Sorry I am not able to give you an extended update on the Mongolia trip the beginning of this month. We are working on a new prayer letter for that but will not be able to go out until June. Thanks for praying and we are seeing God's mighty Hand at work there.

Doug is leaving Tuesday for teaching in South Sudan. We are hoping this will climax in the first graduation for a Certificate in Biblical Studies for 32 students and one already promoted to glory due to the conflict there last December. Then the leadership will be discussing with Doug the next training sessions. Decisions must be made and we ask you to pray with us for God's divine wisdom and all of us are having the mind of Christ in the planning of what comes next there. Famine is continuing and resources greatly limited but the Pastors coming as students are determined. Please pray for each one as they travel and Doug's many connections to get there. Doug will take 3 days of travel and a 2 day layover in Uganda to reach the teaching site. He can use those two days for meetings with the Ugandan and Kenyan partners in Kampala with just a few more connections and a little more traveling.

Thank you for joining us in prayer and please remember Cheryl as she stays home and keeps things going here in Kokomo.  

Striving to Serve Christ, Doug Boisvert, D. Min.
Tri-M Eastern and Central African Director
sent out by Springville Baptist Church, PA

Dear praying friends,I have returned from the first official trip leading a TRI-M team of auxiliary teachers into Mongolia! It was a wonderful trip and very encouraging to see our Mongolian leadership so well organized in choosing a new group of 19 students. They also used the teaching week to outline a schedule to follow up on each student in order to discipline new leadership and evaluate how the students can use the teachings from this past week to benefit their ministries. A great partnership of TRI-M providing the teaching sessions and the Mongolians do the follow-up.

I hope to give you a full report in our next prayer update. However, a few encouraging and challenging facts from the trip would still be in order here.Many of the students were challenged in the Bible Study Methods course, emphasizing letting the Bible text speak for itself first before moving on to interpretation. This was demonstrated in the courses teaching Genesis 1-11 and Bibliology. By the end of the week, students were sharing that they were returning to their churches and confessing to their people that they had been wrong in preaching and teaching others conclusions and not letting the Bible speak to them first. There was great determination on their faces and humility in their voices as they shared this with the group. These are all first generation believers, both church members and leaders. The leaders, that were our students this past week, shared that this is too important an issue to ignore or be candid about before their people. Truth is Truth and they are needing to ask forgiveness and change how they minister the Word of God!

We also saw God open the door for the Manager of the facility where we met to request the pastors to sing for the staff. After a number of worship songs one pastor smoothly stepped in and preached a clear Gospel message and all 7 responded to be born again and learn to walk with Jesus! It was treated as if that was not a surprising thing God arranged as a result of our being there. What confidence in God-ordained opportunities treated as almost a usual occurrence!
These are just a few of the results of you joining us in prayer. Please continue to pray for Doug as he brought back what might be considered a Mongolian version of the flu and is scheduled to travel to South Sudan the 20th May for teaching and graduation of the first group of students there. 

Striving to Serve Christ, Doug Boisvert, D. Min.
Tri-M Eastern and Central African Director
sent out by Springville Baptist Church, PA

  "To this end I also labor, striving according to His working..." (Colossians 1:29)