JIM AND JAN HYDE

P. O. Box 5511, Tygervalley 7536, South Africa

 E-mail: jchyde@telkomsa.net

HYDE’S HAPPENINGS

We are quite aware that it has been much too long since you have heard from us. Please accept our apologies and forgive us. We now want to bring all of you up to date with what has been going on with us. In mid-January of this year we were contacted by our sponsoring congregation and given a very gracious notice that as of the end of the year the support from there will end. That began a period of praying and seeking to know the Lord’s will.           

We first contacted other congregations to seek increases in support from them to try to make up for the deficit that is coming. That request brought no increase. Next we began to make the necessary preparations for us to leave Cape Town, South Africa and return to the United States. We made several necessary repairs and sprucing up of the house before putting it on the market.           

In early May we talked with a real estate agent and agreed to list the house formally for the first^t of June and spoke about hoping to be ready to return to the U.S. somewhere in the last quarter of the year. As of yesterday we now have a written contract for the sale of the house. We should know within three weeks whether it will be a good contract, in that the gentleman buying the house should know by then whether he can secure the needed mortgage. So if this contract does hold we should be returning to the States in October.           

We are asking that all of you pray with and for us. Our first concern is that we discern the Father’s will. There are a number of things we are asking Him to make very clear to us. We want to know whether the radio ministry will carry on, and if so, who He would choose to do that work. We also want Him to make very clear to us where He wants us to settle and to get us into whatever work He has for us on that side. Neither Jan nor I feel He would have us just sit and do nothing. As long as He gives us breath, health, and strength, then there will be works prepared beforehand for us to do. May we pay attention and do them to His glory.           

We will also be asking all of you to please consider continuing your financial support for us into next year. We will talk more about that, but for now will you please begin to pray about the matter? We thank you in advance for those prayers. 

FIFTEEN MINUTES FROM THE BIBLE

As of this writing, the radio program that is done in partnership with World Radio continues to be fruitful. We continue to have requests for the correspondence course and the seminars continue where we have opportunity to meet personally those who are studying.           

I have spoken to a co-worker, Mark Schwartz, a brother who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and has lived in America for many years, about the possibility of him helping with the work. Mark is willing to receive, grade, and mail out courses. At this time the Lord hasn’t provided the name of anyone who will carry on the work of preaching and recording the programs for the radio. We are praying about that and ask that you pray too. 

THANKS AND PRAYERS

We have often said thank you to all of you for your partnership with us in the work here in Cape Town. Only God Himself will ever know how much your faithfulness has meant to us. Naturally, it is with mixed emotions that we come to this place in this work. However, Jan always sees life as a book and she has said that God is about to move us into the next chapter of ours. May the Lord richly bless each of you.

Much love,

Jim and Jan