Missionaries of the Week:

Jon & Karen Finley

Jon and Karen minister with a team of missionaries and French pastors in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. Through their missions agency, WorldVenture, they have purchased and renovated a large house, which they have named OIKOS.  Jon and Karen and their three little boys, Samuel (age 6), Michael (age 3), and newborn Nathanael, live on one floor of the house with rooms for as many as six 1-2 year interns on other floors.  Jon is involved with training these young people for evangelism and church planting. 

Jon and Karen are praying that they will fill OIKOS house with trainees and that they may be able to move into their own home in the same neighborhood.  Karen is a native Frenchwoman and a kindergarten teacher.  Jon is now so French that new friends are amazed to hear that he is from California.

Please pray for Jon, Karen, the boys and all who make up their team at OIKOS.

Field Address: 9, rue de la Mairie, 77185 Lognes, FRANCE
e-mail: finley@worldventure.net

9 Sunday  ~  Missionaries of the Week: Jon and Karen Finley, Paris (WV). Welcome to a new baby in our mission family – Nathanael David Finley, born February 5, 2008. Samuel and Michael are excited older brothers.
MK Birthday – Luke Taylor, 12, Japan

10 Monday  ~  Don and Cynthia Storrs, Colorado (GEM). Congratulate Don and Cynthia for the birth of their first granddaughter, Hailey, born February 19, 2008. Parents are the Storrs’ daughter, Annie, and her husband, Geoff Devlin.  All are doing well.

 11 Tuesday  ~ Ben and Tillie Yazzie, New Mexico (Missions Door). Continuing about new babies, Ben and Tillie are expecting a son around March 24.  All are excited about the new addition. Daughters Renata and Rachel, ages 14 and 9, will especially love a new baby with whom to cuddle and enjoy.

12 Wednesday  ~  Final update on babies and families this month: Rich and Sue Lackey’s son, Rich, and his wife, Christine, expect their first child on March 10.  This will be Rich and Sue’s first grandchild.  Their daughter, Michelle, was married a few months ago and now son Dan and his wife, Brittany, will be married May 10.
Birthday – Larry Stucky

13 Thursday  ~ Bill and Pam Rapier, South Africa/Illinois (African Leadership). Praise God that Bill was able to send three days in impoverished Zimbabwe, encouraging six pastors there as well as distributing food to these families.

14 Friday  ~ The Jesus Film. Pray for the Zuni Native American people associated with the Pueblo Indians in the Southwest. Each family on the reservation received a Jesus Film DVD from a local church group. Several have requested additional copies for family and friends.

15 Saturday  ~ Nicolas and Puspa Narjinary, North Bengal (Partners International). Pray for the work in North Bengal, focusing on church planting in tribal areas, ministry to children and compassionate assistance to the poor. Nicolas disciples young national church planters who are active in this ministry.  
MK Birthday Abby Deal (Age 2), AZ;
Nicolas Narjinary