THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS!
We thank God for every one of you who gives the offerings which supply the financial necessities our missionaries have to conduct their daily ministries. Humanly speaking, you are the means by which they continue to serve.
And, ESPECIALLY TO YOU WHO CONTRIBUTE MONTHLY TO OUR GENERAL FUND! The General Fund is the “common storehouse” from which we disburse the monthly maintenance commitments we have made to our missionaries.
THE ‘ESSENTIAL MONTHLY TRANSACTIONS’ [EMT or Tier 1 General Fund Disbursements] WE MAKE TO OUR MISSIONARIES WITHOUT FAIL EACH MONTH [as the Lord provides through you] CONTINUE TO EXCEED $42,000.00 PER MONTH.
{These standard commitments and disbursements are besides the other more periodical commitments/disbursements we make to them during the year AS NEEDED [PRN or Tier 2 General Fund Disbursements]. FOR EXAMPLE: we will disburse about $17,000.00 over the course of 2010 for Furlough Transportation expenses for our missionaries who are due scheduled furloughs.}
Included in these standard ESSENTIAL MONTHLY TRANSACTIONS are:
$20,426.00 for salaries
$10,950.00 for standard monthly expense accounts for housing and ministry expenses
$1662.50 to publish their newsletters and reports in these Mission Sheets
$9245.94 for hospitalization premiums.
THAT AMOUNT FOR HOSPITALIZATION PREMIUMS REFLECTS A RECENT 10% INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR – AND WE ARE PLANNING TO ADD ANOTHER ONE OF OUR FAMILIES TO THE PLAN WHICH WILL INCREASE THE MONTHLY PREMIUMS BY ANOTHER $1000 PER MONTH. That means we will be paying more than $10,000 every month just for hospitalization premiums.
This month’s General Fund offerings are down from previous months’ offerings. This month, General Fund offerings are a little less than $25,000.00.
If we don’t have enough funds remaining in last year’s Thanksgiving Offering to supply that deficit and still hold us over to the end of the year, we will need to begin making deductions in the missionaries’ monthly deposits to meet that monthly deficit in the upcoming months.
WE NEVER WANT TO OVERLOOK THE FACT THAT REGARDLESS OF THE CONTINUOUSLY ONGOING NEED TO INCREASE OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS – YOU WHO DO GIVE...ARE GIVING TO PROVIDE WHAT WE HAVE! And, for that, we bless God and thank you!
We are always calling on God, trusting God, and expecting God to provide the needs His servants have – but we also want to keep you informed how each of us can respond to His grace by giving back to Him! Grace to you all!
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
LOUIE CARVER | 2ND HEART ATTACK
I apologize for the tardiness of this report. We have been conducting Vacation Bible School all this week and have been absorbed by the activities of planning and preparation – and then conducting it this week. [dsp]
24 June 2010
FROM: Dave Parks | Executive Secretary, Baptist Faith Missions
RE: PLEASE CONTINUE PRAYING FOR LOUIE CARVER
I talked with Mary Carver on Saturday, 19 June.
She told me that Brother Carver had another heart attack on Wednesday, 16 June. He began to experience distress, so they took him to the ER.
After examination, they admitted him and implanted a stent in one of the veins in his lower heart region.
However, they also received more discouraging bad news. When they performed the heart cath to determine the source of this new occlusion, the surgeon who performed his 6-bypass surgery back in January discovered to his dismay that 5 of the 6 bypasses have failed.
They are all devastated by this news, and especially the surgeon. He cried when he relayed this news to them. He told them that in his 25-30 years of practicing heart surgery, this kind of failure has happened only one time previously.
But, Brother Carver’s heart is that badly diseased and deteriorated. The surgeon has ordered him to take at least the next two weeks of absolute rest – doing nothing.
The coronary damage may not be reparable. Brother Carver may be required to just moderate and accommodate his physical activity to what his heart will allow.
I hope you will continue to name them and intercede for them to the Lord.
You may contact them directly:
Louie and Mary Carver
259 Finley Hill Court
Simpsonville SC 29681
864.458.9919
wlc1939@att.net
24 June 2010
FROM: Dave Parks | Executive Secretary, Baptist Faith Missions
RE: PLEASE CONTINUE PRAYING FOR LOUIE CARVER
I talked with Mary Carver on Saturday, 19 June.
She told me that Brother Carver had another heart attack on Wednesday, 16 June. He began to experience distress, so they took him to the ER.
After examination, they admitted him and implanted a stent in one of the veins in his lower heart region.
However, they also received more discouraging bad news. When they performed the heart cath to determine the source of this new occlusion, the surgeon who performed his 6-bypass surgery back in January discovered to his dismay that 5 of the 6 bypasses have failed.
They are all devastated by this news, and especially the surgeon. He cried when he relayed this news to them. He told them that in his 25-30 years of practicing heart surgery, this kind of failure has happened only one time previously.
But, Brother Carver’s heart is that badly diseased and deteriorated. The surgeon has ordered him to take at least the next two weeks of absolute rest – doing nothing.
The coronary damage may not be reparable. Brother Carver may be required to just moderate and accommodate his physical activity to what his heart will allow.
I hope you will continue to name them and intercede for them to the Lord.
You may contact them directly:
Louie and Mary Carver
259 Finley Hill Court
Simpsonville SC 29681
864.458.9919
wlc1939@att.net
Thursday, June 10, 2010
JUNE UPDATES
WANDA TURNER SUFFERS A STROKE
Richard and Wanda Turner served the Lord in partnership with Baptist Faith Missions in Brasil for 16 years. Brother Richard is in Heaven with the Lord. Wanda is living in the Lynchburg VA area near her children. She suffered a stroke on 1 June and has been hospitalized since as of this writing [10 June].
I hope you will pray for her and catch up on the history and latest updates on her condition posted elsewhere on this blog.
Her home mailing address is: 20 Jesup Way / Apt. 205 / Lynchburg, VA 24502.
Her home number is: 434-239-0457. Her email address is: twanda2010@aol.com
She is a faithful servant of the Lord, and I hope you will do what you can to encourage her.
-________________________-
THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS!
We bless God for each of our Giving Friends – we thank God for you without ceasing. The Lord has blessed you and us this month with a good offering to our May General Fund. We thank God for EACH one of you...and EVERY offering you give to supply our missionaries’ needs – but the General Fund supplies their MAINTENANCE NEEDS each month and enables us to meet the standard commitments we have made to them.
-________________________-
LABOR DAY CONFERENCE
Make your plans now to attend the Labor Day Missions Conference hosted by the East Keys Baptist Church in Springfield IL over Labor Day weekend / Monday. You may contact James Hicks for more information about the Conference at 217.816.9361 or email: jimbo61976@yahoo.com
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
WANDA TURNER SUFFERS A STROKE
Wanda Turner is the widow of Richard Turner, and they faithfully served the Lord as missionaries in Brasil for 16 years in partnership with Baptist Faith Missions. I hope you will fervently pray for her - and for her family as they care for her. dsp
From: Jonathan Turner
pastorjturner@gmail.com
June 1, Tuesday
Hello Bro. Dave,
Today, Mom had to be rushed to the hospital, Lynchburg General, in Lynchburg, Virginia. She evidently suffered a stroke sometime mid-morning. She talks out of the side of her mouth and her speech is slurred. Her arm, I am not sure which, is also numb. She also is having trouble swallowing.
Late this afternoon she got choked and could not stop. She coughed up huge amounts of blood. So they also are now looking at her throat and, along with all the other tests to find out more about the possible stroke, they also will be doing tests to find out where the blood is coming from. The CT scan they did this afternoon did not show any hemorrhaging in the brain.
Rich and Kim, my older brother and sister, were up at the hospital with her all day. Mom is very nervous about cancer and obviously very tired after everything she has been through today. Please get this out to as many people as you can.
She really needs God's people praying for her.
I will continue to update you as I learn more.
Thank you Bro. Dave.
Jonathan Turner
June 2, Wednesday
Hello Bro. Dave,
I sent you an earlier e-mail about Mom and I wanted to send another giving you an update.
Mom is at Lynchburg General in Lynchburg, Virginia. Rich and Kim live close by. Her room # is NEO 3.
The MRI showed definitely that it was a stroke. It affected the part of her brain that controls things like swallowing. IF I understood correctly the stroke happened at the back and base of her brain. She currently has a feeding tube up her nose and down into her stomach and cannot speak clearly or loudly.
I do not know anything else about the coughing up of blood.
Please be praying that among other things her swallowing ability comes back quickly. The neurologist said it could be a matter of days or weeks, but that he believed it would come back.
Her home address is 20 Jesup Way, Apt. 205, Lynchburg, Virginia, 24502.
Her home number is 434-239-0457.
twanda2010@aol.com
I don't think she will be going home for several days. Her right arm continues to be numb, and when she tries to talk her speech is slurred and only half her mouth works.
If you could Brother, please get this information out. I would really appreciate it.
Jonathan
Saturday, 5 June
FROM JONATHAN TURNER / pastorjturner@gmail.com
Bro. Dave,
Thank you for sending Mom's information out. I know that you have so much on you, and so I really appreciate you doing this. You have contact with folks that I have only heard of over the years that know Mom and Dad or that I have never met and much less heard of.
It was made possible by my church and some folks in my church for me to fly up yesterday to Lynchburg. I will be here till Wednesday.
This is the latest on Mom. The feeling is returning in her arm. The side of her mouth is not drooping as bad as it had been. Kim, my sister, told me it seems to get a little bit better every day. She still cannot swallow. She is still coughing up lots of mucus and other stuff, but no more blood in the past 36-48 hours. IF the swallowing does not return by Monday she will have to have surgery to put the feeding tube, currently in her nose, into her stomach. Mom does not want to go through that and so we are asking for God to intervene and give her her ability to swallow back before Monday. If God chooses to allow her to have surgery they will go down her stomach.
Mom is very worried what they might find....in other words, cancer. She has a long of history of severe acid reflux disease and with the recent coughing up of blood she is fearing the worst. If she does have to have the surgery pray that there would be no cancer.
Sometime next week she will be moved to the other hospital in Lynchburg - Virginia Baptist - where she will begin intense therapy to regain her ability to swallow.
Please continue to pray for Mom. She's a fighter, but more importantly, God is the Great Physician. I will do my best to keep you all updated.
Jonathan Turner
MONDAY, 7 June, Noon
Hello,
I apologize if you already saw this on facebook or if you get this message more than once.
God is working in Mom's body.
She has made some significant improvements over the past 48 hours.
She was able to pronounce an high pitch "e" sound this morning. This is one of the exercises she has to do to strengthen her throat muscles. Yesterday no sound would come out.
Her speech therapist came in this morning and Mom was able with some help able to eat ten ice chips. She did not get choked.
Tomorrow morning they are planning on doing the procedure to move the feeding tube to her stomach. Pray the procedure is a success.
Pray that they do not find anything serious in her throat and stomach when they look around
Pray that the right side of her body continues to get stronger.
Finally, pray that a bed opens up over at Virginia Baptist Hospital so that she can be transferred and begin the intense therapy that she needs to fully regain her ability to swallow.
Jonathan Turner
17 June Update from Jonathan Turner
I apologize for going several days without sending an e-mail update. We had our Bible Conference among other things that kept me from sending out e-mail updates.
Here is the latest about my mother.
Kim and Rich got things straightened out at the nursing home/rehab. facility. They have stayed on top of the people there to make sure Mom's room is cleaned everyday and that Mom is properly taken care of.
Mom has made good progress with her rehab. I spoke to her briefly on the phone last night before church and she now has sound to her voice. She does not have it completely back, but I would say it has returned 60 to 70 percent.
Her swallowing is coming along each day. Monday, my brother Rich told me she was able to swallow 10 times on her own when she turned her head to the left or looked straight ahead. Yesterday, Mom told me she was now swallowing the ice chips without letting them melt completely. We praise God for small victories.
Also, Rich told me yesterday that the 45 minutes he was there with Mom during his lunch hour she did not have to cough up her saliva and other material even once which says that she is swallowing some.
She has agreed to move to a first floor apartment which will save her from having to walk up and down so many steps.
I appreciate everyone praying for her. She still needs God's people praying for her. Thanks.
Pastor Jonathan Turner
From: Jonathan Turner
pastorjturner@gmail.com
June 1, Tuesday
Hello Bro. Dave,
Today, Mom had to be rushed to the hospital, Lynchburg General, in Lynchburg, Virginia. She evidently suffered a stroke sometime mid-morning. She talks out of the side of her mouth and her speech is slurred. Her arm, I am not sure which, is also numb. She also is having trouble swallowing.
Late this afternoon she got choked and could not stop. She coughed up huge amounts of blood. So they also are now looking at her throat and, along with all the other tests to find out more about the possible stroke, they also will be doing tests to find out where the blood is coming from. The CT scan they did this afternoon did not show any hemorrhaging in the brain.
Rich and Kim, my older brother and sister, were up at the hospital with her all day. Mom is very nervous about cancer and obviously very tired after everything she has been through today. Please get this out to as many people as you can.
She really needs God's people praying for her.
I will continue to update you as I learn more.
Thank you Bro. Dave.
Jonathan Turner
June 2, Wednesday
Hello Bro. Dave,
I sent you an earlier e-mail about Mom and I wanted to send another giving you an update.
Mom is at Lynchburg General in Lynchburg, Virginia. Rich and Kim live close by. Her room # is NEO 3.
The MRI showed definitely that it was a stroke. It affected the part of her brain that controls things like swallowing. IF I understood correctly the stroke happened at the back and base of her brain. She currently has a feeding tube up her nose and down into her stomach and cannot speak clearly or loudly.
I do not know anything else about the coughing up of blood.
Please be praying that among other things her swallowing ability comes back quickly. The neurologist said it could be a matter of days or weeks, but that he believed it would come back.
Her home address is 20 Jesup Way, Apt. 205, Lynchburg, Virginia, 24502.
Her home number is 434-239-0457.
twanda2010@aol.com
I don't think she will be going home for several days. Her right arm continues to be numb, and when she tries to talk her speech is slurred and only half her mouth works.
If you could Brother, please get this information out. I would really appreciate it.
Jonathan
Saturday, 5 June
FROM JONATHAN TURNER / pastorjturner@gmail.com
Bro. Dave,
Thank you for sending Mom's information out. I know that you have so much on you, and so I really appreciate you doing this. You have contact with folks that I have only heard of over the years that know Mom and Dad or that I have never met and much less heard of.
It was made possible by my church and some folks in my church for me to fly up yesterday to Lynchburg. I will be here till Wednesday.
This is the latest on Mom. The feeling is returning in her arm. The side of her mouth is not drooping as bad as it had been. Kim, my sister, told me it seems to get a little bit better every day. She still cannot swallow. She is still coughing up lots of mucus and other stuff, but no more blood in the past 36-48 hours. IF the swallowing does not return by Monday she will have to have surgery to put the feeding tube, currently in her nose, into her stomach. Mom does not want to go through that and so we are asking for God to intervene and give her her ability to swallow back before Monday. If God chooses to allow her to have surgery they will go down her stomach.
Mom is very worried what they might find....in other words, cancer. She has a long of history of severe acid reflux disease and with the recent coughing up of blood she is fearing the worst. If she does have to have the surgery pray that there would be no cancer.
Sometime next week she will be moved to the other hospital in Lynchburg - Virginia Baptist - where she will begin intense therapy to regain her ability to swallow.
Please continue to pray for Mom. She's a fighter, but more importantly, God is the Great Physician. I will do my best to keep you all updated.
Jonathan Turner
MONDAY, 7 June, Noon
Hello,
I apologize if you already saw this on facebook or if you get this message more than once.
God is working in Mom's body.
She has made some significant improvements over the past 48 hours.
She was able to pronounce an high pitch "e" sound this morning. This is one of the exercises she has to do to strengthen her throat muscles. Yesterday no sound would come out.
Her speech therapist came in this morning and Mom was able with some help able to eat ten ice chips. She did not get choked.
Tomorrow morning they are planning on doing the procedure to move the feeding tube to her stomach. Pray the procedure is a success.
Pray that they do not find anything serious in her throat and stomach when they look around
Pray that the right side of her body continues to get stronger.
Finally, pray that a bed opens up over at Virginia Baptist Hospital so that she can be transferred and begin the intense therapy that she needs to fully regain her ability to swallow.
Jonathan Turner
17 June Update from Jonathan Turner
I apologize for going several days without sending an e-mail update. We had our Bible Conference among other things that kept me from sending out e-mail updates.
Here is the latest about my mother.
Kim and Rich got things straightened out at the nursing home/rehab. facility. They have stayed on top of the people there to make sure Mom's room is cleaned everyday and that Mom is properly taken care of.
Mom has made good progress with her rehab. I spoke to her briefly on the phone last night before church and she now has sound to her voice. She does not have it completely back, but I would say it has returned 60 to 70 percent.
Her swallowing is coming along each day. Monday, my brother Rich told me she was able to swallow 10 times on her own when she turned her head to the left or looked straight ahead. Yesterday, Mom told me she was now swallowing the ice chips without letting them melt completely. We praise God for small victories.
Also, Rich told me yesterday that the 45 minutes he was there with Mom during his lunch hour she did not have to cough up her saliva and other material even once which says that she is swallowing some.
She has agreed to move to a first floor apartment which will save her from having to walk up and down so many steps.
I appreciate everyone praying for her. She still needs God's people praying for her. Thanks.
Pastor Jonathan Turner
Saturday, May 8, 2010
MAY UPDATES
NEW AND IMPROVED WEBSITE: www.baptistfaithmissions.org
If you haven’t been to our website lately, you need to go back, bookmark it, and go back often. It has been in a neglected and inactive condition for some time, and we apologize for that. But, it is being renovated and re-launched as we speak.
I am still making updates on this blog but I will move our FaithWorks updates to the new website shortly. It is still under construction, so bear with us while we ‘revive’ it – but we want our website to become our Information Exchange Central.
-________________________-
SPRING CONFERENCE REPORT
The Lord blessed our Spring Conference services with good fellowship, challenging messages from God’s Word, and a continually increasing interest in the ministries of Baptist Faith Missions. Pastors and members have gone back to their churches and either started supporting Baptist Faith Missions for the first time – or increased their giving, especially for our much-needed GENERAL FUND.
We heard these preachers faithfully proclaim ‘FILLING THE EARTH WITH GOD’S GLORY’ messages: David Pitman, Kenny Hurst, Doug King, Larry Wilson, Edward Overbey, Wayne Brickner, Terry Adkins, Ben Glover, and Bobby Creiglow. All of these brethren and all their messages had the Glory of God burning in their hearts and glowing on their lips as they called us all to partner together to take and send the Good News of God’s Glory to everybody in the world.
There were 45 pastors/preachers who attended our services over the course of the Conference. We want to thank everyone who attended – and we continue to pray that God will inspire us all together to FILL THE EARTH WITH GOD’S GLORY.
-________________________-
SPRING CONFERENCE OFFERING
We designated the Spring Conference Offering to help Louie and Mary Carver with extraordinary medical expenses they have incurred especially since January. Brother and Sister Carver are veteran missionaries in partnership with Baptist Faith Missions. They served the Lord in Korea and Philippine Islands. Brother Carver also served as BFM’s Field Representative and liaison between the missionaries and the churches for several years.
They relocated to South Carolina during 2009, and then on January 15, Brother Carver suffered a massive heart attack. He underwent a 5-bypass surgery, and then suffered pulmonary complications during his recovery. He spent several days in the ICU – and three weeks in the hospital. Then on the Friday [5 February] after being discharged home on the previous Tuesday, he suffered a stroke and was re-hospitalized. He is still rehabilitating from the effects of the stroke.
So, we wanted to help them with the mounting medical expenses they were incurring. The total Conference offering was $3,030.54. Brother Carver has responded in an email: ‘Dear Bro. Dave, Thank you so much for the generous offering. You truly have no idea at what a time it has come. God is so good.’ Of course, he is thanking all of you who gave the offering.
-________________________-
PASTOR EDWARD OVERBEY RESIGNS AS DIRECTOR
Brother Overbey has served as a Director of Baptist Faith Missions for probably 43 years or more. Even he doesn’t remember the year he became a Director. But, as the son of our founder [Hafford Overbey], Brother Ed has supported BFM from its inception. Brother Overbey contributed to the very first offering given to support Brother Brandon back in 1942. Brother Overbey doesn’t remember whether he gave 50 cents or $1 – but the total offering was around $15.00. He has been a true GIVING FRIEND ever since – from day one. He also served as our Executive Secretary from 1981-1995, after succeeding his father into that service. We wish to thank and commend Brother Edward Overbey for his lifetime of service to Gospel missions – and his 40+ years serving Baptist Faith Missions.
-________________________-
LABOR DAY CONFERENCE
The East Keys Baptist Church in Springfield IL has hosted the Labor Day Missions Conference in the interests of Baptist Faith Missions for several years. They are planning their 2010 Labor Day Conference for Labor Day Weekend. We hope you will make plans to attend.
-________________________-
GENERAL FUND MONTHLY SOLVENCY
WE CONTINUE TO NEED IMMEDIATE INCREASED OFFERINGS FOR OUR GENERAL FUND. We really need to receive $50,000 per month FOR THE GENERAL FUND in order to maintain our monthly commitments and other disbursements we make to our missionaries as they come up over the course of the year.
For example: FURLOUGH EXPENSES
We have 4 missionary families due for furloughs during 2010 and they are requesting transportation funds. Airfare expenses for furlough transportation could be as much as $16,000+ before the year is over – and most of this will be one-way fares because it is next to impossible to purchase round-trip tickets when they can’t set a precise date for their return next year.
Also: HOSPITALIZATION PREMIUMS INCREASES
We have received notice that beginning in June, our missionaries’ hospitalization premiums will increase by 13%. We will be disbursing $9500 per month for their hospitalization premiums.
$43,000 per month needed for their Essential Maintenance Transactions
There are four disbursements we make each month to our missionaries just to maintain their essential support: [1] Salaries [2] Standard Monthly Expense Allowances [3] Hospitalization premiums [4] Mission Sheets printing and mailing. THESE ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE TRANSACTIONS TOTAL MORE THAN $43,000 EVERY MONTH.
Then, there are the OTHER monthly General Fund disbursements to maintain the support services we provide for them.
First 5 months 2010 average GF Offerings
During April, we gave $30,438 to the GENERAL FUND. Over the first 5 months of this year, we have averaged $34,738 per month to the GENERAL FUND.
BE A ‘GIVING FRIEND’!
If we don’t increase our monthly offerings for the GENERAL FUND, we will necessarily have to begin reductions from our missionaries’ monthly deposits in order to make the remaining 2009 Thanksgiving Offering last until the end of 2010.
THE ONLY WAY TO STABILIZE OUR BUDGETING TO ALLOW FOR ANY KIND OF GROWTH OR INCREASES FOR OUR MISSIONARIES’ ESSENTIAL NEEDS IS TO INCREASE OUR MONTHLY GIVING TO OUR GENERAL FUND.
WILL YOU ASK THE LORD OF THE HARVEST WHAT YOU CAN DO –
AND WHAT HE WILL ENABLE YOU TO DO?
If you haven’t been to our website lately, you need to go back, bookmark it, and go back often. It has been in a neglected and inactive condition for some time, and we apologize for that. But, it is being renovated and re-launched as we speak.
I am still making updates on this blog but I will move our FaithWorks updates to the new website shortly. It is still under construction, so bear with us while we ‘revive’ it – but we want our website to become our Information Exchange Central.
-________________________-
SPRING CONFERENCE REPORT
The Lord blessed our Spring Conference services with good fellowship, challenging messages from God’s Word, and a continually increasing interest in the ministries of Baptist Faith Missions. Pastors and members have gone back to their churches and either started supporting Baptist Faith Missions for the first time – or increased their giving, especially for our much-needed GENERAL FUND.
We heard these preachers faithfully proclaim ‘FILLING THE EARTH WITH GOD’S GLORY’ messages: David Pitman, Kenny Hurst, Doug King, Larry Wilson, Edward Overbey, Wayne Brickner, Terry Adkins, Ben Glover, and Bobby Creiglow. All of these brethren and all their messages had the Glory of God burning in their hearts and glowing on their lips as they called us all to partner together to take and send the Good News of God’s Glory to everybody in the world.
There were 45 pastors/preachers who attended our services over the course of the Conference. We want to thank everyone who attended – and we continue to pray that God will inspire us all together to FILL THE EARTH WITH GOD’S GLORY.
-________________________-
SPRING CONFERENCE OFFERING
We designated the Spring Conference Offering to help Louie and Mary Carver with extraordinary medical expenses they have incurred especially since January. Brother and Sister Carver are veteran missionaries in partnership with Baptist Faith Missions. They served the Lord in Korea and Philippine Islands. Brother Carver also served as BFM’s Field Representative and liaison between the missionaries and the churches for several years.
They relocated to South Carolina during 2009, and then on January 15, Brother Carver suffered a massive heart attack. He underwent a 5-bypass surgery, and then suffered pulmonary complications during his recovery. He spent several days in the ICU – and three weeks in the hospital. Then on the Friday [5 February] after being discharged home on the previous Tuesday, he suffered a stroke and was re-hospitalized. He is still rehabilitating from the effects of the stroke.
So, we wanted to help them with the mounting medical expenses they were incurring. The total Conference offering was $3,030.54. Brother Carver has responded in an email: ‘Dear Bro. Dave, Thank you so much for the generous offering. You truly have no idea at what a time it has come. God is so good.’ Of course, he is thanking all of you who gave the offering.
-________________________-
PASTOR EDWARD OVERBEY RESIGNS AS DIRECTOR
Brother Overbey has served as a Director of Baptist Faith Missions for probably 43 years or more. Even he doesn’t remember the year he became a Director. But, as the son of our founder [Hafford Overbey], Brother Ed has supported BFM from its inception. Brother Overbey contributed to the very first offering given to support Brother Brandon back in 1942. Brother Overbey doesn’t remember whether he gave 50 cents or $1 – but the total offering was around $15.00. He has been a true GIVING FRIEND ever since – from day one. He also served as our Executive Secretary from 1981-1995, after succeeding his father into that service. We wish to thank and commend Brother Edward Overbey for his lifetime of service to Gospel missions – and his 40+ years serving Baptist Faith Missions.
-________________________-
LABOR DAY CONFERENCE
The East Keys Baptist Church in Springfield IL has hosted the Labor Day Missions Conference in the interests of Baptist Faith Missions for several years. They are planning their 2010 Labor Day Conference for Labor Day Weekend. We hope you will make plans to attend.
-________________________-
GENERAL FUND MONTHLY SOLVENCY
WE CONTINUE TO NEED IMMEDIATE INCREASED OFFERINGS FOR OUR GENERAL FUND. We really need to receive $50,000 per month FOR THE GENERAL FUND in order to maintain our monthly commitments and other disbursements we make to our missionaries as they come up over the course of the year.
For example: FURLOUGH EXPENSES
We have 4 missionary families due for furloughs during 2010 and they are requesting transportation funds. Airfare expenses for furlough transportation could be as much as $16,000+ before the year is over – and most of this will be one-way fares because it is next to impossible to purchase round-trip tickets when they can’t set a precise date for their return next year.
Also: HOSPITALIZATION PREMIUMS INCREASES
We have received notice that beginning in June, our missionaries’ hospitalization premiums will increase by 13%. We will be disbursing $9500 per month for their hospitalization premiums.
$43,000 per month needed for their Essential Maintenance Transactions
There are four disbursements we make each month to our missionaries just to maintain their essential support: [1] Salaries [2] Standard Monthly Expense Allowances [3] Hospitalization premiums [4] Mission Sheets printing and mailing. THESE ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE TRANSACTIONS TOTAL MORE THAN $43,000 EVERY MONTH.
Then, there are the OTHER monthly General Fund disbursements to maintain the support services we provide for them.
First 5 months 2010 average GF Offerings
During April, we gave $30,438 to the GENERAL FUND. Over the first 5 months of this year, we have averaged $34,738 per month to the GENERAL FUND.
BE A ‘GIVING FRIEND’!
If we don’t increase our monthly offerings for the GENERAL FUND, we will necessarily have to begin reductions from our missionaries’ monthly deposits in order to make the remaining 2009 Thanksgiving Offering last until the end of 2010.
THE ONLY WAY TO STABILIZE OUR BUDGETING TO ALLOW FOR ANY KIND OF GROWTH OR INCREASES FOR OUR MISSIONARIES’ ESSENTIAL NEEDS IS TO INCREASE OUR MONTHLY GIVING TO OUR GENERAL FUND.
WILL YOU ASK THE LORD OF THE HARVEST WHAT YOU CAN DO –
AND WHAT HE WILL ENABLE YOU TO DO?
Thursday, May 6, 2010
PRAYER REQUEST FOR HAROLD DRAPER
6 May 2010
FROM: Dave Parks
RE: Prayer Request
HAROLD DRAPER / hmdubdbr@yahoo.com
Brother Draper suffered some kind of mild heart attack early Wednesday morning [around 4am]. He was driving back home – after already driving all night – and suffered chest tightness and pains. Drove himself to Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. They have already conducted stress tests and other exams and tell him that his heart is sound – but that he has suffered arrhythmia, but doctors think it is from prolonged stress and exhaustion. He hadn’t slept much for the previous two nights and had been driving most of that time. They have told him he needs to rest for the next 2-3 weeks. I talked with him around 11am this morning and he is very weak, but thinks he is OK and stable. They are planning to discharge him home this afternoon. Please commit them to the Lord in prayer.
FROM: Dave Parks
RE: Prayer Request
HAROLD DRAPER / hmdubdbr@yahoo.com
Brother Draper suffered some kind of mild heart attack early Wednesday morning [around 4am]. He was driving back home – after already driving all night – and suffered chest tightness and pains. Drove himself to Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. They have already conducted stress tests and other exams and tell him that his heart is sound – but that he has suffered arrhythmia, but doctors think it is from prolonged stress and exhaustion. He hadn’t slept much for the previous two nights and had been driving most of that time. They have told him he needs to rest for the next 2-3 weeks. I talked with him around 11am this morning and he is very weak, but thinks he is OK and stable. They are planning to discharge him home this afternoon. Please commit them to the Lord in prayer.
PRAYER REQUEST FOR MARY CARVER
6 May 2010
FROM: Dave Parks
RE: Prayer Request
MARY CARVER / wlc1939@att.net
Brother Carver called me yesterday [Wednesday] to tell me that Mary was involved in a one-car accident on Tuesday afternoon. She apparently passed out for some reason. According to a witness who was behind her, she suddenly veered out of her lane, crossed the other lane, and off the road. From what I understand from Brother Carver, she may have overturned the vehicle. He said she was hanging upside down by her shoulder straps and had to be cut out of the vehicle. She was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital. He didn’t know at that time how extensive the injuries are. He did send me a brief email last night: “God is so good. I...appreciate all the prayers for Mary in the trauma that she has suffered. God performed a miracle now we wait to see if her back elbow and leg are broken. Continue to keep us in your prayers.” The ‘miracle’ to which he refers is the protection the Lord gave her from any more serious injury than she has suffered. Please continue praying to God for their many needs from the several adversities they have suffered, especially since January with his own heart attack and stroke.
UPDATE: Friday evening / 7 May
Brother Parks,
Good evening. First, the Carver family appreciates all the continued prayers that have been lifted on our behalf. It has truly been a roller coaster, but through it all, our family has drawn closer and closer. Mom came home from the hospital this afternoon with no broken bones, no fractures, sprains, etc. She is getting along pretty well. Dad is hanging in there; however, he did state this evening that the physical therapist told him, either today or yesterday, that if he doesn't slow down and stop doing so much that he is going to suffer another heart attack. Please pray that he slows down.
Again, we all appreciate your prayers.
Sincerely, The Carver Family
FROM: Dave Parks
RE: Prayer Request
MARY CARVER / wlc1939@att.net
Brother Carver called me yesterday [Wednesday] to tell me that Mary was involved in a one-car accident on Tuesday afternoon. She apparently passed out for some reason. According to a witness who was behind her, she suddenly veered out of her lane, crossed the other lane, and off the road. From what I understand from Brother Carver, she may have overturned the vehicle. He said she was hanging upside down by her shoulder straps and had to be cut out of the vehicle. She was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital. He didn’t know at that time how extensive the injuries are. He did send me a brief email last night: “God is so good. I...appreciate all the prayers for Mary in the trauma that she has suffered. God performed a miracle now we wait to see if her back elbow and leg are broken. Continue to keep us in your prayers.” The ‘miracle’ to which he refers is the protection the Lord gave her from any more serious injury than she has suffered. Please continue praying to God for their many needs from the several adversities they have suffered, especially since January with his own heart attack and stroke.
UPDATE: Friday evening / 7 May
Brother Parks,
Good evening. First, the Carver family appreciates all the continued prayers that have been lifted on our behalf. It has truly been a roller coaster, but through it all, our family has drawn closer and closer. Mom came home from the hospital this afternoon with no broken bones, no fractures, sprains, etc. She is getting along pretty well. Dad is hanging in there; however, he did state this evening that the physical therapist told him, either today or yesterday, that if he doesn't slow down and stop doing so much that he is going to suffer another heart attack. Please pray that he slows down.
Again, we all appreciate your prayers.
Sincerely, The Carver Family
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