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Pat & Janice Murphy
Pat and Janice are on deputation to come to the Harbour Light
to serve The Murphy's are a couple whom the Lord has clearly led to help with our staff needs here at the Harbour Light. We had been praying for a couple, West Indian or American, that the Lord would send to us to help us primarily in two specific areas: Computers/maintenance and secretary/book keeping. We have been without a secretary for almost 10 years and the computer systems here are getting too much for me to handle in addition to my main job - "directing." I would love to let someone else do the directing :) but I know this is what the Lord wants me to do here now so I am happy to do it! Also my mother is getting up in years and needs someone to take over the book-keeping so she can concentrate on her main ministry - children's programming. Pat Murphy came on a mission team a couple of years ago unaware of our prayers for help. Upon leaving the island, he was overwhelmed with a burden to return for full time service. He said nothing to us at that time but returned home and several weeks later surrendered to that call. He did not know what we needed and we did not know what he could do, other than lay blocks, which is what he came with the team to do. His wife told him that while he was in Carriacou, she had been praying that the Lord would speak to him about full-time service - because that is what she felt the Lord was calling her to do! Excitedly, they began the process of applying to our mission board before realizing they weren’t actually certain we were seeking their help! They contacted us at that time and asked if we could use their help. When we asked what they could do, we found out that Pat (in addition to his building skills) had taught computers at a technical school and was actively employed in that field and that Janice was a secretary/book keeper! They are now approved by ARMS and are on deputation to "come over and help us." They are more than eager to come to work in this supportive roll. They are members at Calvary Baptist Church in Loganville, GA where Pastor Les Powell is now the pastor. Will you join us in praying for them to get meetings to share their testimony and burden to help us here at the Harbour Light? Pray that the Lord will raise their support quickly. Anything you could do to help them on their way will be greatly appreciated! We commend them to you as dedicated, energetic, and Christ-like Saints of God.
They have been here several times
already for short term work. Recent Prayer letters... Dear praying friends and supporters, Phi 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. FINALLY FULL-TIME DEPUTATION The Lord has seen fit to answer many of the prayer requests from our December prayer letter. He has truly supplied our needs. Only the Lord could have sold our home under the circumstances of the depressed housing market along with the time frame we were facing. We thank you for your prayers regarding the sale. We have a contract on it and closing will be in a few more days providing nothing goes wrong. We have entrusted the details of closing to our pastor. The Lord’s timing as always is perfect. We have now moved into our motor home and will spend the rest of our deputation traveling and living in it until we raise the balance of the financial support needed for us to depart for Carriacou. Our prayer letter comes to you from Hutchinson, Kansas this time. Our motor home is parked in the drive at one of our daughters and grandma is having a good time with the grandchildren. We left Georgia three weeks ago and have faced snow flurries, rain, cold temperatures and extremely high winds. We are becoming veteran motor homers with books for overnight accommodations at all the Wal-Marts and others for dump stations and truck stops across the US. Our GPS attachment to our lap top is a great help also. We’ve spent some of our time this week getting organized and unpacked. It’s just like moving into a regular home. A special thank you goes out to all those who helped to load our shipping container in preparation to leave for our field of service which we pray will be soon. We had spent many weeks anticipating items we will need and have filled a 40 ft. container completely full from front to back and floor to ceiling with household goods, tools, items to complete our apartment and supplies. My shoulder surgery went well and the recovery is progressing nicely. We are very pleased with the results. Having to pack and help with loading our container may have helped with the therapy. I had no choice but to use it. We had a very successful meeting in Newton, KS a couple of Sundays ago and traveled to Marysville, KS for all day meetings last Sunday. We are working on scheduling a meeting with some of our friends in western Kansas before leaving for Maine. We have six weeks of meetings scheduled there beginning April 13th. Please pray for:
We want to remind you once more of the Harbour Light’s web address, www.harbourlightradio.org, and the new address of ARMS, www.everlastingarms.org which is relatively new. Don’t forget also that you may listen to the Harbour Light over the internet at any time. We pray the Lord will richly bless each of you as you have blessed us.
In Christ, December 22, 2007 Dear praying friends and supporters, “And she shall bring forth a son and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” Matt 1:21 Our prayer is the Lord will bless each of you with a glorious Christmas Season as we reflect on our Savior’s love for us. Our home church recently preformed the cantata “From Christmas to Calvary”. It was a tremendous blessing to all those present. It touched our hearts and has made our longing to be in Carriacou even greater. We know the Lords desire is for us to serve along with the staff at the Harbour Light. Much has happened since our last letter. Our hopes to sell our home in an “as is” condition fell through in late September. As we worked on it alone it didn’t take long to see that progress was just moving too slowly. We hired a contractor to complete the brick work on the front of the house and around the garage. On November 9, 2007, Janice gave up her job to be at home full-time to help with the work on the house and to assist with deputation. On the 14th we purchased our shipping container. We needed it to store the garage contents while we completed the sheetrock work. After that we will be able to load our belongings for storage as we move forward with deputation and our eventual move to Carriacou. The 15th of November brought us special joy as our 12th grandchild was born. Little Miss Grace Ann Shelton weighed in at 5lbs.8oz. and 18 inches long. We had a meeting scheduled in Kansas for November 25th; we left on the 19th in order to see all of our girls and grandchildren. It was a thrill to see all of them even if only briefly. A work team from the Taylors/Greenville area along with a member from our home church came out to help with the home project. They helped get the sheetrock hung in the garage and gave us a good start on putting the handrail around our deck. With the help of a couple of men from our church most of that project is complete. We still have two set of steps to install and paint. We had planned to paint the exterior of the garage last weekend but the weather conditions didn’t allow. We have been working on the inside of the garage finishing the sheetrock when we can’t work outside on the painting. We’ve had a rather rough week filled with illnesses ranging from upper respiratory issues to stomach viruses. Pat had an impacted wisdom tooth removed on Thursday and woke up Friday with a virus which we pray will subside soon. Pat is scheduled to have shoulder surgery on January 10, 2008. They plan to do the least invasive procedure possible and have advised him he will need at least a two week recovery period. The doctor stated his shoulder will let him know when he is doing too much. Our prayer is to have the work on the house complete prior to this surgery. Please pray for it to sell quickly. We need a miracle. We know too, if it is the Lord’s will it will happen. We have some meetings scheduled in Kansas in early March and several weeks of meeting in Maine beginning mid-April. Our prayer is that we will see much fruit from our meetings of this past year as well as the ones in early spring. The Lord has clearly called us and we are anxious to go. Our support level is currently 45%. A team from Men for Missions will be going to Carriacou in January to complete the lower level of the Missions home which will be our residence once we arrive. Our special prayer requests are:
We want to remind you once more of the Harbour Light’s web address, www.harbourlightradio.org, and the address of ARMS (our Mission Board), www.everlastingarms.org which is relatively new. Don’t forget also that you may listen to the Harbour Light over the internet at any time. Just go to the Harbour Light's web address to connect. We pray the Lord will richly bless each of you as you have blessed us. May the blessings of Christmas be with you throughout the coming year.
In
Christ Precious Love, August 24, 2007 Dear praying friends and supporters, We praise the Lord for the many blessing he has bestowed upon us these last months. He has so graciously met our every need. Our support has increased slightly to about 45%. We have had several exceptional meetings in South Carolina, Georgia and Maine. The love gifts from these meetings were ample to pay all the expenses of our two week trip to Maine the end of April and early May. We are so grateful for this wonderful provision. The Lord has been so faithful to us. We only have minor scars from the many grueling hours of work spent preparing and painting our motor home. What a monumental task. We now have the lettering in place which concludes the restoration phase of our “Home on Wheels”. We are grateful to all those who have had a part in this project. Most of the paint was provided by the owner of a paint company. The lettering was provided by the Sunday school classes at our local church, and some of the labor, much direction and advice were provided by one of our local members. One of our daughters provided a very sophisticated water purifier. I have never painted anything quite like this and found myself painting two motor homes; my first and my last. It has been a rather overwhelming task. A few other pictures can be found at the bottom of this letter as well. We are at a very critical point in our deputation process. We have set a goal of 50% before setting out on full time deputation. We are pleased to see our support level getting so close. Please pray that the Lord will continue to show himself strong and steadfast in our journey to the mission field which he has called us. We are in need of much wisdom to know just when to sell our home, Janice to quite her job and when to ship our belongings to Carriacou. There are many details to attend to. Please pray we will do it just the way the Lord will have us to.
We have added another family member since our last letter. Our daughter, Barbara Ann was married so we now have a new son-in-law, Jerred. Our daughter, Nola is expecting our twelfth grandchild in late November. We recently attended two family reunions two weekends in a row. We were exhausted. We have purchased two additional motorcycles to take down as we ship our belongings. I believe they will be well received. One has a home. While we are not sure about the other, it will make a great spare for the other three when mechanical failures occur. We want to remind you once more of the Harbour Light’s web address, www.harbourlightradio.org, and the new address of ARMS, www.everlastingarms.org which is relatively new. Don’t forget also that you may listen to the Harbour Light over the internet at any time.
In
Christ’s Love, March 14, 2007 Dear praying friends and supporters, We are excited to inform you that our support has increased to 43% and we are looking forward to being able to devote full time to our deputation, we hope soon. We are slowly moving in the right direction.
Tyrron Polson is a national in Carriacou who has been very active in the ministry of the Harbourlight and Open Door Baptist Church. Recently he was struck by an automobile while riding his bicycle and has had surgery on a broken leg because of it. Please pray for a speedy recovery for Tyrron. Pray also that our full support will come soon.
In
Christ’s Love, May 3, 2006 Dear praying friends and supporters, This will be a quick note to bring you up to date. We are excited to be able to tell you our support has reached 20% in the past few days. Thank you especially to the folks in Udall Kansas for taking us on. We have a meeting locally this coming Sunday and then will be headed for Maine for some meetings. This will also give us the opportunity to see Janice’s sister midway both going up and coming back. Please pray for safety as we travel. Please pray for the continued support of the Harbour Light and that we will schedule more meetings and raise our support quickly. For those who have not yet made decisions concerning our ministry we would ask that you please continue to prayerfully consider us. We are desperately needed.
In Christ’s
Love, Act 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. February 9, 2006 Dear praying friends and supporters, February has found its way here sooner than expected and so did our 11th grandchild. Jessica Marie Shelton was born February 6th, weighed 4 lbs. 3 ozs, and was 16 ¼ in. long. We have a trip scheduled to Kansas in March for a meeting and also to see the new baby. We hoped to be there when Jessica was born. She just didn’t wait long enough. Randy Cornelius (station manager) was here in the States for a few weeks so we got to meet with him this past Sunday when he came down from Greenville to speak to the people in our church. We also went to Greenville the previous week and saw him for a short visit. John (station engineer) and Karen will be coming back for their daughter’s graduation this spring and will be staying for a number of months on furlough. Arlene Cornelius will be coming back on furlough for a number of months also at the same time. She continues to be involved at the station and does a great deal with the children’s programming. Keith and Becky Ekberg are still state-side with medical problems. John hopes to have one of the two generators overhauled and back running before he must leave. The other engine now seems to have a deteriorating radiator that has sprung a leak. Please pray that everything will hold together since Randy will be the only one at the helm until the others get back from furlough. Please continue to pray that we will schedule more meetings and raise our support quickly. For those who have not yet made decisions concerning our ministry we would ask that you please continue to prayerfully consider us. We are desperately needed ASAP.
In Christ’s Love,
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We
are beginning to look further away from home for meetings. We
are praying the Lord will open the doors for us to make another
trip to Maine. We will do some more work on our home soon and
place it on the market. Please pray that it will sell at the
right time to work together with the scheduled meetings. When
our home is sold we will pack our belongings in preparation for
shipping them to Grenada. We will live in the motor home until
we can move permanently to our mission field.
The
work team to Carriacou did not fully complete their goal but the
basement of the missions home is much closer to completion and we
look forward also to being able to move in to this soon. We will
travel to Greenville this coming weekend so Janice can attend a
class on Microsoft Access with Arlene Cornelius. The Harourlight is
now using this. We plan to take our newly remodeled motor home so
we can work out any bugs in it before it will head for Maine in a
few short weeks. I am also in the middle of setting up a lap top
computer we will be taking with us as we travel in the future. We
continue to visit churches on the Sundays we don’t have meetings and
find it productive in getting more meetings.
