Mission Aviation Fellowship is a wonderful organization that does amazing things and we are honored to be a part of it.  I encourage you today to go over to their website if you haven’t been in a while, learn a new thing or two about how awesome they are and what the Lord is doing in other parts of the world (we’re in many many different countries), and praise the Lord for sustaining MAF for 69 years and counting.

Please pray for the home office staff, located here in Nampa, ID, for the recruiters stationed all around the country as they look for new people to join, and for the MAF missionaries all around the world, including some countries where missionaries are not so welcome.  Also pray for the financial supporters of the organization.  They sustain the airplanes, maintenance and necessary costs of operating in foreign countries – an amazing blessing.

We are so grateful for those who have committed to join our financial team!  We cannot go without the financial resources of those sharing with us.  We hope our ministry is a blessing to those who support it.

Please pray today for the finances of those giving so sacrificially.  That their jobs and incomes remain stable so that they can continue to give as the Lord leads them.  We also thank the Lord that they have made the decision to give!

Finally, please pray that more will join our financial support team.  We need about 80 people or families to join at $40 per month to be 100% supported and able to return to Congo.  That number seems high, but we know God is in control of those called to give and the timing in which they do it!

Hopefully, this is many of you!  Today we hope you’ll join us in praying for our prayer supporters.  Prayer for missionaries is the number way to support us!  So easy, yet so easy to forget.  Hopefully, our prayer card is hanging somewhere in the home to remind those who have committed to be praying for us (if you don’t have one – we would be happy to send you one)!

So, we want to pray for stamina for this wonderful group of people – that they would continue to pray for us throughout our journey, in each stage of the process.  We want to pray prayers of thanksgiving for the many of you who have committed to praying for us!  And, finally, we ask that you pray that more would join, and that some would be blessed through their prayers for our ministry!

The three MKs

Levi, Amelia and Axel are such troopers.  They have lived a life in full swing, barely stopping for more than a year in stability.

Our first prayer for them is for patience.  Patience with us as we parent through the changes, and patience with each other as they grow together.  We also pray for their health and good physical growth, especially overseas.  Lastly, and most importantly, we ask that you continually pray for their hearts – that they would grow closer to Christ.

For our first day of prayer, we ask that you pray for US!  It sounds selfish, but it is oh-so-necessary.  A life of full time ministry, plus three kiddos, makes for an easy way of asking for prayer.

Today, please pray for our own spiritual renewal each day, with time in prayer and God’s Word.  Please pray that we have time together to keep our marriage strong.  Pray for us as parents – whew, this stage has such mountains and valleys!!!  Finally, pray that the training we’re receiving in this stage of life will cement us as useful tools for the Lord in a foreign land!

For fun, here is a photo history of our TEN years together (we first met February 21, 2004).

Sometime in 2005…before officially “coupling”

Married! April 15, 2006

Pre-children vacation, October 2008

Accepted with MAF – first prayer card photo, by Jennifer Lind

Amelia joined us Sept 2011 (second prayer card photo, by Jennifer Lind)

Amelia’s first birthday, in DRC Sept 2012 (third prayer card photo, by Jocelyn Frey)

Axel joined us in November 2013

On January 11th, please join us for 10 Days of Prayer.  From January 11 to January 20, we are asking that all of you join us in prayer for our ministry.  Each day, we will post one aspect that needs prayer.

January 11th is special to us, because it marks our third anniversary with MAF.  Can you believe it has been three years already?  Three years with our hearts and minds focused on serving the Congolese people through the work of MAF!  What a crazy ride it has been, and it has only just begun!

We are need of prayer constantly, but we hope you’ll dedicate just a few minutes each day to praying for us during those ten days…stay tuned!