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Saturday, October 09, 2010
Farmer Update
Dear gospel partners,
Home in Wisconsin
At the end of August, we returned to our home in Wisconsin for the first time in almost a year, and for over a month now, we’ve enjoyed being in one location. During this time, we’ve met with four different churches where we have friends from our years at Northland. We’ve especially enjoyed some extended time with our home church in Norway, MI.
In addition to these meetings, one of our biggest accomplishments has been to pare down the rest of our stuff – currently stored in a friend’s basement. Hopefully, by the time we leave Wisconsin in a week, everything in their basement will be packed and ready for a flight to Cambodia.
Visa miracle
In other news … some of you have been following our updates about the visa situation. To catch everyone up to speed, below is an email excerpt from our future co-worker, JD Crowley, in Cambodia (dated 9/10):
Thanks for your prayers.
So far, it appears that the Lord is continuing to direct the king’s heart in a way favorable to us. This answer to prayer has served as a great encouragement to our faith. Please be sure to praise the Lord for this miraculous work in our behalf, and continue to ask that no further problems arise in the process of receiving the MoU.
Departure for Cambodia
We have now been on the road for 16 months. In all honesty, the first year of our travels was a time of great blessing and contentment – visiting strong churches who share a similar philosophy of ministry, communicating our vision for mission in Cambodia, enjoying fellowship of friends, old and new. Well, we are officially in the discontented stage! I think it’s primarily SIL that is to blame. After 9 weeks of focused study on language and culture acquisition, we really are chomping at the bit to get our feet on the ground in Cambodia. Along that line, the Lord is encouraging our hearts with your eagerness to join with us in this mission. We recently crossed a major “threshold” and now have approximately 55% of our needed support. We are praising the Lord for this encouraging development; we thank you for your partnership in this mission; and we are earnestly praying that he would enable us to leave the States in May, 2011. Please join us in asking him to do this.
Thank you again for your continued support. May the grace of Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Jeremy Farmer
Missionary to Cambodia
Home in Wisconsin
At the end of August, we returned to our home in Wisconsin for the first time in almost a year, and for over a month now, we’ve enjoyed being in one location. During this time, we’ve met with four different churches where we have friends from our years at Northland. We’ve especially enjoyed some extended time with our home church in Norway, MI.
In addition to these meetings, one of our biggest accomplishments has been to pare down the rest of our stuff – currently stored in a friend’s basement. Hopefully, by the time we leave Wisconsin in a week, everything in their basement will be packed and ready for a flight to Cambodia.
Visa miracle
In other news … some of you have been following our updates about the visa situation. To catch everyone up to speed, below is an email excerpt from our future co-worker, JD Crowley, in Cambodia (dated 9/10):
You’ve been praying for over a year now that we would be able to renew our official agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (equivalent to our State Department in the U.S.) so that we could remain in Cambodia as an official International Organization. What we lacked was a letter of support from the Ministry of Religion, something that had never before been required and that the Ministry of Religion rarely provides for anyone. Yesterday I was allowed an audience with the Minister of Religion to explain our work and situation. He was quite friendly and agreeable, write a letter of support for EMU, but would enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with EMU, officially placing us under the jurisdiction of his ministry. He has done this for only a few organizations.
I’m supposed to go back to his office on Monday to do the paperwork. Please pray that everything would work out. If EMU has this MoU with the Ministry of Religion, it would be the final document that Foreign Affairs needs to renew our MoU with them and stay in the country. This is a significant breakthrough.
Thanks for your prayers.
So far, it appears that the Lord is continuing to direct the king’s heart in a way favorable to us. This answer to prayer has served as a great encouragement to our faith. Please be sure to praise the Lord for this miraculous work in our behalf, and continue to ask that no further problems arise in the process of receiving the MoU.
Departure for Cambodia
We have now been on the road for 16 months. In all honesty, the first year of our travels was a time of great blessing and contentment – visiting strong churches who share a similar philosophy of ministry, communicating our vision for mission in Cambodia, enjoying fellowship of friends, old and new. Well, we are officially in the discontented stage! I think it’s primarily SIL that is to blame. After 9 weeks of focused study on language and culture acquisition, we really are chomping at the bit to get our feet on the ground in Cambodia. Along that line, the Lord is encouraging our hearts with your eagerness to join with us in this mission. We recently crossed a major “threshold” and now have approximately 55% of our needed support. We are praising the Lord for this encouraging development; we thank you for your partnership in this mission; and we are earnestly praying that he would enable us to leave the States in May, 2011. Please join us in asking him to do this.
Thank you again for your continued support. May the grace of Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Jeremy Farmer
Missionary to Cambodia
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