Dear Friends and Family,
We hope this finds all experiencing God’s grace and goodness in your lives. Over this last week we received difficult news of the death of our friend’s son, Zach Splitter. He was the ring bearer in our wedding, a very special boy, and passed away at the age of twelve. Please pray for our friends, David and Dennill Splitter and their children, as they grieve over the loss of their son. I have to tell you though that I was very touched by their attitude through out this tragedy. Throughout she has said that their hope is for people to come to know the Lord through this loss and we pray will be true. There are many lost here in the U.S., not just in Brazil or other areas of the world that are “unreached”. God considers every soul precious, no matter where they live. This has reminded me not only to hug my kids a little harder, but also to think of the needy and lost right here in our neighborhood.
Meetings and Tickets
Our last meeting was on May 20th in Kansas City and it went very well even though there were some miscommunications and interruptions during our presentation. We were told by the missions committee chairman that we will hear from them soon regarding support. We have another meeting on June 5th here in town with a church closely related to Dardenne Presbyterian, Todd’s home church. We have been very encouraged by their response so far, but we don’t want to get our hopes up unreasonably. The Lord knows exactly where our support will come from and with whom He wants us to partner. So we trust Him.
We also have a couple meetings scheduled for our trip to Maine on June 20th. The Lord provided the funds for us to be able to travel to Maine by plane instead of driving and we are so thankful! We will be spending a little under two weeks with Julie’s family. Her parents are coming from Brazil due to the advanced illness of her grandmother. We pray that she holds on until the trip. We will also be visiting with Julie’s brother and his family. It’s been almost three years since we’ve seen them. And we’ve never seen our little nephew and they’ve never seen Samuel! So while we are there we will be meeting with some of the churches that support Julie’s parents. We aren’t expecting monthly support from any of them, of course the Lord could surprise us :), but we are excited to be introduced and perhaps raise some of the funds needed for our outgoing expenses. It will be great to see some of the people that I knew when going to the meetings with my parents!
We do want to thank you all very much for your interest in our progress. It is always encouraging to hear from people that say they enjoy our updates and are praying for us. Thank you deeply to those that have taken on themselves the calling to support this work in Brazil. We are currently a little under 50% with our monthly support and a little over 50% with our outgoing expenses. The Lord will reward you greatly for your prayers and your financial support as you send us to Brazil to reach the “unreached”. Thank you all with all our hearts!
Serving Together,
Todd and Julie Hendry
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