Missionary News

ATUALIDADES* from the Fosters: Ministry, COVID-19 & Good Friday

April 10, 2020

Dear Friends and Family, We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps. (Pr. 16:9) How can it possibly be Easter already? As I begin to write, it seems that I am coming up for air, after a near drowning…my own!! Read below, and I’ll explain. It is Good Friday, and Mary Jo […]

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Update from Quarantine

April 7, 2020

We left the Dominican Republic in a whirlwind. On Monday evening, March 16th, we received the news that Jolie’s school was canceled and would now be online. This came on the heels of several days of realizations that all of our ministries were going to become impossible due to the shutting down of everything. The next […]

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Portugal, Viana do Castelo – 30th March 2020

March 30, 2020

  Update from Nuno and Gila Portugal   Dear praying friends, Hope you are all in good health and your soul is well during this unforeseen season. We are doing well by God’s grace. On the 22nd we celebrated Leonor’s 14th birthday! It looked a bit different than planned, but still filled with joy. Kids […]

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Bob’s News – January-February 2020

March 27, 2020

  News from Bob Carvajal Louisiana   New Year & New Challenges!!! I started off the new year in Atlanta, Georgia at the Passion conference. Nine of us from the college and career group went to Passion which is one of the premier college conferences in the United States. There were over 65,000 college students […]

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RMC Family ❤

March 27, 2020

  RMC Family! We have been so blessed by God to be a part of what He is doing in the Rejuvenation Ministry Center RMC. He has given to us and each other the ability to be family together. We received this note when a couple from the RMC headed back to the PNW due to a […]

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Overby Odyssey Spring 2020

March 20, 2020

Hello Friends and Family, This is a long-overdue update and even with social isolation in Germany, things have not slowed down much for our family. However, there have been many new changes, praises, and prayer requests to update you on. First huge praise, we just got a car! It is another “all glory to God” […]

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Ministry in the Midst of Chaos

March 18, 2020

Ministry looks different in the midst of a “social distance” world. Rachel continues an online Bible Study for women through Facebook. Online Bible Studies are great during this time and so we will press on! Church services at New Hope have been canceled in person- and we are switching gears for virtual messages and activities. […]

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Portugal, Viana do Castelo – 9th March 2020

March 9, 2020

  Update from Nuno and Gila Portugal   Dear praying friends, We launched our next season of WAVE with a special gathering to celebrate women. We talked about our identity in Christ, laughed, cried and even made some art together. It was beautiful to see many coming for the first time and feel loved and […]

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Great things are happening

February 26, 2020

“Just got done at an amazing art of marriage retreat at our church! So much great information on how to keep God at the center of our marriage and to be the best godly wife I can be to my husband. I am so blessed to have been able to participate in this retreat!” This […]

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Portugal, Viana do Castelo – 24th February 2020

February 24, 2020

  Update from Nuno and Gila Portugal   Dear praying friends, We have been moving forward in our “event” for couples. God willing, it will be in the second weekend of May. Pray as we plan, that the Lord guides us (we’re working with Kevin and Jan on this) and that this may be a […]

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