Allen and Jan Barker

November - December 2004

North American Director

Luke 2:10, "Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people."

Just as the angel of the Lord gave the good tidings of great joy to the shepherds that first Christmas, we also share that precious message to all people. We co-labor together with you to help get the good tidings of great joy to a lost and dying world. We thank you for your prayers and financial support for another year. We are grateful for the protecting hand of our Saviour as we have driven and flown thousands of miles. You have helped make that possible and we thank you. Since our last prayer letter, I have preached in four mission conferences and one mission Sunday, in three different states. I also had the privilege of preaching in Germany for one of our supporting churches. There was a German Catholic woman that got gloriously saved during that revival. Praise the Lord! She is just one of the many that God has allowed us to see saved this year.

This year the Lord has continued to give us new men and their families to help us reach the United States with the good tidings of great joy. There are now 36 men that are serving through Macedonia here in the U.S. The most recent to leave for the field are John Proctor reaching the Hispanic in Florida and John Bridges in Arizona. We have a number of men that will be leaving the first of 2005 if all goes as planned. Please keep all these men in your prayers as well as the men that are already on the field. We are especially excited about Brother Andy Simpson who recently has been accepted with Macedonia. He has a burden to start Bible Colleges in the West. We are looking forward to see what God is going to do out there in the next ten years if He doesn't return.

As we close this year and begin another new year, will you help us pray that God will use us in an even greater and more effective way? I have more of a desire than ever before to assist our men on deputation and those on the field to help plant churches and reach our country. We need more help! Will you help us pray that God will send us more laborers to help us get this good tidings of great joy to all people? Visit us on our web site www.teammacedoniausa.org. Click on the link and listen to the eight minute video, "Who Will Go to America?"

We would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and the best New Year ever.