Happenings with Janey

Janey is starting to see some improvement in the frequency and intensity of headaches cause my the TMJ in her jaw. There is still a long way to go and we are still appealing to our health insurance for a reversal of their denial of coverage for her treatment. Janey was born in Pennsylvania and is a lifetime Pittsburgh Steeler fan so she is very excited that they are in the Super Bowl. has been going through TMJ treatments for a few months now and is enduring a lot of pain in her jaws and the dentist is working to realign her jaw. We are having difficulty with our insurance company as they publish that they will cover up to $2,000 lifetime for TMJ treatments but they are not paying anything because they say that the treatment is medically unnecessary. As long as the treatments help, it will be worth the cost of the treatment and like He has done for our 14 years of ministry, God will supply.

Happenings with Benjamin

It was really fun to take Benjamin to California. From the time we got on the airplane and arrived in LA, it was a new adventure for him. We began by taking him to the Ronald Regan Museum in Simi Valley north of Los Angeles and then the next day he was able to visit Disney Land. The weather was great and the park wasn't crowded. On Wednesday, I had serveral ministry visits to do so Benjamin and Janey went to the Richard Nixon Museum since we were staying right in Yorba Linda. On Thursday we were able to take Benjamin to LegoLand and he really enjoyed it the most because it was build specifically for kids and they can enjoy the simplicity of the park and as parents, we enjoyed the many park benches that they had so we could rest along the way. We are very grateful for the family that gave us the tickets to go to these parks; it was a great blessing.

Benjamin is doing very well in his schoolwork, he has 4 chapters done on all 5 of his subjects and doesn't seem to have any difficulty with any of the subjects even though he is a grade ahead for his age. He is enjoying AWANA and will participate in the Bible Quiz competetion next week and he also plays Upward Basketball each week as well. It is much harder for him in basketball now because they have a 10' basket and the defense can steal the ball off of the dribble.

Ministry Update - Both USA and India

January has been a very busy month in that I have spent 10 days in California and in Oregon introducing Serve India Ministries to key churches and potential partners. We are talking with 3 churches and one business in LA that are seriously considering sponosering a mission field each. This would represent 60 pastors working in 300 villages. I then traveled to Portland where I had a booth at the Missions Connexion which is a major missions conference in the Northwest. Taking advantage of being in the area, I stayed over in Portland for 3 more days and was able to have a serveral more church visits with a church in Corvallis and a 5000 member church in Portland. The church in Corvallis is very interested in sponsoring a mission field in India and while I was there, they were spending an entire week as a church fasting and praying for God's direction for their church. If they do decide to sponsor, it will definately be because God is leading them. The church in Portland is actually already working in the state of Karnataka in India and we have 3 mission fields right in the same vacitnity so they were very interested in learning more to see if they could expand their church planting in the area. This is the same area where there are many Devadasi Temples and they have a burden for these little girls that are being offered to the temples.

In India, Brother Ebey and the ministry leaders are putting the finishing touches on adding 300 more pastors to our 5 year church planting/training program. This will put us at 1100 pastors working in 5500 villages. It is exciting to have a part in this great work.

One of the major challenges for our US office is to raise enough adminstrative support to serve all the pastors in India as well mission field supporters here in the USA. It is very important that we expand our US administrative fund so that we can properly keep up with the rapid growth on the field. I am currently working with a communications group that will help us get our messaging out on the web and drive thousands of potential supporters to our web site. It will take considerable investment to be sucessful but hopefully in a years time we will have a sustainable growth of our US admin fund as well as 20 - 50 new pastor sponsors per month. If we can find these new sponsors via the internet, this will keep up with the growth we need to reach our goal of 100,000 churches by 2020.

Thank you for taking a few minutes to read this letter. Our family is doing well, completeing a busy January. I was scheduled to travel to the West Coast to visit key partners and churches interested in Los Angeles and then travel to Portland for a missions conference and then return to Kansas City on January 26th.

Not wanting to be gone for 10 days without being with Janey and Benjamin, we were able to purchase tickets for them so they could go with me to California. We were very blessed that some friends of our ministry was very generous to us and bought tickets for us to visit Legoland and Disneyland. It is such a blessing as parents to be able to take our son to some fun places while keeping him introduced to the mission field. Our next travel I hope with be to India as funds become available.