May/June 2016
Hello Everyone:
In the last few months I have started a new adventure, full-time deputation. If I have had the opportunity to share my testimony and my decision to go into missions with you, then you would have heard me say that full-time deputation was one of the main reasons I almost didn’t go into missions; giving up my regular ministries at my church, traveling around with no real sense of consistency, living my life in a state of transition, and a few other scenarios that come with full-time deputation. I wasn’t willing to put myself in that place. Has it been a struggle learning to adapt, I will readily and humbly admit that yes it has, but when I learn to see past my struggles and focus on God, to observe what He is doing and how He is using me during full-time deputation I can begin to relax and enjoy this time He’s given me.
After finishing up the last week few days of employment in May, I headed straight to West Virginia where I spent time at several churches as well as to spent some time with extended family and friends, neither of which would have happened while still working. I was overjoyed to get to share the ministry opportunities God has given me with people I’ve known since I was young, friends I have made over the years, and people I have never met. I love meeting people who have a burden for missions and desire to play any part they can.
While full-time deputation gave me several commitments in evenings and on the weekends, it gave me a freedom to minister in those moments between. During those moments in WV I got vividly see struggles I only get glimpses of through the world of social media and enter into those battles, physically and spiritual with friends and family. It was hard to know I am not at a place where I can fix everything as I have a tendency to want to do, but God had to let me know of the hurts and needs otherwise I couldn’t pray, which is the most powerful help of all. So please, let me ask you to pray for these friends and family members with me.
In June I got the chance to head over to Peru with 12 other members of my church. Even though I am still in the midst of deputation, we took the opportunity God gave us and the group helped me send many of my belongings to Peru without the cost of trying to ship items.
While we were in Peru, our group was able to complete numerous work projects around New Life Children’s Home as well as spend time inviting people to church, passing out John-Romans, presenting the gospel to upper level Peruvian intelligence, and going classroom to classroom sharing the gospel in several Peruvian schools. We got the chance to love on the children in New Life Children’s Home, play with them, and spend time encouraging the staff who work with them. We ran a special children’s program at one of the churches we visited and passed out tracts and New Testaments around the Presidential Palace. We will never know how God uses the work to sow, water and reap the gospel, but we know the gospel reached thousands, and a large number professed Christ as their Savior.
It was hard coming back. It was hard knowing that I can’t be there full-time yet, but need to continue to raise funds. Currently I am at about 43% of my needed support. PLEASE pray with me that it comes in soon so I can get back to Peru and start working.
An Ambassador For Christ,
Pam Drout