Brannon Update

This was the letter we sent out via email to the FBC congregation. Thought you might like to read about some of the decisons that we've recently made. Thanks for your interest!


January 2009

Dear Church Family,

Happy New Year to you all! The Brannons are looking with anticipation to the New Year to see how God will continue to use First Bible Church in missions world-wide. With the Mission Conference just around the corner, we are praying that God will prompt our conference speaker, Pastor Ronnie Stevens, to encourage all of us to put missions as a main priority in 2009.

To update you on our family, we have now been back in the states for about 7 months. As we left Budapest in May, we were asking God to show us what He would have us do as we finished up our first "missionary term". We had been in Budapest for 4 plus years and felt like we were completing some of the main projects that we had been involved with. It seemed that God was leading us back to the U.S. to regroup and to seek His plan for our future direction.

The last 7 months have been very busy as we have put our oldest daughter, Olivia, in college in Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and enrolled our daughter, Meredith, in 10th grade at Bob Jones High School in Madison. Business interests in our family-owned company needed to be attended to by Curt and Shay also began the process of renewing her teacher's license. Plus the transition back to full-time living in the United States has been more of a challenge than we thought! Thank you to those that have encouraged us in our "settling in".

Now to the future! Our family still passionately loves missions. We remain involved in developing new and existing ministry projects overseas. Curt will leave for Budapest and Serbia on January 9th for 10 days and will return again to Serbia in mid-May for a missions conference. But, for now (maybe up to 3 years) we believe our family needs to be based in the U.S. We hope you will join us in asking the Lord to move us back towards a more permanent overseas missions presence in His timing.

We are so thankful for First Bible Church and for your support of our family these past 4 years. Your prayers and interest in us and the work in Eastern Europe have been encouraging. Our plan for the present is to remain involved in the exciting happenings at First Bible and to get to know all the new people that have joined First Bible in our absence! We are currently living in Madison and you can reach us at:

PO Box 1943
Madison, AL 35758
325-8737
brannons4christ@yahoo.com
www.brannonfamily.blogspot.com

Our love and thanks to you,

Curt, Shay, Olivia, and Meredith Brannon