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Dear Faithful Supporters:
2021 is here and must be faced. For some it begins with many difficulties, for others only the same old thing! For all, uncertainties are everywhere. One thing we can be sure of is the faithfulness of God. With that in mind we can move forward. Amen!
The holidays were a bit different this year. The kids (grandchildren and great-grandchildren) came by, one family at a time. Lenora and I enjoy searching all year for little things that we can buy or make to use as gifts that will be beneficial, rather than the typical junk that kids use for a few hours and then throw away. I built puzzle boards with four shallow drawers underneath for two of the families who enjoy putting puzzles together. I am so glad my children and their families love to visit us. The greatest blessing is to hear them say they desire to serve God and are supportive of our work in missions.
I have a special prayer request for our daughter-in-law, Beth. She has been diagnosed with stage four metastatic breast cancer, and has been taking treatments. She is very sweet and is somewhat responding to medical help. Please bring her name before our heavenly Father. She professes to be a child of God, so we lay her at His feet for healing and grace.
We are back on the road (slowly). In January we enjoyed being in churches in South Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky. People always treat us so well. We were pleased to meet a woman in South Carolina whose family we have known (from Mississippi) just about all our saved lives (and her since she was 2 years old). We are trying (little by little) to visit all supporting churches as well as presenting the mission field in new churches. Please let us know if there is a specific time you would like us to give an update. I believe we offer churches one of the best mission projects out there (an investment that really brings eternal dividends).
The home we live in is a nice cottage on the property of my son-in-law and daughter. Even though it is small by some standards, it is comfortable. FOMMI is housed in a small room that is full of our desks, storage shelves, filing cabinets, bookshelves and broadcasting studio with equipment. Lord willing, we will begin adding a 34’ x 16’ addition on the north side of the cottage that will allow us to have more space as well as a broadcasting studio built with better soundproofing. This will be done little by little as God provides funds and workers. Recently Lenora and I dug the footers and a special friend helped with the concrete pouring for the blocks to sit on. We hope to soon be able to invite you for a visit.
Lenora thanks all who sent her birthday cards in January, especially the one that provided ice cream! Our seventh great grandchild (a girl) was born on January 26. That makes 5 girls and 2 boys. My mother just had her 98th birthday in early February. Her care is still a part of our daily routine, more some days than others. The USPS has been having some problems at their Mobile AL sorting center, and mistakenly sent back some mail intended for us at PO Box 400, Bon Secour AL 36511, saying it was undeliverable. Please know that is still our mailing address as it has been for over 30 years.
Many have written saying they enjoyed the testimonies of the Bengali fishermen we have printed, and have inquired if fisherwomen are getting saved also. The answer is, yes! Read on for the testimony of Parul Das, a Bengali fisherwoman.
I am Parul Das. I was born in a Hindu conservative family and I grew up in a cultural and religious traditional environment. As our traditional custom, I got married in my teenage years with Bidhan Das. In my husband’s home I did the same religious worshipping and cultural activities. My husband was a fisherman and made some household products with bamboo and sold it to local markets. We have two sons, the elder one is married and the little one is disabled. A few years ago when we were fishing in the river, we saw a boat and some people come to our village with some new speech that we did not listen to before. The headman of our tribe refused to listen to the new religious thoughts and their preaching. But I requested my husband to host them in our small hut type home. We listened to their preaching but did not understand the whole thing. So I requested my husband to invite them again, but our tribe headman was angry about my decision. As our customs, woman can’t decide anything; so I was helpless, but my husband felt my thirst and we met the preaching team several times at other places and finally, we received Christ as our Saviour. But sometimes my husband joined some of the Hindu traditional ceremonies to play the musical instruments for them, but when he came back home he became sick and it happened several times. Then we realized that as a Christian family we should not take part in the Hindu’s religious activities like we did before as idol worshippers. So I requested my husband not to play a musical instrument for the Hindus religious festival. We realized that there is no way or religion in the world that can help us to connect to the creator but only the Christ who is God himself, and who came to the earth to save us. As we started to pray for our villagers and especially for the headman to win their souls, the day came and finally many families including the headman’s received Christ. Bro. Lemon’s grandfather and Bro. Lemon baptized us all in the river. Now we have a beautiful church in our village and my husband is pastoring after four years of Christian schooling under Bro. Lemon’s supervision. My husband is also travelling with Bro. Lemon’s team to different villages to preach the Gospel and for new church planting. It is a very risky, painful, and troublesome mission work for the team, but when someone is saved the joy comes to the hearts of all our team members. My husband and I are very happy to be a part of this ministry. Please pray for my family, our village, our church, and for our church planting ministry in Bangladesh.
Keep us before the throne,
Dr. A.W. “Fisher” Mund
Fishers of Men Ministries International
PO Box 400
Bon Secour AL 36511
(251) 752-6474
awmund@fomm.org
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