"Here Am I Send Me"

Howzit friends?

The sun is shining and the Son is shining on our lives! We feel blessed to be alive and even more blessed to be doing the work of God everyday! We have just returned from a powerful evening church service that has given us encouragement to never miss an opportunity to preach the Gospel of Christ.

Leah and the Camp Kids

As some of you may be aware, we are in yet another transition in our lives. We will be leaving Africa Ablaze (our current ministry) at the end of this month. In short, we feel very confident about moving on to pursue even greater challenges. We love working with the career camps and other parts of the daily ministry that we are doing here, but we (as well as the leaders of the ministry) acknowledge that we cannot reach our full potential here.  We are not able to use our gifts to the fullest and we want to maximize our impact.

We had two or three long chats with our leaders at Africa Ablaze and we are all on the same page as far as our leaving. It was a mutual agreement and a very natural progression in mine and Piet’s life.



Yes...this is Piet on the left!



At the moment, Piet and I are living rent free on the ministry property. Because we are moving on, we will need to find a place to rent…and quickly! We should be out of here by the end of August. There are lots of places available, so we aren’t too worried about it, but we need to add a bit more support to our budget. We need to raise an additional $600/month for an apartment. We are hoping to find 6 families to support us $100/month, or 12 to support us $50/month. If this is something you are able to do, please contact us. So far we have raised $125/month. We have no doubts that God is taking care of us and will “provide all of our needs according to his riches in glory” (Phil 4:19).

So what’s next? Well, we are currently praying about working under a local church leading outreaches, mission trips, homework clubs, and helping with the youth group or Bible studies. We are very excited about this next chapter and have experienced so much peace in recent weeks. Please pray for us in this time!

Thank you for all you are to us. We certainly wouldn’t be here without all of you cheering us on.

Blessings and love,

The Bakers