(L to R: Rick and Paula Scott, MaryEtta Reynolds, Deedra Bingham, Dick Reynolds, me and Wes)We really do love this ministry. We are thoroughly exhausted from two solid weeks of Candidacy, but have emerged on the other side not as candidates but as missionaries!
We have been challenged and enouraged by these couple of weeks. We have a renewed desire to see the live of soldiers, airmen, and their famlies touched by Jesus and his redeeming power!
For right now our "next steps" are not immediate. After a short visit here in Colorado we'll return to business as usual in Alaska next week. (As usual meaning piles of snow and threats of volcanoes.)
We are excited to see where God will send us, also to see where he will send the other 5 couples headed for hospitality house ministry in the next couple of years. We have had a great time of bonding with our 'class' and will have these guys as partenrs throughout our ministry!
I'm pretty tired, but I wanted to give you all a short update about our exciting weeks at the Cadence Headquarters.
Prayerfully yours,
Elaine
p.s. The picture above is from our last evening as a group-- our farewell dinner. These are not other candidates but HQ staff members. Dick and MaryEtta are a wonderful couple who have been with Cadence many many years. He is now the VP of Human Resources, and they are a great encouragement! Rick and Paula are also veterans of this ministry, they've run hospitality houses in the past, and hope to again in the future but for right now, he also works in HR and is our "ministry mentor" for this development stage. And Deedra is another great HR lady with the women's ministry of Cadence, her parents were also Cadence missionaries, she grew up at a hospitality house in the Phillipines.
We have been challenged and enouraged by these couple of weeks. We have a renewed desire to see the live of soldiers, airmen, and their famlies touched by Jesus and his redeeming power!
For right now our "next steps" are not immediate. After a short visit here in Colorado we'll return to business as usual in Alaska next week. (As usual meaning piles of snow and threats of volcanoes.)
We are excited to see where God will send us, also to see where he will send the other 5 couples headed for hospitality house ministry in the next couple of years. We have had a great time of bonding with our 'class' and will have these guys as partenrs throughout our ministry!
I'm pretty tired, but I wanted to give you all a short update about our exciting weeks at the Cadence Headquarters.
Prayerfully yours,
Elaine
p.s. The picture above is from our last evening as a group-- our farewell dinner. These are not other candidates but HQ staff members. Dick and MaryEtta are a wonderful couple who have been with Cadence many many years. He is now the VP of Human Resources, and they are a great encouragement! Rick and Paula are also veterans of this ministry, they've run hospitality houses in the past, and hope to again in the future but for right now, he also works in HR and is our "ministry mentor" for this development stage. And Deedra is another great HR lady with the women's ministry of Cadence, her parents were also Cadence missionaries, she grew up at a hospitality house in the Phillipines.
congratulations to both of you..... and to Cadence for making a wise choice.....i wish you well, and pray for God's continued blessing on all you do....enjoy CO, then AK.....& wherever else you end up.....& may i see you enjoy central PA again..........love you, dad !
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