Dear Friends:
Home Again
- You all know the saying: "there's no place like home". Well, we are
glad to be back in our birth home, the U.S.A. For your information, we
can be reached at the following:
1. Home phone - (956) 686-5056
2. Home address - 6712 N. 15th Ln. McAllen, TX 78504
3. E-mail addresses - same as before
(lonn3@prodigy.net.mx or
mefs5968@yahoo.com.mx )
Right now we are making adjustments to being stateside and we are
preparing for the traveling that lies ahead. I have been advised by Bro.
Jon Konnerup, Dr. Bob Baird, and Bro. Mike Haley to take a few months to
rest and adjust and get needed medical treatment. We have already
scheduled those churches that have contacted us and will continue to do
so little by little, so if you wish us to report to you, please let us
hear from you.
Back home in
Guadalajara - We continue to praise the Lord for the missions
conference we had at Living Word Baptist before we left. Dr. and Mrs.
Bob Baird, Bro. Jonathan Robertson (Costa Rica) and two Mexican
missionaries were with us. The people responded with great enthusiasm
and voted to take on all of the missionaries, so they are now supporting
four missionary families at one hundred dollars ($100) a month! The
faith promise for 2009 is fifteen thousand five hundred dollars
($15,550)! Several young people and young adults responded to the Lord's
calling to fulltime service. All are now involved, in preaching,
teaching or serving in some capacity in the church.
Gratefulness
- The Psalmist wrote: "offer thanksgiving unto the Lord".
Brethren, we thank God for your faithful support. The years have rolled
by and month after month you have been right there with us. You have
sent special offerings when needed and the latter part of every year,
many of you send us Christmas specials. We are thankful and we are
debtors to you all and we plan to serve the Lord with you in this
missionary endeavor ...
'Til Jesus Comes,
Lonnie C. Smith, Jr.