Overwhelmed by God's amazing provision of housing & answered prayer in more ways than we could imagine!!

Thankful for God's kindness & caring to us displayed thru many of you who have been praying!! Especially thankful for those who have opened their homes to us & who shared generously many blessings with us so that we had all we needed to be where God wanted us to be on our trip (9/15-10/14) & since returning to New England, while waiting on God for a place to settle.

At the end of October, we had plans to stay for several days with friends in VT, but we first had to travel to western MA for a couple of important Drs. apptmnts, but suddenly our housing plans fell thru.  Oh, how we prayed and cried out to the Lord.

Jon & Joyce were so very weary of all the travel! But if  it wasn't for this dead end, we wouldn't have ended up where God brought us as the cloud moved.

Patience making the most of time waiting in the car

Folks that we met thru Joyce's PT lady the week before, offered to introduce us to a couple who own a small farm in Stockbridge, MA & after a time of getting to know us, Larry & Katherine took us in on the spot! They were definitely not "ready" to take anyone in and most people would have said so, but they felt strongly that the Lord had brought us there for His multifaceted purposes. So we made beds and dragged in all our stuff and slept in our new home on Nov 1.

We are in awe of the many blessings we can already see as we've gotten to know them & discover what a mutual blessing we can be one to another...

~The guys get to work on a farm (something Jon has missed so much & Rog loves working outdoors) in exchange for rent & Larry who manages the farm alone really needs some helping hands.  Also their future vision for the farm to bless many is very exciting indeed.

~Larry is self taught & has so many skills that as the guys work along side Him, there will be much to gain and learn!

~ Katherine is a bookaholic like myself and also majored in children's literature so Patience is read to from some of the best books and I look forward to Emma meeting and talking with Katherine as that is her love as well.

~They love & know so much about birds (another of Jon's loves that had been sorely neglected) and they have 4 bird feeders outside the large kitchen window with all sorts of birds flocking to feed all day long

~ We get to stay in lovely rooms that are offered as Airbnb rooms in the summer in this very old farmhouse! They even said they would forgo running the Airbnb in the summer if we remain in the house or we can help them clear out one of the remaining upstairs bedrooms &  help serve the guests.

~We share the kitchen & eat all together as one big family. Joyce & I help out by preparing the bulk of the meals, so Larry can tend to the farm & Kathetine can work without rushing home to face late night meal prep.

~They are very generous new friends who love the Lord and love to talk of Him. Oh, the conversations we've already had!

~ As we've been praying for Jon & Joyce to have their own place, we had explained to others that we were asking the Lord for a unique situation... housing that is  flexible (does not require a lease) so that they can return to Africa each year for months at a time, but return to the US for the majority of the year so as not to jeopardize her hoped for citizenship.  

    Well, wonder of wonders THEY HAVE AN APARTMENT!!! that needs renovation that we will help them with AND they have said that  Jon and Joyce can stay there spring through fall and work on the farm and then return to Africa November through March each year and then return to that apartment on the farm.

The blessings of God's divinely appointed stopping of the cloud over Solid Rock Farm in Stockbridge with the Newey's overwhelms & the blessings keep adding up!!

                         PO BOX 1611  Stockbridge, MA 01262                                                        16 W. Stockbridge Rd. Stockbridge, MA 01262

Please continue to PRAY for Jon & Joyce who would rather be in Africa than facing another winter here & their decisions about continued medical training,  but more importantly evangelism & discipleship training & prayer for Gospel breakthrough in So Sudan!

Prayers for Joyce's mom with chronic pain, her aunt who is dealing with paralysis & one of Jon's So. Sudanese brother's whose mom was poisoned. Oh, Father minister to these women's mind, heart, soul & body!!

Prayers for increased financial support as monthly support has been dropping off & circumstances have kept us from any support raising. Lord, our eyes are on You Who have been so FAITHFUL!!

I had written in my journal the morning we realized that we had no where to stay, the lyrics from a favorite Christmas song by Todd Agnew, "The Magnificat" 
I also wrote  
"We can sing this ahead of seeing Your plan 
                                           because You are FAITHFUL!!"

𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯"Praise the almighty God, He's done great things for us
Holy is His name!
His mercy is free for those who fear His justice
May generation to generation loudly proclaim his fame!"

He has filled the hungry with good things
And the rich He sent empty away
He hath remembered His servant Israel
And we will remember Him always, always !𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮

So rejoice with us and praise His Name!!!
Roger, Patty, Jon & Joyce & Patience says:

Come visit us in historic Stockbridge!