Dear Prayer Partner,
Thank you for your prayers for us during our home assignment. We are now back home in the Solomon Islands. I want to thank the churches in Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina (including Charlotte Trinity in NC), Arizona, Oregon, and Washington who opened their churches, homes, and hearts so we could challenge your congregation with the stories of what God is doing. I want to remind you as our prayer partner that you are so vital in the mission and ministry. As the global community is confronted with many natural disasters, wars, tension and other needs, it is so encouraging to realize you are there with your prayers and finances. I want to thank you especially for your faithfulness to the World Evangelism Offering, and Faith Promise. It was our pleasure to meet and visit with many of you who faithfully pray for us. Thanks again.
We had a fairly full schedule, especially considering the Christmas Holiday, which is not an especially good time for deputation services. But we only had two Sundays off. We thank the Lord for the 4 district tours we had. We shared in a total of 60 different venues, and had 77 services, including Sundays and weekdays, Faith Promise banquets, Sunday School, Children services such as Caravan camp, Children’s Mission day, Children’s church, and a class at SNU. The United States experienced one of the coldest winters ever on recorded history. The Lord took care of us in a remarkable way. We went to SC after the snow had melted off the roadways from an unusually heavy snow for that part of the country [actually they rarely get an accumulation of snow]. While in South Carolina, Dallas and OKC had a blizzard, or such as schools were closed. The day we flew out of Charlotte, NC it was snowing but we arrived back in Dallas to fair weather. We did get to see around 9-12 inches accumulation of snow at Prescott, Arizona while at the district camp site and then more snow in Washington, but there was no ice and the driving was fine. Thank you for your prayers for our traveling safety, as we flew and then traveled around in a rental car. Your prayers were answered and we did not have trouble.
Our Grandson Zach traveled with us for 5-6 weeks of our trip. It was a blessing having him along and he really enjoyed it too and meeting the wonderful people.
Solomon Island Internet: (Expensive and Slow)
We are back in the Solomon Islands and one of the really noticeable differences in the Solomon Islands in the Internet Speed. We have “high speed (ADSL)” but it is so slow, compared to the USA. But at least it is expensive here too, and we are only allowed one gig download/upload for our monthly fee of US $100. These days with our three computers we approach the 1 gig with just the virus and other program updates.
That said, “PLEASE, may I request that you do NOT send us large [more than 50 KB] unsolicited emails.” You notice I don’t send photos or attachments with our prayer letter and there is a reason for that. It is expensive. I know there are a lot of excellent things floating around and some of them are very good. But please do not forward these on to us. God will still bless you, and regardless of what the email says about what will happen or about showing your love for God if you pass it on. Please refrain. To send photos reduce the size so it will be small.
This only pertains to the large documents, please keep the prayer letters (with minimal formatting), cards, and emails, coming. If you see something we might be interested in you can suggest a URL that we can go to if in fact it is something we would like or need for ministry.
Prayer Requests:
1. Our unpacking and settling back in. I (George) seem to be just worn out.
2. Nancy as she quickly resumed her work as principal.
3. We are dealing with a land issue.
4. Bible College Classes coming up in May.
5. Pray for our Christians that they will be living examples of Christ and passionate about making Christ-like disciples.
6. The Easter camp, coming up next month.
7. The Lord’s direction in the appointment of a local District Superintendent.
Thank you so much for your prayers.
Your partners in His ministry.
George Miller,
Solomon Islands -Church of the Nazarene
PO Box 712, Honiara, Solomon Islands
Office/Home: 677 25-109 Mobile: 677 74 68920
USA Contact:
c/o 10109 Links Fairway Drive
Rowlett, TX 75089
Phone: (469) 377-0400
email: george_nancy@reachone.com
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