Our Interns

This year, we added several new interns to our home, giving us 11 interns! These guys are a gift to us personally as well as true partners in all aspects of the work in southern Mozambique. By God’s grace, we’ve planted two churches together and will be baptizing 7 new believers on December 20. On December 21, all these guys will leave us for a one month break. When they come back in January, we’ll start another exciting year together! We can’t wait to see what God will do!

What’s Ahead for 2010! This will be another year of great change. We’ll take a short home assignment from June-August. By the time we arrive in the States, Lynne and the boys will be anxious to see parents and grandparents! They have not seen them since January of 2007, and the reunion will be sweet! When we come back from that trip, both of our boys will be students at Rift Valley Academy where Andrew has been studying for the last year and a half.

After we get the boys settled in school, we plan to spend at least a month on the remote island in the far north of Mozambique where we hope to relocate at some time in the near future. We want to do some local language study as well as learn more about the culture and people of this island. We hope to further establish and deepen relationships with the community leaders we have been befriending in the last two years. We hope to finish the purchase and remodel of a small house there and start to get it livable for our family.

Basically, we need to “get the ball rolling”! As our ministry in the south becomes self-sustaining and 100% led by national workers, we want to start all over again in this new place. Want to help?

How you can join us in prayer!

• Please pray that our relationships in business and ministry here in the South will continue to be strong. Pray that our work will be glorifying to God!

• Pray for our new ministry partners Rob and Heather Blanks as the adjust to life and language in Mozambique.

• Pray for Dave and Amy Terpstra as they prepare to leave for language study in Brazil and then on to life here in Mozambique.

• Please pray that we will reach the goal of the internship becoming completely financially sustainable. This sustainability affects many, many lives!

• Please pray for our 7 new believers who have decided to publicly testify of their faith by following the Lord in baptism.

• Please pray for our interns as they spend the month of January away from us and the ministry.  Many of them face the challenge of spending that month with unbelieving families who don’t understand the life choices they are making.

• Please pray for the many life changes we are facing in 2010!

The Schmidts

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