April 2008
Dear Praying Friends,
Three Month Mini-Furlough. It was afternoon during
rush hour in Atlanta, and I was doing 755 MPH in the
extreme left lane of the six lanes on the beltway.
It was one of the least desirable places to be on
earth when my automatic transmission went out with
no warning, no smoke, no slipping, transmission
full of oil, but it was as if I had put it in
neutral. While slowing rapidly, I had to quickly
dive through five lanes of traffic to get this 91
Ford Escort off the road. About three days later,
and minus nearly $2000, we were ready to go. Just
235 miles out of Atlanta and after negotiating
traffic again, the transmission let us down in the
same manner in the middle of nowhere, in the middle
of the night. Some friends from m the next church we
were to be in drove 270 miles round trip to pick
us up and took us to their home. The car was towed
back to Integrity Transmission.
We drove our
friends’ truck for a few days, and then rented a car
for almost two weeks to keep our appointments in
Florida. The old Escort seems to be running OK now.
Our three month furlough this s winter has taken us
from Alaska to North Carolina, Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri, South Carolina, Alabama,
Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia,
Maryland and New Jersey. Wee covered all those miles
in a 1991 Ford Escort—kinda like riding a Shetland
pony all those miles with a cowboy and cowgirl on
board along with four suitcases and a grizzly bear
hide tied to o the pony’s rump!
Sourdough Sam
sez: “No wonder the pony’s transmission went
out!”
Just off the press! After five years, my book,
Journey to the Edge of the Sky, is finished. Journey
is not a mission manual on how to plant churches,
but simply 300 pages of missionary flying and
experiences in Alaska and Africa. Should your church
want some or just one copy to check it out, I would
suggest someone in the church take orders and d send
a check for the number of books, so we can send them
all in one box. The books sell for $15 per book plus
postage.
Children’s Home and School. Many years ago I worked
for Lester Roloff Enterprises and our focus will be
the same as his with the young people of Alaska.
Along with James we say each day, “If the Lord
wills” concerning the Circle Hot Springs property
for the children’s home. Presently, there are
several businessmen that are working on obtaining
funding, who plan to view the Springs property
in July, and may possibly purchase it at that time.
Just pray that the Springs does not sell before
then, and that all will go well after that. For a
full description of the Arctic Circle Hot Springs
project, see our website for our December newsletter
and grant proposal.
www.farnorthflyingchaplain.com
Dr. Billy Wingard, founder and president of World
Wide New Testament Baptist Mission, has suggested
that we head up the children’s home ourselves, since
the Caravan Connection is already a non-profit,
which was organized originally to alleviate all
aviation related liabilities should a lawsuit occur,
which could affect all missionaries with WWNTBM. The
Caravan Connection is willing to accept all such
responsibility as well for the children’s home.
Additionally, any organization operates better in
the long run under singular leadership.
To accomplish this in as smooth transition as
possible, we will be changing our support address to
CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSE, P.O. Box 219228
Houston, Texas 77218-9228 or you can send your
support to the Caravan Connection, Inc, as some are
doing already. Either one is acceptable, but sending
it through CMC will save us considerable record
keeping and paperwork. My wife Jane is still my
secretary, but I’m overworking her already. CMC will
keep the records and send out the receipts for us
until such time as we have the staff to handle this
task in the future. World Wide is a good missionary
sending agency and has been a big help to us through
the 23 years we have been affiliated with them.
WWNTBM will
continue to accept contributions for us through the
end of April. After that they will forward them to
CMC.
I am turning over Manley Baptist Fellowship to
another missionary who will take that work full
time. This will enable me to give full attention to
Alaska’s future—its young people.
Although we
will have a church at the in the community where the
children’s home is located, our focus will be
training future native church leaders and rescuing
abused children. I will still be flying for the
missionaries in Alaska, as well as for summer youth
camps, Bible distribution as the Far North Flying
Chaplain, and entertaining strangers unawares” at
the hospitality house. We have not changed and
neither has our doctrine.
Faithfully
yours,
Les Paul Zerbe
907-322-8807 cell
www.FarNorthFlyingChaplain.com
THE CARAVAN CONNECTION, Inc., 356 Louise Lane,
Fairbanks, AK 99709
CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSE, P.O. Box 219228
-Houston, Texas 77218-9228 1-800-CMC-PRAY
Sending Church: Lavon Drive Baptist Church, 1520
Lavon Drive, Garland, TX 75040
Faithfully yours,
Les Paul Zerbe
www.farnorthflyingchaplain.com
www.farnorthflyingchaplain.com
zerbe@alaska.net
