The Latest from George & Kathy Schultz
Submitted by: adionne at Friday, February 10, 2012 - 10:13am
Dear Friends,
In my last email to you I spoke of canceling our trip to Thailand due to Kathy's bad back and my dad's stroke. Thank you for praying. Kathy's back is much better. My dad has made some progress for which we are very grateful and yet has many challenges yet ahead. He has been battling pneumonia while trying to strengthen himself in rehab. We hope to be able to get him home again but every day seems to bring a new challenge and concern. I have been spending every weekend in Rock Hill, SC helping care for him with my brother and sister. Please pray that in the next few days we can put together a good plan to care for dad. He is such a great dad and we want to do our best in providing the best care for him we can.
Kathy has had the joy of spending two weeks in PA with our son Nathan and grandson Landon (age 2). Nathan's wife Beth went on a mission trip to Brazil and Kathy had the joy of babysitting for two weeks! You can still see the smile on her face!
During the last three weeks and the next our training facilitators have been meeting together to redesign our training curriculum to a shorter more efficient program. We are working hard building not only a great revised curriculum but also strengthening our training team as well. It has gone really well and we invite your prayers so that we will finish well.
Sadly, our registrations for our next term are very low. Please pray the Lord would send us 18 trainees by April 1. We are excited about delivering our new program to a good group of trainees. Honestly, the current low numbers (6 right now) are a concern for us as our budget depends heavily on trainees. We have done all we can do. Would you please pray the Lord would send us more trainees and that we would learn what He has for us in these days? Thanks. I am attaching a picture of our trainees from last fall to help remind you to pray that the Lord would send us another good group April 1 - no fooling!
We will be heading to Tennessee in a couple of weeks (Feb. 23-26) to be involved in one of our faithful supporting church's mission conference. We look forward to thanking them for their investment in our lives and ministry as well as reporting on what God is doing through missionary training.
We head to International Falls, MN March 8-14 to visit another supporting church where we have been given significant responsibilities including preaching, adults, teens, and children ministries. We will need some good time for preparation. We have many good friends there and we even look forward to being back in cold country. The trip will include a stop in Minneapolis to visit the mission headquarters of the Evangelical Free Church of America (ReachGlobal) to look over their missionary online training program which seems to be a very excellent program. I want to learn all I can from them to help us in our training advancement.
We are so very grateful for your involvement with us and request your specific prayers for us in the coming days.
Prayer:
1. Special wisdom in the next week or so as we plan for my dad's care
2. Good finish to our curriculum redesign
3. 18 trainees by April 1
4. Joy and wisdom in sharing about our work at the upcoming mission conferences and necessary preparation
Thanks again.
Gratefully yours,
George and Kathy Schultz
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Latest from George & Kathy Schultz
Submitted by: adionne at Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 11:03am
Last Tuesday I was just about finished creating an email to send out when I got a call that my dad had experienced a major stroke. He was flown to Columbia, SC where he was treated. Through an amazing procedure (embolectomy) which passed a catheter through his heart into his brain they actually removed the large blood clot! Within one day he had regained much of his left side functioning. The doctor himself was amazed at the quick recovery. His situation has now been complicated by his inability to swallow food and he has developed pneumonia. Tonight he started an experimental drug to help keep his brain stint open. It has never been used on a patient with complications like my dad's. Because of my need to help with dad's care and Kathy's ongoing back pain we made the decision to cancel our trip to Thailand scheduled for Tuesday morning. We will miss going but we feel it is the right decision at this time. We are experiencing God's comfort and care during these days.
On another note....A while back I asked you to pray for a local Hindu family to whom we were trying to minister. We have taken gifts periodically and I gave the husband a book by Ravi Zacharius entitled New Birth or Rebirth? Jesus Talks with Krishna. Last week Kathy and I visited again taking Christmas gifts and another book of a Hindu man in SC who turned to Christ. For the first time this family allowed us into their home and showed us all around including their shrine/prayer room. We talked of their families and struggles and at the end of our visit I asked if I could pray for them. They willingly accepted. We are grateful for the door which seems to be opening very slowly. Keep them in your prayers as you think of them. We anticipate this being a long term relationship which hopefully will bear fruit for eternity. Thanks again for blessing us with your prayers and encouragement. We hope you have a blessed New Year!
George and Kathy
United World Mission
Center for Intercultural Training
www.cit-online.org
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Latest Letter from Bill & Joy Boerop
Submitted by: adionne at Friday, December 2, 2011 - 9:47am
Dear Pastor Ray and our Friends at Trinity Presbyterian Church,
Thank you for your prayers for Bill & Joy Boerop and the World Thrust International ministry. Below are our Prayer Requests and Praises for December 2011:
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Latest Letter from George and Kathy Schultz (CIT)
Submitted by: adionne at Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 10:25am
Dear Friends,
Wow, it has been longer than I thought since my last letter.
We have had a great fall training term though it had its challenges as usual. God allowed us to help equip close to 50 missionaries from 11 different agencies headed to 16 countries (Honduras, Spain, Thailand, Tajikistan, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Bolivia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Nepal, South Korea, France, Zambia, Senegal, and the USA! From their blog here is one paragraph in how one trainee described their experience:
"Through all of this training, the facilitators at CIT have been very intentional about meeting each missionary at the heart level and dive deep into who we are at the core of our being to make sure we are firmly planted on the Gospel. Not only have we received world class training from some of the best teachers available, we have received discipleship from them as well...As we go through a module, at the end of each day we are given a slip of paper with questions to ask our boys. These go right along with what we learn during the day but on a level they understand...it has been awesome to see their growth!"
Now we face some important meetings and changes in the coming month.
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One Day to Go!
Submitted by: Jim ODonnell at Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 9:19am
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This Year's Mission Conference Speakers
Submitted by: Jim ODonnell at Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 4:25pm
Rev. Bill and Grace Harding
Special Representative for SIM
billgrace@hardings.org
www.hardings.org
704-846-5094
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A Missions Update from the May Family
Submitted by: Jim ODonnell at Friday, September 16, 2011 - 11:05am
Dear partners in prayer,
The summer heat here in Tokyo, besides keeping us hiding in the shade, seems to have brought out some wonderful fruit and new opportunities.
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RUF Fall Conference
Submitted by: Jim ODonnell at Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 8:44am
Please be in prayer for the Southeastern RUF Conference Friday, September 16th 7pm - Sunday, September 18th 11am.
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Update from the Colon Family
Submitted by: Jim ODonnell at Monday, September 12, 2011 - 11:25am
Click here for an update from the Colon Family as they continue their trek across the US as the they raise funds to return to the Ukraine.
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A Note from the Kay Family
Submitted by: Jim ODonnell at Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 10:22am
Dear Family and Friends,
We were glad we could travel together this time as a family during our home assignment. We have enjoyed visiting with many of you! We put thousands of miles on the car, but it is still going strong.
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