December 2007 Newsletter
Dear friends :
I know that this is probably a very busy season for you, but I do want to drop in for a brief chat. I have marvelled before that our new world of communication is truly astounding. We are inundated with news - from every corner of the globe. The prolem with that is that most of the time it's not good news - it's downright heartbreaking. As a missionary, it's wonderful to be able to keep in touch with the workers of the field - to share in their joys as well as their sorrows and there are lots of both.
Jetza Ortega had to have surgery because of internal bleeding and Carlos Campana sprained his foot and is hobbling around trying to keep up with the youth he's working with. Oscar is still taking pills for the pain that resulted from breaking his foot that never healed properly. However, Oscar writes, " The Lord has opened a great door of opportuinty for all of these cripples and neither our mouths nor the Word of God is bound nor wounded. We continue to make Christ known as best we can." ( Thank you for praying ). Without a doubt, Satan is trying to thwart the futherance of the gospel but we have been assured by none other than our Lord himself - "The gates of hell will not prevail against it ( His church )."
While there's lots of news from everywhere, we ( believers ) are the only source of the " Good News". What a tremendous responsibility God has placed upon the believer in Christ. Peter says that we are "Stewards of the manifold grace of God." Paul says that God has charged us with, "the ministry of reconciliation." It is this charge that has predicated our choices from the day we came to know Jesus until now and by His grace continues to do so. Jesus says, "We are the salt of the earth." How great the trust that God has committed to us! How small we are to carry it out.
I trust this season will be an especially precious one as you again contemplate the wonder of the season. May this propel us into a New Year with joy and confidence. Since God has so ordained that the believer in Jesus should be His mouthpiece in a lost and hopeless world, let us go forward in confidence and boldness. With Paul we admit that we are just not sufficient for such a task. However with Paul we can also say, " Our sufficiency is of God."
Thank you so much for having stood with this work through all these years. May the Lord bless and enrich your loves as only He can.
Richest blessings in 2008,
Elmer Fehr
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