Skippers Log :: December 2011

The Skipper’s Log...December 2011

ENCOURAGEMENT FROM TOM & JUNE SKIPPER

Tom & June Skipper | 2011

In His Grip,Tom & June Skipper

Mission: CAM International...8625 LaPrada Dr. | Dallas,TX 75228 Email | tomjune.skipper@gmail.com

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As 2011 comes to a close we are reminded how good it is to be on God’s Team!

Throughout the year we are blessed with many evidences of God’s grace and victory. We hope you are encouraged in your faith by 2 examples in this newsletter. Though we are not always sure why things happen the way they do….we can rest assured God has a plan!

#1 God has a mission in mind: Recently we visited some friend with difficult health challenges. Prepared with material from the Bible, we arrived to lift their spirit, Upon arrival when we found they had visitors from out of state, our first thought was we had picked the wrong time to show up. In the getting acquainted discussion, when I mentioned serving as hospital chaplain, the women began sharing her recent hospital experience, how she had wished a chaplain had been there for her. This opened the door to a great time of prayer and reading Psalm 37:1-9 together, while allowing her to fill a void she had in her life. We also shared the Gospel using “The Hand of Hope” (see at skippercam.org) a way we have found to clearly explain the Gospel backed with adequate scripture verses from start to finish on how to trust Christ as Savior. We felt God had called us to our friend’s home especially to minister to someone else who desperately needed it as assurance from God to her.

#2 Discipleship: Last week we received this email from Jeffery Nelson: “Dear Tom and June, I’d appreciate your prayers as tomorrow morning I fly out to Colombia for week on a mission yrip. There are 8 physicians going and we plan to see 800-1000 patients in 4 days……I hope you are doing well…..just a note to let you know I have been praying for you lately. Remember fondly my first mission trip with you and June to Mexico in 1999 and how influenced I was towards missions”. As June and I reflected on the positive impact this dear Christian Brother is having for Christ, we felt a deep thankfulness that Jeff has taken this pathway to glorify the Lord with his life. Jeff’s email to us ended with this quotation: May God bless you with the foolishness to think you can make a difference in the world, so you will do the things which others say cannot be done”.

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