1Thessalonians 5:24-25 “Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us.”

Dear Praying Friends,

Thanksgiving! What can we be thankful for? There are so many God-given things, people, events and pleasures all around us. Do we actually think about these things and thank God for them? This year let’s take the time to think about them and count our many blessings, giving God the glory for each and every one!

We are so thankful to God that we were able to be in Florida for Penny’s mom and dad’s 60th anniversary and to be able to see all three of our boys and their families! We usually don’t get to see them more than one time a year so getting to see all of them together with mom and dad was a privilege We also celebrated our youngest grandchild’s first birthday. It was a blessing to be a part of that celebration.

Joe’s school bus driving job has been going very well and he’s not hurting so much like he was when he was working at the meat shop. His heart test result was great. There are no blockages and his cardiologist was happy with the results!

The Wild Game Dinner went well. We had 34 people attending and we thank all those who were able to help and those who were praying. We were able to put over $2000 into our mailbox postage fund. The calendars are selling great and that money is also going toward mailbox postage.

Since we will not be going to see the kids this Christmas, we sent our passports away in order to renew them. Pray that the renewal process is quick with no complications.

We will be singing at the women’s prison with Gospel Echoes Prison Ministry once again this year, on December 5th. Thank you again for your prayers for our family and our ministry!

Serving God in Canada,

Joe & Penny

1Thessalonians 5:24-25: “Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us.”

Dear Praying Friends,

Thank you so much for praying for us these last couple of months. We are so excited to let you know our news!! On August 29, 2016, we received our registered charity number from Canada Revenue for Source of Light Ministries, Inc. and can now issue receipts. If you have any questions, please contact us through our phone number at the bottom of this letter or email us anytime: canada@slmin.org.

Joe made it through all the training and tests he had to take the last couple of months! He is now a school bus driver for a company called First Student! He started September 1st and has 16 stops bringing 28 students to school and back each day. (see picture)

Awana Camp went well this year. Please remember to pray for each of the campers to remember daily their promises that they made to God at camp this past summer. I had only one child at my 5-Day Club in August. Please pray that he will remember what he learned about the Lord this summer and share it with his friends.

Our 2017 Calendar is printed and ready to go. All the proceeds from this calendar go toward Mailbox Club postage, so that we are able to continue sending Mailbox lessons to the students. (calendar pictured)

We will be going down to Florida for Penny’s parents’ 60th anniversary celebration and will be able to see all three of our boys and all 5 grandchildren that week.

Fairhaven Bible Chapel will be hosting a SLM Canada fundraiser: a Wild Game Dinner on September 30th featuring The Call Outdoors from Pennsylvania. Thank you again for praying for our ministry and our
family.

Serving God in Canada,

Joe & Penny

1 Thessalonians 5:24-25 “Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us.”

Dear Praying Friends,

These next couple of months will be busy for us, let me fill you in!

First of all, we have been contacted by Canada Revenue about our Source of Light Ministries Inc. application for registered charity! They asked us to answer a few more questions but said that it all looks good and may be finished by the end of the summer. Please keep praying! In the meantime, for those who would like to continue supporting us and have been sending support through Impact Canada Ministries there are two ways you can do this. You can send to our church or through you own church until we are able to give receipts. If you have any questions please contact us through the phone number in the column on the right.

Second, Joe is applying for a job as school bus driver since the meat cutting job is getting too hard on his body with standing on cement floors for 8 hours at a time. Please pray. There are a few things he has to pass before this can happen. He wouldn’t begin until the school year starts but he has to go through a week of training among other things! Just pray that everything will fall into place. Thanks.

The third event on our agenda, July 16-23, is Awana camp in Alberta. Please pray for safety, as we both will need to drive this year, since we will be bringing at least 7 children to camp from our area. Please pray for the kids all week and for us as we run the game time each day. Pray for the speaker and for God to speak to each of the youth (grades 5-12) throughout the week.

Fourthly following Awana camp, we will be setting up our display at the Waldheim Mission’s Conference on July 24-27.

The final event on our agenda for these next two months, August 8-12, we will have a 5-day club for Child Evangelism Fellowship in our backyard using Mailbox Club materials. Please pray that many neighborhood children will attend and that many would come to know the Lord as Savior!

Thank you again for praying for our ministry and our family.

Serving God in Canada,

Joe & Penny

1 Thessalonians 5:24-25 “Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us.”

Dear Praying Friends,

Once again we are entering your home or church with an update of our ministry here in Canada!  We are praising the Lord for so many who want to hear about our students in the Mailbox Club and the sharing of God’s Word with churches. 

We are thrilled to announce that after speaking with the elders of our church, we have been able to help a Filipino church here in Saskatoon have a place to worship.  Our church is willing to rent them our building! Joe spoke at their first service in our building in April and helped them with Awana games that afternoon. We were also able to do Awana games with them at their camp on Easter weekend a couple hours north of the city.

We set up our table at the “Discerning the Times” prophecy conference in April again this year.  It is always a blessing to see many of our missionary friends again and hear the speakers who come and share with all of the us the signs of the times!  We met a pastor of a church in northern Saskatchewan who picked up one of each lesson and then made an order after the conference.  He has a small church and wants to share the Bible studies with his people. The pastor of the church where Joe spoke in the city in March wanted to set up a time in which he could talk to us and discern how he could best use the lessons at his church.  Many people came to our table to pick up tracts and Bible lessons and to ask questions of Penny, while Joe led the singing after each break. The two-day conference was a blessing as it is every year.

Thank you again for praying for our ministry and our family.

Serving God in Canada,

Joe & Penny

1Thessalonians 5:24-25 “Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us.”

Dear Praying Friends,

Thank you so much for your prayers the past two months. We are praising the Lord for the health He has given us and the blessings in the Mailbox Club and SLM Canada. We will be sharing our ministry in a church here in Saskatoon this month, pray that all will go well. Thank you.

There were 6 new students added to the Mailbox Club in the month of January and 12 added in February. We have been sending out a letter with birthday cards each month letting the students know that they can email their answers to us. Many of the students that haven’t written in awhile have started up again after they receive their birthday card and letter. Some send through email and some don’t but at least they are reminded of their lessons and begin sending again. We graded 248 lessons in January with 36 of those being emailed and 201 lessons in February with 22 of those emailed to us. We sent 36 certificates to students finishing their courses in those two months. One student in January made a profession of faith because of doing his lesson!

Please continue to pray for our students. I am sharing a note that was sent to us at the end of January from an adult student in Nova Scotia. She writes:

“The most important thing I learned in this lesson is more about Jesus. We can never stop learning about Him. I want to live and please Him each and every day. He is No. 1 in my life and I pray for “lost ones” every day. I enjoyed the last lesson No. 12 very much because I love to read about heaven. I have many questions about HOME—how wonderful it will be. Thank you for helping us to learn more about Jesus! Love, Ruth K.”

Thank you again for praying for our ministry and our family.

Serving God in Canada,

Joe & Penny

1Thessalonians 5:24-25 “Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us.”

Dear Praying Friends,

Happy New Year! We had a most wonderful time during our Christmas holidays with our boys’ families and friends! Thank you for your prayers as we traveled to Maryland on the 22nd of December and on our home trip January 2nd. We made many memories and enjoyed every minute!

Please keep praying as we are still waiting to get our Source of Light Canada Registered Charity status! Most of the Mailbox Club lessons are coming to our address now and things are running quite smoothly. There were 28 lessons waiting for me after our trip. Then Mondays’ 16 lessons came. There were about 17 lessons that were mailed to Impact Canada Ministries to pick up on Tuesday. The three ladies staying on to help grade lessons began coming to help again on January 7.

The address at 401 33rd St. West is no longer our address. Please send all correspondence to our home address:

905 23rd St. West
Saskatoon, SK S7L 0A5

Once again thank you for praying for our ministry and our family.

Serving God in Canada,

Joe & Penny

1Thessalonians 5:24-25 “Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us.”

Dear Praying Friends,

This letter is an update on the changes in our ministry and in our lives that we shared with you in our newsletter in September. First in August, we moved Joe’s Source of Light Ministries office to our house into one of our spare rooms. Then began the paperwork and by September 3, 2015 we got our incorporation papers! We are now incorporated as Source of Light Ministries, Inc. Please keep praying as we are still trying to get our Registered Charity status!

Since Impact Canada Ministries is selling their building, we needed to move all the stored lessons out of the ICM basement and into a room in our friends’ storage facility! There has been a donation of $500 for our SLM storage room and it was built by one of our board members and Joe in September! Praise the Lord! A week or two later, Joe and I then started moving the lessons 45 boxes at a time into the room. It took us 3 trips, one each on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to get all the lessons moved and on the shelves! Praise the Lord for the strength and fortitude to keep on going! By November 1st, The Mailbox Club office will be in our basement. This will be another big endeavor but hopefully not quite as long and tedious as moving the storage lessons! It should only take one or two days to get it all in. Thank you for your prayers for safety as we move! With the move away from the office, the Mailbox Club is also still needing support each month to cover postage costs. If ten families or churches would be able to donate $50 a month, costs would be covered allowing the Mailbox Club students to not have any delays in receiving their next lesson. If you could help, please reply to this email! If you can’t, please pray that the additional funds will come in!

Our newest grandson was born September 27th and is doing well. Thank you for praying for David and Rachel and Levi! Please continue to pray for our health and for our sons and their families. We appreciate your prayers. Thank you again for praying!

Serving God in Canada,

Joe & Penny

1Thessalonians 5:24-25 “Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us.”

Dear Praying Friends,

Changes happening! Big changes, please keep us in prayer these next few months as we have many things to do to keep up with the changes! First, the mission we have been partnered with has since changed their name from Western Tract Mission Inc. to Impact Canada Ministries Inc. and the board has decided to transfer the Mailbox Club to Source of Light Ministries Canada. We agreed to take it and will move it over to our home since they have been trying to sell their building for over a year now and are looking for appropriate office space for their mission.

Secondly, we are still trying to get our registered charity status and have found out that we need to be incorporated to do that, so keep praying because now we really need this since we will not be under Western Tract Mission anymore and have to be our own entity. They have given us until June 1, 2016 so we should have plenty of time, unless the building sells!

Thirdly, since we have to move the Mailbox Club office to our home, we will have to start paying for postage and for mailbox supplies such as, envelopes, printer ink and paper etc. We are going to need to raise money for postage to be able to keep sending lessons to our students. We are estimating it to be about $500.00 a month or $6000.00 a year. If you would like to help us with a one time gift or to give monthly, please send a check to Source of Light Ministries at 1011 Mission Rd. Madison, GA 30650 and designate it for SLM Canada postage. If you are in Canada and want to help support the Mailbox Club, please write checks to Impact Canada Ministries because our money will continue to go through them until we become incorporated. Please put in the memo that it is for SLM postage so it won’t get mixed up with ICM monies. Thank you. We appreciate all your prayers and support.

Fourthly, we need to move all the stored lessons out of the ICM basement and one of our friends from church has suggested using his storage facility; but because we sell those lessons and use them monthly with the mailbox students we need to have them in a room that will not be too humid or leak or in any way harm the lessons. The guys will have some work to do building walls and a door and shelves. Someone has already donated $500 for the storage facility! Praise the Lord!

Please continue to pray for our health and for our sons and their families. We appreciate your prayers. Thank you again for praying!

Serving God in Canada,

Joe & Penny

1Thessalonians 5:24-25 “Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us.”

Dear Praying Partners,

On June 14 we celebrated our 35th Anniversary!! Praise the Lord for all the years God has given us together! We were able to go to Jasper and Banff with Penny’s brother Larry and his wife Donna. We had a great time together before they flew to the Philippines and Thailand for a few weeks. Thank you for your prayers for them as they travel! Pictures at the bottom of this letter!

Don’t forget to pray for us in July as we go to Awana camp from the 12th to the 19th! Pray for each Awana camper as they learn more about the Lord. Pray that souls will be nourished and those who don’t know Christ as Savior will come to know Him this week!

Pray also for Child Evangelism Fellowship 5-Day clubs this summer and pray for us as we have one in our back yard July 27-31. Pray that many children in our neighborhood would come and many souls will be saved.

Please keep praying for our sons and their families. Pray for David and Rachel as our new little grandson will be born in September! We can’t wait to see him, along with the other 4 grandchildren in December when we go down to Maryland for Christmas! We appreciate your prayers.

Thank you again for praying!

Serving God in Canada,

Joe & Penny

1Thessalonians 5:24-25 “Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. Brethren, pray for us.”

Dear Praying Partners,

This year in January we began sending our Mailbox Club students’ families a letter with their lessons letting them know about an email address where they can send their answers, which will help them save some postage. We still send the lessons to them as usual but then they can send their answers by email. We now have been getting lesson answers by email regularly from 33 students. I have also been sending that letter with each birthday card sent out each month, since February. We have gotten at least three large families back from those birthday card letters! Please keep praying for our students in the Mailbox Club. We praise the Lord for 435 lessons graded in the Mailbox Club in the month of April! Praise the Lord for 24 Certificates of Completion in the Mailbox Club in April!

We are excited to tell you that our Friday night Bible study group’s Easter program went well in all five places that it was performed. All of the elderly people in each home were very pleased with the outcome. The kids did a great job and our choir of 29 people did great too! We had fun being able to bless people with our program of the life of Christ leading up to the cross! Thank you for your prayers!

The Registered Charity Status paperwork has been sent in to the government. They have informed us that it could take 6 months to a year to hear anything from them. Thank you for praying. Also please keep praying for our sons and their families and for our health. We appreciate your prayers.

On May 17th Joe preaches at a friend’s church, filling the pulpit. Our 35th anniversary is June 14th, and Penny’s brother Larry and his wife Donna are coming to visit in June. We are very excited to show them our area of ministry and our home. Please pray for safety as they travel up here and from here go on to the Philippines for a few weeks. Thank you again for praying!

Serving God in Canada,

Joe & Penny