Ministry Updates and News from the Mehns
Thank you so much for praying for me and my teammate Phu Pham’s trip to Bangkok to meet with our South Asia partners. Last year there were 12 key leaders and this time we nearly doubled with 23. They were eager learners and workers. They picked up the missions strategic trajectory we launched last year and turned the 4 priorities into four working teams. The teams were 1) strategy, 2) training, 3) assessing new missionaries,…
It was very hot in Tokyo in August. A few days before I arrived they announced a new record high. The day I left for Bangkok they announced that the new record high had already been broken. We are talking over 107 degrees! The entire month in Japan was high humidity and temperatures over 90 degrees, including the evenings. HOT!. Elaine and I don’t miss living in Tokyo for that. I was in Tokyo just…
We are truly grateful to God and for many generous people and churches who give to allow John to continue his impactful ministry in Asia with these key projects and opportunities. Over the last several months we have been sharing with you that our financial support has developed a slow leak. Over the summer it dropped from 95% to now 92%, which is cause for concern. We ask you FIRST to pray about our financial…
How many friends do you have? How many Great Commission friends do you have? How many ministry partners do you have in Asia? Well each week and month this is our Asia Impact Team’s (AIT) plan to develop contacts in the 50 countries in Asia, connect with some of them to see if we can partner for movements, a few we begin equipping ministries leading to multiplying their discipling and church planting efforts. Just this…
Road Trip Your July 2025 Update from John and Elaine Do you like long road trips in the car? Road trips come with good and bad. Last month Elaine and I enjoyed one of our last road trips to Kentucky and Ohio. We first visited Elaine’s sister in Kentucky as she is unable to travel to us. We had a great visit with her and other relatives. Then we headed to Ohio to visit many…
FOCUS ON SOUTH ASIA Just this week, Phu Pham and John met online for planning with two key leaders we will see for a Strategy Summit early next month. In just a short amount of time, just 3-4 years, our team and a South Asian group have built remarkable partnerships and trusting relationships for collaboration. Just following the unbelievable story of the collaboration this story is just at its beginning (see the article on the…
This month Elaine and I will be in the MidAtlantic region of Converge visiting churches in Ohio by touching base with them and seeing their mission opportunities. For you in our Mentor church we will be dropping by Sunday June 8th. We hope to see many of you from Anchor Church in Avon Lake on Monday night the 9th. Then we will be attending the biennial meeting called “United” at Old North Church, June 10-11.…