Thomas, Gil & Denise

Gil and Denise Thomas (Children – Sarah, Jonathan and Andrea)

E-mail: gthomas@abwe.cc
Website: http://www.thomas.abwe.org/
Field Address: ABEW P.O. Box 8585, Harrisburg, PA  17105-8585
Telephone: 727-277-6891 (Gil) and 727-808-9467 (Denise)

Mission Agency: Association of Baptists For World Evangelism (ABWE) Good Soil Evangelism and Discipleship
Mission Field: USA and the world

July 2010

Dear Faithful PrayerPartners,

Thanks for praying.  Short reports on some of the requests follow:

May 18-20, We had over 50 who attended a Good Soil Training seminar in Harrisburg, PA.  May 24-28, The Roots of Faith Training was very encouraging with 12 students, mostly missionary appointees in attendance.  June 18-19, Storytelling Conf. in IL.  What a great opportunity this was to learn more about Bible Telling and how we will be able to train missionaries in this skill.  Especially missionaries heading to tribal settings with people who don’t read or read very little need to begin by telling the story an eventually train people in literacy and then Bible reading and teaching.  Pray about our development of this important area of our own training.  July 8-18 Candidate seminar w/Good Soil Training on the last two days, 39 trained.  July 19-22, Missionary Enrichment Conf., July 23-31 Essential Mission Components Training for Pre-Fielders.  About 40 trained were in cross-cultural church planting.

In Sept. we will travel twice.  Please pray for safety and effectiveness during these trips.  Sept. 7-13, I will be taking the new VP of missionary care and church relations for ABWE, Tony Beckett, to team teach in Ukraine where we will train pastors in Good Soil Evangelims and Discipleship.

We’ve had a blessed year thus far with the weddings of Sarah on June 5, and Andrea on July 17, we also have a 4 month old granddaughter, Olivia born April 5.

Yours for His Harvest,

Gil and Denise Thomas