Missionary Enrichment
One of the big events during the month
Contact Details
Email
thompson6tribe@gmail.com
Phone
O Cell > 570-561-4162
O Home > 570-689-2681
Address
41 Missionary Retreat Road
Jefferson Twp, PA 18436
Blog
http://thompsontribesa.blog
spot.com/
Praises
• Praise the Lord for
sending new
missionaries to South
Africa
• We are thankful for a
great ME Conference
Prayer Needs
• Pray that God would
provide 38 more units
who are willing to join
our support team
• Pray for Renee as
she begins college in
August
• Pray for godly men
who will step forward
to lead our churches
in South Africa
• Pray for needed
affordable land for
The Community
Connection
• Pray for Barbara, a
missionary in our SA
church, who just
found out she has
breast cancer
of July was attending ABWE’s
Missionary Enrichment Conference
hosted at Messiah College. The week
started out with a huge picnic with
carnival games – all put on by the staff
of our home office. We then settled onto
the campus of Messiah to then attend
various meetings, Bible times and chat
sessions. The teens had their own
program which included challenges from
God’s Word, late night bowling, river
tubing and messy games.
Many awards were handed out during
the adult sessions. It was humbling to The Community Connection
see many receive awards for godly Thank you for praying on behalf of the churches
service for 35 (and even 50) years by in South Africa. Continue to pray that there would
faithful servants who continue to find be fruit from the evangelism efforts made during
ways to spread the gospel. the World Cup months as well as Holiday Bible
Club. Several men have been going through
ME Conference is also about training to become our church’s first deacons.
relationships. We greatly enjoyed The leadership is also in the process of searching
for suitable land to purchase. This will be a costly
spending time with former colleagues,
process as land is very expensive in our area.
current co-workers, and even meeting
Please pray that God would supply just the right
future co-workers. Pray for Bill and Lisa
parcel of ground at the right price. Please also
Sheets (pictured above) as they begin
pray for Paul, our student pastor, as he is busy
the process of preparing for ministry in
South Africa. Our children also enjoyed with his last year of Bible college studies.
making new friends which even included
a set of MK twins from Australia. On the Home Front
During the Thompson family reunion this past
Support Update month we held a little high school graduation
Last month we mentioned a 40 x 40 ceremony for Renee. She has a few more final
challenge whereby we were praying for exams to write and she will have completed her
40 individuals or churches to give $40 senior year condensed into the first half of the
per month in support so that we can year. She is due to begin college on 20 August,
attain our goal of full support in order to which is just around the corner. Pray for a great
leave for South Africa. The good news transition to this new phase of life for all of us.
is that we had one couple take the Pray also that God would supply the funds for
challenge as our first new supporters! Renee’s college education.
We had several others raise what they
are currently doing to add up to another Please pray for two of our supporting churches
40. That leaves us at needing 38 more that are in the process of looking for a new lead
to go. We would love to be able to pastor:
return to South Africa using our original • Heritage Baptist Church, Clarks Summit, PA
return tickets, leaving mid-October. If • Central Baptist Church, Binghamton, NY
you would like to join our support team
go to www.abwe.org and under “Give” We are thankful for your encouragement and
place our account number (011060) and support. May God bless you in the month ahead.
the amount you would like to contribute.
Or you may send us a note mentioning Love –
your intention. We will keep you posted.
Steve, Julie, Renee, Emily, Kristen and Josh