“I always thank God
for you because of His grace given to you in Christ Jesus.”
I Corinthians 1: 4
We want to update you on some highlights of our family and
our ministry with New Mission Systems International during the last couple of
months.
NMSI Home Office
Retreat in January - In January Bob traveled to Florida for two weeks be a
part of and help lead New Mission Systems’ home office retreat.
He spoke several times and spent a lot of time with individual staff and
mission workers encouraging them. It
was a wonderful time of spiritual refreshment.
Bob also got to spend several days working at NMSI’s home office in
Fort Myers and met with some missionaries who are making transitions.
He also led the spiritual formation aspects of the NMSI January Board
meeting.
More Missionaries
are now on the Field – In February a team of NMSI missionaries was
deployed to Kenya as a part of our Africa
Hope project, ministering to orphans of AID’s victims. Another team went to Bulgaria and another missionary was
deployed to Asia.
Christianity Today
recognizes New Missions Systems International – We were exited when New
Missions Systems was recognized as one of the best Christian places to work in
the April issue of Christianity Today
magazine. We were listed as second
place in the Small Missions and Parachurch Organization category.
Back to School
– We are taking a 13-week Worldwide
Perspectives class. It is a
great overview of world missions covering biblical, historical, strategic and
cultural aspects of missions. Bob
is taking the class for credit (That means work:
reading, tests, projects and writing papers!) and Anne is auditing the
class.
Ongoing Ministry
– Bob continues to write NMSI’s weekly in-house devotional.
In the fall his weekly messages were from the book of Ephesians.
This year all the messages have been from the book of Luke.
You can read the devotional on our Website (www.krepps.net).
We continue to be in communication with NMSI missionaries around the
world to encourage them, offer counsel and help them continue to develop
spiritually.
Upcoming Travel
- Bob will be going to Fort Myers, Florida in May and in July to help lead the
pre-field orientations and debriefings of NMSI summer internship teams that will
be ministering in Bulgaria, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, Senegal, Thailand,
and Zimbabwe. Michael will be
participating in a mission trip to Mexico with our Church in June.
Anne is starting to plan a trip to Bulgaria and the Middle East for later
this summer. Please pray for each
of these trips, our ministry and the finances needed.
We greatly appreciate your prayer and financial support of our ministry! Thank you for your partnership with us!
Links: Christianity Today Article | New Mission Systems International | Our Ministry | Krepps Homepage
We greatly appreciate your prayer and financial support of our ministry. Thank you! We are responsible for raising all funds needed to cover our salary and ministry expenses. You can give online by following the link to this secure website and designating your gift for "Bob & Anne Krepps". We also need many faithful prayer "warriors" committed to praying for us as face the challenges of ministering throughout the world. Please let us know if you are committed to praying for us. We send out regular prayer updates.