Missionaries Fernandez: Florida Plant Update, New Additions & Heading to Kenya

We need your prayers as we are In the midst of packing bags for our departure and Terry's return trip to Kenya. The checklist is long but also includes preventive malaria medicine for Terry which will be a first but will give her peace of mind given her last experience in country. We will post our progress on this short term mission trip as we travel to Mt. Elgon, the Kerio Valley and Lake Victoria on the blog and Facebook. For this blog entry I wanted to update our ministry partners with some of the sights of the work have been doing through the Florida Plant over the last few months, primarily through pictures as a picture is worth a thousand words. Enjoy our journey of faith and thank you for your prayers and financial support as we press toward the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus.
The Sea, the Sailor & The Savior

Living in Florida provides unique opportunities for this Missionary to preach the word of God in His beautiful creation and occasionally the opportunity to preach to our family.

Several months ago, both became a reality as I honored my Uncle Aaron Baxter's request to pre4ach his funeral on the shores of Ponce Inlet, Florida.

The sea was the place my Uncle loved for he was a great sailor, but it would be the Savior who was preached and presented to my family once again for salvation.

Two more precious souls would make professions of faith at the close of the service and that is what my Uncle would have wanted.

Wedding Bells & Rejoicing in Heaven

God opened another door of opportunity to share the gospel with a young couple named Brandon & Tiffany who received Christ and would later be married on a Lake Shore in Florida

The Angels in Heaven are rejoicing.

Please pray for these new converts as they start their new life together in Holy Matrimony and as

Brandon is deployed in the Army.

New Arrials, New Christians & New Visitors

The latest addition to our family is our new born granddaughter,

Koralee Rae. As you can see from the above picture, Grandma Terry is very happy to hold her before she returns to Kenya.

Children are the heritage of the Lord and we look forward to one day teaching Koralee who Jesus is and what He did for her.

She brings our grandchildren total to eight & counting.

What a Blessing!

We continue to see a steady flow of visitors, professions of faith and baptisms through our humble efforts and we are growing together spiritually as well as numerically.

March marked two years since our first meeting and we celebrated that important day with Bro. Lem Curtis (Missionary to Columbia) bringing Great Commission centered lessons and sermon. It does our heart good to know that The Florida Plant is already supporting Missionaries and preparing more to be sent out.

Our Mission is the Commission

Part of fulfilling the commission for us includes sharing what God is doing in our lives and ministry with other Churches. During the month of March we had an invitation to preach "Missions" at

1st Baptist Church of Kingstowne in Alexandria, Virginia. This growing Church under the leadership of their Pastor, John Mix, has a great burden for the lost and a vision to reach the uttermost parts of the earth.

Terry and I were greatly encouraged by what God is doing there and thankful for Churches that share our passion for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. Part of their passion includes encouraging Indigenous Church planting and to that end they have committed to help build one of the four sanctuaries needed in Kenya and Uganda.

We have connected them with the Landmark Baptist Church at Chengenji which is a second generation Church plant at the base of Mt. Elgon.

We are at 50% of the goal we set of building four new sanctuaries this year and Baumhauer Road Baptist Church has committed to partner with us to build a second sanctuary at the Landmark Baptist Church at Morreweis. Would you pray about the remaining two Church plants at Chemondi and Kakaron, Uganda?

One of the many blessings we had through the invitation to preach at 1st Baptist Kingstowne was the opportunity to bring our oldest Grandson, Chucky, to visit the nations capital and learn about our Christian heritage. It was a trip that we will not soon forget.