March 2009

Time passes so quickly!

I’m going to try and be serious about communicating with you at least on a quarterly basis. Please note all the information at the top of the letter which is my correct contact information.

This letter is actually a group of correspondence I have been working on throughout the first quarter of 2009. The group that was helping with production and distribution of the newsletter could no longer keep up, so there has been a hiatus in the news as you have noted. My son Pierre, who owns a communications firm, is taking over publication of the newsletter for the future.

We do want to continue to keep you all in the know, but would also like to be able to keep the cost down to the extent we can.

- If you have an e-mail address we can use regularly and would prefer to get the newsletter that way, please send it to ppayne@mgicommunications.com.

- If you have moved, please let Pierre know so he can update the contact list and send you regular updates. You can send this information to the address above.

- My Newsletters will be published on a blog so that those who are used to using the web to stay on top of the news can be served in that way.

My autobiography is now front and center in my daily activities, and the Lord has provided an editor to help with the presentation and organization, the historical and the stylistic. I also hope to have a well known outsider do the foreword. Your prayers and support are greatly appreciated.

Biographies can give young believers a tremendous boost if properly written – I always think of those of Hudson Taylor and Bill Hybels as great sources of inspiration and guidance.

Our shrinking world seems to be readying itself for a major financial melt-down – one that will go beyond the boundaries we have seen in any part of our past. And our leaders seem ill-prepared. One can only guess at the eventual results.

Meanwhile, fresh opportunities for witness and counseling with both young and old continue to present themselves within the church and without!

Please continue to be sure of my constant prayers for each of you. As I tread these steps in final the final years of my life, walking with Jesus, seeking to be a continuing blessing by sharing the gospel of our lord and working daily to make the world a better place.

In His Keeping