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Reid's at EQUIP in Orlando, FL

Here we are at Wycliffe's USA headquarters in Orlando, Fl. Our family is attending the EQUIP course, which is preparing or equiping us for our first assignment with Wycliffe, which is partnership development (PD). Our follow-on assignment will be to Waxhaw, NC (tentative), followed by Papua New Guinea! We are so excited and can not wait to go. Please pray for us. Check out our Wycliffe web site, which in provides assignment details and opportunities to join with us to help Wycliffe in their goal to have a Bible translation in progress for the 200 million people, or 2,390 LANGUAGES that don't even have one word of God's Word in thier own language. http://www.wycliffe.org/partnership.aspx?mid=XQAISF

Accepted by Wycliffe!

Dear friends, we have heard from Wycliffe that our application for membership has been accepted, and we are now officially members of Wycliffe! Thank you all for praying with us during this time.
My new job that I started here at Fort Hood three weeks ago (I got hired the same day I found out about our acceptance to Wycliffe) has been wonderful. I am working in IT as a contractor on Fort Hood. My employer knows of our plans with Wycliffe and are supportive. In fact they granted us two weeks time off in September to go to Orlando for Wycliffe training after only one week as an employee! Talk about favor from God.
The next step for us is Partnership Development, the phase of Wycliffe membership where we learn to trust God for partners to join us in prayer and financial support. It has been exciting, as we have already begun to receive both one time financial gifts as well as pledges for monthly support; even before we have officially asked for either. God is really prompting people and people are being obedient to His voice.
Please join us in prayer as we enter this phase which will surely be a growing experience for us both. We are praying for the partnership development process to go rapidly so that we may begin working with JAARS sooner rather than later. Continue to pray for Ruthe as she homeschools our children who are doing excellent.
Our email addresses will remain richreidjr@hotmail.com and ruthejreid@msn.com, however we now also have rich_reidjr@wycliffe.org and ruthe_reid@wycliffe.org.
If you wish to join with us in our ministry either in prayer or financially, please contact us by email, mail, or phone.
Love,
Rich

Rich and Ruthe Reid
2309 Riley Dr
Killeen TX 76542
254-539-7924

Still waiting and trusting!

We have now been out of the Army for almost a month; we are still in central TX and waiting to find out about a possible job for Rich here in the area while we wait to hear from Wycliffe. Please keep us in your prayers. Here is an updated family picture!

Trusting and Waiting!...

I have now been out of the Army for 1 week and have been enjoying it more and more every day. I have enjoyed not shaving or having to get up early; I have really enjoyed my leisurely breakfast and devotions out on the back patio with Ruthe with our kids and Molly playing and running around or jumping on the trampoline; I have really been enjoying the gorgeous weather we have been having and seeing the effect it has had on my roses and the yard. I have enjoyed having lots of time, time to do yard work or detail the car or my motorcycle; or just to go riding; or try to track down my other retired buddies and go to lunch...

Basically I have gotten a taste of what retirement is going to be like and I LOVE it! I know I am not done working and in fact we have a TON of work to do, but it really gives me something to look forward to.

Now we are just trusting God to provide direction. Where to go, where to work, where to live, etc. Almost daily I have a job interview of sorts either in person or on the phone; we are just praying that the right one will open up. Soon.

Rich flying at JAARS for his TE