Loving the National Missionary Convention

What was the best part you ask? Let me cut to the chase. The theme this year was the harvest of hope. It is the hope of all involved that we would raise up 10,000 workers for the harvest fields by the year 2020. A huge task you say? Impossible you say? Well, let me say that we had a great response today after the service this morning. There was quite a few of people that responded to the call of fulltime ministry today and went forward for prayer! Praise God! This is only the beginning. Ther is still much to accomplish. Will you please pray for the Lord of the Harvest to raise up harvest workers? If you want more information you can visit: http://www.restorationrevolution.com/

God Bless,
Matt and Elsa Johnson

Getting Ready for the NMC

This coming week Elsa and I will be attending the National Missionary Convention in Lexington, KY. If you are interseted in our minstry or just want to say hi I would encourage you to swing by the Team Expansion booth during the convention. We will be spending most of our free time there. I know it has been a while since I have blogged (perhaps that is an understatement). I hope to be a little more frequent with these entries. We still don't have internet in our house so it makes updating a little more difficult. This Saturday we are celebrating 2 baptisms! We praise God for the continued fruit. It has been a difficult year but God is faithful, God is good, God provides, God protects, and God produces growth! I don't think we are going to achieve many of our goals but at the same time we have move forward as a church! Thank you all for you continued prayers and support. Please pray for safe travel and a wonderful trip to Ohio with our forwarding agents this coming week!
Blessings,
Matt and Elsa Johnson

Another Step In Ministry...

At the beginning of this month Elsa and I were finally able to get married. I say "finally" because it is much more of a process here then what I believe it to be in the US. (Although I don't really know since I have never been married in the US.) We signed our papers before a judge on May 7th. This will allow us to continue to make plays for the church wedding the 1st of August. We are now in the process of soliciting a visa for Elsa so she can travel with me in August back to the States to meet all of you! Please be praying for the visa as this appears to be a long process as well...
Blessings,
Matt J.