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Dear Friends,

     Summer has come early to south Alabama! It seems the same applies around the world as we are hearing from our outreaches in the Philippines and India and Bangladesh as they say they, also, are adjusting to increased temperatures. In their instances it is just harder to stay temperature-regulated without our omnipresent air conditioning. (I was just telling someone that in my childhood no one had air conditioning and also few stores had it. When Sears air conditioned their store in Hattiesburg it saw a jump in shoppers! Remember the paper fans everyone took to church?)

     We have experienced thunder (and lightning) storms that are common this time of year and have in past years brought us grief in zapping equipment. Thankfully that has not come our way this year. (WAIT…I wrote that one day and that night the lightning struck! We lost a modem and a router!) Our co-workers in Bangladesh have not been as fortunate as they have already endured their first hurricane (they call is a cyclone—Cyclone Remal) this season. Personally they were safe as the base station building is a very strong building that provided good shelter. Many local people took shelter there also—wonderful opportunity to build relationships leading to their salvation!  Most in the area either had great damage or lost their houses entirely (lots of them made of bamboo). Trees were uprooted, dams broken, and villages flooded. Some lost their lives. The ministry boat was anchored offshore so was safe. We are still waiting for Bro. Lemon to visit all the river churches to assess their individual damage. As is true here, after a disaster there is a need for funds to relieve suffering due to the bad weather. If you would like to give to that project feel free to designate it on you check payable to FOMMI.

     Inflation is not restricted to the USA. Bangladesh is muddling through the same thing. They are hoping to finalize the rest of the acreage purchase in this year and be able to harvest rice or watermelons from the land.  Since we have begun with the various land purchases the cost has doubled. Building materials also are about double as are labor costs for completing the third floor.   Presently Bro. Lemon is reaching out to a village that is predominantly Hindu, with the intention of establishing a primary school education program to gain favor and access to evangelize. Funds have been given and are presently being sent to begin that new effort. Aside from the cyclone, the river churches are doing very well. The Bible school is active and students are learning much that will equip them for serving the Lord.

     Bro. Varghese in India reports they have completed VBS, with 89 children attending and several accepting Christ as their personal saviour. The Bible Institute in Orissa is a real blessing to many small churches as the students go and help them by conducting Bible studies and other outreach programs, resulting in many people coming to the Lord.

     Bro. Jeph in the Philippines reports he and his family (wife Marge, daughter A.J. and son Japho) visited with his twin sisters in Japan for some R and R (you know what that is) and were refreshed. Three of his former students who are now pastors took care of the services while he was absent, and “the membership is still intact”. They will be baptizing 6 new converts in June, and are opening a new ministry for junior young people since many are coming as a product of their extension classes outside the church. He leaves you with this verse, “For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister” Hebrews 6:10.

     New (oldies but goodies) radio broadcasts are uploaded weekly and the podcast audience continues to grow. If you haven’t listened via podcasts, give it a try. It is part of my early morning ”ritual” to listen to Fisher-Mund for five minutes M-F and fifteen minutes on Saturday on Spotify.

     FOMMI has received memorial gifts in memory of my mother-in-law, Margaret Mund. Thank you; she would be glad.

     I would like to remember a Bible school friend who went home on May 30 at the age of 90—Arthur Martin. Art was a brick mason from Canton, Ohio who was saved then trained at PBI in Pensacola, Florida. Afterwards he pastored for 43 years in Canton, Ohio. He loved street preaching and passing out gospel tracts until the end.

     Since the last prayer letter Bro. Henry Vick has represented FOMMI to a new church in Moss Point, Mississippi.  I am thankful for that ministry opportunity and for Bro. Vick’s participation in the ministry in that fashion as well as in taking “Anchors of the Faith” into the jail in Pensacola, Florida.

      I am so thankful for you who are faithful supporters of FOMMI in prayer and finances.  Additionally we all need Psalm 121. Verses 1 and 2 are my conclusion…”I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD which made heaven and earth.”

Continuing with His help,
Lenora Mund
Office Manager

Fishers of Men Ministries International
PO Box 400
Bon Secour AL 36511
(251) 752-1495
awmund@fomm.org

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