In my mind i’m goin’ to Carolina…

"...Can't you just see the sunshine?"

The Will of God: (essentials for the skimmers)

• I'm off again on another venture to the Paranapura River. Never heard of it? See the attached map.
  
• We'll be there 'til late September and won't have outside contact. Well, maybe the town's phone, which i haven't found cards for it yet.
• I updated an old blog entry if you're interested.
  

...In My Life : (extras for the non-skimmers)

Dear Rope Holders,
And just like that they were gone once again. My family got to step out of and back into the "real world" these past 2 weeks. Now it's back work...for all of us, i suppose. I really don't think i could begin to do such a visit justice by describing it in a quick email. We did make a less than legal run across the boarder of a large South American country. I don't think i should name the country involved over the internet, but i'll hint to you that there are a lot of Brazilians that live there. If you want a good laugh, i suggest calling my dad to get the "Butch Pendergrass version." We even paid the federal police a visit that night.
Okay, time for a call out! It's that time again: time to pray for and write your brothers and sisters in Christ in the Southern Hemisphere in training to become missionaries. Being that i won't have access to the internet, i wanted to go ahead give you this list. Though not complete, this a list of some of the trainees for the Xtreme Training that starts August 20.

• Esrom
• Zacharias
• Hagler
• Mariela
• Graham Michaels (from AL)
• Amanda Brock (from TX)
• Trent and Kay Jones (from TX)

Write them encouraging letters! Tell them how much you're praying for them. Share what the Lord is teaching you these days. Ask them about their lives. The thing is, for some reason, the families and churches of these South American missionaries-in-training usually don't write them to encourage them. You all have an opportunity to fill that niche and love on your extended family. If you do know Spanish or someone who can translate for you, it would help us save time if you sent the letters in Spanish. Please write even if you don't know Spanish because we can translate if need be.
This week Jeff Hill and i will be headed to the Paranapura River. There we'll hookup with Jesus (the guy who was in our training last Spring) in Nueva Vida and will hopefully train some of the other Chaiuita believers there to reach out to the other groups in the area. We hope to also do some research on a couple of other people groups. We should come back out in late September. Talk to you then.

PrayeRequests:

• Pray that the Lord would use us to train and encourage the Chaiauitas to reach out to surrounding communities who don't know Christ.
• Pray that the Lord would glorify Himself through Jeff and i on this next trip.
• Pray for the hearts of these new Xtreme trainees to be ready to learn and cope with a new environment. Pray for the instructors to have wisdom.
  

Quote of the Week:

"I'm taking the family to Topsail Island on Monday. There was a shark attack there a couple of weeks ago." -Brody Holloway, phone conversation

love yuns,
†il the whole world hears,
corey reid pendergrass