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CHARLES
PHIPPS
The ITALIAN CHRISTIAN MISSION
P.O.
Box 717 oplin, MD 64802-0717
Also Marking
with
Fonanhnq
BOULEVARD CHUURCH
OF
CHRIST
Ray
Downen SYLVANIA, OH 43560
417/782-0814
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„ 3/13/95
Mission
Services
Editorial
Office
PO Box 4 7
KNOXVL TN 37901-2427
J miL NES^R LEA\€ YOU, NOR FORSAKE YOU "
That
promise
of
our
ever^faithful
Father was quoted to Ivia
by a
dear brother
just
a few
days
before
God called her to its everlasting fulfillment.
I
also
count on
that
promise as continue my
journey
without
her,
but filled
with precious
memories
of our life together.
Let
me
briefly update you
on
recent
events.
We had
intended to visit family en
route to Texas. In Neosho,
Ivia's
condition worsened.
She was
hospitalized
in
Joplin
January
16th. Open-heart surgery proved necessary (to replace a
valve).
The operation,
on
January 25th,
was successful.
But
several
complications
developed (not directly
caused by the
surgery), causing her passing
from
us
on March 4th.
Her
grave is in a
hilltop
country churchyard in the
Ozarks
close to Neosho, not
many miles from
where
we first met a
little
over sixteen-and-a-half years ago.
There is no way
I know to
thank you for the mar^ prayers,
cards, telephone
calls,
flowers,
and gifts, which
bring me the assurance that
I
am surrounded by and borne
up on
the
love
of genuinely caring brothers and
sisters
in God's great family.
Now, as
to the
future... I plan
to stay
through
April with
those
of our
family
who live in and near Neosho, taking time to report to interested
friends
in the Joplin/
Neosho area.
I was
able to
visit some friends,
already, in a very
limited
way, in
recent weeks while
Ivia
was hospitalized.
And there
are
GOOD THINGS
TO REPORT
In Italy,
Giuseppe
has been meeting
in
Terracina
with a
group of Roman Catholic young people to share the
Word
of
God.
They are a part
of
a national movement called, Focalarini, which means
Little
Flames." Their
name
reflects their intention
of
relighting the fires
of
dedica
tion
to
the
Lord,
and
to fan
the
flames
of
renewed
love
for
His Word.
Giuseppe
and
other members of
the church in Terracina are sharing songs and
choruses, and
much
more, they had
enjoyed
in
our Christian
Service
Camp
in
Southern
Italy last
summer.
As Giuseppe writes, "He
are
having
the
qDjoortunity to be known
as believers
in Christ,
just as they are
described
(and as
is being
handed
down
to
us) by the
apostol ic eyewitnesses.
Ill keep
you posted
about
events on both sides
of the Atlantic.
My prayers
and
love, as together you
and
I
serve Him—