PARTNERSHIP IN MISSION - PIM CHURCHES

During our forty years serving as RCA missionaries, our salaries and overseas missionary activites were funded by our Denomination’s World Mission Department. They were able to do this, primarily, because PIM congregations committed to contribute an agreed upon amount of money annually for their missionaries, Harvey and Lavina Hoekstra.

As missionaries, we knew who these PIM congregations were. We visited these congregations during our furloughs. We had an occasional exchange of letters with them while overseas. These PIM congregations took a personal interest in their missionaries, the Hoekstras. They bonded with us and prayed for us. It was truly a marvelous relationship.

I often long for this kind of PIM relationship to be strengthened between the Mark and Paul Hoekstra’s family as they serve with Talking Bibles International. They are missionaries needing PIM churches to pray for them and to provide an assured funding for their personal support and for their Talking Bible ministry. They need that bonding relationship with God’s people in PIM congregations like we enjoyed all our years as RCA missionaries.

I’m praying that the Lord will lead a significant number of Mission Outreach Committees in local congregations to become PIM congregations as the plan ahead and prepare their budgets for 2012. Such PIM congregations will wonderfully bless and encourage Mark and Paul and their families and will bring blessing to those churches.

Let God be thanked and praised for His leading and enabling many churches to become PIM congregations partnering with the Mark and Paul Hoekstra families serving as missionaries with Talking Bibles International in 2012 and beyond.

Because they need to hear,
Harvey Hoekstra – harvey@talkingbibles.org
www.talkingbibles.org

Goal: AN ANNUAL TALKING BIBLE SUNDAY IN THOUSANDS OF CHURCHES HELPING PROVIDE TALKING BIBLES FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT READ.