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Here are some ways that you can be praying for Dougg and LeAnne Custer as they serve the Lord during the COVID-19 situation: 1) Praise God for providing an experienced recruiter that will begin mid-July. Please continue to pray for someone to handle our online Learning Management System.       2) Praise God for a couple who was appointed to Black Forest Academy to help with the residence program. July 6th we will be interviewing - via Zoom - a couple who is interested in a central Asian country and would appreciate your prayers for all to go well.      3) There were 5 other candidates who decided they want to wait until November, when we hope to do our interviews in person. Pray that they will follow through on their desire to serve cross-culturally.       4) Dougg's training team has been busy discussing what sessions of the first pre-field training are vital and how to best to teach them via Zoom July 13-16. They hope to have the...

Here are some ways that you can be praying for Dave and Carol Beakley as they server the Lord during COVID-19: Pray for wisdom as we strive to ensure that all of our students have enough data to "zoom" classes coming up in mid-July. Our next semester begins at that time. Pray for patience as we await our government's new restrictions and instructions on whether churches are allowed to meet. Currently, we can only meet with the conditions that 50 people or less meet at once, all with masks, 1.5m apart, no singing at all, no fellowship. Pretty tough conditions as this include whether you are inside or outside. Pray for opportunities to share the gospel with the lost. With church at such limitations, and people afraid to go out and speak with one another, the truth is being stifled.

Here are some ways that you can be praying for Sam and Jamie Hornbrook as they serve the Lord during this fragile time: 1. This past week, David Worrel, the son of dear friends of ours in Lafayette, IN died. He was 25 years old. He died due to complications of his severe handicaps. He was born at 1.6 lbs and in the 24th week of the pregnancy. He and his twin brother, Kyle, survived being born so early but David had more severe developmental problems. He was confined to a wheelchair all his life and could never talk, but he could communicate through sign language. He became a very sweet boy, taught us a great deal about having joy and being grateful even with multiple surgeries, chronic pain, and limitations. We will miss him. He and his siblings are like nephews and nieces to us. In fact, they call us Uncle Sam and Aunt Jamie. We couldn't go back for the funeral because of the restrictions on travel right now. In fact, we were scheduled to be there so I could take a master's cl...