Spying Out The Land
New…
2017 Brings a Whole Lot of New Things for Chris and Lynn
- New base location to serve through Youth With A Mission
- New roles to define and learn
- New richness in the Lord
- New place to lay our heads
- New friendships to grow in
- New challenges and growth
- New training, teaching, bible research/projects, counseling and leadership opportunities to share
- New countries to explore and connect
and..
- New passports to break in.
The past 20 years serving in missions has been wonderful… so many memories, challenges and joys. This current season, a continuation of our service with YWAM with a freshness and newness… well, let it be all for Gods glory.
As Chris and Lynn set out for almost a month’s worth of traveling: to teach, to counsel to love on those in need of Christ’s love, we appreciate your prayers.
Belize. Nepal. & India. Also, a surprise mystery country we are visiting for ministry opportunities that quiet possibly could involve YOU.. in the near future!!
Stay tuned for more info.
Happy 2017 From the Toneys
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What Missionary Support Is
We recently sent an email out to our whole list of those on our support team which in part, cited a portion of the “Contact and Support” page on this website. In this email, (and in the text on the page with the link just above) we tried to express something that we’ve believed since the beginning of our missions experience 20 years ago – that is that missionary support is not primarily about money… but it is about relationship, prayer, communication, encouragement and all other types of support including money. The foundation of support is and has to be love and prayer in both directions.
In the email we sent recently, we mentioned that we don’t talk about money very often but it’s time to do that since our transition has brought us to a place that has a higher cost of living and we are traveling to teach and speak much more than we ever have and those trips, especially to the developing world, often have to be paid for our of our own financial support. In addition to praying for us and being the sort of support team member we talk about often, would you pray and seek the Lord about supporting us financially with monthly or one time tax deductible donations? As the Lord leads, please visit our support page in this site for just how to give.
Please also let us know how you are and how we can pray for you. Thanks, Merry Christmas and God Bless You!
Our Latest Newsletter
A Family on the GO!
Hi Friends and Family,
As a result of much prayer, listening to the Lord and extensive preparations, the transition we’ve been talking about for a long time has come to its culmination. We are very excited to now be serving globally from Kona. Please read on and be updated on our family’s extensive travels and great work around the world.
In Kona!
After over 3 years of praying, listening, and preparing, our transition to Kona is now complete! We arrived on Saturday the 10th and are getting settled: learning more about our roles, teaching and travel schedules and what it’s like to live on the Big Island. We’ll send more updates soon!
Lets Get Together
We are very excited to be in Western Washington in a few weeks and have planned two casual gathering times where we can hang out and catch up. We’d very much love to see you and hope you can drop by for a while either Saturday or Sunday, June 18th or 19th.
Saturday June 18th 1-4pm
Todd and Karen Mortensen’s
4609- 240th Street SE
Bothell WA 98021
Todd and Karen Mortensen’s
4609- 240th Street SE
Bothell WA 98021
Sunday June 19th 12-3pm
Tully’s Coffee – Canyon Park
22615 Bothell Everett Hwy
Bothell WA 98021
Major Step Forward
As you know we have four primary elements to the transition we are currently in. To remind you quickly, they are: the sale of our home on Whidbey and purchase of home in Kona, doing our best to secure the long term presence of YWAM DP in our presently leased property in Belize, the formation and development of our leadership team and the completion of Chris’s academic endeavors. The first of these elements has taken a very major step forward as we have sold our house on Whidbey Island!
We first put the house on the market in July 2015 and were hopeful it would sell last summer – but it did not. Then as the Fall and Winter have come and gone, we fought discouragement but we finally received an offer a couple of months ago. The inspection, buyers financing, and everything else has come together and we have just signed the papers on the sale. Needless to say, we are very excited about the fact that this major step forward in our transition has taken place and we’ll continue to work on the other elements. Thanks so much for your prayers! Please keep praying as we dive into a home search in Kona (from a distance), work on renewing the lease for the property in Belize, continue to see (and help facilitate) the YWAM DP leadership team mature and deepen in very exciting ways and the completion of Chris’ graduate schooling in September. God is good!
House Offer Received!
We are very excited to announce that after months of prayer, hoping, strategic planning and hard work, we have received and accepted an offer for our house on Whidbey Island. As an important step in our transition to serving with YWAM globally from Kona, we initially listed the house back in July 2015 and unfortunately had to come down further than we wanted to on the price, but as long as everything goes through as it now seems it will, we should be able to close in April. If we are able to close as expected, this brings us one large step further forward in our transition and opens the door to our upcoming move to Kona and our work with YWAM globally. Thanks so much for your prayers! Please do continue to pray for the sale of our house on Whidbey; that we are able to close as expected.
Our Transition Continues
Not long ago, we announced that we are in the midst of a transition between serving on the campus of YWAM DP in Belize to serving with YWAM globally (including YWAM DP) from Kona, Hawaii. This transition is well underway and going very well. We’re very excited about growing from starting and leading a very successful YWAM base to roles where we’ll have an even greater impact globally as we seek to be a part of ending bible poverty, bringing the gospel to the last, lost and the least and see God glorified throughout the earth.
We have identified four primary areas of transition. Here they are briefly: