Dear Family and Friends,
Due to revival travels, we won’t be able to send out paper copies of our updates until the end of July.
In February’s update, we mentioned the opportunity to exercise a step of great wisdom and faith to move back into our church’s mission house and that the moment felt like a recommitment to Jesus’ words in Mark 8:34 (especially after all the remodel work), “And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.”
In March 30th’s update, we mentioned we had moved back into the mission house, and we asked prayer for God’s will concerning the sale of our house, the sale price, the family moving into it, and the timing of the sale because of the busyness of our revival schedule.
In this update, we are rejoicing over many answers to prayer concerning selling, moving the rest of our possessions, pre-signing and officially closing on the home we owned since 2012! We had several showings scheduled prior to the house going “live” on the market, and within 23 hours the house was pending with an offer greater than our asking price (contingent up the sell of the other buyer’s house). We were preaching a wonderful ten-day revival meeting in Raymore, MO when this news came through to us. After our blessed time at Faith in Raymore, we only had 5 days to pre-sign and get our possessions moved before heading to our next event - a marriage retreat and revival in Indiana. We praise the Lord for family and several friends from the church I used to pastor who came out and helped on moving day. (You were a huge blessing to us!) Speaking about the revival in Indiana…God worked tremendously and stirred us for His glory! We praise the Lord for a sweet time at Liberty in Indianapolis. Then we had three days in between meetings to sell some items on Marketplace and get some basement work done in the mission house. After all that, we made our way to Michigan for our 8th annual revival with our friends in Benton Harbor. During all these travels, high wind storms kept moving through the Peoria area (where our pending house was located). We were constantly praying for God’s protection over our home from any wind damage. Then on Friday May 1st, the last day of our revival at Calvary in Benton Harbor, we received the news that we had officially sold our home! April and this early May have truly been “blessed by the Best” through answers to prayer concerning our home and more importantly God’s good hand being evident during each of the meetings. Thank you for praying with us!
The time since the sale of our house has moved ever so fast. We were blessed to hold a revival in Norfolk, NE and a Christian Education weekend in Scotts, Michigan. Both events were wonderful! Now, during our little bit of time home, we are blessed to hold a revival meeting in Pekin, IL at Bethel Baptist Church. If you are in our area, we’d love to see you!
These are the event opportunities we knowingly have until our next update (please pray for fruit that remains):
May 23-27 | Pekin, Illinois (Couples Event and Revival)
May 31-June 3 | Oakland, Iowa (Revival)
June 7 | Lodi, Wisconsin (Sunday)
June 8-12 | Whitewater, Wisconsin (Training Camp at Camp Joy)
June 14-16 | Kansas City, Kansas (Revival)
June 17-20 | Ottawa, Kansas (Teen Camp at Amazing Grace Baptist Camp)
June 21 | Osawatomie, Kansas (Sunday)
June 22-26 | Ottawa, Kansas (Junior Camp at Amazing Grace Baptist Camp)
June 28 | Greenfield, Missouri (Sunday)
June 29-July 3 | Oakwood, Texas (Teen Camp at Camp Liberty)
Thank you for your prayers and for rejoicing with us. We are grateful for everyone’s faithful support, and the extremely generous love offerings from each of the churches in which we have ministered. God bless you!
Justyn, Rachel, & Lydia Smith ~ Proverbs 3:5-6
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