Greetings Prayer Shield, Family and Friends, Well it has been awhile since I last sent and email to you and I apologize for taking so long. I'm writing to you from Canada today as Lydia, Josiah and I are here for a short furlough. What a joy to be with our church, family and friends again! This is a very special time for us and we feel so loved by you all here in Ontario! We hope we have the opportunity to hang out with some of you while we are here, we go back...
Greetings Once Again from the Philippines! We hope you are all well and strong in the faith of our LORD Jesus! Today is Election Day in the Philippines...May 10, we pray for godly leadership in all levels of the government. Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the LORD, "You are my LORD; I have no good apart from you." Psalms 16:1-2 This is my prayer, for protection...we discovered we have atleast 2 full grown deadly snakes living in our yard that are...
Greetings in the Name of Our LORD Jesus Christ, It's summer in the Philippines! It has been awhile since I last wrote and I apologize for the long pause, had a filled couple of months and just now got a chance to breathe out a report. Sometimes I'm not sure if people even read our emails but a friend has requested an update from us and I like that. Glad to know we have people who love us, pray for us and are concerned how we are doing. God bless you all! Our God...
Greetings from Davao City, How are you feeling? Praise God for another month of life in the LORD! AMEN! Family News: We are well by the grace of God. Lydia and I are well, Josiah got sick this week from amebiasis (a one-celled parasite that infects the intestines). He had a high fever, vomited once and was weak but we medicated him and he's good now. We think he got it from a swimming pool when we were visiting some friends from the US & Germany. January...
YEAR END REPORT- 2009 WELLOFLIFE CORE VALUES Empower people regardless of their race, culture, religion, age and gender to transform their communities. Facilitate physical, spiritual, emotional and social growth & development. Community ownership of CHE (Community Health Education) program. Deliver hope through holistic approaches. Multiplication through intensive training. Program sustainability and effectiveness. ...
Blessed New Year to you dear Brothers and Sisters, Family and Friends! "LORD, who shall abide in Your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill? He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart." Psalm 15:1-2 The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul! ~ Charles...
Greetings from the Philippines, Praise the LORD for He is good and His mercy endures forever AMEN! I got my Philippine permanent residency 13(A) visa yesterday! It's been a long and expensive process but thankfully I now have it, and it is good for life no need to renew it. I just have to renew my ACR-I Card every 5 years and pay a very minimal fee at the beginning of each year for the ACR - I Card. Thanks to all who helped me pay for this over the last year. We...
Dear Prayer Shield, I thought it would be a good idea to give you all a recap of our Wednesday morning prayer time every week so you can stand in the gap with us and intercede for our mission here in Davao City Philippines. The LORD is really reminding me these days about His soon and eminent return to this earth to avenge His enemies and establish His throne once and for all! I cannot begin to image what this means as I've pretty much been sleeping for most of my...
Greetings In the Name of the LORD! 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. We are a royal priesthood AMEN! Let us live our lives knowing that we are a royal priesthood and we have to behave as those called out of darkness into God's marvelous light! We must proclaim the mighty acts of God...
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Greetings from Davao City, Mindanao the southern Island of the Philippines! Glory to the Righteous LORD our God and King! It's seems like it's been a long while since I email you all last...I've been wanting to update you sooner but have been working every night past dark and just collapsing to sleep after eating dinner. Thank you for your unselfish giving that allows for us to have food to eat! God Provides: I am amazed at how good God is at keeping...
Greetings Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Family, We are thankful to God for the 1 Year Anniversary of WELLOFLIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC. coming up this July 23, 2009. We praise God for strength, connections, our board, members, volunteers and staff, supporters, church in Canada (Park Road Pentecostal Church - CAOG) and our church here in the Philippines (New Life - Assemblies of God)! Special thank you to all those who are praying for...
Proposal for TANAMAN SA KINABUHI GARDEN OF LIFE I.Summary Through the Republic Act 8525, otherwise known as "An Act Establishing the Adopt-A-School Program" we believe we can make a difference in the lives of the children, parents and teachers of "San Miguel Public Elementary School" and other schools in the future...
Stating the Case for Investment in CHE A study paper for use by CHE International Network’s collaborating organizations and network coordinators in making a case to Donors, By Terry Dalrymple What Does an Investment in CHE Achieve? The purpose of Community Health Evangelism (CHE) work is not just breaking poverty or planting churches, though both of those things are accomplished through our Community Health Evangelism (CHE) programs....
WELLOFLIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC. CHE "Community Health Education" Ministry Overview CHE Home Visitations Visitations are done regularly to the same families in target areas, evangelism and follow-up visits to families facilitates discipleship and lasting change. The CHE's (community health educators) network with existing agencies to inform families what services are available to them, where to...
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Family and Loved Ones, Rejoice in the LORD for He is Good and Worthy to be praised! Actually Jesus Christ alone is Worthy of our praise...NO OTHER! AMEN! Well it seems like a long time since my last blog, sorry for the delay. Tanaman Sa Kinabuhi (Garden of Life) School Garden/Park Project I've been busy and staying up in the late hours of the night working on a proposal for a 5 year organic garden/park project we will implement at our local public...
Greetings in the Name of Jesus the Prince of Peace, James 1:27 "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." What is pure and undefiled religion? To visit the fatherless and widow in their affliction...what does that word affliction mean? A condition of pain, suffering, or distress. This religion which is pleasing to God requires action, compassionate...
Maayong Gabii Mga Igsoon! (Good Evening Brothers and Sisters!) Praise God! Praise God! Praise God! Who is worthy of all our praise??? The Name above names, The King above kings, The Lord above lords... The Lamb of God---------JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR!!! Sing with me a new song! Joy is in the air this evening as I meditate on the goodness of God (and the rats in my roof run and squeak). I thank God for my wonderful family Lydia and...
Greetings Warriors, As I sit at my computer at 4am Sunday morning scanning the all bad news articles... I think to myself...Jesus is coming soon! Are we ready??? Well I hope this will be a bit of a refreshment to you if you take the time to read the adventures of us who live by faith and not by sight. We have the Gospel lets share the good news! I thank God for His provision this month and for those who sacrificial give to our mission here, the people we minister to are...
Hello and Greetings In The Only Name Worthy To Be Praised... Yes That's JESUS!!! How are you all doing? It's been a while what have you been up too? Asa ka na? (Where are you now?) The Smith's are right here in the center of God's will for our lives at this time and this moment. We're still in the Philippines and so happy to be alive and glowing for Christ our Savior. Do you have the fire of God in your bones this very moment? If not email us back and...
Dear Praying Friends, I was proud of Lydia today as she preached the WORD of God hot and strong! My fellow Gideons International member, brother in the LORD and member of our WELLOFLIFE Board of Trustees Brother Dominador Dizo attended our service to give the Gideons Church Report this morning. Today was the last CHE "Community Health Educator" training session, a series of 6 sessions. We had a total of 26 people participate in our participatory training on health and spiritual...
Dear PrayerShield, Things are getting pretty interesting around the Smith household. Our little Josiah started getting his taste of real food. Mommy finally gave in and is giving him little bits of food to try, also he is eating his organic rice from Batanes (Lydia's parents gave us) that Lydia had grinded at the market. So he makes the cutest little faces when he experiences these new flavors, he tried spaghetti and cheese for the first time today yea hope he will be like...
Greetings In the Name of Jesus! Our outreach to the mountain was fresh! The day before we were going to the mountain our contact had an emergency to take care of and could not host us anymore. This changed the whole outreach as we had to contact another couple Pastor Casas and Ate Grace to ask permission to go to their community for outreach the next day. They agreed but could not accompany us, this was fine as I've been to the place several times already. We went to Salumay...
Maayong Gabii Mga Igsoon, (Goodevening Brothers and Sisters) We pray all is well with each and every one of you. Please let us know what's been going on in your lives this new year, and any prayer requests. I'm interceding for you all during my Wednesday prayer and fasting every week which is filling my cup and defragmenting my mind. It would be wonderful to have some specific prayer requests or even a short email to know your still alive and on fire for Christ. Good things...
Blessed New Year to all. May God give you wisdom, revelation, joy, peace, courage and boldness to share the Gospel this 2009. We give praise and thanks to God the KING! What a mighty God we serve AMEN! It's been awhile since our last update, lots to share but I'll try to keep it as brief as possible. First I want to thank God for the opportunity to preach at our New Life AG Church for their yearly Thanksgiving, which is a full day of activities. Pastor Nanca told me...
Greetings In The Name Above All Names Jesus Christ Our Redeemer! Glory to God the Magnificent, True and Faithful Good Shepard! Thank you all for your continued love, prayers and support! I don't know who all of you are who make His mission here in the Philippines through the WELLOFLIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, INC. ministry possible...but Jesus does and your rewards (crowns) in heaven are added to your account! You refresh us always and hold us up when we are weak! I'm...
The ministry here is really picking up God speed and we are just floating in the presence of God. We just finished a Missions training camp for 6 days during reading week for 21 youth from our Church New Life Assemblies of God. Allow me to explain...as Sister Kim my missionary partner in Guyana would say " It’s time to print this off, grab your favorite drink, sit and relax and look what the Lord has done! So much has been going on and I didn’t want to leave...
Greetings in the Name above all names...JESUS! Well Praise God we rejoice and stand in aw of our Awesome and Living GOD! His mercy and grace is fresh everyday and sufficient for all our needs! I hope you too have the joy of the LORD as do I...because without it we're weak! Glory be to God! Hebrews 12:2 looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat...
"Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward." Psalm 127:3 Josiah Raymond Quintin Smith was born on August 30, 2008 at 7:30am. Weighing 5.12 pounds. Lydia had a natural birth and we praise God for his safe delivery...We had the baby at Mercy Maternity Clinic and I was the one to catch the baby and pull him out of the birth canal, then I got to cut the umbilical cord and was the first to bathe the baby, I cried the whole time and was...
Greetings In the Name of the Most High God... Jesus Christ the Name above all names! Kamusta? Dear Prayer Shield how goes the battle? Are we overcoming the devil in these last days? Trust in Jesus and the Truth shall set you free!!! Amen and Hallelujah! Lydia is OK and going to give birth soon I'm sure. We are planning to go closer to the city this week so Lydia can get ready to deliver. Please pray for her delivery as she will try for a natural birth...
Greetings in the Mighty Name of JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth our LORD and SAVIOR! Praise Him in the morning, Praise Him in the noon, Praise Him in the evening, Praise Him in the middle of the night...then wake up and Praise Him all over again with a deeper aw of who He really is...ask God for a fresh infilling of His Holy Spirit and allow Him to take you back to that wonderful garden of love where you first fell in love with Him...if you haven't been to that garden I pray in Jesus name...
July 20, 2008
Pioneering Begins in
Toril Davao City
"For the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."
Luke 19:10
Praise the LORD for He is good and His mercy endures forever! This is true my friends and when we step out in faith like Abraham, Moses and the prophets we really learn this through our dependence on the LORD. When we surrender our lives to God and follow His will denying ourselves our wants and desires, and joyfully choose to live for and serve God He guides us by His Holy Spirit and leads us to places we could never imagine or dream of going to! We have seen some awesome changes in our lives here these past couple weeks. Where do I begin...
I've been going to the mountains every Tuesday to learn vegetable growing practices with 100 Filipino farmers from different communities. This gives me a chance to practice speaking Cebuano the local dialect, I have a language teachers Ate Bebe who comes to teach me for one hour every week and I'm now on lesson 13 of 60. My helper Jerry and I've been learning lots of useful farming techniques. The lecturer Celes from "Harbest Seeds" happens to live 2 kilometers away from us and has agreed to help us with our vegetable gardens. We plan to use agriculture as one of the means of making our ministry self-sustainable.
We have been working diligently on organizing ourselves to operate as a legal entity here and this week I will submit the registration papers to SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) for our NGO (non-government organization). We named our non-stock, non-profit incorporation "WELLOFLIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC." Our purpose is to reach the poorest of the poor and lead them into the Kingdom of God through practical holistic approaches (which I will explain later). We have a small manageable BOT (board of trustees) 5 people including Lydia and I. God has provided 3 other men of God to assist us with our vision. We have Pastor Casas, Kuya Rico a businessman (who's mother owns the compound we're renting), and Dominador "Sunday" who is the head of the soils laboratory for the Department of Agriculture and also is the chairman for a Foundation here offering assistance to the handicapped and disabled. God has linked us with Pastor Jun and his wife who are doing CHE (community health education) and has a school to provide free education in Muslim communities. They have agreed to partner with us and help to organize our community and help train our ministry team. God is so Great He even connected us with a Christian lawyer Atty. Tan who has been notarizing all my documents for free! This is a confirmation of God's blessing upon our lives, He takes care of His children in all areas.
We are now settled into our beautiful walled compound. This is a tremendous blessing from God as we now have 2 two-storey houses (1 is our house and office the other is our ministry house), we have gardens (to be constructed), a variety of bearing fruit trees, gorgeous flowers, a bird, dog, chickens, pool table, peaceful place to study and a needy community waiting for the Good News to confront them face to face! Our move was successful and we are setting up to evangelize this rural community. We have been busy cleaning up the place and doing repairs and setting up our garden area. All I can say is come to the Philippines and help us with the work the LORD has entrusted to us, the harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few...so come help us to reap the harvest.
We have a church in our community which we have attended "Four Square Gospel Church" they have given us a warm welcome and we rejoice to be in the household of faith with our brothers and sisters in the LORD!
Please pray for the rest of our team, for God to bring us those who He has hand picked to carry out the goals and objectives God gives us for winning the souls of those in this community. There are 21 sub communities in our community and we intend to reach them all by the anointing of Christ our Leader through home visitations etc.. Since the fruit of a missionary is more missionaries we intend to train up and send out teams to other communities in the future. We are in a farming community where much land is not being used to it's full potential and is perfect for vegetable gardening. We hope to see this community a model community for "Community Transformation." We intend to set up a demonstration farm 2 lots down which will be our training grounds for farming interns who want to learn organic farming.
So far we have one helper named Jerry, he is from Agdao the other community we worked in. Jerry is 21 and loves the LORD, we are training and discipling him to be able to start a work one day in whatever community that God chooses for him. He lives and works with us Monday to Friday, we release him Saturday and Sunday as he's on the worship team of our old church and needs to be at practice. We give him a weekly allowance and he wants to go to collage next semester pray that he saves his money. We will eventually need a full time book-keeper/secretary, a full time social worker, a helper for household duties and about 5 people for our ministry team who will help build the relationships in the community. As you can see we have a big vision, the Word of God teaches us that where there is no vision people will perish. We realize we are small, but are comforted by a Big God, who never sleeps nor slumbers, nothing is impossible with our Almighty God so we say lets do this LORD! We are His servants and it's our job to go to the lost because Jesus Christ lives in us and how will they hear the Gospel unless we bring it to them?
Lydia is doing fine now that she is taking an insulin needle every morning to regulate her blood sugar level. It's an adjusting period for the both of us as so much has happened in such a short time. However it's years of planning and praying becoming a reality, all of this just didn't just happen overnight and it's just the beginning of something great. This new place has become a real blessing to Lydia as she has been able to find the rest and peace she is needing to have, although I have to stop her sometimes as she wants to help with all the work needed to be done. We're praying for a helper a couple days a week to lighten the load of household duties as it's a big place and lots of upkeep. We're trying to get established and set up before our little guy comes into this world.
Prayer Points:
1. Good health for Lydia and the baby.
2. Registration of our NGO to be completed God speed.
3. Strength and finances to be able to set all our livelihood projects up at our compound.
4. Dedicated Christians to join our ministry team and reach our community.
5. Our ministry of intercession and Bible study to be a number one priority, as many organizations get too busy in ministry to include Jesus in their schedule.
We covet you prayers!
Thanks for all you do to make this mission possible.
Bless God,
Love,
Jeffrey & Lydia Smith
Greetings in the name of Jesus our LORD, How are you doing? We are doing well by the graces of God. Praise the LORD for His wonderful journey we call life. We have been going through a lot of changes and we ask God's strength to get through them all, because without Christ we are week. Lydia has been diagnosed with gestational diabetes and has to take an insulin needle every morning, and be under regular monitoring (goes to the hospital every week). We were told to make...
Kamusta? (How are you?),
Well this has been a hard but also awesome last couple of weeks. We Praise God for His abundant Mercy and sweet sweet Grace!
I will start with the difficult times here first...
Our Church has been really struggling through some issues and the end result is that our dear Pastors will say their farewell this Sunday. Pastor Casas and his wife Ate Grace have been working with our Church for the past 5 months after we lost our last Pastor due to immorality issues last year. We've seen great growth in the people in our congregation and we Praise God for their time with us. Pray that God will bring a committed man of God to sheperd His flock and labor among us! We will continue to work with pastor Casas and his wife as they are our close friends and fellow ministers. We work with them in the mountains with their 10 Churches throughout Davao City.
The next difficult thing is rather bazaar. I was ministering to a Chinese guy for the last 3 weeks who was detained in the Immigrations holding cell as he's an illegal alien. He had been locked up there for 3 months prior to my visiting. There was a Malaysian guy in there also, I was sharing the Gospel to them both. I brought them donuts a couple books, and some toothpaste and soap. The Chinese guy had a Bible and was hungry for me to explain it to him, and share real life stories about Christians with him. He had a very hard growing up according to him and was just waiting to know Jesus. So I had the wonderful privilege of leading him to the LORD and he did accept Jesus as his personal Savior. I was rejoicing over this so much! Then I just read in the paper he escaped from his cell last Sunday morning and is a wanted fugitive on the run here. This was a very unexpected turn of events. I'm so shocked and don't know what to say, the authorities are now conducting an investigation. Please pray for this whole situation.
Now the good news...
Thank you all for your many blessings financially! We were able to donate 10 Bibles to students doing a Bible training school here with Pastor Casas and Ate Grace. The students are very thankful and I signed the books from Park Road Church. I will be teaching the students farming in the upcoming weeks.
I started doing a free farming training in the mountains, it's every Tuesday and will be finished in August. There is over 100 people attending from all over the city some come over 3 hours away, and I'm the only white guy. It's put on by the Department of Agriculture and Harbest Seeds Inc., and food etc. is sponsored by a large mall here. I saw a lady we work with in the mountain Ate Marilyn and we hung out all day. I asked what she needed for her ministry in the mountains because she's a missionary too who lives in the mountain. She said school supplies for the kids because some don't go to class if they don't have pencil or paper. We bought supplies for 30 kids to give her on Tuesday. Paper pads, pencils, Crayons, pencil sharpeners, coloured paper and yellow paper pads for tests. She is teaching the children Bibles lessons every Wednesday and was requesting materials for this, I was able to purchase around 7 Sunday school teaching booklets for her and hope they will help. Praise God we could do this...you made it possible! I also was able to buy a printer today and printed Health Care teaching materials for her to teach in the remote villages with, they are very imformative materials to teach preventitive methods and how to treat common problems!!!! I also met a Christian guy at the training who is interested in organic farming so I copied him some materials I've been putting together. I've got a backpack full of stuff to bring to the mountain on Tuesday i can't wait!
Well if you made it this far in my novel you must really be interested so I saved the best for the last!
Today Lydia and I met with a Christian lady who owns a compound in a farming district of the city. We had visited the property 2 weeks ago with her son to check the possibilities of us relocating there and renting her house. We will do farming projects in the large open space there and also cultivate her sons land two lots down. There is 2 houses in the compound the main having 2 bathrooms and 3 bedrooms and the other house I will see in this Wednesday. The meeting went really well she like Lydia and I, and her other son was there that works for the Department of Agriculture and he is going to assist me on this project however I need in terms of seeds, resources and technical training. The mom said she will let us use the two houses, which will be really good for hosting teams, retreats, farming interns or camps whatever we want to do! Wow this is a huge answer to all our prayers!!! Pray for God to give us favor in closing the deal, we are hoping to not pay anymore than we are currently paying. This land is in an area where we can really minister to the local people and do community projects in. This will also be a way for us to provide sustainable income for our mission! We worship the LORD and see His Almighty hand working strongly in our lives!
"Every good and perfect gift is from above...." James 1:17
God Bless you all!
Bless the LORD Jesus!
Love, Jeffrey & Lydia Smith
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL! Maayong Hapon (Good Afternoon), Greetings in the name of the LORD! How are you doing? Please email us and let us know how we can pray for you, or tell us something cool that's been going on in your life. We miss you and it would be so special to us to hear from you. We want to feel close to you even know we're on the other side of the world. Thank you for your love, prayers and support! This past month has been full of adventures and...
Greetings, It's my joy to share with you this wonderful Praise report. We give God honor, for the Glory is His and He alone is worthy to be praised! Jesus I want to share a story that gives me great peace and joy. Three Sundays ago I had the privilege of ministering to a young man while at Church. His nickname is Do Dong, and he was opening up to me that he's been struggling with his walk with God and was asking me how to get closer to God. The Holy Spirit came...
Kamusta? (How are you?) Greetings from Davao City. Please let us know how you are doing so we can pray for you. Here is our update: 1. We are maayo kaayo (very good) by God's graces. We just sent the Euroclass team off to Manila for the second phase of their outreach this morning. Please continue to lift them up in prayer for strength, protection, unity, and good health. Most importantly pray that they will make a lasting impact on the people they minister...
Maayong Gabii (Good Evening), Praise the Almighty Creator of the universe! Worship the precious KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS! Thank you for your love and prayers! I write to you today with joy, praying for peace to be added to you. I myself need renewed strength from the LORD Jesus, and I'm trying to have a spirit of peace. Lydia is doing great but gets a bit tired with all that is on our plate, we are thankful that God never gives us more than we can handle...it's...
Here are some ways you can partner with us to help our mission in Davao City. Be Our Prayer Shield Help send balikbayan boxes $70 per box Literature - Tracts & Bibles School Supplies - Textbooks, Notebooks, Paper & Pencils Support Feeding Program Ministry (Hope for the Nations Phil's) Tabitha Program Sponsor a Child, Student, or Family (Hope for the Nations Phil's) Sponsorship Program Donate a Home, or finance repairs & improvements on existing...
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Address: Onate Compound, Purok 9, Pagkakaisa Village, Lower Lubogan, Toril District, Davao City, Philippines 8000
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We're pleased to inform you that God has blessed us with a baby boy (in the womb of Lydia). Lydia had an ultra sound yesterday and it's a boy! We rejoice! Praise the LORD! Thanks for all your amazing love toward this child and the seeds you've already sown into our childs life. Salamat Kaayo!
There was 17 mothers at the Bible study I lead yesterday wonderful turn out! I had my first Cebuano language lesson yesterday, it's 60 lessons and I will do one a week. My teacher is a professional who doesn't advertise but prays to God for her students which a lot are missionaries, it's a one-on-one style of teaching. One hour of teaching is one lesson and it costs $6.25, in total it will cost roughly $365 to learn to preach, teach, and speak the local tongue here. If all goes according to plan I will be fluent in 1 year and 2 months roughly. I'm very excited about this.
God Bless
Ministry Wish List Children's Sunday school teaching materials Youth & adult Bible study materials Bibles, tracts, Christian books, movies, teaching tapes & videos Camcorder for outreach documentation etc. Portable Video Projector - to show Jesus film in mountains and teachings in the city. Doppler- allows you to hear heartbeat of fetus in the womb. Wanted for the mountains. $500 ...
Praise the LORD for His goodness! We have arrived home and are back into the swing of things here in Davao. We rejoice that God is doing great things in the hearts of His children here. It was so nice to see many of our friends here, we have had 2 big dinner gathers at our house already...food and fellowship go hand in hand here. We have been very busy here cleaning and preparing our home for living in. When I opened the door it was sealed by spider webs, good to know...
Dear Church Family, Our time in Canada is rapidly coming to an end. We are very thankful to have had the opportunity to spend these last few months with you. We are thankful for all your support and love to Lydia and I and now the coming baby! Lydia feels very much at home when at Park Road Church, she enjoys how our Church is one big family. The way she has been accepted in the family almost brings her to tears of joy, thanks again for all your love...
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
We are thankful to announce that Lydia is pregnant!
Lydia and I have been praying for a baby and so have our close friends. One morning durning morning prayer at Park Road we went to the Altar and asked God for a baby, we Praise Him for this Gift of Life.
We have decided to stay here in Brantford until April 15TH. We hope to spend some quality time with you before we return to the Philippines. Thanks for your love and prayers!
Love, Jeffrey & Lydia Smith
We are very excited to get this blog going and will continue to keep you our praying Brothers and Sisters informed as to what is happening in the mission God has given us. We are greatful to be home visiting for this wonderful season of celebrating Jesus our Saviour. We will be in Brantford until April 15TH 2008, then we return to the frontlines in Southeast Asia.
Thank you for standing with us as we live out the "Call of God" on our lives and pioneer our future.
We love you all very much... Fear the LORD in all you do!
In Christ with love,
Jeffrey & Lydia Smith