Dear Friends across the United States and other countries!
Pastor Jonathan and I spent the months of June and July on “home service,” giving mission update presentations on LCMS mission work in Latin America. God blessed us with good travel and loving hospitality. What a joy it was to see so many of you again, and to meet others of you for the first time!
On the morning of our last presentation, Pastor Jonathan accidentally fell and broke his left leg, also detaching one ligament and tearing another. Two days later he had surgery in Omaha, Nebraska, which included the insertion of a metal plate to help the leg heal. We must say a public thank you to Pastor Jon Sollberger and his wife, Jenny, who hosted us in their parsonage for the many days that Pastor needed to stay near the Omaha surgeon. Thank you also to the members of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Louisville, NE, who responded with such Christian love and prayers.
From Nebraska I drove Pastor Jonathan to Pennsylvania, where we are staying with our son and his family. Thanks be to God, Pastor’s healing is going well, and we hope that he will soon start some physiotherapy.
I continue to work remotely every day, making the best use of Zoom, email, and other internet tools. I am particularly excited about our new Spanish daily devotional book, which will be coming out in January 2023, and we will supply you with more details on that once it is published. Now is also a time when many conferences and VDMA Projects need to be administered, so there is much that I can do remotely while we wait for Pastor to be signed off to return to the Dominican Republic.
God continues to bless the work that He has planted in the Dominican Republic. Last week all of our Lutheran school teachers were engaged in a Mercy Center course on “Christian Reconciliation” as part of their ongoing educational training that takes place before (and after) each academic year. The new Seminary term is also starting soon, with students arriving from various Latin America and Caribbean countries. And of course, the Dominican Republic mission, under the blessing of the preaching and teaching of God’s Holy Word, continues to flourish.
THANK YOU for your continued prayers and support.
God’s blessings, in Christ,
Deaconess Cheryl and Pastor Jonathan
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