Hafa Adai #18

Hafa adai from Guam, where we're over halfway through the spring semester at Pacific Islands Bible College -- and everyone is ready for a break! Two more weeks until that happens!

UPDATES
• Assuming that everything goes according to plan we will leave Guam the last week of May and begin the transition back to Stateside ministry. We are planning to situate ourselves in the Queen Creek area outside Phoenix to start laying the groundwork for a new Covenant church plant. The Queen Creek area has been especially hard hit by the foreclosure crisis.

• We have a contract to sell our Guam condo -- a contract which we got within a few hours of putting the house on the market FSBO. Praise the Lord for the encouragement. Pray for the buyer's funding to finish processing.

• We want to say a huge THANK YOU to all our supporters! It was almost exactly 3 years ago that we first sent word of our potential mission project in Guam ~ so many of you responded so quickly that we were able to begin our ministry here just a few months later, at the start of Fall Semester 2006. And many have been extremely faithful in encouraging us with regular support, both financially, through emails, and (we’re sure) by prayers as well! Now, as we transition out of this phase of ministry, we want you to be aware that we need your continuing support through the summer months. In fact, we're going to need some extra help to finish up with our work in Micronesia and return to the States. We have expenses related to relocating (airfare and shipping our household goods in a cargo container), and, as part of completing our project with the Department of World Mission, we plan to attend the Covenant Annual Meeting and Covenant Mission Week in the summer months. So we continue to depend on the generosity of God, as demonstrated through each of you. THANK YOU!

• Brad finished compiling the PIBC self-study on Wednesday and it was sent out to the accreditation visitors who will be doing the site visit in May. The reaffirmation of accreditation will be good for 10 years.

• He is also teaching a Tuesday night class in evangelism and discipleship at our new graduate-level seminary -- which we're now calling Pacific Islands Evangelical Seminary.

• He will be speaking at two of the Lenten services at the Lutheran Church of Guam.

• Cheryl has been quite busy keeping up with the PIBC bookkeeping and preparing to hand tasks off to others. Likewise with her job as the part-time secretary at the Methodist church.

• Pray for PIBC as they figure out the best staff configuration to cover our responsibilities.

• PIBC will become PIU starting this July. See the post on the school website about the name change.

• In May nine more students will be graduating with their degrees from PIBC. We're excited about these accomplishments and look forward to seeing how God will use the graduates in the years to come.

• Please pray for PIBC as they work on determining how students will be best served through our remote teaching sites. The school is having to make some hard decisions.

• We had a fantastic time in Thailand at the Covenant World Mission Asia Region Retreat. The great thing about the Covenant is that we get to work with so many quality people on every level. Pictures

• February was a busy month. Brad also led a retreat for pastors of English-speaking international churches in Asia.

• Kirk is situated in his new digs in Southern California. He bought a car.

• Kent is situated in his new digs in South Korea -- teaching English in a couple of rural schools for six months.

• Betsy reports that she has a job lined up for the school year 2009-2010 as an activities director in the dorms at UC Berkeley. This will take care of her housing. She's doing very well in school.

Thank you for your partnership and may God continue to provide for your needs as you have helped provide for ours.

SUPPORT INFORMATION

The address for sending support is:

PM Support for Boydstons
Department of World Mission
Evangelical Covenant Church
5101 N Francisco Ave
Chicago IL 60625-3676 USA

Checks should be made out to the "Evangelical Covenant Church" with the clear designation "for the support of Brad & Cheryl Boydston." If possible print and include this .pdf form -- http://bradboydston.com/pdf/responseform.pdf . The form can also be
downloaded from our website -- - http://Guam.Boydston.us .

COMMUNICATION

• Check the current time on Guam before calling -- worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_GU.aspx

• Call us on our cell phones! Brad -- 671-988-4252. Cheryl -- 671-988-4243.

• Our Stateside phone number 602-903-5085 feeds to our voicemail box.

• Skype us -- BradBoydston or seespleez

• Guam address & phone:
Pacific Islands Bible College
PO Box 22619
GMF, GU 96921-2619
Office phone -- 671-734-1812

• Email us -- brad@boydston.us or cheryl@boydston.us