Life in the full time ministry is certainly exciting. If someone would have told me 15 years ago that I would be involved in full time ministry with Teen Challenge, let alone start an adolescent center, and a T.C. in Cambodia I would have said they were crazy. But over the last 12 years that is exactly what has happened.
Now we begin a new adventure. I have resigned as Director of New Hope Academy TC Adolescent Center in PA, to assume the roll as Executive Director of a 20 bed men's TC center in Neosho. Missouri. Yes Neosho, that's about 14 miles south of Joplin, 70 miles west of Springfield. Along with our work in Missouri I will be continuing the ministry of helping to establish TC centers in SE Asia.
I will begin my new duties on February 1, Kathie will stay behind until the house is sold, and to continue care for her elderly aunt that lives with us.
Please keep us in prayer as Kathie and I walk through this time of change in our lives.
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Know that you are in our thoughts and prayers, Jim. Love and blessings to you and Kathie. Patrick and Carol
ReplyDeleteI just want to say that I heard you opened a center in Cambodia in Katie's name. I met her a couple of times when I was much younger. You have absolutely no idea how much she has blessed others. This is an area of extreme child abuse where HIV and drug use and child slavery run rampant. We will not allow the innocent to suffer and die and we will certainly not let people live without telling them the truth about Life and that no matter what, their lives are more than their sickness and death. The Resurrection told us that Christ defeated death, turned sickness upside down and overcame what ordinary man could not do.That's the power of Christ. Malaysia is also an extremely important place-it is very important. And you probably know this already, but our lives are not our own, rather we give them willingly to help and serve others because we love God.
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