Have I told you lately that I love you?

Thank you for your prayers, for your financial support, for your love!

A little over a year ago, I sent out a letter requesting prayer for our finances. While it has been (and will) remain our practice to ask God for money and to ask our friends for prayer, by 2009 it became obvious that we needed more support! We had some credit card debt, and didn’t see a way to retire it. But God….

Now we have seen our income increase from around $1,000 per month to twice that some months. Praise His name! We were able to attend Jaime’s wedding in Alaska last summer, and my niece Christina’s wedding in So. Calif. last month.

Thank you! God is good! I hope that all of you are experiencing His ample provision as well.

We returned to Salem the first of May from Carol’s folks in California, and Myanmar, (Jan-Mar) prior to that. Carol worked with the TESOL in May, and is now leading an ELC (English Language and Culture) school. She has 6 students, 5 from S Korea, and one from Spain. They are a delight, and the school is going well. The purpose of the ELC is to train the student to share their faith in English. All of her students feel called to minister in English speaking countries.

I’ve been working with our Ropes challenge course this summer. This has been a bit of an adjustment for me after working with the Crossroads program for the past 4 years. “Ropes” is a leadership training program that takes children from many different public schools, scout troops, summer camps, as well as adults in all walks of life and teaches servant leadership principles, including overcoming fear, listening to others, etc… It has been a stretching time for me to accept that playing games with people is a wonderful classroom for personal development. For the student, they are challenged constantly to work together to overcome different obstacles, physical as well as mental. We have the opportunity to share Christ’s love and his principles to thousands who might otherwise never enter a church. It’s a wonderful evangelistic training ground.

Yesterday Carol and I led the worship service in a local retirement home. We sang several hymns, and then a special number as well as shared from the scripture. We were well received, and may return again and again!

Please continue to pray for our continued fruit-fulness, and our next step. As we are not with the Crossroads program this year, we will not be going on their outreach in September. I have an opportunity to join a construction outreach to Haiti in November, and Carol and I would love to return to Myanmar again in January.

Also, we would request prayer for a newer vehicle that gets decent gas mileage, and seats at least 4 adults. Our Nissan 4X4 truck is getting older. Thankfully it has been faithful! Anybody want to trade?

Much love,
Fred and Carol
website: www.welykins.com
Email: welykins@gmail.com

Check out Salem ropes website. You might like to bring your co-workers, family reunion, birthday party, or youth group to Salem ropes for the day. www.salemropes.org there is a video as well!