Aloha ‘Oe from Beijing, June 2021
With anticipation of our next adventure, we gratefully send
this final prayer letter from China. On June 13 we’ll close 12 years, and three
days, of life and service in Beijing. We could not have been here one day
without your generous support and faithful prayers. We are humbled and grateful
for your many years of kindness!
We are staying busy until we hit the tape. As always
happens when we’ve made a move, friends are calling and saying, “Before you
leave we want you to…preach…teach a discipleship seminar…speak to the Women’s
Group…have lunch, coffee, dinner…how about a breakfast?...hang out…have a
farewell…!” Lots of fun, it is great to be loved. We are enjoying our last days
of bike rides across the city on these beautiful Spring days. And, oh yeah, we
gotta pack!
In the last few weeks, we have seen the Lord doing great
things in this most populous nation on earth.
Need to be a bit cryptic about the wonderful connection we just
had with ‘family’ members for a week of enjoying the words of a great Book. It
was a nice ‘bookend’ to our visit here in 2005, the first time had a similar
week of sharing. These are not easy times for our Family here as “excellent
virus protection” is being applied with intensity. But as the imprisoned Paul
confidently said a long time ago, ‘there are no chains on the Good Word’ – or
something close to that. The Lord is working through the
courage and creativity of His kids.
We bragged
on our son Nathan, now sharing the Story in 41 languages! https://bibleproject.com/languages/
If you’re reading this where you can speak freely about
Jesus and the Scriptures, we hope you are taking full advantage of those
eternity-determining opportunities.
We really enjoyed Huangshan Mountain and beautiful surrounding villages. Great to see Gospel-workers in this most populous nation of the world! Pray for them.
We still don’t know all the details
of our next adventure. What we do know…
We just bought a car through the helpful service of mats.org! Josiah kindly drove it from Indianapolis to Portland, Aaron co-piloted from Boise. Mahalo, Sons! We hope those wheels will connect us. Since our last letter we have heard from friends and family in California… Oregon… Washington…Kansas…Wisconsin…Pennsylvania…North Carolina…Tennessee…Hawaii… So, we are getting ready for our excellent USA adventure. We plan to head east from Portland, Oregon in mid-August. By the ‘winter’ we hope to be in California. We look forward to giving our mission report to churches there. Then, as things look from this side of the pond, head ‘home’ to Hawaii in Spring 2021. Those are the broad strokes, we wait on the Lord to fill in our daily planner. Let us know if we can see you along the way.
We will be transitioning out of Pioneers by the end of
February 2022 as we conclude this ‘home assignment.’
We would love to continue sharing the Gospel, teaching the
Word, encouraging Christian workers, and advocating for missions. We appreciate
your prayers and any ideas. We learned a long time ago to “never say never.”
Yours in the Eternal Gospel,
Mark and Dayna
Blair
markblair@bicf.org or blairstan@psmail.net
We WILL continue to use blairstan2@gmail.com
and blairstan@hotmail.com
We plan to get USA phone numbers and COVID vax soon after
our return.
Checks
to ‘Pioneers’ – with attached note: ‘Mark and Dayna Blair, Beijing.’
Electronic
transfers: https://give.pioneers.org/p-75-give-to-a-missionary-or-project.aspx (Our Account # is 110565, Mark and Dayna
Blair)
Email blairstan2@gmail.com Or blairstan@hotmail.com
Blog www.blairstan.blogspot.com Web Site www.pastormarkblair.org
Where Do the Unreached Live?
‘Unreached
people’ – still without Bibles, churches, and opportunities to hear the saving
news of Jesus Christ - are found in every corner of the world—maybe even in
your backyard. But these 10 countries have the largest unreached populations. Joshua Project
