Within Your Grasp

Reaching Out: (essentials for the skimmers)
    •    Enjoy our March 2013 video, "Within Your Grasp."

Within Your Grasp from corey pendergrass on Vimeo.

• It's been ten months since we moved to our new home.  We have nine months left in our three-year term.
• The microSD distribution ministry becoming more dynamic and versatile than ever.
• A volunteer, Josh Clark, came in January and helped us in our ministry.
• Racheal is teaching Fisher pre-school at home.
• Racheal shares memorized Bible stories with women in our community.
• We have engaged a valley of Susu people that have never heard the Good News before.
• We have been leading a youth group of missionary kids in the capital.

Taking Hold: (details for the readers)

Dear partners in growing the Kingdom,

You may have noticed that our last video update came a month late (in our intentions of producing a video bimonthly) and this video came three months late.  That's no bueno.  The good news is, we've been too busy doing ministry stuff in Susu Land.  Even so, from the bottom of our heart, please accept our apology for the delay.

Since October, the holiday season was super busy and was surprisingly a big whirlwind in our memories.  However, after the New Year we started taking advantage of the dry season and began doing more outreach than ever before among the Susu people and the other hodgepodge of people groups here in the capital.  About the time we got a breather in February, one of our children spilled some water on our computer.  That was a major setback, but our home church in NC, the River Church, bought us a refurbished computer identical to the one we lost.  Fortunately, we didn't loose anything because we recently backed up the old computer and were able to migrate everything to the new one.  Way to go, Body of Christ!

Because of that, when the computer arrived a couple weeks later with a volunteer team, we were able to pick up right where we left off with our multimedia files that we copy to microSD cards.  We are so thankful.

Back in late January, we had a volunteer come out named Josh Clark.  We were so thankful for his presence, because he not only helped us organize our multimedia library for evangelism, but he also went trekking with us to an area that had never been engaged by missionaries.  We were sad to see him go after three weeks.

This city of two million residence has several mission families living here with middle and high school-aged children.  Ironically, the last missionaries that lived in our house and moved back to the States used to lead a youth group comprised of those students.  We have since been lead to take up that touch and continue leading the youth group.  We are so thankful for this ministry opportunity.

Prayer Requests:

• Please pray for our boys growing in this foreign land finding their place in the world.
• for the microSD ministry to grow like wildfire
• for Racheal memorizing her stories from the Bible
• for protection on our technology equipment
• for God to call many Susu people to Himself

Thanks for lifting us up!
'til the whole world hears,
corey reid pendergrass