October 2024
Dear Family and Friends,
The Lord tells us in Psalms 2:8, “Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.” As I start my 40th year on the mission field, I can truly say that this has been the prayer of my heart. My life is His...wherever He sends me, whatever He wants me to do, whatever He requires of me, however
hard it might be, my cry is, “Here I am Lord, send me!”
Today, I thank Him for the privilege that He has given to me to go to the Nations for the Gospel’s sake. And I know “without a shadow of doubt,” that our God (my God) is a God who answers prayers. He is the God of the breakthrough, the God who lifts us up, strengthens us, encourages us, surrounds us, heals us, sets us free, etc... My God is a miracle working God changing lives and making the impossible possible. I thank God for His goodness, for His faithfulness, and for the joy of walking together with Him. I give thanks to the Lord for you who have stood with me all of these years. May the Lord greatly recompense you for your prayers and financial support.
This last few months have been really busy to say the least. Our church outside of Guatemala City was at the point of collapsing and deemed unsafe to hold services. Many years ago, the last architect who repaired the roof had it raised too high and placed the steel beams on the walls instead of on the reinforced columns. The
diagnostic was to tear down the walls and have them rebuilt to make them structurally sound. So what did we do? We marched around the building, like Joshua did around Jericho, and instead of the walls falling down we declared that every wall would return to its original position. One of the best architects in Guatemala came out
to look at it and didn’t see how it could be resolved...BUT GOD! One of the kids who grew up in the Children’s Home was hired to take down the old roof and see what he could do to reinforce the walls and remake the old beams to be able to put up a new roof. The second time the architect came out to evaluate the condition of
the walls, he couldn’t believe that all of the walls had miraculously returned to their original position. To make a long story short, the roof went up and we now have a restored church building that can once again be used.
Children’s Church has also been going strong this year. We have a little over 200 faithful kids that come every Saturday morning. What a joy it is to see how excited they are for the service to begin! It is such a blessing to watch how God is changing their lives. Thank you for praying for these kids and their families as most live in
extreme poverty and areas of much corruption and violence. We are standing on God’s promise that if you “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it,” Proverbs 22:6.
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Thank you again for standing with me all of these years. Thank you for your prayers and for financially helping
me do what He has called me to do. I love and appreciate you all!! What a Mighty God we serve!!!
Love, In Him,
Janet Volkman
