Leah's Youth Mission Trip

Many of you have helped towards Leah's mission trips in the past. We wanted to mention it in case you'd like to help again. She's been to Romania and to another country which shall not be named. In "the unnamed country" she personally led 13 souls to the Lord Jesus Christ during an 8 day trip. Cindy and I are thrilled about her love for the Lord and for mission work. If you would like to help Leah, she needs about $2,000 to make the trip. She has to make monthly payments in October, November, December and January. The trip will be in March. Please email me at potawatomipreacher@gmail.com and we can tell you how you can contribute to sending Leah to another "country which may be named later." We'll hear more about it heaven one day! Her fire and passion for missions is a blessing to us. Thanks and God bless!

Report From The Rez

I am presently helping a struggling church on the Chippewa reservation up in Northern Wisconsin. These folks are a sweet bunch of Native American saints. My prayer is that I'll be able to do a small part to encourage them to keep on keeping on for the Lord Jesus Christ. Here are some photos of the people and the surrounding area.

Seated next to a real prayer "warrior" for the Lord Jesus Christ!

Buddy and Ed, good and faithful men in the church

Beautiful Wisconsin lake

Great fall colors

Thieves Steal Ministry Motorcycles!

Brother Pilot emailed me yesterday and informed me that thieves entered the orphanage property and stole both motorcycles used by the orphanage and by the young men who are planting churches in the rural villages. This is a devastating thing to our Cambodian brethren who are preaching the gospel and starting churches. Two motorcycles over there will cost about $1,500 each to replace. If you or your church can help, that would be a tremendous help to these brothers in Christ! Here are some pictures of the Tro Kiet First Bible Baptist Church and some recent improvements made to the building. By God's grace and the help of my dear friend from Colorado, they were able to put in a cement slab and build some benches for the church. Praise the Lord!

There is a really great children's ministry going out there in Tro Kiet, as well as about 25 adults worshipping the Lord and learning the Bible!

Here you can see the cement slab and the new benches.

A view of the new cement slab and new benches for the Tro Kiet First Bible Baptist Church

Every year we try to give out some school supplies to the Cambodian children in many villages of rural Cambodia

Update On Cindy's Health

CIndy had two doctor appointments today. The first one was at the dermatologist which handles her melanoma issues. She wants Cindy to have this test done, but trouble is, the place where it's done won't take insurance (which is weird). You just have to pay out of pocket and I think Cindy said they want $300 to do the test. Then Cindy went to the other doctor who deals with the lung and heart problems. He said that her lungs look good and that he doesn't need to see her anymore. So, that's good. So, the synopsis is that we need to focus on the melanoma skin cancer issue now. That doctor said that Cindy needs this medical creme to apply to her face or she's going to eventually have some rather unsightly holes on her face.

Well, we'd appreciate your prayers about all of this. I've got a couple of weeks left before I return home. I'm on the Chippewa reservation doing some pulpit supply for a really needy and struggling church.

New Orphan Photos

I thought many of you might like to see the most recent photos of some of the orphans in Cambodia. Even though we are now primarily ministering to Native Americans/First Nations indigenous people, we are still doing all we can to help out the orphan ministry we established in Cambodia. There are always more needs than we can possibly meet. If you'd like to help, just drop me an email at potawatomipreacher@gmail.com.

Field Change

I just returned from Canton, Ohio, where I attended the National BBFI Fellowship meeting. We met with the Missions Committee and changed our field from Cambodia to Potawatomi Indians. We truly appreciate all your kind words, encouragement, and prayers. It has been a difficult time with Cindy's illnesses.

It was good to be able to have some fellowship with pastors and missionaries in Canton. Other missionaries tell of the same struggles that we've been experiencing. Some missionaries have resigned and become pastors here in the U.S. Others have had to stay off the field longer in order to raise more support.

I'm going to begin taking meetings to raise more support. Please email me at max4missions@gmail.com in order to arrange a date for us to visit your church. God bless you all!

News From Cambodia

Sophal, one of our orphans, and holds the distinction of being our first boy, led 30 people to Christ in the month of August! To God be the glory! We're so happy for his growth in the Lord and His concern for souls.

According to information received from a missionary colleague in Cambodia, the annual evangelistic camp was a great spiritual victory! From August 2nd to September 5th, there were five weeks of evangelistic camps. During that time, 13,077 people attended the camp. 2,667 precious souls responded to the plain and straight gospel message by trusting Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. To God be the glory! Praise the Lord for the local churches who worked so hard to get these souls to the camp. Now pray as the churches conduct follow-up and discipleship ministry among these new believers. Thanks must go out to the Rawlings Foundation for sponsorships and for the use of their facilities to conduct the camp. Many of the men we've trained were the preachers for this 2009 Evangelistic Youth Camp. Pray for these young men as they boldly proclaim the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ across Cambodia!
Cambodia Baptist Bible College graduated 3 young ladies and 6 young men this year! The three young ladies were from our church and three of the six young men were also from our church. We are thankful to the Lord for their diligence and faithfulness to "stick it out" and finish Bible school. Now they need your prayers as they take the gospel into Cambodia and beyond.