Our Father has provided many opportunities to share in his work through us

in the past year.

We have had opportunities to network and share about our work at

ReachGlobal’s Asia division Conference in Thailand. IWe connected with

other missionaries, shared stories, and explored possibilities for

collaboration in ministry.

In April we were invited to Pereira, Colombia by our friends and partners,

Jim and Catalina Tate to facilitate the Sacredness of Human Life workshop.

We were hosted by Pastor Dany and his family. Then In November, we

returned Pereira again with Caty and Jim. It was a jammed packed two

weeks of trainings and workshop. We trained eleven new facilitators from

the March Sacredness of Human Life workshop. We also help Jim and Caty

facilitate an Abortion Recovery Retreat and trained six of the Abortion

Recovery participants, to be the next retreat facilitators. They then, hosted

their own Abortion Recovery Retreat and were coached through its

facilitation.

In May, we traveled to Port of Spain, Trinidad with a team from Bella Vista

Church, which included Pastor Mark and Jeff and Kirsten Swanson. We had

been invited by Pastor Bickram and the Evangelical Church Alliance of T&T to

facilitate the Sacredness of Human Life workshop, and to train facilitators

for the multiplication of this ministry. Anne and Dave returned this past

January to coach our facilitators as they led their own Sacredness of Human

Life workshop. This April, Anne and Caty will travel again to Trinidad to

facilitate an Abortion/Sexual Abuse Recovery Retreat and to train another

group of facilitators for the Sacredness of Human Life workshop.

In August last year we traveled to our son and daughter-in-law’s church in

Phillipsburg, Missouri. We were the VBS missionary speakers for 75 very

energetic children. We work with adults, not little people. But it was fitting

since their curriculum was about the Sacredness of Human Life and about

being image bearers of God. Despite our inexperience with audiences of

little people, these kids were amazing as they listened and actively

participated in answering questions and providing insight. It was a

delightfully different week of ministry.

In October we were in Lilongwe, Malawi, for the third time. This was where

we first started in ministry two years ago. Our relationship here is with

Pastor Maxwell and Ellen Banda. Week one was the Training of facilitators.

Week two, Pastor Max and Anne coached the new facilitators as they led

their sessions of the workshop to a group of 24 new pastors and leaders.

The facilitators did a great job needing only a little coaching and guiding

along the way. Lord willing, we will be returning again this year to now train

trainer to replicate the workshops on their own.

In March, Anne attended ReachGlobal’s Africa Division workshop to network

and to share some of the content of the workshops.

Lord willing, this August we will be in Mexico for ReachGlobal’s Latin

America/Caribbean division conference. We will have opportunities to

share our ministry with the division as well as attending meetings with the

Global Equipping division, of which we are a part.

So here we are today, we have heard reports of our facilitators using what

they have learned to train and disciple others. They have reached out to

minister to single moms and reported that over 30 infants were saved from

abortion. Others are using what they learned to share the gospel, to disciple

their churches on biblical marriage and biblical sexuality. Our prayer is that

the message of the intrinsic value that God puts on his image bearers

continues to spread, and the application of this truth, which is life giving and

transformational.

Thank you for your prayers, support and partnership in this ministry.