Greetings in the glorious Name of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ!

I know it has been too long since you have heard from us and what a time it has been! DQ & I left SD the first week of October for the CRM Fall Tour. The RV made it about 6 hours to Omaha where it broke down. It was able to limp into the Cummin's Dealership under its own power. This delayed us for 7 days. Each day, they thought they had it fixed; we would pay the bill and drive towards the campground. And each day it would do the same thing, bellow black smoke and loose all power, before we reached the campground. After 7 days of this, we had to go! We had already missed a couple church engagements and Daytona was pressing in.

Danny, Missy & Zeb Moss were with us in their bus. They took the tent and headed to Florida. We called DQ's sister, Nancy and some dear friends at home brought us our pickup. They arrived at 1 am and left at 7 am the next morning. We hooked the trailer to the truck and unloaded all that we would need from the RV into the truck/trailer. Going from a 40' RV to a pickup truck is tight! Next, I rode my bike 45 miles north to leave it at a friend's house. The extra 1000 lbs out of the trailer would put much less strain on the truck. By noon, we were ready to go south- us,our two shelties and supplies for six weeks in the pickup. Much was unknown such as where we would sleep and eat but we knew the Lord would take care of it all. We would not be thwarted by the devil's breakdown schemes. We were excited to begin this new adventure with Jesus. The neatest God-part of this was that we even had the pickup to pull the 22' trailer. The blessing of the 2500 Dodge Ram had been given to us in May. Prior to that, we have never had anything to pull the trailer with except the RV. Talk about God seeing to our needs before we even know them. Praise to our Lord! Many families took us in and we are thankful to each and every one.

The rest of the fall tour was great. Everywhere we stopped was a blessing to us and we were a blessing to others. The crowds at Biketoberfest in Daytona were down but great ministry happened. Lives were changed by our presence there. Everywhere we look, people need the Lord. What a privileged it is to be able to share with so many the hope we have in Jesus Christ. After Daytona, we did a whirlwind tour through Texas. We were energized in Houston by our time spent with Walking Faith Ministries. They are on-fire for the Lord and out to win all the poor children of Houston to Jesus. We made many other stops and were blessed at each venture as we ministered and challenged congregations. As you can tell, there was not an opportunity to sent out email on this tour.The RV was ready when we went back through Omaha so we picked it up. That set us back $8,800 for the 12 hour drive in the RV. (OUCH) We are now in Atlanta, Georgia speaking at a supporting church and visiting Mike Winsor the co-founder with DQ and I of CRM. At the board meeting in October, Mike came on as a part-time missionary. We are excited that he is in a position to do this and has the desire from God. He is a powerful addition in the ministry tent. Please pray for Mike, his family,Cheryl, Ashley and Kyle and their finances. CRM has made a faith commitment to Mike for $7000 this year. If anyone wants to help Mike, you can send it to CRM and put 'Mike Winsor' on the for line of your check.     

We have several churches to speak at before we end up in Daytona for Bike Week. This will energize us for the rally.  Please pray for our finances. Daytona is our most expensive event and we are RV broke. We know that God will provide but we beg your prayers. DQ and I have learned to be content in all situations.  

This has gotten long so I will catch you up some more in the February update. I want to share this one nugget with you. We ended the year in a most exceptional way. A lady, Joleen, who I have been discipling and mentoring since May was baptized into Christ in our kitchen on New Years Eve. She wanted to start the new year a brand new person and indeed she did. This begs me to ask, who are you pouring into? There are people all around you who need to be loved into the Kingdom. They do not need our preaching or our judgment. They need us to love them like Jesus does. What if each of us purposed this year to lead one to Christ? What do you need to do to get started? Well. Begin today! There is nothing better than seeing God's Light come on in someone's eyes. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!  

PRAYER LIST  

• Finances to continue to minister in the fullest way. We need to have more monthly commitments from individuals and churches. Inflation and fuel prices are putting us in a hard place.
• Hearts and minds open to the Gospel and pray the Holy Spirit Power to go before us and with us.
• Protection over all the Board members, support team and their families. Protection for our family and loved ones as well.
• We pray for Baptisms, rededications and commitments for the Lord.
• Ask God for boldness for us and to continue to restore the joy of our salvation.
• Please pray for the RV. The 1989 we are running is wore out and we can not afford a newer one. Pray that God raises another diesel RV up that is not needed by its owners anymore and it is delivered to us debt free. We are convinced this is God's Way!