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Dear Friends,
I feel I cannot write fast enough to get all my thoughts down on paper before I forget something! (That is what age does to you.) Thank you for all the Christmas notes of encouragement and family updates, as well as the financial gifts to FOMMI. I also thank you for the many birthday cards, phone calls and texts I received in January. I am humbled for the Lord to remind me that I have many friends and whole churches who are praying for me, so I have no excuse for not remaining faithful in the role God has placed me in. A missionary friend wrote that Psalm 9:1,2 had become favorite verses for her. I love it and especially like to hear it sung. “I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High.”
A week after my birthday I received a not so welcome present---I came down with COVID for the second time! It was not as severe as the 2021 event, but kept me isolated and feeling “puny” for a week. I am thankful to be back to normal activities.
Today my pastor, Tim Fellure, and Fisher-Mund’s sidekick, Henry Vick, along with three other men, will begin a trip to Bangladesh to view the work there under the direction of Proshenjit Sarkar, nicknamed “Lemon”. They will get to view the numerous young churches as well as the base station. Pray for their safety and that they will be a blessing as well as receive one. Their return is scheduled to begin February 21, with U.S. arrival on February 22. This is a very strenuous trip (not a vacation). The Bible school was set to open in January, but new rounds of COVID have caused them to delay that.
Jeph Palit-Ang, pastor of FOM Baptist Church in San Fernando City, La Union, Philippines will meet those men in Bangladesh to be a part of the trip. He has much experience in operating a bible school and is helping Lemon get established in that way. I apologize that I have not requested an update from the Philippines so as to include it here. They celebrate Christmas as we do, so you know they have been busy. Joevest Varghese wrote that the ministry in India is growing and 42 unreached villages are being evangelized. The Bible School will be graduating six students in April and there are already new students eager to be trained. Some young ladies are wanting to join the Bible institute so they are being considered for the next year. There are 21 converts in Maharashtra and 40 in Orissa who are awaiting baptism. Opposition is being faced in those areas.
January saw many requests for copies of Anchors of the Faith from many areas in the U.S. I am not sure how inmates in distant prisons know to request it, but they do. Some churches also use it for new converts. Henry Vick continues to see many inmates complete the course in the jail in Escambia County, Florida. There have also been requests for copies of Nautical Notes. I am thankful that God continues to use these books to bring the lost to Him.
In uploading weekly radio broadcasts recently, I had completed a full week’s worth for the dropbox for radio stations as well as supplying the podcasts and discovered that the 15-minute program was too long. In verifying it, I found that it contained all five of the M-F 5-minute programs as well as the 15-minute one. Since I could not fix the 15-minute one (complicated process), that left me with no option but to delete them all and start over with another subject. It made me wonder if the devil didn’t want that broadcast heard.
Personally I am still invested in sharing care for my mother-in-law, who reached the age of 100 early in February. All these things keep me fully occupied.
Until next time,
Lenora Mund
Office Manager
Fishers of Men Ministries International
PO Box 400
Bon Secour AL 36511
(251) 752-1495
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