Dear praying partners,
It’s been a while since we sent out one of our prayer updates. We thank you for your faithful prayers anyway. We have been in the totally different (for us at least) school routine at Mentor Christian School. Each of our three oldest, Mikey, Cristiana and Carissa, all made the honor roll in their classes. Even Cristiana, is doing very well in all of the subjects that she can take. It is still very difficult for her to read on her own, but when others read to her, her comprehension is excellent. Her dyslexia has helped her to overcompensate by observing and listening— probably just to survive. She gets high A's when asked questions verbally. Cristi has done much of her work in school with the help of high school students who read to her while she answers the questions. We do see some small improvements in her reading skills also. We praise the Lord that she takes these challenges very maturely and seeks the Lord for help. Please continue to pray this year that it would be a help to get Cristi where she needs to be or at least well on her way there. Thank you.
We have been very busy in this first quarter of the year. With all the different changes, we have enjoyed being at our home church, Bible Community, for a good number of services. We have spent a lot of time getting our presentation put together for furlough— slide presentation, prayer cards, children’s poem, messages, etc. Faith has been overseeing all the kids’ activities and homework for school, has had the chance to speak for several ladies’ groups that are closer to home, and has been a traveling trooper on the weekends that we have been out in other churches. Mike has been to a pastors’ conference in NY, spoken several times in school chapels, tried to get caught up with some correspondence, taught several Spanish classes, helped in a Bible institute, etc.
We both are preparing a group of teens from Bible Community along with our three oldest children to go on a missions trip to Puerto Rico to help the Pfaunmiller family for a week in July. It is interesting to be on this side of the mission team experience after being the missionary that has received teams. Pray for us to have wisdom to help these young people. We consider it a challenge and a privilege to be able to guide these teens as they seek God’s will for their lives. The team will be from July 3rd to July 10th. It is a blessing to be able to help our home church in this way.
We have just finished putting our schedule together for the rest of this year. There is only one church left to schedule. We have 26 different churches that support us and we will be visiting 5 others churches also. This makes for a lot of traveling just about every weekend. We have been traveling up in the Erie, PA and Mayville, NY area for the last month visiting several supporting churches there. The good thing is that this area is actually closer to Mike’s mom’s house than many of our churches in Ohio. It is a challenge for the kids on Monday morning when we get back each Sunday night around 11 PM. Pray for the children as the busy schedule never ends. We praise the Lord that they are plugging along and have wonderful attitudes about serving the Lord together as a family.
We have heard excellent reports from Mexico of the church being faithful. Three new families have been faithfully attending. Praise the Lord! Ruben and Heidi Zartman have been doing an excellent job! One sad note is that our friend, Marek, who used to attend our church very faithfully, apparently committed suicide several weeks ago. Marek was Ruben Zartman’s best friend when Ruben was growing up in Mexico City. Ruben is now our furlough replacement. Ruben had about 8 or 9 opportunities to preach and present the gospel during the all night vigil and other times with Marek’s family who is unsaved. You can click here to read one of Ruben’s weekly updates to let you know how things are going from his perspective in Mexico City.
Thank you so much for praying,
We depend on you and thank you for all you do for us.
In Christ,
Mike for the rest of the Goldfii
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