Dear Friends and Family,

I want to thank all of you for praying for us! You must be! We can feel it! The Lord has been working and we have seen an increase in support since the last time we wrote—our hearts are very encouraged and we have made many good contacts and set up several more meetings! We are currently at 72.5%! Please praise the Lord with us! We do want to thank the dear friends who have recently started financially and/or prayerfully supporting us, and also for our sweet friends that have given toward our one-time set up needs! You know who you are and we so grateful that you have joined in partnership with us to serve the Lord in Brazil! This is a joint ministry!

Right now Todd is in Joplin, MO at a mission conference at a church that he contacted on Tuesday and they invited him to come! He also has planned to drop by our information and hopefully talk to the pastors of several churches along the way. We are also speaking at the mission conference on Sunday at Bonhomme Presbyterian, who supports us! We are very excited to be able to meet the people of this wonderful congregation of believers and be able to share with the youth about our call to missions.

We wanted to let you know that there was a little mix-up with the way our finances were recorded at our mission and we just received a list of donations that we had received that we were not aware of. The mix up has been fixed and shouldn’t happen again. So if we haven’t sent you a personal thank you yet, and you’ve been wondering what happened, I apologize! Please do expect one and know that we are so thankful for you—and the Lord knew your heart of giving even though we didn’t yet!

We do want to ask for prayer from you as we are preparing for another transition. The camp where we are living is taking off in its first season! We are so excited for the retreats that have been planned and we pray for more. We are incredibly grateful for Craig and Sheila Arbogast as they have allowed us to live here as their ministry to us. Todd and I have some decisions to make and we need to get rid of many more things to lighten the load some more. We are excited as God is preparing us for each new step. And we can see how God is leading us in this way so that we can be more prepared when it is time to go. We do ask that you would let us know if you know of any places that would be available to accommodate a family of 4 for the next few months.

I want to leave you with verses that have been so encouraging for us. Philippians 1:6 “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” Thank you for your prayers and please know we love and pray for you as well!

Serving together,

Todd and Julie Hendry