Despite everything that has transpired this year to throw a monkey wrench into a whole lot of ministry plans for a whole lot of Christian folks, we rejoice that FPGM was able, by God’s grace, to spend a good month on the ground down in Colombia and travel more than 25,000 miles to and fro across the United States for the Word of God and the Testimony of Jesus the Messiah. A surprising number of Hebrew Bibles (OT and NT) were put into the hands of Jewish folks, and many Gentiles were confronted with the Gospel message in 2020. We praise God.

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Greetings, beloved brethren. I’m sorry you haven’t heard from me in a long while. Eric Trent and I, along with my daughter Bethany, have been on the road since Labor Day, and so far, it’s 10,000+ miles and counting. Currently, we are in California, and Lord willing, we hope to be back in North Carolina by Thanksgiving. Your continued prayers and support are coveted and much appreciated.

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Winter is coming to a close in 2020, and manifest destiny again calls! Early Monday morning, Eric Trent and I will heed that call—Go West Young Man! For the next two months, we will be traveling out to the Pacific Ocean and back, completing another preaching circuit that will inevitably involve Hebrew Scripture distribution in shopping malls, some college campus preaching, and outreach to hikers, backpackers, and climbers on a variety of trails and crags.

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Greetings, beloved brethren. I have returned home from a fruitful missionary journey in Colombia. The Trents are also back in the States for a short time as the secondary season for Israeli backpackers in Colombia is pretty much finished and the primary season won’t start up again until late summer. Over the 3 weeks that we were together, we drove a 750-mile circuit over crazy roads and visited such backpacker hotspots as Medillin and Gautape. We also spent some good time on the streets of Bogota.

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Please pray for me as I leave the country in a few days. My first missionary journey of 2020 will be a solo jaunt down to Bogotá, Colombia in another range of mountains to join up with Eric & Mindy Trent and to help them finish this secondary Israeli backpacker season strong.

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I trust all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Even in these dark and troublesome times for the United States of America, we still have much for which to be thankful. For the Living God “giveth us richly all things to enjoy” (I Timothy 6:17)—including a meal around the table with family and friends and fellowship. The best revenge against those who would strip us of our freedoms is to enjoy these blessings from God and to give Him thanks.

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When we host Israeli backpackers in our home for dinner down here in Huaraz, Peru, I make sure that a few things are clearly visible. My big English-Spanish Bible on the coffee table declares loudly that my “Christian Bible” contains both the Old and New Testaments and that God’s Word, given to the world through the Jews, has been translated into the languages of the Gentiles. An Israeli flag in the window and a tabletop menorah communicate that we are FRIENDS of the Jewish people . . .

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Almost 10 years ago, a guy tried to kill me on a lonely highway somewhere in the Yukon Territory as I was riding a bicycle and preaching the Gospel to the top of Alaska. I was discouraged and ready to quit, parked at a gas station in the cold rain, and then went inside to buy a coffee from a girl with blue hair . . .

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Why does the Church complicate the Great Commission? Why do missions and evangelism strategies have to be so complex, so “contextual,” and so accommodating to the world?

The Apostle Paul warned the Corinthian believers: “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ” (II Corinthians 11:3).

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Our last few days in Huaraz, Peru, the family and I explored up the Quebrada Honda, a high-altitude valley with some active and lot of abandoned silver and zinc mines that the tourists can't normally access. We were stopped at a gate, and the guards forbade us entry . . .

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Recently Eric and I were “Whatsapp’ing” back and forth, he up in the Himalayas and I down in the Andes. Having just arrived in Leh, a very different culture on the world’s other major Hummus Trail for Isrseli backpackers, and after a busy summer with us down here in Huaraz, he mentioned: “When we first got here, it was hard. I was depressed and overwhelmed with what we had to do here alone.” Then, he followed up with something simple but profound . . .

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We had just returned from a grueling 7-day, 70+ mile trekking circumnavigation of the Cordillera Huayhuash range in Central Peru, a route that involved 7 passes over 15,000 ft. in elevation, all higher than any mountain in the contiguous United States . . .

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A short while back, Eric & Mindy met a young couple in a local coffee shop that had just arrived in Huaraz. The Source sandals were a clear sign that these were travelers from Israel. It wasn't much of a conversation, as these were folks of few words, but they did receive Gospel tracts and expressed gratitude for a casual dinner invitation . . .

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My family and I just spent a little over 2 months in Bariloche, Argentina working with Eric & Mindy Trent to reach Israeli backpackers who typically frequent the area from January to April. Things did not go as we had anticipated, and there were some unforeseen trials. At one point, we simply couldn't wait to move north to Peru.

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Thank you for your fervent prayers! The Lord graciously extended traveling mercies to me and my wife as we flew down to Lima, Peru and back to the field.

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Thank you for your continued prayers for Mindy and me as we continue to labor here in South America. The past four weeks have been busy and very fruitful. Multiple Hebrew-English New Testaments have gone out to various guests, Gospel tracts have been distributed to hikers along various trekking routes around San Carlos de Bariloche, and we have had opportunity to open-air preach to the public.

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Thank you all keeping Mindy and me in your prayers. We arrived in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina on the last day of 2017. Immediately, we went to work . . .

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The title of this edition of our insider newsletter appears in the devanagari script and is Nepali for Himalayan Labors of Love, not so much our love for the mountainous peoples and places of South Asia which is strong, but the love and hospitality manifested to us along our recent stint in Nepal and Ladakh by faithful Gentile brethren who know trial, tribulation, and persecution . . . and yet, like us, these possess a love for the Jewish people and have labored to help enable us to reach the lost sheep of the House of Israel who wander through their Himalayan backyards.

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The printed Word of God, it's whole counsel, preached and distributed (not some little Bible app tucked away on your iPhone) is the only cure for the unrest in our nation today. And, THE WHOLE BIBLE TO THE WHOLE WORLD ought to be OUR WHOLE DUTY.

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