January 18, 2011
To the Saints of God through the love, mercy and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ by the working of the Holy Spirit in you; may the Lord continue to bless you to be a blessing to others.
We praise our Lord Jesus who has blessed us in ways that only He can comprehend. First and foremost, He has blessed us with another granddaughter, Merritt Reese Jones. She was born on the 4th of January here in Sumter. Second, He has blessed us with you who are willing to pray for us and for the ministry that the Lord has given us. We are truly blessed to have such a support team.
We also give thanks for Abney having a safe journey to Australia to begin her journey with Youth With A Mission and the call that the Lord has on her life. Praise God, all the monies came in for her ticket to Australia and for the lecture phase of her school.
Tina and I head to Honduras on the 10th of February to lead the Happener’s Retreat for the Diocese of Honduras. We anticipate having 50 young adults at the Retreat. The focus of the Retreat is “Keeping Your Eyes on Jesus.” This is based on Hebrews 12.1-3. The Retreat will be from the 11th until the 13th. The Lord has provided us with some dear friends from Costa Rica to be our interpreters for the week end.
Then on the 14th, we will be meeting with the leaders of Aanglidesh, the social arm of the Diocese of Honduras, to consider getting a Solar System project for the Diocese of Honduras. This could be a source of income for the Diocese and also provide employment for several people. Please keep this project in your prayers. We head home on the 15th.
March is looking like a very interesting month for us. We have been asked to do a teaching on “Missions” at the Island Breeze-Sydney, YWAM base in Sydney, Australia and to be available to minister to the staff and students while we are there. Tina will leave in early March in order to be with and help Stacey when she has her baby. I’m sure all you mothers can appreciate Tina going early to help out. Joe will be in Honduras the first two weeks of March with the Church of the Transfiguration, Vail, CO as their chaplain in La Ceiba. They will be working with Emilia D’Cuire School for special needs children and with Holy Trinity Episcopal School. Then joining Howard Ball who will be presenting a program to the congregations in the Atlantida Deanery that he developed called “Reaching the World Through the Church” when he was with Campus Crusades for Christ. Joe will then join Tina in Australia when he returns from Honduras. While in Australia, we will go up to Ipswich (near Brisbane) to see Kerry & Daniel and the boys before coming home in April.
We’ll get back in the country mid April and then get ready for Holy Week and Easter. Joe helps out with worship services at St. Augustine’s near Wedgefield and Good Shepherd in Sumter when he is in the States. Then in May, Joe will be part of the Kairos Team going into Lee State Correctional Institute. Also in May, the Diocese of Honduras will be celebrating 150 years of Anglican/Episcopal presence at their Diocesan Convention. Bishop Allen would like for us to be part of the celebration, so we are praying that the Lord will provide the funds necessary for us to attend. Please keep them in your prayers as they prepare to celebrate the presence of the Church in Honduras for the past 150 years.
Over the past several years when we have done Retreats for the high school at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Tegucigalpa, we have given bilingual Bibles to the seniors. There are 16 students that will be graduating this year. Since we will not be returning to Honduras in June, we would like to be able to take the Bibles down when we go next month since we will be in Tegucigalpa.
We do understand the financial difficulties that many of you are in. Our requests below are not intended to be a burden on you or to impose guilt; they are to inform you in order that you can go before the Lord with our request. Here is a summary of our present financial needs for the ministry:
$ 200.00 Bilingual Bibles for the seniors at St. Mary’s Episcopal School
$1,300.oo Travel and lodging to and from Happener’s Retreat
$2,000.00 For one ticket to Australia; one ticket is being paid by the YWAM school
$4,500.00 Abney’s outreach fees
Thank you for supporting this ministry that the Lord has asked us to be a part of with you and with Him, the King of King and Lord of Lords, our Lord Jesus the Christ.
Be Blessed to be a Blessing,
Fr. Joe & Tina
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
May Newsletter
Many Kingdom blessings since our newsletter in January. We thought you would enjoy seeing these pictures…evidence of your many prayers and financial gifts! May you be blessed as you view each picture. We do apologize that there is no photo of the leadership from Santisima Trinidad in La Ceiba that gathered for the Great Commission Congregation meeting….Joe and Howard forgot their cameras!!!!
We want you to know that every financial need that we posted in our January newsletter for our ministry has been met!! Hallelujah!!! We serve an awesome God! Thank you Lord for Your faithfulness!!
When we arrived home in April from Australia, Bishop Mark Lawrence of the Diocese of South Carolina appointed Joe as Priest-in-charge of Good Shepherd Church, here in Sumter. This appointment enables us to help Good Shepherd out while we are in Sumter with their pastoral and worship needs. It also allows them to join us in our ministry. Therefore any future financial contributions for gifts or special appeals will come through Good Shepherd and not through St. Augustine’s Mission Fund. However, we do want to thank the dear folks at St. Augustine’s and especially John Spann for his dedicated support to our ministry over these past 3 years. Just be sure to write your checks out to Good Shepherd Episcopal Church and on a note, let us know what or who it is for. Send the check to our address below so that we can make sure it gets to where you want it to go.
Remember that those of you who give to our ministry through SAMS (Society of Anglican Missionaries and Senders), is for our day to day expenses that we have and for those expenses that occur that the special appeals don’t cover. So this aspect of giving to our ministry stays the same. We appreciate all of you who support our ministry through your prayers, financial offerings, or both.
As summer approaches, we are in a discernment process….please join us in prayer:
Guidance for the next step in our preparations for our ministry in Honduras
2. Finances for language school (3 months @ $5,040.00) in Copan
3. Abney’s Discipleship Training School (DTS) outreach in Ghana, West Africa for her safe return to Australia on June 8th and then her outreach to the Outback in Australia. Her school ends on July 8, 2011.
4. Finances for Abney’s next school phase – School of Worshipping Warriors, which begins on the 15th of July, 2011 through December 22, 2011 in Sydney, Australia.
For Joe and the Kairos prison ministry team going to Lee Correctional from May 18-22, 2011.
Thanksgiving that a recent Doctor’s appointment for Tina found a cyst on her thyroid to be benign.
In closing, we want to share a scripture with you that has been special to us from John 13.3. “Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God.”
Jesus knew who He was.
Jesus knew who He belonged to.
And Jesus knew where He was going.
May you always remember who you are…(A beloved child of the Father), who you belong to…(You belong to the Father), and where you are going…(You are going to be with the Father eternally)
Your life touches many lives and your life will make a dramatic change in someone else’s life when you remember who you are, who you belong to, and where you are going…….Enjoy your Kingdom Life here on earth. You are a gift to the world and we are blessed by knowing you. We thank you for your friendship and love.
Be Blessed to be a Blessing,
Fr. Joe & Tina
We want you to know that every financial need that we posted in our January newsletter for our ministry has been met!! Hallelujah!!! We serve an awesome God! Thank you Lord for Your faithfulness!!
When we arrived home in April from Australia, Bishop Mark Lawrence of the Diocese of South Carolina appointed Joe as Priest-in-charge of Good Shepherd Church, here in Sumter. This appointment enables us to help Good Shepherd out while we are in Sumter with their pastoral and worship needs. It also allows them to join us in our ministry. Therefore any future financial contributions for gifts or special appeals will come through Good Shepherd and not through St. Augustine’s Mission Fund. However, we do want to thank the dear folks at St. Augustine’s and especially John Spann for his dedicated support to our ministry over these past 3 years. Just be sure to write your checks out to Good Shepherd Episcopal Church and on a note, let us know what or who it is for. Send the check to our address below so that we can make sure it gets to where you want it to go.
Remember that those of you who give to our ministry through SAMS (Society of Anglican Missionaries and Senders), is for our day to day expenses that we have and for those expenses that occur that the special appeals don’t cover. So this aspect of giving to our ministry stays the same. We appreciate all of you who support our ministry through your prayers, financial offerings, or both.
As summer approaches, we are in a discernment process….please join us in prayer:
Guidance for the next step in our preparations for our ministry in Honduras
2. Finances for language school (3 months @ $5,040.00) in Copan
3. Abney’s Discipleship Training School (DTS) outreach in Ghana, West Africa for her safe return to Australia on June 8th and then her outreach to the Outback in Australia. Her school ends on July 8, 2011.
4. Finances for Abney’s next school phase – School of Worshipping Warriors, which begins on the 15th of July, 2011 through December 22, 2011 in Sydney, Australia.
For Joe and the Kairos prison ministry team going to Lee Correctional from May 18-22, 2011.
Thanksgiving that a recent Doctor’s appointment for Tina found a cyst on her thyroid to be benign.
In closing, we want to share a scripture with you that has been special to us from John 13.3. “Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God.”
Jesus knew who He was.
Jesus knew who He belonged to.
And Jesus knew where He was going.
May you always remember who you are…(A beloved child of the Father), who you belong to…(You belong to the Father), and where you are going…(You are going to be with the Father eternally)
Your life touches many lives and your life will make a dramatic change in someone else’s life when you remember who you are, who you belong to, and where you are going…….Enjoy your Kingdom Life here on earth. You are a gift to the world and we are blessed by knowing you. We thank you for your friendship and love.
Be Blessed to be a Blessing,
Fr. Joe & Tina
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