MISSION WORLD

Dallas Steiden and Shanna Eisert are preparing to serve an internship in Central America this summer with Terry and Arlene Dupont.

They will be leading worship among myriad other duties in Nicaragua, Honduras and possibly Costa Rica. Both young people have had 4 years of Spanish lanuage in high school and college, but this will be their fist opportunity to be immersed in a culture speaking the language.

Dallas was worship leader for our youth group when he was in high school and is now worship leader for the Portland Promise Center which is an inner-city mission which has grown into a church.

Dallas is a student at Boyce College at Southern Baptist Seminary and Shanna is a student at Asbury College at Wilmore, KY. Dallas has participated in overseas missions previously in Africa and the Middle East. This will be Shanna’s first mission trip out of the country.

Please pray for these young people while they are learning and serving. They will return to the US on August 19th and we hope to hear from them soon after that.

If you wish to support them financially, you can donate using the Visa / Mastercard button to your right or send a check to Forest Park Community church.

Check out their website here: www.dallasandshanna.com

Steve and Karis Ward’s website is back up. You can keep up with the latest news from Malawi, Karis’ pregnancy, Steve’s uhhhh motor vehicle mishaps and, of course, the mission.

Here’s an email from 6/14/05:

Stephen has been making weekly trips in to our ministry area which God has really guided. He has led him to meet some pastors in remote areas. It amazes me how God orchestrates these meetings, because there are no phones or way of communicating to them in the bush that Stephen is coming.

We both continue in language study. Being out here in Mulanje has really helped us because so few speak English so we are forced to speak ChiChewa. We desperately need your prayers in regards to language study. Please pray that God will help us retain the language and take every opportunity to practice. I spent 4 hours yesterday chatting with some women. Wow, talk about exhausting.

On July 17th we will be going to Lake Malawi for a week long mission meeting. On July 23rd I will be flying to Johannesburg to await the arrival of our baby boy. Stephen will probably join me the second week of August closer to the due date which is August 18th.

We want to thank our family and friends who have so graciously sent baby “stuff” over. We are so grateful for how God has provided through you.

We love to hear from you so write us when you can!! We also love to know your prayer needs.

Please take a moment and look at our website:

Steve and Karis Ward

God bless each of you. Your prayer support is our biggest encouragement.

Karis and Stephen Ward

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