“The RoseBouquet”

Hey, this is the week I finally am getting my Missionary Prayer letter out! Yee-Haw!

I don’t know how much you know about a missionary’s responsibility to recruit supporters, and to let those friends and supporters know how things are going, what the needs for prayer and the praise items are. Although I’m not a full-time missionary, and I’m starting this business on the side, I have been reminded recently that I need to get my Missionary Prayer letter out. Most missions expect you to do this at least quarterly. Nowadays many of them have an email mailing list and send their reports out every month.

I’m on the mailing list for quite a number of them, so I’ve no excuse for not knowing what to do. But trying to do all my usual work, plus start a business means that some things get squeezed quite a bit. But I resolved at the beginning of this month that in September I would get another mailing out. (I did my first one in May of last year, at Christmas, and a thank you ones in February this year, so it was high time).

Well, I spent three Sunday afternoons and evenings at it, and this last Sunday finally got a neat two-page letter ready. But my printer was not cooperating very well. So I focused on compiling a new email mailing list and hunting all over my computer for the email addresses of those already on my list. By about midnight I got that bunch off.

Then I counted how many would have to go to friends for whom I didn’t have email addresses, and uploaded the letter file to my website so I could pass it on to Joe at the office on Monday. He kindly printed it all out for me, making 45 copies. Last night at home I took a few hours to address the envelopes. Hopefully these will all end up in the mail today.

Yes! I did it!

If you would like to be on this mailing list and haven’t already received that letter from me, do let me know, and I’ll quickly send you one by email for this time around. Obviously, you don’t have to worry that I’ll send too many of these.

By the way, we do have a monthly ezine at Western Tract Mission that we send totally free to anyone who asks to be on our mailing list. It is called the Praise & Prayer Report. Each of our missionary couples, and Priscilla and I as singles, write a short piece to be included there. So in a sense I do write a monthly report out too, and the section on the website, and so on….

Otherwise, I’m busy trying to smooth out my daily office routines in my office suite here at WTM, enjoy lunch hour with the other missionaries downstairs, and am trying to bring my web businesses where they will bring in more support.