MICHEALS’ MICHEALS’ MEMOIRS September 2007 PROGRESS WITH RECRUITS We would like you to meet Maria del Mar Perez. Maria is our first Wycliffe member from Puerto Rico’s new recruitment efforts. Maria recently attended Wycliffe’s Training Camp in Orlando, Florida where we caught up with her. We are praying that Maria will be just the first of many new members from Puerto Rico. Maria will be serving as an administrative assistant in the Wycliffe Americas office in Costa Rica. After a few years in Costa Rica, she hopes to return to the USA and assist us with Hispanic recruitment!
ISAAC HEADS TO GERMANY TO SERVE WITH WYCLIFFE! Many of you know that our daughter Maria, son-inlaw Josh and our two grandsons (Ryan & Kody) are serving with Wycliffe in the Kandern, Germany office which assists our teams working from the West Eurasia office. Some of you know that our son Isaac recently heard about an opening at the Black Forest Academy there which supports the educational needs of not only Wycliffe children whose parents are working in this area of the world, but also children from other missions. A few months ago Isaac joined Wycliffe and has been raising his support to be a high school teacher there. In late August he received enough funds to leave the USA and so he is currently teaching AP European History and Worldview classes. He intends to stay there for several years, although he will need to raise some additional funds to continue to teach at the school following his first year.
Chuck & Maria at Training Camp
In August 2004 Barb and I hosted the Total It Up (TIU) program in West Chicago. Today two of these participants are now working with Wycliffe and one more is moving toward membership.
We want to thank all of you for your support and prayers for Isaac. Many of you support our work and now also support our children’s work in Bible translation. We give praise to the Lord for our children and for your generous support that keeps our family working toward completing the Bible translation task. The task is not yet complete, but progress continues to be made. So far this fiscal year, our recruitment efforts are up 13% over last year and we now have had 184 new people join Wycliffe just this year!!! We give thanks to the Lord!!!
Total It Ups Are Now Paying Membership Dividends!