Encouraging Your Faith
August 2008
Dear Sisters,
Fall is here--which usually means more challenges for the families of pastor's wives. While the wives are focused on their children's education, the husbands are busy in launching fall outreach campaigns for their churches. It is a time of year when many of us are especially desperate for God's provision.
This month we’re sending you a link to a story that will encourage your faith in this needy time. It is a story that I’ve wanted all of you to know since I first read it a year ago.
Darlene Deibler Rose was a missionary with her husband in Asia at the beginning of World War II. She and her husband were placed in prisoner of war camps by the Japanese. Her faith in God and His provision for her is described in this link. In particular, I think you will appreciate the "banana story" as an example of how God provides for us in ways we never expect.
I pray you find fresh encouragement and hope from this woman’s joy in her Lord in the m idst of trying circumstances.
In Christ’s love,
Sandy Hopler
http://www.johndubler.com/Darlene_Deibler_Rose_Part_II.pdf
With approximately 30 families, River Ridge Church
planted a second campus in Teays Valley, WV in the fall of
2008. The church decided on a model of "one church in two
locations." While each of the five pastors concentrate their
ministry efforts on
Who would have thought that two fathers would be
involved with their college age children in starting a new
campus ministry? It was an answer to prayer. We had been
praying that the Lord would provide an opportunity to continue
laboring in the gospel
