Announcement Letter

Hello everyone.  Finally we can officially announce what God is doing in our lives.  As you know ever since God has saved me I have had a passion for sharing the Gospel with everyone, but the last few years God has been calling me to extend my calling to the nations.  God has given me an increased burden for foreign missions and has confirmed it inwardly, outwardly through people and providence, and through the Scriptures. Through the providence of God I met a man named Tim Killillay, now one of my best friends, at a conference in Cleveland, Ohio who was raising support to move to Peru as a career missionary.  Over the last few years we spent time together sharing the gospel and laboring in the ministry together and found we were very like-minded in almost everything and had the same philosophy on foreign missions, theology, and evangelism.  This summer Tim spent two weeks with us for the purpose of preaching and evangelism efforts in Montana.  At the end of the two weeks God confirmed to both of us that we and our families would be working together for the sake of the gospel in Peru as life-time missionaries. 

For the month after Tim left, God did so much in our lives that we sit daily in amazement of Him.  He confirmed our calling in so many ways including giving my wife Kim, not only peace about this move but an excitement about living in Peru.  Everything is now falling into place including homeschooling the kids, teaching the family Spanish, going through the checklist of the many things that must be completed before we leave.  God has even raised up other obedient Christians to give us some of the support we will need in the foreign mission field.   We are going to the mission field by faith, trusting in God to raise up obedient Christians and churches that are willing to sacrifice at home so we can sacrifice in the field. By God’s providence we were directed to a missionary clearing house called Central Missionary Clearinghouse who will handle all of the administrative work.  These people are true servants and take no money from us at all but rely on faith to supply their needs.  CMC is supporting, through administration, around 372 families.  At this time, more than 3800 churches are utilizing the services of CMC.   We are being sent out by our home church, Wolf Creek Baptist Church as well as Fellowship Baptist Church in Sydney, MT, Westside Baptist Church in Great Falls, MT and North Range Baptist Church in Colorado.  These 4 churches will make up our mission board and we will be held accountable to them.

God willing, we will first move to Costa Rica in August if everything falls into place or December of 2011 for a year of language school.  Where we are going in Peru there is not much English so learning the language is essential to survive.  After language school we will move to Peru in the area surrounding Cuzco to start our lives and work with a solid, biblical Peruvian church.  We have been in contact with a friend of ours named Walter Gammara, who is a Peruvian pastor.  He is 28 years old and on fire for God.  He will serve to help us get ingrained into the culture and learn the language specifics and government.  In return we will work with him teaching, preaching and doing evangelism.  He is so excited we are coming to work with him.  We communicate by email in Spanish.  He does not know any English and Spanish is his second language.  He speaks Quechua as his first, which is the native language of Peru and most people in the high Andes speak it.  I hope to learn Quechua after Spanish to preach to villages that you can only hike to that sit at 13,000 feet in elevation.  After we get settled in and ingrained into the new culture, the Peruvians, Tim and I will travel to some of the unreached regions that have no church of any kind to evangelize and, God willing, plant a biblical church.  Our vision is to help teach, preach and evangelize these unreached areas in hope that as the church is established God will save Peruvians and raise up Peruvians into teaching and preaching roles.  Our goal is to see indigenous people trained and sustaining their own biblical churches by the grace and for the glory of God.  Another major part of our ministry will be teaching the historical biblical truth and sound doctrine to the Peruvians as God saves them and calls them into their roles.

As we are in the process of getting rid of all our material possessions besides a couple suitcases each, we have so much joy and peace in storing up our treasures in heaven instead of earth.  We thank God for the privilege to count the cost of following Jesus Christ and for enabling us to give every ounce of ourselves for the sake of the gospel and glory of God among the nations.

We ask you to pray for us as we labor in Peru.  We also challenge you to die to yourself and live for Christ by sacrificing yourself by either going into the foreign mission field to proclaim the glory of Christ or by sacrificing all you have at home so you can send those who go to the foreign mission field.   Whether going or sending, we all have the same high calling to be involved in the great commission.  Both going and sending are equally high callings and both are needed and used by God as the means to fulfill His end of gathering His people among the nations and glorifying His name.

Sing to the LORD, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

(1 Chronicles 16:23-26)

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Our church also has information about us and our mission to Peru at:  Wolf Creek Baptist