Prayers for Phil and Kristy Boardman

Dear friends,
It’s the middle of September already and we pray that within a month we will be in the Czech Republic once again! We’ve had a busy month of traveling to churches, family, and friends and sharing about our work in Czech. God’s been providing for our daily needs, as well as providing more monthly faith promise partners to join our team. We now only need 58 more people who would give $30/month! We would love for you to be a part of this. If you would be a part of our team through monthly giving, no matter how small the amount, or have questions about this, please respond to this email. We’ll plan to send out more quick updates to you over the next few weeks as the Lord continues to provide for our financial need and we prepare to return to the Czech Republic.
You are a vital part of our ministry through your prayers. We want to leave you with some prayer requests for the ministry in Czech:
1. Conversation Club begins on September 21! We’ll miss the first couple weeks of this, but can’t wait to join back in these exciting conversations!
2. The Fall English semester begins on October 4.
3. Pray for our friends Eva and Ivo, as we’ll have much more direct contact with them when we return to Czech. Please pray that they will begin to be open to Christ’s love and forgiveness.
Finally, we want to thank those of you who have already responded with your address and phone number. It is really helping us to update our records. If you haven’t yet, please respond to this email with that information. We really appreciate it!
Serving Him,
Phil & Kristy Boardman


(In Michigan, during our visit to North Lakeport Wesleyan Church)


Our mailing address in Indiana:
715 S. Runnymeade Ave.
Evansville, IN 47714
Cell: 812-461-8339
E-Mail: pnb77@hotmail.com


Global Partners
PO Box 50434
Indianapolis, IN 46250

A NOTE FROM OUR MISSIONARY FRIENDS

We hope that you are having a great summer! We thank you so much for praying for us this month, we covet your prayers as we follow God's direction for our lives and ministry.
Please visit our web site at http://straightpaths.org/default.aspx

Rev. Ned R. McGrady
Global Partners Pastor to Missionaries

Our Missionary Friends-Phil and Kristy

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

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

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

McGrady's Our Missionary Family

Dear Friends and Family,

WOW! Can you believe that we have come to the end of our term of service and it is time to return to the USA on April 27? We have been amazed at the great things that God has done through you partnership with us here in Ecuador and around Latin America and Haiti. We have been able to visit all of our missionaries serving on the field in six countries and you have have made that possible through your giving and prayers. Thanks so much for standing with us.

This month we focus on our Pastor to Missionary Ministry and invite you to visit our web site for a full report. http://straightpaths.org/pastorstomissionaries.aspx

Also, be sure to check out Jordan's Corner this month for a special edition.
http://straightpaths.org/jordanscorner.aspx

We look forward to seeing many of you and plan to visit with as many of you as possible in this coming year. If you or your church would be interested in us coming for a missionary service please contact us. Also if you would like to renew your support for our mission work please visit the home page on our web site for info.

Sincerely,
Ned, Marlene and Jordan


Rev. Ned R. McGrady
Global Partners Pastor to Missionaries in Ecuador
Apartado 01.01.338
Cuenca, Ecuador South America
Ecuador Home Phone 593-07-408-2545

Celular: 593-08-049-8723
Email ned@straightpaths.org
Skype ned.mcgrady
Skype Phone (727) 231-4151
www.straightpaths.org
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EASTER DECLARES DEATH DOESN’T GET THE LAST WORD

NEWSPAPER COLUMN Roger Campbell
EASTER DECLARES DEATH DOESN’T GET THE LAST WORD
A minister friend of mine was once approached by a delegation from a small religious group in his city to see if he would be willing to officiate at funerals of their members.
They told him they had no one trained in speaking at funerals and that, if he accepted their offer, they would require that he never mention death during his sermon because they didn’t believe in it.
The caring pastor decided to accept this offer to serve hurting people, in spite of their strange restriction, thinking it would provide him an opportunity to comfort grieving families and that in spite of their denial of reality, death would speak for itself.
In contrast to the conclusion of this delegation of death deniers, Easter faces the problem of death head-on and offers hope to those facing it.
Early in His ministry, Jesus had been challenged by His critics who demanded a sign to prove His authority to teach and work miracles. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up,” He had replied (John 2:18).
Thinking He was referring to the temple in Jerusalem, His enemies reminded Him it had taken forty six years to build that magnificent structure and that rebuilding it in three days after its destruction would require a miracle. But He was speaking of the resurrection of His body three days after the coming crucifixion.
Talk about drawing a line in the sand!
With one startling statement, our Lord risked everything on His promise of resurrection. Others have since made similar statements and convinced many
to follow them but when death came and they didn’t rise from their graves they were
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revealed to have been either deceived or deceivers.
This man was different.
There have been great military leaders but they have all been defeated by death.
There have been conquering kings but death has conquered them all.
There have been famous philosophers and teachers but they have all gone to their graves like the unlettered and unknown.
Then came Easter: bringing indisputable proof that our Lord was who He had claimed to be. This demonstration of authenticity transformed His trembling disciples into dynamic people of faith.
In some areas, now considered vital, the infant first century church was powerless.
It was without financial power. The members had to sell their belongings and pool their resources just to survive.
The first century church was also without political power. Neither the apostles nor their followers could pull strings in high places. Furthermore, there is no evidence that they ever tried to do so. Their master had said His kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36) so they left politics to the politicians and set out to impact the world one person at a time. In doing so, they gained the reputation of being world changers.
Easter may be the perfect launching time for a spiritual awakening that revives our
churches and changes our troubled world today.
Roger Campbell is an author, a broadcaster and columnist who was a pastor for 22 years.
He can be reached at rcministy@ameritech.net