Merry Christmas!

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Buon Natale from sunny Florida!
After almost a year and a half we are finally able to take some time off to celebrate Christmas with Melodee’s family.

Our last vacation was in September of last year, when I had to take a month of rest to recuperate from my surgeries to remove cancer from my mouth. As we look back since then
many things have happened:
-I continue to get good reports back for my health.
- God has blessed us with a beautiful baby boy Noah, who will turn one only a couple days after Christmas.
- The ministry continues to grow and expand, with Lucio (our new Italian pastor) and family finally settled in.
- We have finally started planning our furlough.
- God continues to reach people in Italy with the Gospel.
- Despite the world economic crises God continues to provide our needs and develop in us a sense of urgency to reach Italians with the Good News.
- We are blessed with incredible supporters who give sacrificially, allowing us to continue to minister.

Thank you to all of your for making it happen!
And thank you most of all to our only God, to whom alone goes the glory forever. Amen.
Gratefully,
Jonathan, Melodee and Noah Whitman

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Thanksgiving Tour

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Dear Praying Friends,

Happy Thanksgiving!

We trust that you will be able to celebrate this holiday with family and friends.
Thanksgiving is the most American holiday in many ways.  Isn’t it sad that so many people in America will not even mention God as they celebrate it?

Our Thanksgiving will be celebrated with family right here in Perugia, Italy.  Unfortunately, we will have to celebrate it in the evening, because it is still a work day!

Thanksgiving 2011 also inaugurates the official beginning of a year of many travels, ending with Thanksgiving 2012 in the United States!  We call it the Thanksgiving Tour, because we see it as an opportunity to thank God for all He is doing in the ministry here, and to thank you for being a part of it!

Our tentative Furlough 2012 schedule is now online Thank you to all who have already contributed to filling our calendar.  We look forward to seeing as many of you, our faithful supporters, as possible while we are in America.  Click here to see our schedule.

In February we will be in Malta for Baptist Mid-Missions Europe’s Enrichment conference.

In December we will be in Florida to spend Christmas with Melodee’s parents, (thanks to their incredible generosity).  We will also be speaking at Grace Baptist Church, in LaBelle (FL).  If you are in the area and would like to hear us let us know and we can give you further details.

This Friday, the 25th of November we will be heading to Salamanca, Spain to minister in their missions conference!  This church is led by Pastor Kent Albright, fellow Baptist Mid-Missions missionary.  We even have the privilege of bringing one of our teens with us!

As you can imagine, we need your prayers.  Noah will have traveled more in his first two years of life than many people travel in a lifetime!  The thought of taking planes, trains, automobiles and even buses (sounds like a movie…) with a small child is enough to get us on our knees!

Please pray!

Thank you for all your love and support,
Jonathan, Melodee and Noah Whitman

Prayer Requests

1. Our trip to Spain this weekend. (11/25-11/29)
2. Preparations for the trip to Spain and for furlough presentations.
3. Housing and a vehicle for furlough.
4. Scheduling of meetings with supporting churches, individuals, potential supporters, other friends and family.
5. Handing off of ministry responsibilities during our absence.

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Fall Snail Mail Prayer Letter – A Fresh Perspective

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Dear Friends, Here is our fall snail mail prayer letter for your reading enjoyment!

Click on the image below to download the pdf (very legible and very printable version).

Whitmans Fall 2011 Prayer Letter

Whitmans Fall 2011 Prayer Letter

 

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Should You Be a Missionary?

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Should You Be a Missionary?.

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36 Hours in Perugia, Italy – NYTimes.com

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36 Hours in Perugia, Italy – NYTimes.com.

For a quick glimpse of Perugia, you will enjoy this article.  It will help you appreciate more the place where we serve.  Thanks to Diane Lytle, for pointing it out!

I’m not recommending that you do everything on the list (for one thing it would be extremely expensive), but I am excited to see that Perugia is getting some press apart from the Amanda Knox trial.

Three of the places are on our regular itinerary of culinary pleasure.  If you visited us you probably went there:

The Perugina chocolate factory, which is less than a block form our church,  eating Maria’s TORTA AL TESTO (also known as Faliero’s)  and the Cioccolateria, home made chocolate store.  They also have great gelato and hot chocolate.

One final note about how small the world is.  They talk about the castle of Monterone.  A few years ago for a friend of my Dad’s I  agreed to do the English voice on their video.

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