November 2004

Happy Anniversary!
Thank you for praying for our sixth anniversary service at Lighthouse Baptist. More than eighty-five people attended including a group from a sister church and several unsaved students from our adult English outreach and ladies' meeting. The Lord even provided a special speaker as Bill and Dorothy Merritt, former missionaries in the Philippines now working with SMORS (Skilled Missionaries Offering Relief Service), encouraged and challenged our people. After experiencing several setbacks and trials this year as a few of our people fell away from the Lord or were drawn into cults, we pray that this will refocus and re-energize them.

The work at Daya Bible Baptist Church has shown good progress recently. We are especially encouraged that some of the adults from the English class taught by fellow missionary Dave Green have also been attending the Sunday service. Several of them need to be saved and a few others need to be scripturally baptized and discipled.

Christmas is Coming
As Christmas draws near, we have already been busy preparing posters, handbills, and Christmas tracts in addition to all the other decorations, practices and preparations for our special outreach services throughout the month at both churches. However, without the Lord's blessings all this effort will have been in vain. Please earnestly pray that we will reach many souls with the message of Christmas and that some will be saved.

Finally, we ask for your prayers as we will be making a short trip to the US after Christmas for a family wedding and take care of some personal business. Just planning this trip has been challenging due to the lack of missionaries, pastors and workers among our churches in Taiwan . Even as we write this letter, we are the only independent Baptist missionary couple in our area as one couple had to go home on an extended medical furlough and another had to go back briefly due to a death in the family. Please pray that our people will step up and serve the Lord, and also that He will provide more laborers for this needy field.

May the Lord bless you and give you a wonderful Christmas season!