September 2014 Prayer Letter

Dear Friends,

What does a missionary do on furlough? Here is a summary of the past two months. I spoke 27 times in 22 different churches in 12 different states. We travelled almost 10,000 miles by car, covering states as far north as Michigan, as far south as Florida, as far east as Virginia and as far west as Iowa. We spent 42 nights on the road staying in 9 hotels, 7 homes and 4 different prophet’s chambers.

But furlough was not all work. We also took advantage of our travels to do some fun things on the way. We spent a day at Kings Island amusement park, climbed the Peaks of Otter in Virginia, and Pilot Mountain in North Carolina, visited Mount Airy, North Carolina, did sightseeing in Savannah, Georgia, went to Tybee Beach in Georgia, Disney Boardwalk in Orlando, Florida and the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We also got a plane ride in a private plane in McDonough, Georgia. This doesn’t include the days we were able to spend with family and friends along the way.

 

Our primary goal on this furlough was to gain some much needed support. For this reason, we focused on getting into new churches. We were able to visit 16 non-supporting churches. Five of these churches have already informed us that they would be taking us on for support. A number of other churches were positive about future support. Every church was kind with generous love offerings and words of encouragement. We are grateful for the many friends that the Lord has given us over the years, and the many new friends we made this summer.

Family news:

We were able to spend a week in Jacksonville, Florida and get Nancy and Ben settled into the dorms at Trinity Baptist College. It was difficult to say goodbye, but we are excited about their future. We know that this is where they need to be at this time, and we believe that God has great plans for their future.

 

News from Hungary:

We arrived back to find good crowds this past Sunday in both Tata and Esztergom. It was great to reconnect with our people here. The next couple weeks will be busy, as we settle back into the ministry in Hungary. We are looking forward to a blessed fall season. 

                                                    

Ministry Information:

For those of you who may have missed seeing our furlough video let me remind you, that you can find more information about our ministry and the link to our ministry video at www.pattonhungary.blogspot.com.

Marc

Here are a few pictures:

Kings Island

Welcome to Florida!

McDonough, Georgia

August 2014 Prayer Letter

With Marc's parents

We arrived in Chicago on June 26th. We spent the first few weeks based in the Chicago area staying with Charin’s parents. We really enjoyed seeing them again. During that time we visited churches in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri and Iowa. A few of these churches were supporting churches, but many were new churches for us. We were well received, and we trust that we will see several of these churches take us on for support.

 August, 2014

Dear Friends,

Greetings from North Carolina. As you can see, we are in the US on furlough. Please allow me to bring you up to date on the past two months.

Furlough News:

July 23rd we left Indiana and headed south. Thus far we have visited churches in Virginia and North Carolina, but over the next few weeks we will be presenting in churches in Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee as well. We will spend a week in Jacksonville, Florida in mid-August to drop off Nancy and Ben at Trinity Baptist College to begin their first semester in the Fall. Please pray for them (and us!) as this will be a major adjustment. 

We have had a great furlough thus far. Several churches have expressed a desire to take us on for support. We continue to pray that we will be able to make up much of the support that we lost due to last year’s transition. 

We will return to Hungary on August 28th. Esther and Hannah start school on September 1st. Charin will also be teaching English in two elementary schools, so she has to be back for the start of the school year as well.  We will have a busy fall schedule awaiting us.

News from Hungary:

Services in all three of our churches have gone well in our absence. We are thankful for the good leaders the Lord has given us. Our church in Esztergom held its annual English camp from July 21-25. They had the biggest attendance ever. We are thankful for the team of Americans that helped out during that week. 

Marc