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Kelseys in Italy – Next Week via International Ministries (IM.org) Website

This is a week of transition. While yesterday it was hot and humid and I sweated buckets while preaching in Italian to an Ivory Coast congregation, today the temperature in northern Italy is about 75 degrees, which feels more like 55 with the cool breeze and damp weather and I broke out a sweater. What a welcome switch after a brutally hot finish to the summer! We pray you are beginning to enjoy fall, too!

Another transition is that our emails are going to be delivered through International Ministries’ website. In order to keep up-to-date with the work you are supporting through prayer and/or financially in Italy, please add website@internationalministries.org to your email address book now! This will avoid our “pearls of wisdom” ending up blocked as bits of spam or junk mail.

When you receive our next journal, we think it will go like this:

Your inbox list will show an email from IM.org, and the subject of the email will say “Kelseys-Italy” and the week’s title. When you open it, you will get the same direct-from-the-keyboard-of-the-missionary journal you’ve come to expect.

If a couple of weeks go by and you do not receive our journal, PLEASE WRITE TO US AT jdkelsey@hotmail.com so that we can resolve the problem. Because there is a good deal of manual input of email addresses, there is the likelihood of typing errors by yours truly! It is not our intention to drop anyone off the list, so please let us know if you seem to not get the emails from IM.org.

For those of you participating in the World Mission Offering of American Baptist Churches-USA this fall, remember that you can designate all or a portion of your World Mission Offering to our support or that of our colleagues. Undesignated World Mission Offering moneys go for things like the upgrade on the International Ministries website which will make the mailing of our journal articles much less time-consuming.

I will be in Massachusetts, Vermont, and Ohio for 3 weeks in October to continue to strengthen our mission support network. (We’ve broken to the 2/3 mark of our ongoing support goal, by the way. Hooray!) I hope to see many of you along the way! Please pray for final preparations and safe travel and for our son Luke who will be traveling with me for 6 days to visit prospective colleges.

Please also pray for Tracy and her son Elijah who are struggling to survive in Italy. Issues with documents have prevented them from being accepted in a housing program for single mothers. Elijah cannot be enrolled in daycare, which makes it virtually impossible for Tracy to go out and look for work and puts him behind in Italian-language development.

Your missionaries with African immigrants and women in prostitution in Italy, 

Your missionaries with African immigrants and women in prostitution in 

Italy

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Jim (along with Debbie, Ben, and Luke)