Myers Weekly Prayer Letter

Todd and Lisa Hoskins return to Swaziland after several weeks in West Africa attending 40/40 arriving in time to celebrate Thanksgiving Day with the Swazi Team. The week after Thanksgiving Todd and Lisa will begin two months of language/culture learning. Pray for the Hoskins as they begin a time of transition to Swaziland and working with the Swazi people. Pray their time of language/culture learning will be very beneficial. Pray for the beginning of new ministries and deeper relationship with the Lord.
--After the first of the year the Hoskins will move to Manzini to begin their ministry as church planters and developing rural leadership training schools. Wednesday Wayne is meeting with the director of the TransWorld Radio ministry to view an apartment for the Hoskins. Pray the right housing situation will be found for the Hoskins.

Steven, Monica and Nathan return to Mbabane today after Steven had his appendix removed (laparoscopic) yesterday. Steven had been experiencing pain in his side off and on for a couple of months. Pray for their safe journey to Swaziland today and Steven will continue to heal and recover from his surgery.

We have experienced many days of rain in Tshaneni. Thank you for praying and we ask you to continue praying the rains will enable the harvest to be a good one for the Swazi people. Pray there will be plenty and food and water to meet the Swazis’ needs.Tuesday night during the beginning of a storm I was working on a Christmas jigsaw puzzle. It was thundering and the wind was gusting but I didn’t pay much attention and kept working on my puzzle. All of once a gust of wind blew (rather hard I might add) a middle-sized bug into my eye. Now I had never had this happen to me before (and I hope I never have it happen again) but I immediately jumped up from my puzzle and ran around the room while the bug did the jitterbug in my eye trying to get the bug out. The dancing continued until it dawned on me I needed to flush out the offending bug with water. This I did to my relief. I felt sorry for the bug (who died) but was so glad he was out of my eye and glad we didn’t do the waltz of bumble bee!!

The Swazi Team will not be going to grandfather’s house or traveling through drifting snow, but they are coming to the Myers’ house in Tshaneni for turkey, dressing and all the fixings. Our house is decorated for Thanksgiving and fun. Pray for a time of fun, fellowship and giving thanks for the blessings the Lord daily provides us.

We would also like to wish each of you a most wonderful and happy THANKSGIVING DAY!! It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praise to your name, Most High, to proclaim your kindness at dawn and your faithfulness throughout the night. Psalm 92:1,2

November 28-December 5: International Week of Prayer and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering JIn 2006 the cost of supporting a missionary:$.08 a minute, $4.66 an hour, $111.96 a day, $785.90 a week, $3,405.55 a month, $40,866.61 a year.Your church’s involvement in the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering provides for your IMB missionaries’ day-to-day needs. Because you give sacrificially, your missionaries can spend their time reaching lost people instead of raising support. The offering comprises 53 percent of the IMB’s total income, and every penny goes to missionaries and their ministries.Your IMB missionaries give their lives to the missions’ task. Your faithful support keeps them on the field doing what God has called them to do. With each soul won to Christ, each new believer’s baptism and each church-planting movement started, you are a faithful partner in the harvest.

What missionary worked for 40 years in China, literally giving her life to her work? Lottie Moon, who is famous for her desperate appeal in 1888 for more missionaries (resulting in the annual Lottie Moon Christmas Offering). Funds were so scarce that Lottie once spent 14 consecutive years on the mission field. She starved with the Chinese and died on Christmas Eve 1912.What are the main intermediate channels for Southern Baptist international mission funding? The Cooperative Program, initiated in the mid-20s to channel funds to the various Southern Baptist agencies and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, which traces its origins back to 1888.Missions is our Southern Baptist heritage. Remember the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Pray the 2010 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering will enable missionaries to be sent to minister to many lost and dying peoples. Pray Lottie Moon’s legacy will live through the IMB missionaries around the world. Thank you for your support!!