Hello dear friends! We pray this letter finds you all doing well and trusting in Jesus even more than you did the month before. We praise the Lord for keeping us busy and allowing things on our path to keep us reminded of our need for Him. How complacent the Christian life would become if we had no reminders of our need of faith in Christ Jesus! There is never a dull moment on our road, and while we continue to raise support for our ministry and are allowed the privilege of being a blessing to others, we are continually reminded of the wonderful provider that we have in our Heavenly Father, and how He meets each and every one of our needs and gives us grace to get through what would otherwise be impossible without Him.

This past month the Lord has brought us continually to Philippians 4:19 "But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." What a word of encouragement Paul left for us to receive, even on our dimmest of days to gently remind us that it has nothing to do with us and our supply, but rather His supply in glory by Christ Jesus, that will meet not just some of our needs but ALL of our needs! Oh, what a promise!! Hallelujah!

Our schedule has changed a bit for the end of February. But the Lord is in control and He knows our needs, so we are not going to worry about it. We will just keep pressing on for Jesus. We know the good Lord will provide and make His way anyhow!

We will be working out of Lighthouse Children's Home in Jay, Florida over the next several months. Jay is a very small city in the panhandle between Pensacola, FL and Alabama. We will be presenting our ministry in churches within surrounding area of the panhandle of Florida. This Lighthouse ministry has been such a blessing to us and is allowing for us to stay there and work out of there, just to see us get on the field as quickly as possible, giving us a place to live between church presentations that wouldn't be so far down into Florida. We pray that the Lord blesses this ministry greatly! We also pray that we can be a huge help to them
and a blessing to the girls who live there! If anyone wants more information on the Lighthouse Children's Home Ministry or ways that you can donate to their outstanding work in Jay Fl, please let us know.

Our new temporary mailing address during this time will be:
Ray and Kim Boltz
P.O. Box 667
Jay, FL 32565
Phone numbers and emails, of course, will stay the same.

In closing, we just got finished with several Mission Conferences, and we are presently in the midst of one in Melbourne, Fl. Please pray that these churches will want to claim the field of Guyana, South America as their own, taking us on for support and sending us to the field to reach the people for Jesus Christ! All of us are commanded to reach the world...some will go, but others will send. The fruit of all the labour goes to everyone's account who is involved, Praise the Lord!

Please pray too, that many of the churches we already have been in will start to pick us up as the Lord allows.

Ministry Prayer Requests:

*For our Summer and Fall schedule to start filling up with opportunities to present our ministry.

*Continued support to quickly rise as our hearts long to be reaching the people in Guyana.

*Special funding for conversion of home into Children's Home, and for appliances needed.

Boltz Prayer Requests:

*For God's provision and wisdom in tackling all the necessary things we need to accomplish to get us to Guyana!

*For two good, used, reasonably priced cars for Ryan and Rachelle while at college.

Many thanks to each and everyone of you again for your love, prayers, and support! God Bless You! Praying for you all as well!

Serving Jesus Until He Returns,
Bro. Ray and Kim Boltz & Family

Joshua 24:15

Psalms 27:10 “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.”

James 1:27 “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

                                              January 2010 On Pre-Field Ministry

Greetings in the Name of Jesus!

Well the New Year has begun! With a few weeks into the year already behind us, we’re realizing how good the Lord has been to us already. On New Years Day of all days, a pastor called to book a meeting for later in year, Praise the Lord! We’ve been in seven churches already plus attended a Church Planting Missions Conference at Heartland Baptist Bible College that led to many contacts for this upcoming year. To follow along with us in travels and prayer for the remainder of the month: we will be at Victory Baptist in Cedar Park, TX on 1/20; at Riverside Baptist Church in Meridian, TX on 1/24; and Harmony Baptist in Gatesville, TX in the evening of the 24th; in a Missions Conference at McGregor Baptist Church in McGregor, TX from 1/27-1/31. We will begin our travels back to Florida on Feb.1st.

In 2009 we were in 73 churches! It was an incredible year with many blessings. As we continue in being busy presenting the ministry, please be in prayer with us that monthly support will continue to come in from the work we have already done. This will be such a good thing and get us to the field more quickly. Despite the average low opportunity of presenting ministry work in churches in the month of December, we were blessed to be able to present it eight times and update an already supporting church in Pennsylvania.

In December, we had the privilege of leading 3 young people to the Lord in Oklahoma. Pray that these young people will continue to seek the Lord and stay surrounded with God’s people. In fact, pray real fervent with us for all the youth this year. The devil is trying so hard to get them to live for themselves and to not even pray about what the Lord would have for them to do. The youth are the next generation of the church. If they remain off course and being guided in other directions, and not abounding in the work of the Lord, what will Christianity become? Oh, that they would rise up and stand for Jesus!

The Lord also saw fit to allow our boys to be in a Christmas program at Calvary Baptist Church in Oklahoma. This was the very same day of our Christmas program
at our home church in Tampa Fl, and we were really missing them and not being able to take part. Till it was all said and done, we were moved to tears realizing how good God is to us. Even though it wasn't our home church, the Pastors wife without knowing our hearts were slightly saddened, asked our boys to take part. So, God allowed the blessings of Christmas to still surround us even though we were far from home!

The deputation trail can get kind of lonely at times, but staying closely connected to God will allow Him to fill each and every detail whether big or small with his most gracious provisions. And for that we are very thankful!

We want to thank you again for all your love, prayers and financial support! Together we can reach the world for Jesus!

Updates from the Jungle:
The plans to start the 4th church are coming along. Bro. Runyon is looking at the village of Matthews Ridge to start this next church. He also has received part of the paperwork for the twins, Charlene and Cheo. His Scripture Songs Daily Radio Broadcast ministry is also up and running again on the airwaves of Guyana! So things are continuing to happen in the jungle! Praise the Lord!
Ministry Prayer Requests:
*Continued support to quickly rise as our hearts long to be reaching the people in Guyana.
*Special funding for conversion of home into Childrens Home and for appliances needed.
*That we will continue to see souls saved and decisions made for Christ while on our travels.
Boltz Prayer Requests:
*Van to keep on keeping on...it reached it’s 270,000th mile marker now! =)
*For God to get Ryan and Rachelle through yet another semester at Bible College.
*For two good, used, reasonably priced cars for Ryan and Rachelle while at college.

Serving Jesus Until He Comes,
Ray and Kim Boltz
Psalms 27:10 / James 1:27

                                              December 2009 On Pre-Field Ministry

Merry Christmas Dear Friends,

As this month brings us out of the Thanksgiving Season and into the Christmas time of year, let us never forget to be thankful to God for sending His Son to be our Saviour. Luke 2:11 says “ For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” So tis the Reason for the Season...Jesus, Jesus,
Jesus, it’s all about JESUS!

At this time of year, we want to encourage everyone to take the best gift ever...Jesus...and share Him with all your friends and family as you celebrate Christmas. We are so thankful that we will get to be home in PA with our family for Christmas. It’s been four years since we celebrated Christmas with them. We have a lot of lost family members and some that profess Christianity, but seem to disregard the Christ of Christianity. They know Who we stand for, but reject Him, and oftentimes reject us too. Please pray that God has their hearts softened by now to receive His Son this Christmas. Thank you in advance!

Well our month of December is quite busy, but not as busy as the previous months have been. We know and trust the Lord will have our schedules increase again come January. Our schedule for December is as follows:

Dec. 2nd at Grace of Calvary Baptist in Erie, PA; Dec. 6th at Lighthouse Baptist in Dover, PA all day; Dec. 9th at Old Path Baptist in Spring Grove, PA; Dec. 13th at Calvary Baptist in Edmund, Oklahoma all day; and Dec. 20th at First Baptist in Fredericksburg, PA. We plan to visit two supporting churches in the meantime as
well. God is so good...all the time!

Updates from the Jungle:

The generator is back up and running! Bro. Runyon held a 3-day Crusade in which several adults were saved and baptized! As of December 1st, he also was able to get back on the radio broadcasting networks in Guyana. Praise the Lord for all of His Blessings!

Boltz Ministry Prayer Requests/Praises:
*Continued support to come in
*Our New Year 2010 to fill up with booked church meetings
*Special funding for conversion of Children’s Home
***Praises--An enclosed trailer has been provided by Pastor West for us to use until deputation is over. We were blessed with a really good Canon camera for our ministry by a couple in Virginia Beach, Va. Also, a church in North Carolina provided new tires for our van just in time for winter travel.

Boltz Personal Prayer Requests:
*Fair weather for travel
*Health to stay good with all the climate changes
*Continued safety with our van of 260,000 miles!
Praying for you always and we thank you so much for all your continued love, prayer and support!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Serving Jesus Together with You,
Ray and Kim Boltz

November 2009 On Pre-Field Ministry

Greetings and Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

We want you to know how thankful we are for your prayers, and that we pray for each of the requests, and churches that we visit, and for those who pick us up for support! We know that it is through your prayers that God is meeting all of our needs and sustaining us through this busy time of travels and ministry presentations!

We are really enjoying this trail; so much so , that the rewards and new friendships far out weigh any physical stress or fatigue that comes our way! Praise God! But we are excited to get to Guyana ASAP!

The Lord has blessed us with so much this past month! One church is going to send a missions group down to help us with the new addition to the Childrens Home. They are so excited and want to start making scheduled plans for this trip, so this makes us all the more excited to get there as soon as possible! God is just paving the way!

I had the privilege to speak at a Christian School chapel service, encouraging the young people to surrender their lives to missions and ministry. We all know the harvest is ready but the laborers are few. We were a part of three great Missions Conferences , two of which we had the privilege of meeting and spending some
treasured time with eight national missionaries from other countries including Kenya, Guyana, Grenada, Haiti, Burma, and the Philippines. The Lord is good!

God also placed a precious Guyanese family on our path from a church in Arcadia Florida. This family has been in the States for many, many years and the father Noel recently got saved! God allowed for our ministry to Guyana to be at the very first Missions Conference he ever attended. This captured his heart and he really wants to be a big part in some way. Please pray for Noel and his family, that they will continue to seek God in their new walk with Jesus. And that God would bless them abundantly!

We also had the privilege of leading a young man to the Lord , Antron Harris, while out soul winning in Arcadia Florida. Please pray that he stays close to Jesus and the joy of his salvation, and that he will attend Heritage Baptist Church there to be discipled. In addition, we got to see several make decisions and follow the Lord in
baptisms, and surrender to be used of God fully in ministry work. What joy this brings to our hearts, to God be the Glory!

Boltz Ministry Prayer Requests/Praises:

*For support to continue coming in.
*For the needs of the children’s home to be supplied.
*Safe travels to: Morningstar Baptist Church in Pacelot, South Carolina, Nov 4-7;   Southshore Baptist Church in Riverview, FL Nov 8-11; Diamond Springs Baptist   Church in Virginia Beach, VA , Nov. 12-15; East Side Baptist Church in Ashboro,   NC Nov. 18th; Lighthouse Baptist Church in Largo, FL Nov. 29th.
*Praises-Met many new people who will be a great asset to our ministry in the   Childrens Home.

We have the opportunity to spend the week of Thanksgiving with our sending church family!

As always, praying for you all and thank you so much for your prayers and support!

Serving Jesus Until He Returns,

Ray and Kim Boltz

James 1:27 “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

THE “GUYANA LIGHT” NEWSLETTER
Sending Church: Southside Baptist Church
3911 West Bay Ave. Tampa, FL 33616
Sending Mission Board:
Baptist Missions to Forgotten Peoples
Jacksonville, FL