Family Update

Family picture at Crater Lake

All is good with the Walter clan. Summer is flying bye, and because of the unusual cool weather here, it has not even felt like summer has begun. This summer we have seen our oldest turn 17 (Anders), and our youngest turn 2 (Adalyn) . In a week we will be heading to Canada for summer vacation to meet up with Sarah's folks just outside Jasper National Park, in BC. Summer has kept us busy with berry picking, hiking, and trying to be outside as much as we can because we know soon enough the dismal northwest rains will begin. I am excited to be heading to Wisconsin in September to meet with a supporting church of ours, as well as in October I will be heading up to teach a week on evangelism at YWAM Discovery Bay, WA. The kids are all doing great, each so unique and different in their own ways. Sarah keeps the ship running and afloat, and I buy groceries. We are truly grateful for all of the prayers and financial support we receive from you all. No words can express our gratitude enough. Thank you so much for believing in us, our calling, and our ministry. We are forever grateful!  Some of you have asked about me being more specific for needs and prayer requests. Twenty years in missions, and it is still always tough for me to make our needs known...pride can be a not good thing at times! So, here are some major needs we have...three in particular at this time.  First, we unfortunatley lost a large supporter and presently need to raise funds to compensate for what we lost. So please pray for provision in this regard. Second, we still need to raise about $700 for the rest of our homeschool curriculum, and third, we are in need of a new computer. Our old one is essentially done, so I am relying on using my work computer at home...not the best option. Those are our two major "needs" at this time, and thank you for praying for them!  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check out our ministry website to see all the ins and outs of what we are up to. God is doing some great things!! https://www.gospelfocusministries.com/

Evangelism, Temple Talks, and Interviews

Arielle doing evangelism

Recently, we have had a few different YWAM campuses ask me about our ministry. By God's grace, they have all been very impressed with what the Lord is doing through Gospel Focus and want to talk, etc.. Recently, one man from YWAM Discover Bay came down for a week to check things out. It was a fantastic week being able to pour into a like minded evangelist who is trying to "push the ball uphill" at his YWAM location with evangelism. You would be surprised at how hard it is to convince YWAMers to do evangelism...but it is. I am real encouraged, and the Lord is doing something with using Gospel Focus as an example for other YWAM locations about how to be very local, and yet still impact the nations. Join us in prayer, I cant really put my finger on it, but the Lord is expanding Gospel Focus in many areas...and I am wondering if He may be asking me to start this ministry in other areas of the world. I don't know, but please pray with me for wisdom!

One of our Temple Talks this month was at the Salem islamic Center. A church recently sold them their building!

Cole and Joe interviewing Brianna, and ex Mormon for our podcast

Summer Mission Adventures Ends

One of the busy days with Mission Adventures students this summer

We finally came to an end of the Mission Adventures season this past week. For the past 5 weeks, every Wednesday we have been facilitating evangelism for all these MA teams. In total, I think we did evangelism with 200 or so high schoolers over the past five weeks. It has been a lot of fun, and we hear great feedback from the students on what the Lord did in their life on those Wednesdays. Gotta say, after running the MA program for years and years, it was nice to only be responsible for one day during the 5 that the teams are here!  

Face to Face Continues

This is Kaleb. He is a pastor here in Salem who is one of our Face to Face interns. Great guy, growing so much in evangelism!

We are coming to the mid way point with our first 6 Face to Face interns. So far, the internship has been going fantastic, and I am very excited to see what we can do with our next internship which will start the end of September. So far, we have been getting great feedback from all our interns, and it is very clear to see why God has led them all to do Face to Face. For all of them, the Lord is working in different specific areas related to evangelism. For one of them, it is learning how to listen better, to another, it is learning how to ask good questions, for another, it is learning how to be okay with being rejected. The list could go on and on, but at the end of the day, all of our interns seem to be enjoying Face to Face. We look forward to when all of them complete it and we can then have a good time of debrief and feedback. We presently already have 4 interns lined up for fall, and most likely will add more. Thank you all for your prayers, and we ask that you keep praying! By the way, if your interested in checking out some new additions to our website, please do by going to www.gospelfocusministries.com and check it out. You also can hear our latest podcast in which we interview one of our DTS students who is an ex Mormon. Fascinating discussion!!