M CH AL ’ M MO RS July 2011 Announcement
Dear Family and Friends, This is a special newsletter to let you know that we have an announcement concerning a change in my work with Wycliffe. This change actually started over a year ago when the Lord began to impress on me the fact that my job as Vice President would be changing. There was nothing significant that brought this about, only an awareness that the Lord was moving and so over the past year both of us have been praying that if the Lord wanted me to do something different He would have to show me what that would be. We wondered if the Lord was going to send us back overseas, or if this was a time when I should look for ministry work outside of Wycliffe and become more involved in the work of the local church. So, we committed this to the Lord in prayer. Several months ago when we didn’t get any clear direction from the Lord, we informed our children and their spouses and asked them to pray, which they committed to do. We continued in our prayers as well. Then several months ago, we began to notice that God was moving in a more active way in my life as a discussion began in Wycliffe to merge my Recruitment Ministries department with Wycliffe’s Personnel department. Recently a decision was reached to actually merge these two departments into one. The decision was made that the VP for Personnel would lead the new merged team. That meant that my job was going away. Wycliffe is equipped to handle situations like this and so I was assigned a Personnel Administrator (PA) to help me during this
Recruitment Goal - 7K x 14 (Recruit 7000 new workers by 2014)
transition. After meeting with the PA and looking over a variety of jobs available I contacted the head elder at our home church in Kalamazoo, MI and asked him and the church leadership to pray and give me advice. They did and as a result, the one job that everyone agreed would be a good fit for me is the Director of Management Recruitment. The current director of this department is retiring and the one other manager recruiter for Wycliffe is moving to a new position in Wycliffe. So, I have been asked to head up this new department and grow the work. Why does Wycliffe have a Management Recruitment department? Well, you can imagine that with 6,000 workers worldwide involved in almost 1,800 active Bible translation projects there are all types of manager or administrative jobs that need filling. Currently, Wycliffe has over 200 open management/ administrative jobs worldwide. I have been asked to recruit people to fill these open positions. As you have stood with us as I lead the larger recruitment team, will you also stand with us as I take on this more specialized work? We value your prayers and financial support to do so.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR BARB?
PRAISES
Barb will continue her work with our Wycliffe GET Global trip program for high school and college students. This year she again helped organize two GET Global trips (Guatemala and Papua New Guinea). In all, 15 young people had a chance to visit our work overseas. Barb has been involved in this work for several years now and we are beginning to see significant fruit from her labors. There are now more than a dozen students in college studying to become Bible translators! Soon more languages will have Bible translation work started!
SPECIAL
GET Global Team In Papua New Guinea - July 2011
Prayer
Praise
PRAYER
For me as I begin my new job with Wycliffe. As before, we will rely on the gifts of God’s people to support our work since Wycliffe does not pay its missionaries. For many people who have skills in management/administration to consider service with Wycliffe. For the 15 students who went on GET Global trips this summer. Pray that many of them will become involved in the work of Bible translation.
For direction God gave us concerning my job. We expect to see an additional 185 people join Wycliffe this fiscal year ending September 30! We praise the Lord that among these new people, there are three sets of Bible translators headed to Papua New Guinea!!! For the 1,200 people who have joined Wycliffe as missionaries during the time I served as the Vice President.
NEED
We continue to be in need of an additional $ 300 a month in financial support. We have had a number of new supporters and some current supporters increased their support. We praise the Lord for that. We are getting closer to being at the full 100% that Wycliffe requires of its missionaries. Pray for a monthly increase! VISIT OUR WEB SITES/FACEBOOK: www.cbmicheals.com www.cbmicheals.ning.com http://cbmicheals.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/cbmicheals
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