Dear friends,
It’s been a huge few weeks for us, and our lives are very different now! Kristy and I were married on April 24! Now we’re back and ready to continue our support-raising in order to return to the Czech Republic by the early fall.
We want to thank you all for the part that you’ve played in our lives up until this point and look forward to the future as we continue to partner with you in what God is doing in Czech! Kristy and I have really enjoyed looking back at our lives and ministry over the last several years and seeing how God has brought us together in His perfect time and place to prepare us to serve together in the Czech Republic as man and wife. We are so blessed that you are a part of this journey as well, through you prayers, encouragement, support, and finances.
We hope to return to Czech in the fall in time for the beginning of the English semester at Maják. We can’t wait to return to our friends in Brno and continue to share Christ with them. For now, we are in Florida raising our support. At the end of June, we plan to move back to Indiana and continue to share with churches about what God is doing in Czech! Please pray for us during these times of transition.
Before we can leave for the Czech Republic, we need to have 100% of our faith promise commitments. When our joint budget is completed, it looks like we will still be about 40% short of our total faith promise. We are currently looking for individuals and churches to help to fill in this gap. Maybe you have received our updates for some time and been a strong prayer warrior and God is asking you to also be a financial supporter. Maybe you have already been giving and God is asking you to step out in faith to increase your faith promise commitment. We ask that you would pray about this and how God would have you to partner with us in reaching the Czech people for Christ. You can become a faith promise partner by doing one of the following:
Send an e-mail to us at pnb77@hotmail.com saying what your commitment will be. We only need your address, the amount, and the time frame of the commitment, i.e. continuous, term, or for 1, 2, or 3 years. We will forward your e-mail to GP. (If any personal information has changed please include that also, i.e. e-mail, address, etc.)
You may call Global Partners at 317-774-7961 and speak with Heather Bradley. She will take all your information and record it for our support.
Go to http://www.wesleyan.org/gp and find our name under “Missionaries.” From there, you can read our bio and become a faith promise partner.
Serving Him,
Phil & Kristy Boardman
Our Address at D&D Missionary Homes:
4020 58th Ave. N.
St. Petersburg, FL 33714
Cell: 812-461-8339
Email: pnb77@hotmail.com
Global Partners
PO Box 50434
Indianapolis, IN 46250
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Our Missionary Friends-The McGrady Family
Dear Family and Friends,
Greetings to you from the USA! We wanted to share with you some exciting events that took place as we closed out our ministry in Ecuador. We thank you so much for your support and prayers and ask that you continue as we begin our home ministry here in the US. We ask for your prayers as we re-enter our lives in Jackson, Michigan and make plans for the future ministry that God has for us as service as missionaries.
We will be available to speak in churches and to groups beginning in August, so please feel free to contact us if you our your church are interested. We hope to connect with all of you in the months to come.
Many blessings as you visit our web site at http://straightpaths.org/news.aspx be sure to check out Jordan's Corner and our home page.
Love and prayers,
Ned, Marlene and Jordan
Rev. Ned R. McGrady
Global Partners Pastor to Missionaries
USA Cell Phone (727) 459-2966
Email ned@straightpaths.org
Skype ned.mcgrady
Skype Phone (727) 231-4151
www.straightpaths.org
Greetings to you from the USA! We wanted to share with you some exciting events that took place as we closed out our ministry in Ecuador. We thank you so much for your support and prayers and ask that you continue as we begin our home ministry here in the US. We ask for your prayers as we re-enter our lives in Jackson, Michigan and make plans for the future ministry that God has for us as service as missionaries.
We will be available to speak in churches and to groups beginning in August, so please feel free to contact us if you our your church are interested. We hope to connect with all of you in the months to come.
Many blessings as you visit our web site at http://straightpaths.org/news.aspx be sure to check out Jordan's Corner and our home page.
Love and prayers,
Ned, Marlene and Jordan
Rev. Ned R. McGrady
Global Partners Pastor to Missionaries
USA Cell Phone (727) 459-2966
Email ned@straightpaths.org
Skype ned.mcgrady
Skype Phone (727) 231-4151
www.straightpaths.org
Monday, May 10, 2010
Newspaper Column by Pastor Roger Campbell
NEWSPAPER COLUMN Roger Campbell
A MONUMENT TO YOUR MOTHER
Bunhill Cemetery in London may have the highest monument to a mother anywhere in the world. There, at the grave of Susannah Wesley, stands a monument fourteen feet tall
honoring this mother of faith who was known for her ability to stay calm and cheerful in difficult circumstances.
“Give others the sunshine and give Jesus the rest,” Susannah repeated frequently and her simple secret of contentment through faith so impacted her sons, John and Charles, that they became the prime movers in England’s greatest spiritual awakening. Millions still sing the songs that John and Charles wrote, not knowing that these musical expressions of faith, hope and love came from the influence of a mother who had a singing heart, even during tough times.
Susannah didn’t have an easy life. She gave birth to nineteen children, nine of whom died in infancy and her husband, Samuel, was more interested in writing poetry than dealing with pressing issues facing his family.
In spite of her many pressures and responsibilities, however, this now famous mother found she could recharge her spiritual batteries by having a guarded time each day to read her Bible and pray, setting an example for mothers everywhere.
It’s not likely that Susannah would have approved the costly fourteen foot tall monument to her memory. She was a no-nonsense woman who was more interested in living legacies than those made of stone. Faithful children are the most important monuments to a mother’s faith. Stones crumble and fall but faith transferred from one generation to the next endures forever.
A MONUMENT TO YOUR MOTHER PAGE TWO Roger Campbell
Robert Moffat, a later world known missionary, said his mother had asked him to promise her that he would begin and close each day with God. When he agreed to do so, his mother sent him off to serve God on foreign mission fields with her prayers and a kiss. Moffat said that kiss made him a missionary and his great work remains as a monument to his faithful mother.
Thomas Edison wrote, “I didn’t have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence that has lasted all my life. The great effects of her early training, I can never lose. If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I should never have become an inventor. My mother was the making of me.
When I stood before the board of the country church we attended to be examined for membership, the oldest deacon said, “I want you to remember that your mother brought you to Sunday School when the weather was too bad for men to get here.”
One of the most familiar hymns, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” was written by Joseph Scriven to help his mother through a period of anxiety. Joseph had endured many trials, including the accidental drowning of his beautiful bride-to-be. Was he now comforting his mother by saying that his faith was a monument to the value of her example during his time of great loss? Probably.
We’re all building monuments to our mothers every day. The way we live determines how tall they will be.
Roger Campbell is an author, a broadcaster and columnist who was a pastor for 22 years.
He can be reached at rcministry@ameritech.net
A MONUMENT TO YOUR MOTHER
Bunhill Cemetery in London may have the highest monument to a mother anywhere in the world. There, at the grave of Susannah Wesley, stands a monument fourteen feet tall
honoring this mother of faith who was known for her ability to stay calm and cheerful in difficult circumstances.
“Give others the sunshine and give Jesus the rest,” Susannah repeated frequently and her simple secret of contentment through faith so impacted her sons, John and Charles, that they became the prime movers in England’s greatest spiritual awakening. Millions still sing the songs that John and Charles wrote, not knowing that these musical expressions of faith, hope and love came from the influence of a mother who had a singing heart, even during tough times.
Susannah didn’t have an easy life. She gave birth to nineteen children, nine of whom died in infancy and her husband, Samuel, was more interested in writing poetry than dealing with pressing issues facing his family.
In spite of her many pressures and responsibilities, however, this now famous mother found she could recharge her spiritual batteries by having a guarded time each day to read her Bible and pray, setting an example for mothers everywhere.
It’s not likely that Susannah would have approved the costly fourteen foot tall monument to her memory. She was a no-nonsense woman who was more interested in living legacies than those made of stone. Faithful children are the most important monuments to a mother’s faith. Stones crumble and fall but faith transferred from one generation to the next endures forever.
A MONUMENT TO YOUR MOTHER PAGE TWO Roger Campbell
Robert Moffat, a later world known missionary, said his mother had asked him to promise her that he would begin and close each day with God. When he agreed to do so, his mother sent him off to serve God on foreign mission fields with her prayers and a kiss. Moffat said that kiss made him a missionary and his great work remains as a monument to his faithful mother.
Thomas Edison wrote, “I didn’t have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence that has lasted all my life. The great effects of her early training, I can never lose. If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I should never have become an inventor. My mother was the making of me.
When I stood before the board of the country church we attended to be examined for membership, the oldest deacon said, “I want you to remember that your mother brought you to Sunday School when the weather was too bad for men to get here.”
One of the most familiar hymns, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” was written by Joseph Scriven to help his mother through a period of anxiety. Joseph had endured many trials, including the accidental drowning of his beautiful bride-to-be. Was he now comforting his mother by saying that his faith was a monument to the value of her example during his time of great loss? Probably.
We’re all building monuments to our mothers every day. The way we live determines how tall they will be.
Roger Campbell is an author, a broadcaster and columnist who was a pastor for 22 years.
He can be reached at rcministry@ameritech.net
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