Houge Mission News
 June 2010

Claude and Rhoda Houge are serving in East Africa with LCMS World Mission

 

 

 

Hi-lights from Home Leave:

The beginning of June we went on a 3-week speaking trip to Iowa and Nebraska.  It’s hard to express what an encouragement it is to us to be with people who are partners with us in mission work.  Meeting and talking with you has been very uplifting for us.  It’s great to see old friends as well as new!

We’ve also gotten in some family times in one- or two-day mini-vacations between other mission activities.

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Claude ran a successful Half-Marathon in Stillwater MN after he got his heart tuned up. 

 

 

 

Claude fired an old flintlock musket at Michael Burger’s home after a presentation at St. Peter’s in Davenport, NE.

 

 

 

Preaching from the bow of a ship at Holy Cross in Kearney, NE. Many churches were decorated for High Seas  Adventures – VBS.

 

 

 

Rhoda sharing with a group at Zion, Scotia, NE.

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Claude and his father Art Houge, doing great at 102 except a bit impatient with the people who aren’t so active at his assisted living home.

                                                                    

Claude was happy about horse camp with missionaries, Delano and Linda Meyer. 

                                                                                                                            

 

 

 

 

 

Granddaughters Lydia and Elsa (center) went camping with us and helped wash dishes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We didn’t get to new Missionary Orientation in June, unfortunately, but we are still looking forward to these activities in July:

· Visiting Redeemer in Ft. Collins over the 4th.

· Claude is an advisory delegate to the LCMS Synodical Convention

· A week at Grace Place (retreat for pastors and wives)

Prayer Requests:

▪ Please pray for continued safety in our travels.

▪ Pray that we can keep up with all the correspondence and paperwork that needs to be done for the mission whether we are here or in Africa.  This has been a real challenge.

▪ Thanksgiving for all who have come to our presentations so far.

Thanks and praise to God for our faithful supporters and prayer partners who make it possible for us to be missionaries in East Africa!

May God bless you richly!  

Together in His mission,

Claude and Rhoda Houge

 

 

 

 

                                      


Ablaze! - Praying to the Lord of the Harvest, LCMS World Mission, in collaboration with its North America and worldwide partners, will share the Good News of Jesus with 100 million unreached or uncommitted people by the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.

 

Missionary Contact Information:               

Mailing address:

Claude & Rhoda Houge

c/o LCMS World Mission

1333 S. Kirkwood Rd.

St. Louis, MO 63122

                                                             
claude.houge@lcms.org                                                              
www.faithlincoln.org/mission/africa.htm                           
                                                                                     

 Financial Support can be sent to:

LCMS World Mission
1333 S. Kirkwood Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63122

Designate: Houge missionary support