D DeFord

 Dear Prayer Partners, Dec. 2009 update

We want to thank each of you who have called, sent cards, given gifts and upheld us up in prayer this past month. We are truly grateful to you for your kindnesses and thoughtfulness on our behalf.

Beginning the first of December David started teaching Genesis in the adult Sunday School class. There is so much to glean from the foundation set forth in the first chapters, so he is teaching slowly through the book.

October:

Upon arriving home from the Midwest we made arrangements for David to see the neurologist because of pain and numbness in both arms especially his hands. The doctor changed the Gillian - Barre Syndrome diagnosis of 2007 to CIDP which is the chronic form of GBS, since the symptoms have reoccurred. His hands, arms and fingers have been affected rather than the legs and feet which he experienced in 2007. The doctor has prescribed six months of IVIG treatments as well as a new medication. Each treatment covers a two day period each month. We are very grateful these can be done at home rather than in a hospital. 

Dear Prayer Partners

Dear Prayer Partners

In early February we traveled to Eagle Pass, Texas to visit with IBIMI missionaries Don and Elaine Stephens. It was a blessing to preach in their a.m. and p.m. services on the 8^th. We had planned to take a one day side trip on our way home with Don and Elaine following us as far as Fredricksburg, TX., but on our way in Hondo, TX., our car was hit and totaled. No one was injured and after renting a car in San Antonio we returned home as did the Stephens’. After receiving an insurance settlement later in the month we were able to purchase another car March 3.

Dear Prayer Partners,

February 2009 Since we did not get out a letter in January, we will try to get caught up this month. On December 28 and January 4, we were at Peach Springs Arizona on the Hualapai (wall-a-pie) Reservation filling the pulpit for Steve as they visited Sherry’s family for Christmas. It was so good to be with these folks. There is a good mix of ages and all are enthusiastic and desirous to study and learn. They were a blessing to us.

November began for us with a much anticipated service with the Yavapai/Apache Baptist Church in Camp Verde. Pastor Gary Messick has been faithfully teaching the congregation and going through their statement of faith. They organized their assembly and opened their charter membership November 2. It was a blessing to be a part of that service.

Dear Prayer Partners,                                                                                                                     November 2008 update

Last month in our update letter we asked that you be in prayer for two men, a young Navajo man and the young man saved in July waiting to be baptized. The Lord has worked in the young man’s heart that had earlier expressed his desire to be baptized. He has been faithful this past month in most all the services. Sometimes his work schedule keeps him away. We wanted to bring this to your attention to encourage your faithfulness in prayer for these folks. God wants our prayers, He delights in our prayers and He answers our prayers!

Dear Prayer Partners

We are deeply indebted to you faithful ones that pray for us regularly. We are reminded again of the necessity of those who stand with us in prayer.  September is the month we will remember as being without electricity.  Over Labor Day weekend we spent the annual church camp out at Point of Pines, between six and seven thousand feet elevation on the San Carlos Apache Reservation.  Upon our arrival we learned we had no electricity and that the water supply was limited.  Those facts did not deter a wonderful retreat time for the church folks with Evangelist Chuck Crabtree from Denver.  We had wonderful meetings and with a bit of improvising managed three meals a day, a camp fire that lasted the entire weekend amidst some pretty terrific wind and rain, and the fellowship in the Lord that only He can supply.