We are pleased to announce that we will be partnering with East West Ministries! East West is a grace-based missions organization whose goal is to link North American churches with churchplants in closed-access countries. By partnering with Greater Europe Mission and East West, we will be able to split our travel expenses between the two organizations when traveling to places where both have ministries. This will give us greater opportunities to use our gifts to further the work that God is doing around the world. Thank you for praying.

One of our first opportunities for service will be in Russia where GEM and EW have a women's training school to prepare Eastern European women to teach other women the Bible. We'll let you know more details later. To God be the glory!

In Yuma, Joel had a great opportunity to preach at Calvary Baptist and demonstrate a visual model of servanthood in the Church, that we had recently seen in Ohio.

We also were able to begin work on a video for Joel's parents' church to give to visitors, explaining the ministries of the church.

Along the way, we have gained 3 new supporting families, and one more church who will be joining us in ministry!

After a fantastic time on the West Coast, using our new video and editing equipment to shoot a couple promo videos for ministry, we arrived in Tulsa one bag short....guess which bag!

Now, after 6 days, the airlines have turned it over to the Claims Dept. with almost no hope of reimbursement for our precious video and photography equipment. This has been a devastating blow to our goals and ministry. We are perplexed, but in my reading through Job, I realized that God never gave Job an answer or an explanation of why He allowed those things to happen. Not that we put ourselves in the same category as Job, but we are slowly learning to say, along with Job, "The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. Blessed be the Name of the LORD."

You can join us in prayer for the return of our equipment, despite a 2% chance given by the airline. Our God works miracles.

Or, pray that we'll have right attitudes to accept the final outcome.

We have several ministry opportunities for video production that were scheduled to be a source of income at this time. Please pray for the rearranging of equipment, etc. if we are to go ahead with these videos.

BIG NEWS......We are preparing to leave for the East Coast Tour, beginning in March. Pray that the churches' and our schedules will coincide. (If you have any contacts between Florida and Pennsylvania that you'd like to contact on our behalf, let us know.)