Hi Everyone!
EMAIL TROUBLE
Sorry for the long silence. We are having a difficult time sending our large volume of newsletters out. Our email providers are giving us grief. Our fasonet address has been shut down, so unless you hear differently, please use: pete.brokopp@verizon.net or alice.brokopp@gmail.com to write. Some of you have received notices and the rest will soon receive notices that you have been added to our Google group. This is how we are ultimately going to send our newsletters out. This is turning out to be not the easiest process we thought it would be either. NOTE: you won’t have to DO anything to receive our emails from Google groups. The only difference is that at the bottom of the email, there will be some kind of notice put out by the group.
PETE’S VISIT TO THE STATES
On Oct. 30th, Pete left for a visit to the States for 2 ½ weeks. He visited
-
Westridge Church, Dallas GA, - First
Alliance, Lexington, NC, - Grace Chapel,
Havertown, PA, Appleton Alliance, Appleton, WI
His main reason for going was a mission’ conference at Appleton Alliance, but with our change in missionary status, we felt it best to touch base with our supporting churches at the same time. While the children and I held down the fort here, Pete had a fruitful (and fun) time there:
- He reconnected with friends and acquaintances
- He spent some real brief time with family
- He spoke 31 times
- He spoke to over 10,000 people
- A Muslim lady came to know Christ
- A girl got her life turned around, making a commitment to missions right before being involved in a pretty bad car accident. She is still recovering.
We also received the exciting news that Appleton Alliance has decided to join our support team, committing to ¼ of our full support need!
SUPPORT SITUATION…
Which brings me to the next point… In our last newsletter, we had told you of our discouragement in finding out that we needed to come up with our full support by Dec. 2010. Apparently (and embarrassingly), this was a lack of understanding. We have received a very nice letter apologizing to and affirming us. Though we will eventually need to be raising our full support, the deadline isn’t so imminent. So, that is great news! However, the other good news is that we have now made peace with the idea of going on full support sometime soon. In addition, God has moved peoples’ hearts in response to Pete’s visit to the States, to pledge enough monthly support to bring our total pledges up to 84% of what we need!!!! So, our INTENT is to continue towards the goal of raising our full monthly support (an additional $835/mo) by our home assignment in July 2010.
Why does raising our full support sooner than later make more sense to us now? (Esp. after the struggle we went through to get used to the idea!)
- We are already over ¾ of the way there
- It will make the field bookkeeping (and our own bookkeeping) simpler.
- We are enjoying the closer relationship with churches who are directly involved in our personal support.
- Eventually, we will be having to raise our full support anyway
- We will be doing our part to bring financial relief to the great commission fund
FLOOD RELIEF UPDATE
This is still ongoing, though our direct involvement has diminished quite a bit for the time being. Of the 150,000 people affected, it seems that half have found places to stay, while the other half are in tent villages (we visited one – photos to follow) waiting for the government to place them somewhere. We are currently waiting on approval from tear fund,
LOOKING AHEAD:
Dec 9 – Dec 30 Vacation time spent with our families Dec 30: Visit with First
PRAYER:
1) Please pray for our family during the conference in Tapei. Pete will be a long time away from us.
2) Pray for safety in travel.
3) Pray for health
4) Pray for Becca , the girl who recovering from her accident – that she recovers completely and is able to serve the Lord with her life, as she committed to do.
5) Continue to pray that the Lord would provide people to support our ministry monthly. Please see the bottom of this e-mail for information.
