Troy Manning

Thanks for your prayers for my ministry at Fellowship Bible Church in Fort Gratiot, MI.  I enjoyed getting to know Angela Frederick’s (from Mt. Calvary in Greenville, SC) parents.  On Saturday night we watched a good movie entitled “Beyond the Next Mountain.”  It’s about a missionary who went into the hills of Burma and sowed the seed of the gospel, which led to the salvation of a man who sent his son to schooling to translate the Bible into their language.  It was an encouragement to see how the Lord worked in behalf of these previously head-hunting tribe.

On Sunday I enjoyed Easter breakfast with the small group of believers.  Then we went to the “Upper Room” (of what used to be a schoolhouse) for the worship service.  I believe the Lord blessed that time in the Word.  The people were very attentive.  I’m very thankful for the generous gifts that I received from those believers.  The man who stocks their library let me take whatever books I wanted.  I ended up taking two missionary biographies.

Speaking of blessings, I was surprised with a HUGE blessing this afternoon.  My uncle is moving away from the small town in IL where he grew up and then returned to after retiring from missionary service.  He is dissolving the small church that met in a nursing home.  Here’s the blessing…  He said that small church wants to give $7500 of its remaining funds to me!!  What a gracious provision from the Lord!  Now I have plenty of money for schooling this summer as well as other expenses that will come up.  Thanks for praying for those needs!  The Lord has already provided. 

Please pray for my Syntax professor.  He has had to cancel some classes to help his wife who was dying of cancer.  I found out this week that she did finally pass away.  They are Catholic, so I’m not sure where she is now.  I’ve heard that the funeral will be in Tanzania.  (Another professor has stepped in to finish the semester with us.)

Check out the “Translator’s Page” if you want to read some cool stuff about linguistics.