No less important are the missionaries we have focused on in past quarters. Here are their brief sketches. Please remember to pray for them.

John Forrester

March-April, 2009 Focal Point Missionaries

Our current Focal Point Missionaries are John and Terri Forrester, serving mainly among the Inupiaq Eskimos, north of the artic circle, in Kotzebue, Alaska. Here are some recent prayer requests from John and Terri:

1. Please pray that John and his family will be protected from wicked men.
2. John had total knee replacement in November. Pray for his complete healing.
3. They are trying to raise money for various needs in the church and the community.
   - Chairs for the church
   - 2 four wheelers
   - A boat
   - A wood stove for one of the village
4. They have a need for a mechanic.
5. They are praying with a couple about possibly moving to the Arctic to assist in the ministry needs. They would ask that we pray with them about this matter.
   - John and his wife are presently in Georgia. From Feb. 21 through March 2 they will be speaking at various churches and meeting with teams that are going to go to Alaska this summer and help them.
6. Pray that God will send men to Alaska whose hearts He has touched.
   - Men who have a hunger to see God honored in the earth.
   - Men who walk as Christ walked.

To learn more about the Forresters and their work view their personal website or the site of FBC Kotzebue.

The Martinez Family

January-February, 2009 Focal Point Missionaries
Our designated missionaries for January-February, 2009 is the Rick Martinez family, IMB missionaries serving in South America. To learn more about Rick and his family visit their personal web site.

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John and Marie Taylor:
Update, October, 2008: John and Marie are leading a work here at Trinity to create opportunities for involvement in the mission of the New-testament church. This emphasis spans local, regional, and international missions involvement. Pray for them as they seek to lead our church in reaching the lost all around us.
Update January, 2008: John and Marie have had to cut their current tour short due to medical issues. Their heart is still in Israel, though, as they long to serve their great God and ours. Won’t you pray for them as they work through this difficult time, praying that they would  soon be able to return to the field, and that God’s will be done in their lives through all of this.

John and Marie, though in their seventies, keep going back to the mission field. They served full time in the seventies and eighties in Africa, but after retirement, they have gone back, currently on their third volunteer tour to Israel. John and Marie embody what it means to be a true missionary. Please remember to pray for them in this unsettled region of the world, where the gospel of saving grace is so desperately needed.

Randy and Kittie Trail: Formerly serving in Botswana, South Africa, the Trails are currently stateside serving in the International Mission Board home office.

Captain Andy Taylor: Andy grew up at Trinity, answering the call to the preaching ministry. Well into a fruitful ministry, and already in his thirties, Pastor Andy Taylor answered the call to serve his country as Captain Andy Taylor, chaplain. Captain Taylor served in the Second Gulf War in Iraq.

Captain Taylor is currently in Hawaii on the occasion of the birth of a new child. Remember Captian Taylor as he returns to preach, teach, and counsel among our fighting men in the U.S. Army in Iraq and elsewhere.