ASA (missions) NEWSLETTER
© 2007 Jo DiStefano Kapus February 16, 2007
SUNDAY'S GUEST Trish Cohen, of Guatemalan Mission Outreach (GMO), in Panimaquin, Guatemala, will be the guest this Sunday, February 18, at 2 p.m., on station WIBG, 1020AM radio dial. A retired registered nurse, Trish and her husband, Bernard, a building contractor, were widowed (both hail from Pennsylvania) when they married in later life, moved to Florida where they served in home ministry, and ended up in the tiny mountaintop village of Panimaquin where they served as missionaries from 1996. With Sarah, now age 4, a Mayan Indian girl they adopted as a brand new infant, they "retired" to Florida at the end of last year.
Actually, the Cohens are far from retired. Trish gives a vivid account of their work in the village -- how they grew from a one-room church to a compound with a fellowship hall, kitchen, school, factory, soccer field, etc., and a well that provides water for the entire village! She and Bernard plan to follow up on the work they began, with Bernard leading short-term mission teams there several times a year. A retired pastor friend, who has been leading mission teams there, will continue to do so, also. Trish is excited that in addition they have planned for a retired Guatemalan doctor to conduct a clinic in the village each month. The Cohens have also begun on plans for a ministry in Florida. Praise!
Remember: You can listen to the program simultaneously online at www.wibg.com
VISITING MISSIONARIES John and Sharon Harvey, of ASELSI Missions in Guatemala, Mexico and Ecuador, will be in the area next month. Friends of Gospel Outbound and ASELSI are invited to attend a reception for them on Friday, March 9, at 7 p.m. at the home of Bob and Roni Breunig, 20 Tyler Road, Greenfield, NJ. Please RSVP before March 5 to Lilo Hawn at 609/926-4538 to let her know how many will be attending. If no answer, kindly leave a message.
YOUR PRAYERS ARE REQUESTED A Tower of Hope Team of 17 members, including three nurses, left this week for Uganda, Africa, to evangelize and conduct free clinic/pharmacy visits to local churches and schools and to help build a clinic facility for 800 homeless children.
Greentree's Linda Swartz, R.N., has asked for prayer that the clinics go smoothly --"we'll be living out of boxes of medicine". This is the first time Linda will be conducting a clinic in Uganda, and will be depending heavily on what she learned from Sharon Harvey while in Guatemala. Hey, she had a good teacher!
Added Linda, "Please pray that we have enough needed medication and that we are able to attend to all the people who come to us. We will be going to different villages and homeless areas."
APPLAUSE! to Gospel Outbound for its generous support for the above effort!
From "Over the Next Hill & Still Rolling": Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
ASA (missions) NEWSLETTER
© 2007 Jo DiStefano Kapus February 16, 2007
SUNDAY'S GUEST Trish Cohen, of Guatemalan Mission Outreach (GMO), in Panimaquin, Guatemala, will be the guest this Sunday, February 18, at 2 p.m., on station WIBG, 1020AM radio dial. A retired registered nurse, Trish and her husband, Bernard, a building contractor, were widowed (both hail from Pennsylvania) when they married in later life, moved to Florida where they served in home ministry, and ended up in the tiny mountaintop village of Panimaquin where they served as missionaries from 1996. With Sarah, now age 4, a Mayan Indian girl they adopted as a brand new infant, they "retired" to Florida at the end of last year.
Actually, the Cohens are far from retired. Trish gives a vivid account of their work in the village -- how they grew from a one-room church to a compound with a fellowship hall, kitchen, school, factory, soccer field, etc., and a well that provides water for the entire village! She and Bernard plan to follow up on the work they began, with Bernard leading short-term mission teams there several times a year. A retired pastor friend, who has been leading mission teams there, will continue to do so, also. Trish is excited that in addition they have planned for a retired Guatemalan doctor to conduct a clinic in the village each month. The Cohens have also begun on plans for a ministry in Florida. Praise!
Remember: You can listen to the program simultaneously online at www.wibg.com
VISITING MISSIONARIES John and Sharon Harvey, of ASELSI Missions in Guatemala, Mexico and Ecuador, will be in the area next month. Friends of Gospel Outbound and ASELSI are invited to attend a reception for them on Friday, March 9, at 7 p.m. at the home of Bob and Roni Breunig, 20 Tyler Road, Greenfield, NJ. Please RSVP before March 5 to Lilo Hawn at 609/926-4538 to let her know how many will be attending. If no answer, kindly leave a message.
YOUR PRAYERS ARE REQUESTED A Tower of Hope Team of 17 members, including three nurses, left this week for Uganda, Africa, to evangelize and conduct free clinic/pharmacy visits to local churches and schools and to help build a clinic facility for 800 homeless children.
Greentree's Linda Swartz, R.N., has asked for prayer that the clinics go smoothly --"we'll be living out of boxes of medicine". This is the first time Linda will be conducting a clinic in Uganda, and will be depending heavily on what she learned from Sharon Harvey while in Guatemala. Hey, she had a good teacher!
Added Linda, "Please pray that we have enough needed medication and that we are able to attend to all the people who come to us. We will be going to different villages and homeless areas."
APPLAUSE! to Gospel Outbound for its generous support for the above effort!
From "Over the Next Hill & Still Rolling": Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
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