Smith Family Newsletter | January 2025

Mission Work

We went to LeTurneou University for their Go Week. This week focuses on missions and their students learning about different ministries they can work at when they graduate or they can do summer internships. We went there trying to recruit mechanics, front office, warehouse, and hospitality staff. None of our staff is leaving; actually, we are growing and we need more staff! Woohoo!!

Another awesome part of these trips is we run into many of our partner ministries or ministries that we have become really good friends with. We ran into Righteous Rides and MMS Aviation, and we also made so many great connections with new ministries that have not heard about us and are interested in what we do and would LOVE help!

We are still looking for staff and working on housing, please pray for both!

Home Life

Jett turned 13 this month! He is now officially a teen! He wanted Bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches for breakfast, homemade Ramen for lunch, and homemade Stromboli for dinner! His special dessert was cream pie!

Jase had to have 2 teeth removed, his grown up teeth were growing so far back they were pushing his baby teeth out. Poor guy, he was a trooper and we went out and got popsicles to eat at home.

Peyton went snowboarding for the first time and slightly fractured his wrist. He had to wear this brace for 2-3 weeks.

Took the girls out for a Boba Tea date, Kylie asked to not be in the picture.

Children’s church hawaiian shirt night! Hannah got Jon & Peyton Hawaiian shirts with their pictures on it with flamingos! It was amazing!

Homeschool Corner

We had a few snow days this month! It was great for sledding!

A lot of school work papers and computer work happened, not too many science experiments this month. Parker did have a history project to do. She is doing archeology and she was studying aging of coins. Here she is looking at different aged coins to see how different coins age.

Upcoming Mission Trips

Georgia, USA

April 26-May 3, 2025, We are headed back down to Glennville, GA! We are helping GA Missions Ministry start the next phase of their discipleship ministry building process. They now need to build their dorm building! We are excited to see them still going and moving forward with their projects to complete this mission! We are also excited to see how things are being completed in the first building that we started in December of 2023!

Monterrey, Mexico

July 5-12, 2025 We are taking a team of skilled and unskilled people to Mexico. We will be helping to build onto a men’s rehab facility, evangelize, encourage the ministries we work alongside, and anything else that God leads us too. We will also be praying with the community and doing kids’ ministry. *This has changed as we felt God pushing us in this direction. Both are very big needs, but we felt this was a bigger push as to what we should be doing for this trip. We have worked with Pastor Adrian for many years now and love seeing these guys come to Jesus and be set free from their bondage of sin. So, so, so neat!

Prayer Requests

  • Support: We are still not fully supported and are actively raising support.
  • Homeschool: that is an ever going prayer
  • Guidance, wisdom, and discernment as God leads us as we lead the ministry.

Ministry Prayer Requests

  • Mission Trips: Prayer for getting connected with people to match needs for teams
  • Shipping: We have many shipping containers going out soon full of supplies to help ministries share the gospel around the world!
  • Staff: We are in need of another front office staff member and another mechanic to meet our growing needs in those areas.

 

Family Needs

Support

We are very grateful for the team of supporters we have. Thank you! We are currently at $2,500 monthly and where we need to be is $3,570. This covers what we need to live each month as this is our only income. It has been by the grace and provision of God that we are making it. We could really use your help. Prayers and awareness of this need to others is much appreciated!

 

Would you like to join our team? We need your help to continue to accomplish God’s vision for us at the ministry. Would you join us as a monthly supporter so we can continue the work God has started? We want to take you along for the journey and we would be honored to be able to share the experience with you. You would become part of the team and we would share how God is working and the impact it is having on His Kingdom. Please pray and ask God if you should join us.

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