Current Prayer Requests: (Updated December 2025)
Prayers: Are vital to us! We are so grateful for them!
Togo, Hôpital Baptiste Biblique
- Prayers:
- For the team, the vision/expansion project (wisdom & construction),
- The growth of the OB service –wisdom in evaluating the if and how
- For the hospital staff as we work to serve well in medicine and love well to the patients and to one another
- Praises:
- For the response to the Gospel through the multiple ministries
- For the solution to the “unexpected government tax bill” that allows HBB to move forward
Kids
- Prayers:
- For their schooling, friendships and many adjustments in Togo
- Praises
- For the friendships that they have started locally & the ones they have been able to maintain in Indiana, Michigan, and Quebec
Fred and Lydia
- Prayers:
- Togo carte de Sejour -all that needs to be filed, turned in and done before our visa expires on April 16th
- Transitioning back into medical and OB work; wisdom in the decisions that are being made for the care of patients at HBB; and making evangelism a “normal” part of our medicine care.
- Balancing family and ministry life
- wisdom needed in relationships (spousal, parenting & team -knowing & understanding what role God would have us to play)
- Praises:
- Safe travels from Sherbrooke, Quebec to Grandville, MI & then to Togo
- For a wonderful family skiing trip,
- Getting settled into our new house and safe arrival of our “stuff”
Other
- Prayers:
- Our friends and colleagues who are going through very challenging situations (especially most recently for Dr. B & his wife who have been yearly OB short-term visitors serving at HBB)
- Praises:
- Overall, our financial needs are being met