The boys assembled our supporters’ gifts, little bags of Butterfly Pea Tea or local coffee that Lance roasted in a traditional Thai basket. The boys were a huge help these past few weeks as we packed to leave.
Our goal for this time in the States is to update our current supporters and to add new ones through networking, to bring our monthly financial support up to being fully funded by the time we return in October. Please pray with us during this time as we focus on this need.
If you attend a church that supports us, we are working with your leadership to come and do a photo presentation for you of our ministry. We also plan to do presentations at a few supporters’ homes in Erie, Pennsylvania, the D.C. area, and Tremont, Illinois for our supporters in those areas who don’t attend a supporting church. If you would like to see our presentation and aren’t in those areas, please contact us and we can make plans with you to come to where you are.
If you’re able to host an evening in your home with people who may be interested in supporting our ministry, please consider this as a way to help us raise the support we need to go back to the field. Or if you think your church might be interested in supporting a new missionary family, please put us in contact with your leadership so we can share our ministry with them.
We’re so looking forward to reconnecting with our supporters and seeing our new family members we have yet to meet – three nieces and one nephew! We are doubly blessed as my sister Katy, who is a missionary in Brazil, will also be home for part of the time, so we can see her again too. It’s been over two years since we’ve seen any family members, so we are excited to have the opportunity to come back. Our first few weeks will be spent with family, but we will start visiting churches and speaking by the end of July.
Thank you for your prayers as we focus on raising the support we need before heading back to Thailand. Being fully funded, instead of living partially supported, will be a huge stressor lifted in our everyday life on the field. We know nothing will be accomplished without prayer, so please join us in praying for this need while we’re here.
Thank you for your prayer and financial support,
– Ruth, for the Baker family.