“Now the Lord said to Moses, “One more plague I will bring on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out from here completely”
Exodus 11:1
When the Lord sets forth a plan of action, He is faithful to complete it. The real question then is are we ready for what He has for us? One of the joys to serving as a missionary is learning to lean on God and trust that He is preparing the way. This can be even more eventful when we work to train our kids to have the same understanding. When you pray as a family to reach a goal by a certain date, but the support doesn’t come in. We pray to teach the kids what it means that God has a plan and we must not lose hope. What a blessing it is to have the Word of God as our guide in helping us to understand just how great He is. We pray to take steps of faith and trust Him to be faithful in completing the work in our lives. This month was no different!
We started the month in Montana at Faith Baptist Church of Missoula. It has been such a wonderful thing connecting with many faithful churches in Western Montana. These relationships have been a great encouragement to us on the journey of deputation. It was a busy weekend but worth every minute of the trip!
The following two weekends we got to be home! Most months we are booked two to three Sundays out of the month. Most months while we may only be booked for two Sundays, we are not usually home two weekends in a row. Being home two weekends in a row allowed me to be part of our Men’s breakfast at Grace and to prepare the meal for the men. It was a great morning of fellowship!
The following weekend (Father’s Day weekend) we got to go camping! We Love being in the mountains and exploring God’s creation. One of the blessings to living in the Pacific Northwest is all the beautiful mountains we have to see and explore. Our favorite is camping at Mt. Rainer and so that is where we went.
Our theme on this trip was “binding together”. Our kids are just as much part of this ministry as we are. Sure, we all have our own roll and responsibilities to play, but Temperance, Jedidiah, Adara-Dasha, Elijah and LuVerna are missionaries to Paraguay! We are a team and as a team we pray to be knit together in the love of Christ. The rocks the kids are sitting around were our thankfulness rocks. We took time to be thankful and share our thanks as we each placed a rock on the stack. If you want to see more pictures and videos from our campout, check out our video.
We have booked a couple more meetings as we attempt to close out our time in deputation ministry. And for some exciting news we wrapped up the month at just over 85% funded! That’s right we are less than 15% away from our monthly support goal!!! Would you pray with us that we could finish closing the gap by this fall? We need about $775/month in support to be at 100%. We know that God is doing some wonderful things and is preparing the way for us to get to Texas for language training. Don’t stop praying!
Are you thinking of joining our ministry as a support partner? We would love to connect with you about how you too can be part of our team in helping reach the people of Paraguay, South America with the gospel message Jesus Christ!
Are you ready to go to Paraguay? We are confident that God who has begun a good work in you is faithful to complete it and He wants to use you in the process! So, Let’s go to Paraguay!
The Loucks Family
Temperance received the free gift of Salvation at the age of 4. When she was 8 years old she was excited to make that a public acknowledgement and asked to be baptized. What a joy it is to watch her walk with the Lord.
She has a very soft heart, a creative mind, and loves being used of God. While all the changes in life are difficult on each of us, she remains excited knowing God has called her to be a missionary to the people of Paraguay. I asked Temperance “how can people pray for you?” Her response makes me cry, “They can pray that I would share the gospel with others.”
Don’t forget to pray for Temperance!
Loucks 2 Paraguay 