Ron Brewer Update: June 2004

Dear Prayer & Support Partners:

 
Greetings from Oklahoma. Yes, it is a surprise to me to be here as well. This was not the plan, but sometimes, plans must change. After completing meetings in Kansas the first Sunday in June, our plan was to visit my folks for a few days in Oklahoma before beginning a Missions conference in Vinita, OK, on Wednesday, June 9. We were scheduled to be at the conference from Wednesday through Sunday. We drove down from Kansas to be with my folks for a couple of days on June 7-8, and while here, found out that they were considering sending my Dad home from the Nursing Home where he had been convalescing from his broken hip. It was needful for Mom to have help, so we decided to rearrange our schedule to enable me to stay in Oklahoma through the end of June and help out. This is the first time this has been possible, so it has been an important time for me and my folks as well. Dad came home on Wednesday, June 16. There are some real challenges to nursing someone with advanced Parkinson's disease at home, and add to that, the broken hip. But we have done pretty well. We must leave this coming weekend to go on to MN and WI for scheduled meetings there. So please pray for my Mom, and the rest of our family, to have wisdom as we determine what will be best for Dad.

 
We want to thank you folks so very much for making us part of your missionary family. Your interest and investment in our ministry is precious to us. 

 
Several specific needs that we would request your prayer for:

1.                 Our Summer Camping program is in full swing. We take many of the orphan children and the street children, as well as the children from our churches. Please pray for a great camping season and for the necessary funds to make it possible to reach as many as we can.

2.                 Pray for us as we continue north. We have 3 weeks of camp in WI, and on the weekends in between, we have meetings in 3 different churches. Pray for traveling mercies and for good meetings with the camp and churches.

3.                 Continue to pray for the INS to grant the visa for our daughter-in-law. This thing is really dragging on, and it is very difficult to deal with. Just pray that God will intervene in someone's heart at INS and that they will do what is necessary for us to get Aliona here.

4.                 Please continue to pray for additional funds for the many programs that we are involved with. We are still in need of funds for church planting and training our nationals, as well as supporting our orphanage ministries, Bible Colleges and Street children works. I need to schedule more meetings in order to raise the necessary funds. Please pray for that.

5.                 Our return to Eastern Europe in late September/early October. We have meetings in CO, WY & MT in August and then up in Alaska in September. Then we return after that. Pray for our classes, and the many other responsibilities that we must face while we are back on the field.

Thank you again for your involvement with us and for your prayers. We appreciate your faithfulness to this ministry and our Lord more than simple words can express. Prayer is what empowers the work, and you are the vital link that keeps us plugged in to the Power Source.

In His Great Grace,

The Brewers