First public Weekend to Remember in China
This report just in from our team in China, who just held their first Weekend to Remember conference publically available and with the newly approved Chinese manuals!
We had a packed house with about 180 people, used all the available chairs. Speakers did a great job, especially Jonathan who did the Power talk (gospel presentation).
65 want to get involved with HomeBuilders
67 want to volunteer for future events
29 indicated decisions for Christ!
79 prayed to be filled with the Holy Spirit
75 recommitted their life and family to Christ
To God be the glory,
Jim & Judy
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Life Ready Woman in Romania
Continuing with my global theme recently, here is a email I just received about how Life Ready Woman is being used in Romania:
Hello there!
I am a missionary
serving here in Romania. I have a wonderful group of young women from our
church that I am taking thru the “Life Ready Woman” course.
They all have a very good proficiency of English, but I’ve been previewing each
lesson to see if there are any “americanisms” or langugage-related
things that could help their understanding.The reason(s) I’m
writing is (are) that I don’t know if you have any plans to someday have this
either translated into other languages (or subtitled in English, which “my
girls” say would help them immensely!).. but if you do, I would be more
than happy to pass along some of the things we’ve come up with that have been a
slight hindrance to understanding the concepts presented.…the study has been VERY
well received and has been helpful for all! We represent several
seasons of life: single, married with no children, married with
pre-schoolers – - most in their late 20′s/early 30′s… and then there’s
me: old enough to be their mother and an empty nester! I LOVE this
age group!!! And have met with some of the gals for 6 years now!
I’ve learned a LOT from them!Serving Him with you,
Mary
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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FamilyLife Cuba?
We talk a lot about what is going on with FamilyLife in the United States, but our partners throughout the world are doing amazing things globally. Besides the good news I recently shared about Weekend to Remember in China, check out this prayer letter from one of our international FamilyLife directors about their recent experience doing the conferences in Cuba.
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Our Adoption Agency Celebrates 40 years of Finding Forever Families
In 1996, Karana and I began feeling led to pursue adoption. We wanted more children but were pretty sure doing it the old-fashioned way wasn’t a good idea due to health concerns. When we began praying about it, the Lord answered our prayer very clearly through a FamilyLife Today broadcast with Jorie Kinkead about international adoption in which Dennis Rainey, in his usual fashion, challenged the listeners to consider whether there was room in our homes for another child. We felt that call very clearly.
We began looking for an agency to help us and spoke to several. When we spoke to the folks at Dillon International in Tulsa we very quickly knew that we had found the right ones. Their heart of service and of love for our Lord Jesus came through loud and clear. They walked and prayed us through the journey of adopting our son and then, 2 years later, our daughter from Korea. We not only got the help we needed, we found some new lifelong friends.
2012 marks the 40th year of Dillon International serving the needs of adoptive families before, during and after their adoption. As November is National Adoption Awareness Month, it seemed like a good time to share. Soon, we hope to take a trip with these wonderful folks back to Korea with our 3 youngest children (the oldest 2 have already been) to visit our adopted kids’ homeland and possibly meet their birth parents. You can be praying about that as it is quite expensive to travel internationally.
Thank you Lord for Jerry and Deniese Dillon, their vision to serve you through adoption and all of the wonderful team that you have assembled to help make that vision a reality! We have been blessed.
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First Hope for Orphans Pastor’s Conference held in Korea
If you know our family, you know of our heart for Korea because our family is now Korean/American. That’s why I was so excited to see this note from Paul Pennington, Director of Hope for Orphans, FamilyLife’s orphan awareness ministry. Gotta love the kid front and center in the picture, too! Kids are the same everywhere 
Today HFO participated in our first ever Pastors Conference in Korea. It was a great day of testimonies and vision casting. We prayed that God will bring an awakening in the Korean church for the thousands of children waiting for a home.
In this picture, with our team, are all pastors associated with our partner MPACT along with their wives. I believe that every single one of them is an adoptive parent in a culture where very few believers would even consider adoption. They are pioneers. They especially enjoyed the Q&A time with Ethan, Hope and Noah.
Thank you for praying for our team. Last evening we had a wonderful worship service at Onnuri church that none of us will ever forget. The Spirit was present in a powerful way. Tomorrow, we travel to Holt Korea and the orphanage that our grandson Benjamin came from. This work is a pioneer in making it possible for Koreans and we believe now US citizens with dual Korean citizenship (living in Korea) to adopt domestically at ZERO cost.
Blessings
Paul
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The Art of Marriage Keeps on Trucking!
It was only in February 2011 that the Art of Marriage opened with a bang but it has continued to keep growing and gaining steam. A few stats, some news and then some great stories:
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