As I have been traveling to visit churches while on furlough I have been repeatedly reminded of the importance of your prayers. While traveling from one missions conference to another the last several months I have encountered many snow storms, rain storms, high winds, and road raged drivers. It is great to know that many of you are praying for us. Your faithfulness reminds me of the many prayer partners the Apostle Paul had while on his missionary journeys. It is interesting that the Lord allowed Paul to give us the names of some of his prayer partners in his Epistles. At the end of most of his Epistles, Paul has a “hugs and howdys section”. In this part of his letters, he mentioned specific names of eople in the churches he was thankful for or particular ones who had helped him. Some of these people we wouldn’t know anything about if he hadn’t put a little “hello” to them in his ritings. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 3:9 that we are laborers together with God. Just as Paul needed faithful men and women to pray to God on his behalf, we too need your prayers. Without the prayers of many hristians, and the financial support of many churches we couldn’t continue doing what God has called us to do.
The last couple of months 6 more churches have started to financially partner with us and many of you faithfully pray for us. I wish I had the space to hank each of you personally but the list would fill too many pages. So once again I say a very heartfelt “THANK YOU” for praying for our family as we prepare to take the Gospel to the people living on the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
We are still needing to raise around $1,000 a month dditional support before we can leave for the Dutch Harbor/Unalaska area. The last ferry of the year leaves for Dutch Harbor/Unalaska in September. If we don’t have enough support to leave by then we will have to wait until next May. Please pray that we will be able to raise the additional funds necessary so that we will be able to reach the Unreached of Unalaska!
John and Jody Warrick
