We arrived safely in Fiji this past Saturday morning. After some restful time at a hotel (which meant lots of swimming for the children!), we were off to New Zealand on Monday for BMW’s South Pacific area conference. Thank you bringing us before the Father. He has provided the strength needed thus far to meet the tiring circumstances that all this travel has presented.

The primary topic of the conference as well as BMW’s vision and heartbeat for the next 10 years and beyond is prayer. Dr. John Talley has traveled here with his wife along with Paul Seger, our general director, to present this vision to the missionaries serving in Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu, and Fiji. As the Word of God has been preached, the Holy Spirit is expanding our understanding of this great privilege we have in prayer. I have personally been challenged, seeing ways to transform my prayer life, and to ensure that the content of my praying is in line with the Scriptures. Thus far, we have looked at 1 Tim 2:1, Col 1:9-14, Eph 1:15-23; 3:14-19. If you have time, I would encourage you to look through these passages.

With that said, I would ask that you pray for us. We are all running on empty physically, and in some ways, emotionally. That’s not to say, God is not providing what is needed. He is as I mentioned above. However, I ask you, dear friends, to pray as Paul did for the Colossians that God would “strengthen us with all might, according to His glorious power, for all longsuffering and patience with joy” (Col 1:11). It is our desire to please God in our weakness, to be a testimony of His grace, to show the love of Christ to others. We can only do this through Him, with His strength. Pray that the Father would grant this to us, that we may complete this time of travel well.

Lord willing, we will arrive in Labasa, Fiji, on Sunday, April 26. As you can imagine, we are looking forward to that date.

Internet access has been quite sparse since we arrived in Fiji and even as we have been in New Zealand. We will try to update you as much as possible.