Category: Updates
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Coffey Family November Prayer Letter
Our family moved over to Wells Estates Baptist Church about three weeks ago. Since we have been in South Africa, we have been based at Madiba Bay Baptist Church. We made the move to Wells because it’s about a 10 minute drive from where we hope to start the new church. This will enable us…
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Funeral Arrangements for Stephen’s Dad
Viewing for Larry Underwood will be Monday, November 3, from 5-8 at Ponders Funeral Home in Dalton, GA. (Off the by-pass) The funeral will be Tuesday at 10am at McFarland Hill Baptist Church in Dalton, Ga. Thank you all again for your prayers!
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Please Pray for the Underwood Family
We received news from our team member, Stephen Underwood, that his father unexpectedly passed away in his sleep this past Saturday morning. Please be praying for Stephen and his family. His dad was only 55 years old and this was very unexpected. I believe the funeral will be Tuesday morning at McFarland Hills Baptist Church…
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WorldEvangelism.net
I was privileged to write a highlight on missions in South Africa for the new blog WorldEvangelism.net. Take a look if you have a few minutes. It’s a little longer than I usually write, but there are some pictures:) Maybe they will let me write again if I can get you guys to read and…
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Rent or Buy & Soccer
As of now, a place to rent hasn’t opened up for the new church plant. It seems that rentable space is very limited. We will continue to search, but it may come to the place where we need to buy property. I’m really hoping we can keep the cost down the first year by just…
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Surprise!
Yesterday, my wife surprised her sister, and pretty much everyone else from our family and home church by flying in to see our newly born niece, Selah. Thanks to a faithful supporter, my wife was able to be with her sister, Stephanie Cornwell, right after the birth of her new baby girl. We were hoping…
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Update on Baby Grace Bassham
Many prayers were answered this past week when little Grace Bassham checked out of NICU and the hospital in Bangkok, Thailand on Monday morning. The Bassham family are grateful for all that sent financial support, but they are even more grateful for the many prayers that were prayed for the new little baby. The infection…
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Possible building…..not so much
Yesterday, I was able to contact the owner of a building we were interested in renting for the new church plant. It was a run down looking building that didn’t look like it was being used at all. We went by earlier in the week, and the young son said his dad was interested in…
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Pray and Give for Baby Grace in Thailand
Yesterday, I wrote about our good missionary friend’s Philip and Lori Bassham new little baby Grace. She was born on Monday and everything looked good for a little while until she started having problems breathing. The Doctors feared she may have the Step B Infection. They moved her to NICU and put in an incubator and…
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July 2014 Coffey Family Prayer Letter
Prayer Request For our two college interns that will be here until August. That we find the right piece of land for Wells Estates Baptist Church For Amy and I to learn the Xhosa language Bible studies to go well for Pastor Sipho at Kwadwesi (location of the new church plant) – Over 20 professions…