March News

Dear friends and family,

“Where are you headed next?”  That is the question we answer most as we go from church to church.  Usually people are asking about trips abroad, but occasionally they mean “Where are you speaking next?”  So this is an update on that question so that you can pray for us.

For the past several months, we have been here in Georgia.  We have had a number of speaking engagements in churches that have asked us to share our ministry.  There have also been opportunities for Charlie to preach or for Joan to teach Sunday School.  This week Joan is starting a 6-week Bible study for ladies’ in our home.  While we are here, we also frequently visit churches to share with them what is going on in our ministry.

In June, we plan to go to Maine.  Our sending church is located there as well as several supporting churches, and we feel it is time to give an update.

The last two weeks in June we are scheduled to go to Peru where we will each be teaching a 30-hour modular course in a Bible college in Arequipa.  Charlie will teach on hermeneutics, and Joan will teach on teaching.  In early July we will return to Maine where we will be for another few weeks.

Here are some of our praises:

•  Opportunities recently to share our ministry with people and churches.
• Joan is teaching a Bible study for ladies again.

Here are our prayer requests:

• Safety in travel – both here in the U.S. and in our trips abroad.
• A full calendar of speaking – both here in the south and on our trip to Maine.
• Wisdom and facility in preparing for our classes in Peru.  Joan is expected to teach in Spanish, so her preparation takes many hours.
• Nailing down other dates for other trips.  We are trying to schedule the Ivory Coast and some other countries this year.
• Please pray about our schedule.  Up until last week when Peru gave us dates, we had nothing definite on the calendar for overseas trips. We are excited about that opportunity.  We would still like three or four other trips this year.

Thank you for praying!

Joan and Charlie Farley