Communication

Thanks for all of you who continue to come along side of us with prayer, moral, logistical, and financial partnering to help us further the this radical goofiness that is the good news of Jesus. We have had a busy month in July. I am going to talk about two areas of semiurgent needs from us. See the bold type and follow that up with a wrap up of prayer requests and where God's been working.

I need some help in two areas .
One is with the communication support aspect of our partnership though. I am looking for volunteers to help get these words to people who do not use computers but who attend a church that you attend. This maybe printing them off for a bulletin board post once a month or just giving them to people you know in your church who exceed in the area of prayer.

An illustration of this need is a lady in E KY named Peggy Manchini who has been serving God for a lot of years and who now spends a lot of her time praying. My parents will fill her in on our needs as they hear of them and she prays for us. She is a huge part of our team but if not for my parents she would not know how to pray effectively for us.

The second is for speaking engagements.
If you are in the eastern United States and would like us to speak at your church in August we need to know within 5-6 days so we can plan the next months of whereabouts for us. Also
So I hope you see the need.

If you are in Montana or points between MT and KY and would like us to visit your church we are traveling out to MT either the middle or end of August and will stay there through a good protion of September. Please let us know if we can come along with your church and partner with you to spread the word about us, IFAP, God's goodness etc.

IF you want to help out with these just send me an email at swegn001@gmail.com and let me know. This would also encourage Anna and I greatly as well.

Now for updates.

TRAVEL: We have been to Hazard KY, Lewisport KY, Chattanooga TN, Lewisport KY and now we are back in Hazard KY. We plan to be in WV this weekend then back to Chattanooga TN and Lewisport KY. After that we are planning to get to MT in September but see above for details. Thank God for travelin mercys so far and pray for contninued.

SPEAKING: We had a good week at Camp NAthanael, and we also enjoyed our visit at Hunter Memorial and Augst 9th we will be speaking at a C&MA church in Louisville KY. Please pray for that and for more engagements as well.

FAMILY: Praise God our family is doing well. Ian was ill for a couple days this week but we've enjoyed relaxing times and good visits with family

FINANCES: I was able to work some the month of July and will work some more the month of August. I am also trying to secure work in Browning while we are there. I am doing this to offset our living expenses here so as to not to dip into what people have given as gifts for our ministry. We also have recieved some more promised financial support and are about 1,ooo/mo away from being able to go for 3 years, and we are about 2,500/mo away from a more longterm support level. Please continue to pray that God will raise up people to partner with us in this area and prayerfully consider doing so.

Thanks again for praying with us.

Stephen

Famous Last Words

I bought a book in burlington VT called "Famous last words" and they range from the inane to the funny, sad, ironic, and profound.

One serves as a word of caution from General Sedgwick who was looking over the parapet at enemy lines and said "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist....." he of course was killed while saying those words.

Another even more poignant came from Simeon Calhoun in 1876. He said " Were the church of Christ was she should be, twenty years would not pass away without the story of Christ being uttered in the ear of every living person." Wow.

We are packing up again! We have turned my parents house into a UPS depot again! Tomorrow I go to pick up another UHAUL trailer to take some of our stuff to another destination again! Why? Because I want in 20 years for Simeon Calhoun's dying wish to be fulfilled. 200+ years later but fulfilled. Our family wants the people of ROC to live healthier lives, we want to see kids get physically better, but the root is what Simeon Calhoun was saying. We want people to hear the story of Christ. Not hear religous words laden with incorrect meaning, but to feel and know the love of the Creator for His children.

Continue to pray that we would have the courage and the love to live out God's love for the people we are around. Pray for safety as we travel to NC on Wed to drop off stuff we are shipping to the ROC.

Pray for the ROC, She is scheduled to have elections on 7/12.
Pray for us as I speak at Hunter Memorial Baptist Church on 7/12
Pray for us as we travel to Anna's grandmothers's on 7/12 and as I begin work on 7/13 at a hospital nearby.
Pray for continued financial provision and that we would be good stewards of His money.
Praise God that the week at Camp Nathanael went well.