How is mission work going in your part of the Kingdom? Is a lot happening? Or does it seem like status quo?

There is nothing exciting to write to you this month. That is, nothing other than the steady preaching and teaching of the Word and the outreach to whomever will listen! Out faithful Kingdom Worker volunteer couple, Chris and Cara Ewings, is busy giving instruction classes, piano lessons, working with the youth group and making visits. They find time to help at the church with finishing details – painting ironwork windows, for instance, or shoveling sand back up into the pile after it is been spread out by wind and rain.  Chris teaches Greek to our seminary student and preaches now and then.

Charlie and I keep busy with our part of the work. Lent has gone by very quickly. The youth group gave a unique presentation of the passion story, complete with sound effects, for Good Friday. We had a family day on Easter Sunday, as has become our custom. After the late afternoon church service there were hot dogs and a big chocolate cake to eat. The men of the congregation have completed the cement sidewalk and driveway in front of the church, and we are getting estimates for the textured painting of the church front. Meanwhile, the care-taker’s home is being remodeled and enlarged to serve as a parsonage in the near future.

And so the work goes on. Nothing outwardly exciting, but the Word is working in hearts, where we can’t see it, but it is producing exciting results. One of our older ladies can not read or write, but she never misses a church service, and takes the Word of the Lord seriously. In our ladies group Bible studies, she often comes up with the right answer or interpretation when others fail to grasp the point. It may be that her life is very simple, caring for her husband and interacting with her daughters and her grandchildren, but it means she has plenty of time to ponder and meditate on what she has heard, and the Holy Spirit has given her a rock solid and very knowledgeable faith. She uses here cheerful faith to greet everyone in church with a hug, even the pastor! And she talks to new-comers whenever possible. Lord, give us such a faith as this!

A Blessed Easter,
Charlie and Beth Flunker