We wanted to give you a quick update on our current situation and needs. We’ve had sort of a perfect storm of expenses come up quite unexpectedly. Three weeks ago we had to take that emergency trip to Cambodia for 10 days, which wasn’t in our budget. And we’ve now been told to expect to be required to do another visa run to a neighboring country after 90 days. At the same time, the car we’ve been driving for four years is showing it’s age, our boys have outgrown the backseat and we find it difficult to fit our family in for trips. We’ve been looking around for other options with the idea of upgrading to a minivan or a van so we can better transport others along with our own family. We just found out one of our good friends who is a missionary here is selling their Hyundai van; it’s perfect for us, and buying from a trusted source is really important. Thirdly, the computer we use for homeschool is now fully 10 years old, which is not a bad run! Unfortunately, it’s reached the point where we can’t upgrade most of the software, and the battery has to be recharged almost constantly, so it’s really time to get a new one. Anyway, while we do maintain an emergency fund, all this together is more of a hit than can readily be absorbed. In March, two people gave an extra one-time amount, and we hadn’t even made these needs known yet! Praise God. We’d like to put the request out there though, to ask that if you feel led to do so, could you consider giving an additional amount this month? There is a special link below that can be used, or an additional amount could be sent straight to the Central Missionary Clearinghouse (where all of our support funds go) in order to get a tax-deductible receipt. Just click the "Support Us" tab above to go that route. Thank you for your prayers and support, -Lance, for the Baker family Emergency Visa Trip and Extra Needs
$25.00 - $200.00
Thank you for helping us! Donating here will help replenish our emergency fund for the next emergency after our unplanned trip to Cambodia to work on our visa issues. Our vehicle needs upgraded so we have the space to transport the homeschool helpers as needed. Lastly, our homeschool computer is ten years old and starting to have functionality problems. We appreciate you joining us in our ministry through your financial giving. Thanks again!
0 Comments
Happy American Thanksgiving Month! We are still settling into being here. Getting our visas in order after reentry, our vehicle registration/insurance valid again, and taking paperwork to various offices that need them all take hours and hours (read, days and days) of organization, communication and waiting at the government buildings. Often only to have to start the process again because someone decided you need another form of ID that you’ve never seen or heard of before, but they’re sure you know what they’re talking about because they’re showing you the Google translation of the Thai list of official documents that you need… this happened at the latest attempt (of several) to get me (Ruth) a Thai bank account. We continue to run into problems (after multiple attempts at multiple banks), and this last one had us stymied. I needed some sort of ID paper stating my nationality, but apparently my passport didn’t count since that was also on the list. Such is life overseas. Silly me, I forgot about all this and expected things to just go smoothly and communication to be effective since we’ve been living in Asia for years now. Just that much more encouragement to learn to speak more Thai! Anyway, beyond all that, we are very glad to be back and reconnecting with everyone here and meeting the new neighbors who’ve moved in since we’ve been gone. The boys are slowly connecting with their friends from the neighborhood again, though some of them have still been elusive. Pray that these things will sort themselves out with time. Last post I promised to write more about the connections God made for us to join with new partners in the States. So exciting. Before we left for the States, we sent out a request asking those on our mailing list if they had any group/church/organization to whom they could commend us, to help us raise more monthly support. My sister forwarded the information about our financial need and the homeschool helper internship (Inspire) to be included in her homeschool co-op (Heart’s) newsletter. A lady who read the newsletter printed it out because of our need but wasn’t sure what to do with it. Then in a meeting at her church she heard that they were looking for a new missionary family to support. Turns out, this church in Olmsted, OH also currently supports a couple who live down the road from us here in Chiang Mai. This church “just happens” to have a heart for homeschool families and missionaries, and the couple down the road are nearing the end of more than 30 years on the field, and told that church they should give their support to us! They invited us to Olmsted to speak one Sunday, and are now supporting us monthly. While we do feel we need to make our needs known, we’ve also found that after that, relying on prayer is the best (although sometimes also the hardest) way for us to raise support. When things get difficult on the field it is such a comfort knowing that God moved in unique ways to get us here, and we can feel confident that we’re right where He wants us to be. Two other churches that we connected with each have an interesting story of how God moved as well. One senior pastor reached out to us because of our interactions with him three years earlier before he even was a pastor. In fact he and his family had served in missions for years in Thailand, so we have a wonderful connection with them. The second church had asked my brother, Luke, to fill in for the pastor for two weekends. They wanted his messages to center around missions, and he offered to do one better by having us come and speak one weekend. Through that they decided to start supporting us, and again it was obviously the handiwork of God, not us. In other more recent news, shortly after returning, we found out that Josiah may needed another follow-up surgical procedure, and the appointment determining that was scheduled for just a couple days before Thanksgiving. We were blindsided because while we knew he may have to go in annually for check-ups and possibly out-patient procedures as he grew, we thought he was healed from his most recent surgery and was in the clear until next year. In light of this timing, we decided not to have a large group to our house for Thanksgiving since we weren’t sure if we’d be in the hospital for that week, and instead had a family day of celebration. Thankfully, Josiah didn’t end up needing an immediate procedure, but he does now have another follow up appointment in January, so please pray that he’ll continue to heal. Since he’s in the clear for the upcoming holiday season, we’ve scheduled a neighborhood football (soccer) match and BBQ for Boxing Day (Dec. 26th), and we’re going to attempt our first ever open house invitation to all of our neighbors on New Year’s Eve. Our house isn’t large, but we’re going to give it a shot anyway. - For the Baker family, Ruth and Lance This update will be brief as we are down to the last two weeks in the States and incredibly busy getting ready to leave. We’ll be speaking at two new churches the next two Sundays and then we speak at our final church in Houston, PA who has been a long-time supporter, two days before we leave on October 18. Once we get back to Thailand and we hear back from the new churches we’ve visited, we can evaluate where we’re at financially and then give you an update about that and what God did on this trip. Praise God we did raise more support while we were in the States! However, we know we didn’t hit the 100% mark so far, so please continue to pray for additional monthly supporters as people consider what they’ve heard about our ministry. We pray God moves in the hearts of those He wants to join us in this ministry and they follow Him in His leading to support His work. We have had such a wonderful time connecting with everyone and sharing what God is doing around us in Thailand. Pray for us as the last few weeks are a colossal effort in organization and packing. Thank you for your continued prayers and support! - Ruth, for the Baker family. We’re over halfway through our trip here and have every Sunday scheduled until we leave! For the month of August we’ve been at a church in a different state each Sunday - Indiana, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, then back to Pennsylvania. Last Sunday we were at our sending church, Community Bible Church in Pennsylvania. This coming Sunday we’ll be in Akron, Ohio at Lakeside Christian Church’s REACH, a picnic to raise funds for missions, and Lance is giving a short update and the sermon that morning. Then we’re back in Pennsylvania the next Sunday at the Federated Church for their Sunday morning service and have an update evening for our supporters in the Erie area on the 16th at my brother Mark’s house in Edinboro, PA. After that we are headed down to the DC area for that weekend, then back to PA for the next Sunday. If you’re interested in hearing our update or catching up with us, join us at one of these events or contact us to find out a more detailed schedule. We were blessed to speak at a new church in North Carolina this past month and hope we will gain new supporters from that morning. It was the first church that we set up a table with things from Thailand to show people, like money and hand-made items, along with pictures from our last country and current pictures from Thailand. It was a great way to connect with people after the service and for people to learn more about Thailand and our ministry when they came to get a prayer card. Please continue to pray for us as we finish out our time here with one more month of speaking and travel. We are praying for more monthly supporters from individuals to supplement the churches that support us and to get us to where we need to be in our budget. Thank you for your continued prayers and support! - Ruth, for the Baker family. Hello! This month I was hoping to update you further about the progress we’ve made with the homeschool helper program and more details about what it involves. However, unfortunately, our whole family came down with Covid this month. Thus, meetings were cancelled, and I’m just glad I have a few minutes right now with my brain functioning in hopes of getting this update written before I go back down again. It’s been a rough past week, one of our kid’s temps spiked to 105° at one point, but thankfully the kids are now mostly back to normal again. (What passes as normal for them…) Lance says he’s about 80% better and I’m hoping since they’re all recovering, that I’ll start to do so soon as well. Thanks to all of those who were praying for us, who heard we were sick from our families. So, since I can’t give you the homeschool helper update I had planned on, let me share with you the other prayer request and ongoing concern we have on our hearts. Here’s the deal: Two years ago we were able to come to the field through a one-time generous donation from a church close to our heart who had to sell their building. Though we weren’t at our full monthly support level, this gift made up that deficit and allowed us to come to the field for two years, at the end of which we planned to return to the States to update our current supporters and raise more support. We would still like to do this, however, with the current Thailand restrictions for re-entry, (which change constantly) the cost is beyond our reach for a family of 5 needing to quarantine on the way back in after a trip to the States. Anyway, what we’re up against is this: We live on about half the monthly support level as all the missionary families we’ve talked to around us. This greatly restricts what we can do on a daily basis. We also know that families that are under-funded don’t have much longevity on the field compared to those who are appropriately-funded. Additionally, now that we’re moving towards getting this homeschool helper program up and running, we need to make sure our monthly support level is where it needs to be, so we can be confident about the ability to follow through on our commitments and be here for those who depend on us. Here’s how we could use your help: 1.) If you’re reading this blog and don’t already support us, please consider it. Any recurring amount makes a huge difference! 2.) We need help networking. Most people aren’t interested in supporting missionaries they’ve never met, without a personal recommendation from someone they trust. Would you be willing to think through your circle and consider if there’s anyone you could put us in contact with, who might be interested in joining our ministry through financial support? Definitely we’d like to connect with more churches, but beyond that, any Sunday school, homeschool or small group, bible study, or individuals looking to support a family in Asia working with people who focus on reaching unreached and unengaged people groups would be a great connection for us. If you do know of someone who might be interested, you could tell them about our ministry, connect them to our blog, and send us their contact info so we can follow up; we would really appreciate it. Finally, to those of you who do support us financially and through prayer, THANK YOU SO MUCH. This ministry God has us doing physically is just as much your ministry through your finances and prayer. Those called to stay in the States and use your financial resources to send people to the field is just as important as those called to go, otherwise (obviously) we couldn’t go. I hope you feel that. I hope you know your willingness and involvement is just as much needed as ours. We don’t see this as our ministry that you help support. We see this as a cooperation between some of God’s family to do some of the work He wants done using the individual resources He’s given each of us. Us to go, you to send. So, thank you for your work with us. Thank you for your consideration in this. God knows who He wants to join with us in this ministry and we look forward to seeing who He has set apart for the task. - Ruth, for the Baker family. If you’re not sure what to tell people potentially interested, this is a quick summary you can use: We work with missionaries on the field serving in closed countries or with unreached people groups as a “first line of defense” to support, encourage, strengthen and equip them on the field in ways their sending churches and supporters at home aren’t able to do because of distance and logistics. Our current project is working in partnership with an organizations to bring in short-term homeschool helpers to Asia who want exposure to living on the field and can be of immediate service to an established missionary family, giving the family deeper and more flexible ministry opportunities. We also have a neighborhood ministry with the kids in our area and are able to reach out to their parents and relatives through this as well. For more information you can send them to our blog: www.lanceandruth.com and if they want monthly updates they can ask to be added to our email list through this email address: lanceandruth@psmail.net. It’s December again! How did we get here so fast? We use our December blog post for a review of the past year. If you want a quick overview of our ministry, you can read all our December posts, starting with 2015 (’15-’18 are password protected because of the location of our last ministry; contact us for the password if you’re interested in reading those). This year we’ve been able to participate in a wide range of ministries, some of which we wouldn’t/couldn’t have foreseen. We love having the ability to volunteer our help wherever we see a need, with whomever needs it. We absolutely see the need for the people here who are ministering within prescribed job descriptions through their specific organizations, but we’ve also clearly seen how we, and other families like ours, are so helpful in assisting these ministries, and are free to be able to, since we aren’t constrained by a specific job title. It has been a great year of networking, helping, encouraging and supporting the ministries around us. The beginning of this year was spent working out logistics and details for getting multiple visas. We needed to get two visas for Amanda, our hopeful homeschool helper, one for her to get into the country and then another one to let her stay longer than 30 days. We also needed to find a permanent visa solution for our family since our student visa expired in March. With studious effort and the fortitude it takes to work out the ever-changing logistics of Asian governments, Lance was able to find practical solutions for both situations. We are now on a permanent volunteer visa with The Future Foundation established by a local believer here in Chiang Mai. After a year of waiting because of covid, we were able to get Amanda here to be our homeschool helper for the year. She was a huge blessing to us and boys and we were privileged to share this time of her life. She arrived in March and after a few months with a roommate, we found her an apartment close to us that she stayed in for the rest of her time here. She made great friends with other young singles in the Christian and Thai community and had the opportunity to serve in many areas beyond our family. Her service with us in homeschool allowed Lance and I to be involved with Frontier Ventures and other ministries that we otherwise wouldn’t’ve been able to consider. She went back to the States on December 15th and we miss her already! (I feel like I’ve misplaced my niece or something. It’s strange to not be considering if she’d like to join us for something or how we need to coordinate schedules.) Our huge project this year was helping the organization Frontier Ventures (FV) establish their Asian headquarters here in Chiang Mai. They not only will be the Asian hub for FV bringing in and supporting their missionaries throughout the Asian countries they reach but also a resource for other organizations who are bringing people in by housing, training and offering support alongside FV’s own work. After setting up the office and boarding rooms, we worked with FV to help coordinate and house a short-term team coming in through another organization, TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission). Through this collaboration we connected with the next young lady, Sarah, who will be joining us in 2022 as our next homeschool helper (Yay!) and are in discussions with TEAM about a possible collaboration between us and them to develop a homeschool helper program in partnership with them that we will lead to help support other homeschooling families on the field. Please pray for this possibility that God will lead us all as we seek His will and guidance in this endeavor and collaboration. Our house has seen an enormous amount of hosting this year, especially during major holidays as we use those times to encourage the single missionaries or missionaries new to the area who don’t have anyone to celebrate with. This year we had major events at Easter, Mother’s Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s as well as other events scheduled throughout the year to encourage missionaries or reach out to the neighborhood kids that weren’t centered around a holiday. It’s too much to cover each one here, so if you’re interested in details and missed them the first time around, skim through our past year’s posts for an overview. We’ve built a ministry with the neighborhood kids that we’ve worked on to develop since we’ve arrived. This year we’ve watched it finally come together into somewhat of an ongoing interaction/outreach opportunity as we have conversations and play soccer (which we’ve been fully subverted into calling football) often on a daily basis. Through intentional decisions that initially gathered in the kids, we’ve established our house as the center for the activities, giving us ample opportunities to speak further into their lives through everyday interaction and planned events. See our upcoming January post for more details about our latest planned activities with the kids in December. Finally, for those of you who have supported us this year through prayer, monthly financial support and one-time or year-end financial gifts, we can’t thank you enough for your partnership with us in this ministry. Obviously, we couldn’t be here without you, and in this you are just as much an integral part of this ministry as we are. May God richly, richly bless you for your partnership with Him in His ministry with us, as we all seek to serve Him in the specific ways He’s equipped us to do so: us by going, you by sending. We can’t adequately articulate how blessed we know we are to be on the field serving. We are humbly thankful for this call on our lives and your partnership with us as we serve Him together. Thank you again; we can’t ever repay what your support means to us so we can only be glad that one day He will. - Ruth, for the Baker family. The twist and turns of life never fail to surprise me. It’s why I have such a hard time answering the question “What’s your plan?” when being asked about ministry direction. I know that whatever answer I give, if it’s specific, likely won’t be accurate in a few months time. God never seems to take us on the journey we think we’re headed on. The only time it’s accurate is when we give the generalities God has already given us, “We plan to work with missionaries to support and encourage them to help keep them on the field.” However, the next question is sure to be, “How will you do that?” and as soon as I try to answer that with specifics, using my oh-so-logical brain, inevitably it’s not where God ends up taking us. While a general answer isn’t the most satisfying, it’s usually the most accurate. The solution to answering that question accurately, of course, is to talk about what God has been doing so far with you on the field. However, when you’re just starting out in a new direction, like we were when we were in the States this last time, there’s nothing yet to talk about but the future. So, for all of you who are supporting missionaries and interested in what they’re doing on the field (as is right and good), give the ones starting in a new direction some grace when a few months later what they are doing isn’t what they thought it would be (and again a few months after that when it happens again...) All that to say, if you talked with us while we were last in the States, we assumed we’d be partnering with a missionary guest house here in Thailand once we arrived since they had asked us too. However, since no one foresaw covid travel restrictions, no one realized the guest house wouldn’t have any guests for over a year, making ministry with them impossible right now. We still plan to restart the music ministry we had with them right when we came back, once guests are there again, but for now all cooperation with them has necessarily been put on hold until missionaries are traveling here again. Our work with O’B and Frontier Ventures is ebbing for awhile since he will be traveling to South America and the States for a few months as he works on this new partnership for helping other organizations bringing missionaries in to Asia. This is good timing for us as we will soon be starting to organize and prepare for the upcoming holiday celebrations we host for single missionaries. If you or your Sunday school class are interested in helping us with the cost of these holiday celebrations, please see our “Support Us” page where you can quickly and easily make a donation right from there. The more ministry funds we receive for this, the more special we’re able to make the events. I remember Midwest Camp (the summer camp I attended growing up) once blessing the missionaries in attendance by giving them holiday celebrations during the week. It made me realize how hard it must be to celebrate the holidays away from home year after year without traditions and family to share it with, even more so when you’re single and when the culture around you doesn’t celebrate the day. Strange as it is, Christmas is just a regular work day here for the Buddhist majority of Thai people around us. While we can’t replace family or other’s holiday traditions, we can try to fill that gap with our family, traditions and someone to celebrate with together. Right now we are very excited about the newest project we’re working on that is evolving from our work with FV, and our experience with Amanda as our homeschool helper. Our current hope and prayer is to be able to develop a program that facilitates bringing in homeschool helpers for families here on the field, in order to reduce the overall stress on the missionary family enabling them to be more involved in ministry and increasing their long-term effectiveness and viability. Please pray with us these next few months as we pray about, discuss and start to plan this project with others here who are interested in partnering with us. As always, we wouldn’t be here without your prayers and financial support, so thank you for both. - Ruth, for the Baker family. We have found a church to call home here! As public places start to open again, churches are starting to meet in person. We were prepared for a time of searching, but by God’s grace, He directed us to a local fellowship right away. We are so excited to have a group of people to meet with, who have their own ministries they’re involved in yet are committed to nurturing a church family for their families’ spiritual growth as well. Through this church family, multiple ministry opportunities have already opened up for us. Lance has joined a soccer group that meets twice a week led by men who have a soccer ministry with students and juvenile delinquents in the city. As the group is mostly Thai, this also gives him an opportunity to practice language and develop relationships with some locals here. We have also met many families who have had to leave the country we were working in previously because of the rise in persecution there and have resettled here like we did. Whether God led them away before the government told them to leave like He did us, or they were forcibly made to leave, we can relate to their stories and they appreciate having someone to share them with. There are also many families we’ve met who are living here temporarily, waiting until the country they minister in opens up again for them to be able return. Some have been here as long as six months, but came expecting to be here two weeks. Talk about a change of plans and needing to be flexible! Our original plan for this year was to intensely focus on language while we had someone help us homeschool our kids. After that we’d start to add in ministry while we continued language learning, increasing one as the other was less needed. As usual with our plans (and most missionaries’ plans), nothing is going to plan of course. In this case, it’s not a bad thing, just a different thing. As you know from previous posts, our homeschool helper couldn’t come over when Thailand closed it’s borders. We’re still hoping she can eventually come, but as we’ve had to readjust our homeschool plans and haven’t been able to have an intensive language learning time yet (both from time constraints and classes being canceled) we have also been able to add in ministry a lot faster than we anticipated or even foresaw as possible. This is super exciting for us to be already doing the work God has burdened us to do. In this, as we see more and more avenues to encourage and strengthen missionaries on the field here or waiting to return, we have already started to identify ways to be more effective and able to do this.
Also if you’re wondering, yes, we are still battling waves of cockroaches in our kitchen. Massive amounts of mint, planted around our perimeter, is my next plan. Surely something will work to save my sanity and lessen the shrieking. Ants have also moved in (to cupboards without food, how does that make sense?) but as they were expected all along, really they’re just 5 months late. The lizards in the house rarely make their appearance in the kitchen but have developed the unfortunate habit of laying eggs in bags of toys. We are currently in the process of outfitting the whole house with plastic, latched, lidded bins for any and all storage. (If you want to give towards this endeavor, we'd take that too.) These also have the added benefit of lessening the aforementioned cockroach-induced shrieks. As I very thoroughly learned in our last country (which also had cockroaches), there’s nothing worse than rummaging around in a lid-less bin of school supplies and seeing a cockroach run away from your hand. I want to shriek again just thinking about it. Thank you for your prayers and considering helping us with these new ministry costs, - Ruth, for the Baker family. They also convert their pick-up trucks to carry anything else they need.
It’s time for my summary-of-the-year post. If you want an overview of our ministry, you can get a synopsis of each year in our December posts starting in 2015. This year we’ve been home raising support to head back to Asia, specifically Thailand. We had planned to be here for 3 months but obviously we underestimated how long it would take to raise support and iron out partnerships and logistics. Thankfully we’ve had missionary housing to stay in rent and utilities free for the whole year, allowing us to save most of our support for when we return to the field. While we’re disappointed to not have been able to go back sooner, we’re resting in the fact that God had a different plan. We’ve been blessed to see old friends and make new ones and we’ve been able to talk to many different groups including new and ongoing supporting churches, Sunday school classes, small groups and people’s homes. In January we attended a missionary debriefing seminar called Interlude by Barnabas International. This was a phenomenal few days of encouragement, processing, and fellowship with others from similar backgrounds. We highly recommend it for any missionary needing to process whether on home leave, in transition, or coming back to the States to live. In March and April we were back in Asia to move our home from our previous country to storage in Thailand for when we return. We were glad to be able to sell our furniture and many other things to a family we know from New Zealand who are returning from support raising to continue their work in our previous country. Moving was a lot of work with a lot of glitches (as usual) but thankfully everything worked out in the end and our belongings are safely in storage at Bangkok. We (sadly) said good-bye to our community and church family there and hope we’ll see a few of them again when they visit Thailand for medical care, counseling or respite. Once our belongings were safely out of our previous country, we switched our posts to be password free. While in Asia we were also able to speak to an organization we had hoped to partner with and see their language school. Unfortunately this opportunity has fallen through, but we still hope to leave within the next month to start language at a school our friends in Thailand recommended to us where they live. (More details in January - this is a summary of 2019 after all.) One of our big prayer requests this year has been to find someone to help us homeschool our boys while we’re learning language. Homeschool and language learning are both full-time jobs and doing both prolongs the time it takes for both. By God’s grace we were connected with a young lady, Amanda King, from Northfield Christian Fellowship who is excited to come and work with our kids for a year. This was such an answer to prayer and we look forward to spending the year with her. We have full funding for the first year at language school. During this upcoming year, we will be able to get a better feel for the cost of living and how much support we’ll need in subsequent years. We also look forward to interacting with the various ministries to missionaries in Thailand to see how God would have us minister. We’d appreciate your prayer support for all of this. Lance wrote a blog post detailing the vision for our work in Thailand. You can read his post from July 2019 here: Supporting Missionaries - Ruth, for the Baker family We have a praise that we were able to get an MRI for Lance and it came back with no negative findings. Although that didn’t provide us any answers, his headaches have lessened and he is getting more sleep. Please continue to pray for his complete healing from these headaches and the residual pain. Lance has been working with the personnel at OMF in Thailand to work out the details of our MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with them and with our sending church and trying solve the visa problems that have come up. We’ve also had to apply for new passports. Although ours don’t expire until next year, Thailand won’t let us enter the country with passports that have less than 6 months remaining, and ours would have been close. These details, keeping up with emails from supporters and people from OMF with logistic/information questions, as well as other meetings with our sending church leadership and other missionaries we know who are helping us, consume his time in-between the many trips we’ve taken recently. Homeschool teacher update: Interestingly, we heard back from our two potential homeschool teacher possibilities on the same day. The couple from Lakeside let us know they felt God leading them not to go to Thailand, and the young single lady let us know she was still very interested, but unable to come until January because of previous commitments. While we originally planned to leave for Thailand at the end of October, between visa delays, our potential homeschool teacher’s availability, and monthly support considerations, we're unable to leave until the middle of January. The boys are thrilled to be here for the holiday season; Lance and I are working through our disappointment at not being able to leave sooner. With our support raising, and losing some support from members with the necessity of leaving our previous sending church, we have been here a lot longer than we anticipated or desired. I know God’s got it - now I just have to get my emotions to line up with His plans. Support Update: We have a huge praise! A church that we spoke at in D.C this past July has decided to cover the rest of our up front costs, as well as the expenses at the language school for our first year! This was unexpected and such phenomenal news. Because of this generous gift, we are now 100% funded for our first year! However, we are still $1,800 away from our monthly support level being met for our subsequent years. Breaking that down, that’s 18 people at $100/month or 36 people at $50/month. If you have any room in your missions giving, please pray about supporting our ministry for any amount. Thank you for continually praying for us. If you know of any venue that would be interested in hearing about our mission and possibly interested in supporting us, or if you would be willing to host an evening at your home with mission-minded friends, we would love to come present our ministry. Please call or text Lance at 814-873-7382 or email us at lanceandruth(at)psmail.net. (Also, our contact info is at the bottom of the “Partner With Us" page). Working to trust in God’s plan, Ruth, for the Baker family. |
Lance & RuthOn a journey following God and working to be a blessing to everyone we come across here in Thailand. Prayer Requests- Concussion recovery for Ruth.
- Young people to sign up for the Inspire homeschool program to arrive next fall. - Travel arrangement and details. Archives
March 2024
Categories
All
|