Hello Friends, Brothers & Sisters,

Thank you for your prayers concerning the hospital at Kindamba. Dr. Harvey had a meeting with the landlord of the property in Brazzaville, where he was able to sign a 3 ½ year lease! Praise the Lord for that breakthrough. As usual, though, that’s not the end of the troubles at Kindamba. The local governor is rumored to have called on the military to remove Global Outreach Mission from the hospital, but we have heard nothing of any real threat so far. Please keep this entire project lifted up in your prayers.

This last week has been another week of slowly moving us closer to Congo. There are never-ending apparent set-backs, but we look through them to see the Lord at work. Since over-extending ourselves a little bit, to get everything needed onto that container in TN, it seems that everything around us is keeping us from catching back up. In the past week, the dryer quit working and the windshield on the car broke. I think that’s all, but it feels like more than that. I guess it always does when things go sour. The window is replaced, but we haven’t got the dryer repaired yet. In spite of these “surface” set-backs, we realize that none of these temporary things matter in the big picture. The enemy may attempt to disrupt us, but our focus is clear! We also haven’t heard a single thing from our real estate agent in a month, but again, we know that all of the necessary arrangements will be taken care of in God’s timing. In the meantime, we have a roof over our heads. On the flip-side of these events, we have once again seen our support level increase slightly. After months at a stand-still, that’s very encouraging!

Another very cool thing happened this week. Danielle had four different churches contact her (mostly people we don’t even know), letting us know that they are doing their VBS programs this summer with a focus on missions, and asking if we would send them pictures and information that they could use. Personally, I am not very concerned with the potential for leads to expand our support base. I am, however, very excited to hear about being used to share the importance of missions with the next generation. We had the opportunity to share our calling and vision back in February with children at a local Christian school (Genesee Country Christian School, in Groveland, NY), at their weekly Chapel session. Sharing at a church or small group is great, but seeing the interest in the kids’ eyes, being able to share answered prayers with them, and opening their minds to how God can call people (even children) into particular areas of service, is the most exciting. I think that children generally have a very “what could I possibly do of any significance” sort of an attitude about being kids. To show them that they can be effective in prayer is awesome. We need more of them praying for us! Nothing tops the ability of a child to pray openly and expectantly. Anyways, I find that very uplifting.

We still haven’t gotten any pictures from any of you, so please don’t forget to send us something. We look forward to seeing your smiling faces and hearing how we can be praying for you. As you are praying for us, here are some requests that we have:

• please continue to pray about sharing our ministry with others
• please pray that the Lord would keep filling our needs and raise our support up to the 100% level
• please pray for the sale of our house, in His time
• please pray for GOM and the hospital at Kindamba, Rep. of Congo

We thank you for all of your prayers and support. Have a relaxing and enjoyable 4^th of July! Be safe, enjoy all of the beautiful firework displays, and God-willing, we’ll have more good news to update you on next week!

Yours in Christ,
Art, Danielle & Michael