Team Leaders? Us?

Dear praying friends and family,

Sorry, this will be long.

Who would have guessed it? Bobby Lane has been appointed the team leader for Extracurricular Activities at the MLC. That means he is in charge of organizing hands-on classes for missionaries to learn specialized skills they may use the field. Some of these are "How to kill and prepare a chicken," "Basics of auto maintenance," "How to drive a motorcycle," "Self defense." "Nutrition and water purification," and "Blogging." Not only have they appointed Bobby in charge of extracurricular activities but they've also made me the team leader of Recreation. That means i am in charge of organizing sports, fitness, games, and ice cream. Fun stuff.

Jeremy is here! Our boss of the Xtreme Team, Jeremy Taliaferro, and his wife Susan are here for about two weeks. They are hanging out with us, praying with us, testing our skills (Spanish, fitness, beliefs, etc), worshiping with us, answering questions, and encouraging us. What an awesome and exciting time this past week with them has been.

My parents are planning a going away party July 28th. As a show of appreciation for your prayer, i would like you to be able to come. If you cannot, it's okay, but if you are planning on attending, please RSVP to me or my mom ASAP. We will be sharing in the Lord's Supper and have a commissioning/prayer time.

The Xtreme Jungle Team has just redone their website. Please browse around pray for these men by name. Our TEOTE website should be up in a couple of weeks.

Also, if you are willing, i would love to be on your church's prayer list, if i'm not already. Please consider having them add me to it. If you would like me to send them my updates directly, i'd love to do that. Please let me know if i'm on their prayer list!

Prayer Requests:

-Please pray that God would begin to open the hearts of the people we will encounter with the Gospel in Peru. Relatively speaking, we will not have much time with them to plant a church. However, what takes a church plant years in the States, i believe God can and will do in a couple of months among the indigenous of Peru.

-Please continue to pray that Jon would supernaturally learn Spanish. Pray also for Bobby's and my Spanish to develop more.

-Please pray for the leaders of the IMB to continue to be wise and good stewards of time, money, and missionaries.

-Please pray as Paul instructed his prayer partners:

-1 Thes 5:2 "Brethren, pray for us."

-2 Thes 3:1-2 "Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord will spread rapidly and be glorified, just as {it did} also with you; and that we will be rescued from perverse and evil men; for not all have faith."

-Heb 13:18 "Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a good conscience, desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in all things."

love ya bros and sisses,

†il the whole world hears,

corey reid pendergrass

PS. A quick story not about me: There is a woman who is in training here who's dad died this week from a stroke or heart attack (i can't remember) at the hospital. Later that day, the hospital sent him to the home in a hearse (since that's how they do it in their country) and her dad sat up in the back of the hearse and let the driver know he was alive and well. How great is that! I wonder if the driver was okay! That's about all i know about the situation. Sorry i can't give more details. Read Acts 3:8-13, 17. How great is our God! How easily God can restore a dead soul to life in Christ! Do you think it is any harder for God to restore a man's physical life than his spiritual life? No! This was no trouble for Him! God be praise!

PSS. "If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king." -Jordan Groom