Going Forward Again.

Greetings to you friend,

It has been a few Months since we have communicated by way of a blog and I felt as though we were past due. We have now been back home in the U.S.  3 Months,  after a  6 Months tour of duty as foreign Missionaries to the Country of India.

First of all we want to say a sincere and heartfelt thank you to all of our friends and supporters of our Ministry. We know for absolute certain that the work which we did in India was a great success because of your faithful prayers on our behalf and the generous support of many who are reading this blog today. Our Family stands forever grateful to you and we know that God will richly reward you on that great day.

Making the decision to go and serve in India as Missionaries was the most difficult decision that our Family has ever had to make. We discovered that it takes a tremendous amount of courage, faith and determination for one to embark on the journey as a full-time Missionary. We learned from experience  that it is not easy to break away from one’s  ‘normal ‘, daily , predictable life and set out on a course toward self-supporting labor in order to spread the Gospel. There is that ever resounding ‘what if ‘that always seeks to hound us every  day and at every advance step.

What if we fail? What if we fall flat on our faces?  What if we don’t stay afloat financially?   What if all of our struggling and sacrificing is in vain? What if we return to India and we get terribly sick or even die due to the environmental conditions there?  These and many other what if’s are a regular part of everyday life. The book Patriarch’s and Prophet however, has given us some sound counsel that has helped to guide us on this journey. It says “ Often the Christian life is beset by dangers, and duty seems hard to perform. The imagination pictures impending ruin before and bondage or death behind. Yet the voice of God speaks clearly, “Go forward.” We should obey this command, even though our eyes cannot penetrate the darkness, and we feel the cold waves about our feet. The obstacles that hinder our progress will never disappear before a halting, doubting spirit. Those who defer obedience till every shadow of uncertainty disappears and there remains no risk of failure or defeat, will never obey at all. Unbelief whispers, “Let us wait till the obstructions are removed, and we can see our way clearly;” but faith courageously urges an advance, hoping all things, believing all things.”{PP 290.2} .

Beyond all of the challenges and hardships that we have faced over the past year, we the Simpson Family have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt  that God is faithful. And because God is faithful we can go out on the limb for him at any time. And so with that foundation being laid have decided after prayer and serious consideration to return for a second Missionary tour to the Country of India in July 2011.

We plan to return to the Villapuram Region in the State of Tamil Nadu India to continue our work there as Missionary Evangelists. Our initial visit last year yielded much fruit to the glory of God even though it was only our first visit to this Region. We were able to evangelize many unreached Villages and spread the Everlasting Gospel Message there.  We were also able to secure land for a group of persecuted believers, this property is still being finalized and plans are currently under way to construct a Church building for this Village.  We were also able to provide employment for 4 native bible workers who will be working with us to do ground work and follow-up work in our new areas of outreach.  As a result of our family’s humble efforts in helping to open this new Region, the Southern Indian Union has plans to plant several Churches in the  Villapuram Region  over the next  5 years, all to which we can only say praise be to God.

Our plans this time are to visit the local Villages where we have already conducted  Evangelistic meetings as well as to start  new congregations in un entered Villages. We also hope  to conduct nightly health meetings and provide free high blood pressure and diabetes testing for local Villagers throughout the region.

We want to solicit your earnest prayers for our family as we make preparations for a second Mission trip. We know that there will inevitably be challenges to meet in India, the last time we  worked in India we suffered through several bouts of Dysentery, internal parasites and various other ailments and afflictions. Yet, nevertheless we feel compelled to again advance in faith as we hear the Macedonian cry “come over and help us” sounding from this distant heathen land. As we see all of the unfolding of events taking place in the relentless tornadoes that are now battering our land. As we see the tumults and uprisings of Nation against Nation we know that our Earth’s history will soon close and that we must work while the day lasts for the night cometh when no man can work.

May God bless you as we  work together to hasten our Lord’s coming, Maranatha.

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