The Schultz's

Dear Ministry Partners,

We are only a few days away from the beginning of our new fall term. The Lord is blessing us with 55 adults and 16 kids from 20 agencies heading to 26 countries. What a privilege and serious responsibility God entrusts to us with His servants!

In recent letters I have referred to an organizational and staff problem I have been dealing with. I am pleased to report that we closed the book on that issue this morning and our staff are now united again. This is truly an answer to prayer as we were dealing with a seriously divisive issue. Thank you for praying for me in my leadership and for us as a staff. Working this through was very difficult and painful. We each had to admit how we contributed to the problem with poor communication but more importantly with sinful attitudes and actions. As we let the Holy Spirit do His work we were able to “own” our own issues and submit them to Him. Please continue to pray for us as spiritual warfare is real and we want to be clean before Him. Isn’t it interesting that even though we can be mature believers serving the Lord we can still let ourselves fall into sinful attitudes and actions. We never rise above this and so we must always be alert!

Here at CIT we teach what it means to live out of the gospel, conflict management, and team principles so we now had to choose to live out what we teach. I wonder how much this recent division stood in the way of our effectiveness in the past few months. I look forward with confidence to what more the Lord can do now that this is cleared up. We truly want to live out of Philippians 1:27:

“Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel.” NASB

The Lord has provided us with a new Facilities Manager but we are still looking for a part-time/full-time cook for 2009.

Praise/Prayer:

1. Restored unity in our staff division
2. The power of the Holy Spirit to work in our hearts.
3. Significant ministry in the lives of this next group of trainees
4. New cook
   

Thank you for standing with us in your prayers and finances.

George and Kathy