Murphy and Christine Crowson
If you'd like to get in contact with us while we're in the States, you can reach us @ 501-230-8633.

Marty and Louise Koonce
As we are getting ready for our furlough it is hard to contain our excitement about seeing friends and family. I thought that as this is our fourth one that the pre-furlough excitement would wane a little, but not that we can tell. The boys and mom are holding our first ever in Togo garage sale. We thought it was time to clean out as much of the stuff as possible before we replaced it with newer stuff from our furlough. It is a vicious cycle we are caught in.

Marty should know better than to plan a ton of work right before furlough, but with the two week loss of time in Ghana, he couldn't help himself. Most of his meetings have held, though, and things seem ready for us to be able to depart with peace in our hearts. If only we can just get packed.

Please pray for the following needs. Atitogon and Tabligbo will begin training other groups in the next few weeks. Vogan's first group is evangelizing (pray it goes well). Pray their second group will take responsibility and do as well one day. Pray for Afakomi as they will be receiving training from Papa Koffi. Pray for Topeglo as the Tabligbo church hopes to strengthen them through additional evangelism. Pray for the rain to really pick up in frequency. Some areas are really struggling. Pray for our health to be good upon returning stateside and that all the travel doesn't wipe us out. God bless you and we praise him for your faithfulness.
The Koonces

Anthony and Maureen Parker
We had a great worship service last Sunday with the Tsadome church, and were able to participate in a baby dedication. Toglo and Alice, very active leaders in the church who married later in life, have been blessed with a baby boy, Jacob. It was great to see the church rejoicing in this gift of hope and life from God.

Our apologies for not following up last week on the previous request for prayer for Komlanvi, the man from Batoe who was missing. He did return home the following day, having been delayed in Vogan. Maureen was able to give him and his wife a lift back to their village, as she was going out to visit some sick children. We thank God for watching over his children.

Anthony had a productive week working on Train & Multiply booklets this week, with four more now ready for printing. He missed this week's session with the Tabligbo elders (Marty met with them), when he took Papa Koffi (one of the elders) and his wife Adjo to the hospital in Afagnan. Adjo is experiencing problems related to high blood pressure.

Jeremy and Jonathan have enjoyed playing with the Koonce boys this week, and will miss them when they go on furlough. We are all looking forwaard to the Crowsons' return. Please pray for Jonathan, as he has malaria and has been running a fever for the past couple of days.

Jeff and Brenda Holland
This has been a good week for our family. Brenda and Rebecca are doing great. We had visits this week from Brenda' parents, Jeff's parents, and Jeff's brother's family.

Next week we go to Missouri to be with all of Brenda's brothers and sisters and their families. We'll spend two weeks in Missouri with Brenda's parents. We hope that while we are there, we will have an easier time getting on the internet.

If you want to contact us or see us before we return to Togo in late June, please call us at (903) 271-0133.