Back to the Front...

We are off! Tomorrow we head to O'Hare for our flight to Kosova. We have had the well wishes of many of you and for that we are thankful. We will miss you all this summer but are so looking forward to being on the Front Line again, at least for a short while. We have seen the enormous value of the new work we are doing building up and recruiting the troops for the fight but we have missed the front line action as well. We will keep you all updated, check back for info on the exciting things the Lord will be doing in and through us and those we reconnect with.

See you all soon,

Brad, Abi and the rest of the flock

Abi talks about returning to Kosova for the summer

Abi talks about what she is looking forward to during our time in Kosova and the positives of short term missions...

Trying out blogging from my bb

As promised the 1st installment of our video diary, Quin and Ezzie share about what they are looking forward to in going back to Kosova.. watermelon, goats and Jesus work featured..

Are Short term teams worth the effort?

They take a lot of energy, are costly and sometimes emotionally messy. Put a team of relative unknowns under the pressure of cross cultural, cross language ministry and watch the sparks fly. Having said that, they are worth it, I am a living testimony that they have a much farther impact than we will ever see this side of eternity. John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church and leader of Desiring God Ministries, in Minneapolis, MN, says, "One of the payoffs is that there is scarcely today an under-fifty missionary on the field who didn't do a short term mission before they went out." Grace Team, watch out!

Video Diary

Over the next few weeks, from time to time, we will be attempting to post a video diary of our summer including our time in Kosova and the UK. Enjoy! technical difficulties preclude me from posting the actual video here. Coming soon, when I get a bit of a tutorial. Apologies!!!!

Count Down to our Kosovo Summer

It seems like its been a long time in coming but now that its nearly upon us we feel like there is so much to prepare and not enough time.

In less than 3 weeks we (The Byrd Family) head off to our former home of 3 years, Kosova. We are looking forward to it. The kids are counting down the days and already talking about the “Kosova plane with video games”. They are looking forward to seeing friends, playing with the baby goats and being back in a land they knew most keenly as home.

Abi and I are eager to rekindle old friendships, pick up with some of the ministries that we pioneered and be a part of the wider church working together again. As well, we will be preparing the way for our team of US/UK folks to minister for 10 days in Mid-June.

We have just sent out our latest prayer letter, some of you will be getting it in the snail mail soon but I have also attached it here if you are interested. We are going to try to be more faithful at sending updates and prayer requests as we embark on our latest summer adventure.

Pray for:
All our support to come in for the trip
Bernita, one of our team members who will be unable to join us due to a recurrence of cancer
Final preparations as we and the team get ready to go
Ministry opportunities prepared for us in advance
Praise for:
A great group of people coming together to make up the team
A reasonable price on the tickets
The message of the gospel we have to share with a hurting world