The Ruppel family has landed back in Cambodia. We landed safely at about 11 PM Thursday night (Cambodian time). A nice size group of our people came out to welcome us. it was quite a sacrifice for them. Many of them had a 45 minute ride home...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Dear Praying Friends: A brief note. We have had so much trouble with our bobpatton@sr.net line that we have stopped using it. Please use our bpatton@baptistworldmission.org address. We are using a gmail address at the moment, and may continue...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Dear Praying Friends: The Lord has been answering prayers. There was a situation within the leadership which has caused major problems for years in the main church in Suriname. This last week, there was a complete restoration of leadership....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Hello, We praise the Lord for a successfull summer camp this year. We had many new kids from the area of our church, as well as kids from a new area, which I mentioned before. The second week we lost some kids halfway through the week....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Greetings in Jesus' Name from Naples, Italy, It's been less than a month since my last letter, but there are several things that have transpired, and I need to send you all this letter of update. We have had a great Vacation Bible School here at...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Dear Praying Friends: Arriving back: We have arrived back in the USA, and are writing from South Bend, Indiana. We have had a rather exhausting and emotional last week. After moving out, Liz spent the last several days sorting and supervising...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Dear Praying Friends: We do cherish your prayers as we head toward the completion of our last week here. Moving day: We spent much of the last week packing up between church and calling. Kim and Ethan came with 6 of their kids Tues. – Caleb...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Hello, This Sunday was a exciting day, for several reasons. One, we had some visitors to preach salvation to. One middle-aged couple saw our sign and came in just to see what we were like. They go to the 1000+ attendee Charismatic church across...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Hello, Tomorrow our summer day camp starts, so we today between services pretty much everybody was busy with final preparations. We have 39 kids signed up, and most of them are new kids. We handed out camp flyers/invitations to church in the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Greetings in Jesus' Name from Naples, Italy, I'm back in Naples as of the 7th of June. It's said in the singular because I'm alone this time--for a little while. Linda is stillin Haines City, Florida with my dying mother. In my last Prayer...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
