room building on the Missionary Training Center land. Following two weeks of backbreaking labor we were able to get all of the basic foundation work finished on Saturday, October 26^th and were then ready to pour the floors. We decided to wait for a week or so at that point in order to let things dry out so that we could get the truck onto the work site without having it sink and disappear in the mud. We all had plenty of other work to be involved in until things dried out and we could continue at the building site.

Javier and I took advantage of the still very wet land and began planting more fruit tree

Preparing the base for the footers

seedlings on the farm and getting some weed control taken care of. Then, just about the time that I thought that we would be starting in a day or two the skies opened again and we got hit by another deluge.

Then this week on Monday I was finally able to get onto the land again, working by hand to begin clearing weeds and grasses along the edges of the sugarcane field. It would still take a week of so of good drying before we could even begin to think of using the tractor to cultivate, but at least I could begin by hand.

And then, as I already mentioned, I awoke to another torrent during the night and throughout the morning (and now again in the evening as I write this blog). We are happy for the moisture, since, as I have often mentioned before, we are completely dependent upon the wet season rains to take us through the dry part of the year. Still, at this point, a bit of drying would be very welcome.

Laying the block for the footers

We have been very blessed. It looks like the Lord is providing the funds which were needed so badly in order for the team from Ontario to come down at the end of January, and for the missionary staff house to be built. We are amazed at how God has been working out the details, and are blessed at the faithful generosity of those who are making it possible. As I once wrote in an old news letter dated March 2009: “I know that although God owns the cattle on a thousand hills he uses people to provide the means through which he brings his provision”. This is another example of his provision through the generosity of his people.

Onto a rabbit trail – I really encourage you to go back and read the old ministry news letters filed on the website under “Archived Letters” (at the top of the webpage right under the big red dot). These letters will once again bring the work into an historical perspective and show how God has been working over the past sixteen years – perhaps through twists and turns along the way – but always in a forward direction. I think that you will enjoy the read if nothing else.

We still very desperately need someone to come down to put a septic system on the

Tying the footers together

Missionary Training Center for us. This should be done now over the winter months sometime before we go too much further in construction on the site. We are praying that if this person is you, that you will hear his gently nudging and will come down to help us in this need.

We are sensing that God is doing something new in the work as well. For one thing, we will be having a change very shortly on the national Board of Directors of Obreros Unidos para Cosechar (OUpC), the Mexican nonprofit which covers the ministry of the Bible Institute Luz de Las Naciones, Project LAMBS, as well as Casa del Obrero (the Missionary Training Center). Change always brings some stress with it, but we feel that God will bring forward people of his choice to fill the openings on the Board.

Our multi-use tractor and very useful pond

Further, as I mentioned in another blog as well, we are looking at the feasibility and ramifications of placing the Bible Institute under the academic and credentialing covering of an American Bible University. We still don’t know with certainty that this is what God has for us, but we continue to pray for absolute clarity in his direction.

We also continue to pray that God will lay it on the heart of a couple to come down to help us here in Cd. Valles. Ideally, I believe, this would be a couple who would come under the covering of their own North American sending church and who could work with Theresa and me, along with the national leaders in charge of the various areas of ministry, beginning to assume a directorship role in the work. We have been praying for this over the past months, and have been letting the need be known. Please pray with us that God will send someone to help us soon.

The past months have been a time of certainty that God is with us, and that he is blessing

Packing the base with a bailarina (a ballerina) to prepare for pouring the floor

the work. They have also been a time of struggle and spiritual confrontation for the ministry. As I wrote in my last blog, many of the leaders, as well as Theresa and I have been facing opposition and antagonism. Please pray with us that there will be a breakthrough in this area, and that relationships that have been strained and broken will be restored and healed.

I believe with all of my heart that it is God’s purpose that men and women will be trained as servant leaders through the various aspects of the present ministry – the Bible Institute Luz de las Naciones, Project LAMBS, and the Missionary Training farm (Casa del Obrero). I believe that Cd. Valles will become a hub from which men and women will be trained to go out into the harvest – prepared in servanthood, and equipped for ministry. But it is not easy, nor will the enemy give over the ground without a struggle. Please pray that apparent brick walls of resistance will crumble under the wrecking ball of the Holy Spirit.

Preparing the mesh for the floor pour

Also, please pray with us for a very specific miracle that we urgently need. The Missionary Training farm is tied up presently in a legal situation in which we need God to intervene. Because of the location of the land and the legal jurisdiction under which it falls we have as yet been unable to get clear title for it so that the nonprofit can own the land outright. Until this happens it cannot be placed into the name of Obreros Unidos para Cosechar. Please fervently pray that God will quickly provide the miracle which will make it possible for clear title to be obtained on the land, and that it can then very swiftly be able to be transferred into the name of the nonprofit. The actual legal title in Spanish is “dominio pleno” – please pray specifically with us that God will work a miracle and that we will receive this legal position without further delay.

Theresa has been very busy with her sewing school and it has been going extremely well.

Theresa’s sewing school class in the Bible Institute building

She currently teaches classes five days a week and is prepping and preparing for her next class every night. There never seems to be a down day, and she is always glad to be able to grab a moment here or there to relax for a minute, or to catch her breath. Still, I figure that it is good to fall into bed tired at night – it keeps one from getting bored.

We appreciate all of you. We thank you for your prayers, love, and support. Especially, we covet your prayers.

Your friends and fellow servants,

Steven and Theresa