Summer 2009 Missions Opportunity

Hello friends,

I am excited to announce to you the opportunity of a lifetime. July 14 to 28, 2009 are the dates for our Outreach in Livingstone, Zambia. We will be working directly with our Hub pastors and churches evangelizing and planting new churches in the rural areas around Livingstone. The outreach will take place Sunday to Sunday. It will change your life while you participate in the changing of hundreds of lives with the precious Gospel of Jesus Christ. WE will also be showing the "Jesus Film" nightly. This type of event changed my life in 2005. I know it will yours too.

Our home for 12 days will be the Sunbird Guesthouse owned and operated by my friend Kennedy Mukumbo. He will be providing our meals, accommodations and transportation. Visit his blog at http://sunbirdguesthouse-livingstone.blogspot.com/ to see the facilities.

Livingstone is the home of the "Smoke that Thunders" Victoria Falls. We will visit this breathtaking site and do some "tourist" shopping at the markets the Saturday before we begin our outreach.

This event will cost $3500. This pays for your round trip airfare, accommodations, meals, transportation and visit to the Victoria Falls. You will need extra money for souvenirs and general spending when traveling.

Make sure you have a valid U.S. passport and Zambia Visa. You will want to consider vaccinations as well.

YOU will be a foreign Missionary for two weeks and a renewed Ambassador of Jesus Christ for the rest of your life.

Contact me for more information by replying to this email or call me at 931-237-6077.

Called to Serve,

Jeff Hawkins

HOME SWEET HOME

Hello Friends,

Praise the Lord I arrived home to Adams, TN safe and sound yesterday around 10:30am. It was an uneventful and long flight, as is usual. Lou Ann and I were both glad to be together again. After 34 years it is not fun being away from my "Sweet Honey" for such long periods. However, We both rejoice in the Lord for the opportunity to serve Him in this manner.

Denson and Sakala dropped me at the airport and proceeded home to encounter car trouble again. The '94 Honda Horizon we purchased last March has given us some trouble. Being a used vehicle we have inherited some of the typical problems of a vehicle getting older. This one has been giving us trouble with overheating. A couple of months ago the head gasket was blown. Then while I was there we were continuing to have trouble with it wanting to overheat. We were careful to keep water in it and finally were able to discover some of the problem being the radiator deteriorating. It was not possible to find a new one to replace it so we had that one repaired. Within a day of repairing it we continued to have trouble and found that the gasket was again blown and the cylinder head is probably cracked. (there was a small fracture in it before.) So poor Denson was in a dilema and stuck in Lusaka. He ended up having Jr. drive down with the Canter (the ministry truck) and tow him back to Chingola. They arrived about 1AM the day after I left, exhausted of course.

These are some of the troubles working in Zambia. Vehicles are so expensive and yet so necessary. Used vehicles cost as much as a new one in the States and come with hidden troubles of their own. We continually have to depend on the Lord and of course that is the best place to be... in dependence on Him.

So pray that we can get this vehicle repaired reasonably. We have a good diesel mechanic who loves the Lord and is an "adopted" son to Denson. We thank God for Eddie. He takes care of most of our repairs/maintenance at his home for nothing but the cost of the parts. But extensive work has to go to the shop where it is "regular" price.

Again we are thankful to be home. The apartment that I spent all summer building really looked good, even with all the things still needing to be done.

Tomorrow Lou Ann and I travel to East Tennessee for our annual board meeting with Coldstream Christian Camp and Monday at Bancroft Bible Camp to share the mission at the IFCA Cumberland Regional meeting. We will return home Tuesday.

A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT
With our world in the USA becoming increasingly less stable with the economy tumbling let us all be listening to the LORD. It seems to me HE is getting our attention and reminding us that we are DEPENDENT on HIM. NOW is not the time to lose faith, but in fact, the TIME to have faith in God. HE is our provider. HE is our enabler. We must remain faithful to "win the prize." Perseverence in difficult times is when our faith is really tested/proved to see what it is made of. Is it real faith in the WORD of God or a false faith that is but selfish wishful thinking?

Have faith in God brethren. Be faithful. Persevere. Don't quick being faithful with the resources God has given you. They are HIS. He will provide all our NEEDS in Christ Jesus. IN FACT, He already has. Continue to be faithful and you will see the mighty hand of God in your life as He uses you to glorify Himself in these "interesting" times.

We know not the DAY when the Lord is returning, but it seems to be very soon. BE Ready to give a GOOD Report! Set your "affections", (your thinking, your mind) on things above, not on the things of this world. For you are DEAD (to this world) and your life is hidden with Christ in God."

Lou Ann and I are praising the Lord for the exciting days ahead as we serve HIM and HIS people in Zambia and here in Adams, and the thousands who will become HIS people as we faithfully share HIS Word, Jesus Christ with them.

Blessings and THANK you for your partnership with us.


Jeff and Lou Ann Hawkins