Missionary Schedule
Foreign Missions
We are headed to Sri Lanka Feruary 29-March 11. We will be working with the missionaries in spreading the gospel and training new believers to tell others about Jesus. We will in the areas in and around the tea plantations.
Venezuela July 27-August 5th is coming faster than we know. We will work through an association of Baptist Churches in two major cities. These churches have been working hard to prepare to receive us and they will do the discipleship of th new believers. It will be exciting to work with over 50 churches. We need 88 mission volunteers to join us.
2013 Philippines June 26-July 8-We have been assigned to the Philippines and we cannot wait to go. We have much success. We will be working in a new area.
Local Ministries
We co-lead a domestic mission project through New Bethlehem Haitian Church in South Florida. This is a good cross cultural Christian project. Oak Park in Gainesville leads the project centering around VBS children's activities. We assist with preaching, coordination, food and recreation.
We participated in our home church VBS serving as recreation and mission teachers.
Ongoing Ministry
Lon continues his local mission work at the Juvenile Detention Center where God is moving as he gets to see many boys and girls make a decision for Christ! He is there on the first and third Sunday Nights of every month. Contact Lon, 352-481-5512, if you would like to witness at the center with him once or on-going.
We volunteer providing help with planning/special projects for the Women's Resource and Medical clinic (anti abortion).
We continue to minister/teach through our home church Eden Baptist in Hawthorne as leaders for domestic and foreign mission work and outreach in our local community. We teach on Wednesday nights. We have the second and third graders and what a delight! They are so competitve and want to learn about God!!!
We are trained in CEF-Child Evangelism Fellowship where we will be teaching an afterschool "Good News Club". God is opening doors to evangelize children who are lost in our public schools systems. If you want to get involved and see God work in our schools, please contact Steve Carlson at 352-214-9537.