Hey Everyone,
I hope and pray that all of you back in the states are doing well, and may the Lord's blessing be on all of you.
I am currently back in Puerto Ayacucho. Praise the Lord I have already gone to my passport appointment and should be getting my passport in the next 10 days or so.
Some other things haven't exactly gone as planned. The motor I had said I was getting…ended up not wanting to start. I had it sent back downriver and decided to just head downriver as well. Being upriver without a motor is pretty useless since 90% of our travel is done by river.
Please be praying as we have had to make the decision to purchase a new motor. Costs like these are hard on us down here as we get general support that always ends up paying for something like food or gas or other necessities. So please be praying with us that the Lord will provide to get this new motor paid off along with other expenses of river travel.
I will be heading back upriver again hopefully as soon as I pick up my passport. I still have that trip up into the frontier planned as well as getting everything organized in our agricultural projects and house before I head back to the states hopefully in time to spend Christmas with my family. So please pray that everything goes as planned and I don’t have any surprises along the way.
Please also be praying for our safety. Colombia’s new president is cracking down on guerrilla terrorist groups in Colombia, and we have a lot of those Colombian guerrillas here… especially on the way upriver. So please be praying for our safety, God always has had His hand of protection on us and we are very thankful.
I do want to give a special thank you to our supporters. Since the beginning of this year, we have been through really rough times, but thanks to all of you, we have been able to get through it all so we can continue on!
Thank you all for your continued prayers and support, and if you haven’t prayed or supported the mission here in Venezuela, we encourage you to become a part of what God is doing down here.
Thank you all and God bless,
Although we are weak, He is strong.
Joel Dawson
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Island Lake, IL, 60042