Tankersley Update

Tankersley Praise & Prayer Update View this email in your browser January 2018 Happy New Year from Peoria, Illinois! The proof is in the picture! Yes, we have made the drastic change from Medellín Colombia, the city of eternal Spring, to Peoria, Illinois in the winter. What were we thinking!! Even though the weather has been bitter cold and snowy, we've had many activities to warm our hearts and welcome us home. We landed stateside in November to share in a three-day missions conference in Iowa at Faith Evangelical Church.  We had a wonderful time sharing about God's work in Colombia and connecting with those that have invested time, prayer and money into the evangelism teams.  Faith Evangelical will send their third evangelism team in March this year. During this trip, we were also blessed to meet supporters that we have never met before. They drove 5 hours from Nebraska to Iowa for a brief visit that blessed us greatly.  We were "home" for one day from Iowa and drove Doug's mom to Florida to help her get settled into her winter home. It was wonderful weather ( a brief thawing out for us) and we were able to share precious time with family.  We returned from Florida on December 4 and were welcomed back with a surprise party for Doug's birthday.  The rest of December was filled with many family activities and just trying to get settled. It's a unique feeling to finally have all of our belongings in one country, in one state and under one roof. We're unpacking things that have been packed since 2005. Living life in the "present" with our family has brought such inexpressible joy to our hearts. It's something that we all have needed for a long time and God is so gracious to fill those deep desires and longings of our hearts.  Our debrief and re-entry meetings were last week at One Mission Society in Greenwood, IN. We've shorten our Home Ministry Assignment and officially begin our assignment with Men For Missions as Regional Directors - Latin America, on February 1 (You can read more about our new assignment below). It's been quite a change of mindset that we don't have to cram everything into a two-week time frame or that our good-byes are not for one year at a time or that it's okay to put down roots again.  Please continue to pray for our time of transition.  Blessings to you, Doug & Cindy   Men for Missions challenges men to DO, GO and GIVE in total obedience to Jesus Christ.  During 2017, we welcomed many MFM staff from USA and Canada to Colombia as they led 10 evangelism teams with 68 short-term team members resulting in nearly 3000 faith decisions for Jesus while serving alongside 40 national churches. We are so thankful for Satura, our national partner, as they continue with the hard work of follow up with each decision, disciple new believers and plant churches. There are 13 MFM evangelism teams scheduled for 2018 and more information can be found in the brochure on the right. We are very excited about our new roles with Men for Missions as Regional Directors - Latin America.  It's a new role for MFM and we're thankful for the opportunity to develop Men for Missions throughout Latin America. We will continue to help coordinate evangelism teams to Colombia and serve alongside Satura with the evangelism model as they develop in other Latin American countries as well as help to equip Colombians to cross their own borders as short-term missionaries.  This year, plans are already being made for the first MFM-Colombia short-term team, as Colombians cross their border as their own MFM short-term evangelism team. Please pray for God's leading and guiding as we venture into this new territory.  We will be making a concentrated effort to raise additional prayer and financial support for this next term of service. We have been greatly blessed with many faithful prayer warriors and financial donors but we have additional needs with this new position that need to be funded.  Please pray that God would go before us in touching people's hearts to commit to praying and giving to our ministry.   Please pray for us as we continue to search for a local church.  We haven't had the need to do something like this for more than 20 years and it has become quite overwhelming. PLAN NOW New 2018 Dates (click below to open) Like & Follow Us on Facebook 1. Praising the Lord for time with family. 2. Pray as we seek to find a local church. 3. Pray for the first evangelism team of 2018 to Medellín on February 17-24. 4. Pray for our meetings with MFM Cuba on February 20. 5. Pray for the missions conference where we will be sharing in Findlay, Ohio on March 3 & 4. We need your financial support, too!  Please consider a one-time gift - Click "Donate Now" Our USA phone # 217-784-2092 NEW Permanent Mailing Address: 2516 N. Rockwood Drive Peoria, IL 61604 Blog: http://tankersleys.blogspot.com   Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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