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Dear Friends and Family:

We hope this letter finds you doing well as we approach the end of the year. We are excited to share our latest news with you. We have started the “No Boundaries International House of Prayer,” and welcome you to be a part of this growing ministry through your prayer and support.

" There was also a prophet, Anna…She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. Coming up to them (Jesus, Mary, and Joseph) at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all…(Luke 2:36-38)

Anna, the name of our unborn daughter

In September the Lord spoke the name ‘Anna’ to my heart for our little girl. “She’s born into a house of prayer, her name is Anna” That same week, while visiting with my pastor, he exclaimed while praying. “there is something very significant about the birth of this little girl and your ministry!”. He couldn't put his finger on it but Brittany and I have since understood more clearly.
The first 2 ½ years of our marriage were spent in Sierra Leone. After returning in December of 2009 the one thing we knew is that we are not done with Africa. The previous 2 ½ years was just a beginning, it was a training time. We were not done pursuing God and His love for the poor of the world.

Since then God has been putting the pieces together. The Bible says that the Father ‘prunes’ us, the branches, so that we will grow back bigger. This period of time, back in the USA, seems to be just that, a time of pruning. As a result we are about to have a bigger family with Brittany due to give birth to our first in January, we have joined with a big family of people with our same heart, and we have a bigger clarity about what God has for us to do and how we are to do it.

‘She is born in a house of prayer, her name is Anna’

God has been using the upcoming birth of our little girl to show the path He has for us. She is going to be born into a ‘house of prayer’. We moved to Oklahoma City to join with a group of missionaries we had met in Sierra Leone. They asked us to come join their team and lead this new part of their organization. The No Boundaries International House of Prayer was born.

Right in the center of our office space is the worship room we call the ‘house of prayer’ where we come into the presence of God and hear His heart for the nations. Jesus told the disciples to ‘pray that the Lord of the harvest would send out laborers’. This is ‘Anna’ style missionary work.
The house of prayer serves local churches by aiding people in many congregations and denominations in growing in their relationship with God as well as praying directly for the church as a whole in Oklahoma City. The house of prayer is central to our work as a missions organization as a place for missionaries to ‘debrief’ coming off the field and also to be sent out into it. We believe nothing worthwhile in this type of work happens outside of prayer. This is what we believe dependence on God looks like, focused time in prayer and worship concerning our work in the nations.

Fruitfulness from an increase of prayer in missions work

We spent our first three months in Africa at a school for missionaries run by Heidi Baker. She has worked for around 20 years in Mozambique. The school taught us all kinds of things but we went away with the message that “…all fruitfulness (positive impact) comes from intimacy (relationship with God).” Our experience has shown that to be true, we have nothing to offer these other cultures unless the love of God himself flows through us. Money doesn’t fix things, the solution isn’t to impose our ‘western culture’ on them. The solution is to know and pour out the love of God on people because it is that that gives them the courage, freedom, and strength to live the way they were created to. Heidi and Rolland Baker and the thousands of kids that they care for, the schools they have started, the people that have been healed and changed into followers of Jesus, all of what they have seen has come through simple desperation for God to make a way, for Him to show up and do what only He can do. Giving God his place missions puts prayer and worship in the center of it. That is what dependence on God looks like and that is how His power and love come into impossible circumstances, through people who are dependent on Him rather than dependent on themselves.

‘Anna’ was a missionary

God gave us a fitting name for our daughter, the woman who centered her life on ministering to God and had the insight from Him to see who Jesus was and proclaimed that good news with the world around her, she ‘spoke about the child to all…’

Around the first of the year we are going to be ordained as ministers by No Boundaries International, Brittany and I will move into our first apartment together, and little Anna will be born. We believe it is also marks the start of our transition out of part time jobs on the side and into full time ministry.

In order to make that transition we are looking for people who believe in what we are doing and would like to partner with us financially. Would you consider supporting us in this work on a monthly basis? Your donations are tax-deductible. Our goal is $1,500 - $2,000 per month for living and ministry expenses. We are honored to know you and we love you thank you for taking interest in our lives and our calling.

Love

Isaac, Brittany, and Anna

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No Boundaries International
c/o Isaac & Brittany Oltersdorf
49 E. 15th St, Edmond, OK 73013

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First I want to thank all of you who have decided to partner with our work here by giving financially, we were very blessed by the response from our last email when we asked for support.


There has been a lot of wonderful things going on here in Oklahoma City. Brittany and I are doing really well and so is Baby Oltersdorf. We had a checkup on Monday and (this is an ultrasound picture).

I (Isaac) am working at Sam's club. They gave me a perfect schedule for me to still be heavily involved with 'No-Boundaries International'
They gave me hours I needed and I didn't even have to ask. A few days after we had arrived here in OKC I walked into Sams and said to Brit, 'I'm gonna work here'. They were my first application and immediately after our trip to Kansas City I called them and got an interview.
People are taking care of us so well here, we have had the use of a car for now and a place to live. We are planning for the coming of the baby in January!
I want to write later and tell all of you about the work we've started doing, its really fun and really exciting but I just wanted to give a quick update for now.
We love you all so much
Isaac and Brittany

Dear Friends and Family
This is a letter asking if some of you might consider supporting us during this 2010 in our work with the missions agency No-Boundaries International.
As many of you have heard Brittany and I moved out here to Oklahoma City to be a part of expanding the No-Boundaries International operation. I am now in charge of the programming and direction of a house of prayer as well as writing and implementing an internship for missions work based in prayer/intimacy with God. Brittany is helping run our programs for children in some of the schools in the inner city this summer.
Our heart is that we will go to the nations and equip others to do the same, with a heart full of the love of God, fully equipped to meet practical needs with cross-cultural sensitivity, and to spread the message of God’s love in Jesus Christ rooted in a life of prayer and the Word.
We believe that there are no boundaries to Gods work in the nations of the earth and God has positioned us to build a training center so that He might be known, and His love felt, to the ends of the earth.
Would you support us? It is only possible for us to work part time to support ourselves and we need some help from you. We are asking for some of you to consider supporting us monthly and help us establish ourselves here (and wait for little baby 'O') :)
If you would like to help you can do so by going to www.nbint.org. All donations are tax deductible. If you would like to support us monthly please e-mail Sandy Orchard at sorchard2000@yahoo.com and tell her that you would like to support Isaac and Brittany monthly and she will help you to set that up.
Thank you for loving us and investing in His work through our lives
Love

Isaac and Brittany

Its been awesome being here in Oklahoma City. Our friends here, the 'No Boundaries International' team have welcomed us in with a lot of love. We are joining them now and feel so blessed to be able to work with such an amazing group of people.

God has put us all together and its amazing to see the differnet peices of the body He has assembled, such a funny crew. We spent the last three days at Lake Chickasha Jet Skiing, praying, and planning for the rest of the summer.

No Boundaries International is a missions organization that does work in multiple countries. We met them in Sierra Leone but they also work extensivly in Haiti and Mexico and we are looking forward to the next frontier which is the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo).
Our next step however, is not to any of those nations. We feel called by God to start a house of prayer as the center of all we are doing. For the purpose that everything we do will be from the place of humbling ourselves before the Father, seeking His heart, seeking His plans, letting Him prepare us and empower us to spread His love to the nations.
An analogy that I saw when we came here is that of Oklahoma City itself. It is a city that was built around oil. The oil became the fuel for the growth of the city. The same is true with prayer, Jesus said that just as fathers here on Earth know how to give good gifts to thier children so our Father will give the Holy Spirit to everyone who asks. The Spirit of God is our 'oil' the fuel that powers all we do, gives direction, love and understanding. Prayer is the drill or pump, it is the 'asking' of our Father for greater breakthrough of what is in heaven to come to the sick, poor, and dying on this earth.
So we are setting ourselves up for somthing greater than what 'men' can accomplish alone. We are organizing ourselves to put what is important to God first and we know that He will give us what we need to fulfill the rest of what He has put in our hearts.

NEWS FLASH -- NEWS FLASH -- NEWS FLASH

Brittany and I are expecting, we found out we are are about 7 weeks pregnant!!!! We are so excited to share the news with all of you!!!!

The last six months have been awesome. God has opened so many doors. I (Isaac) have healed emotionally and physically. And He has done so much in our hearts. Family has been the richest part, so much catching up - so much love. We've met and grown with so many wonderful people here in Denver and Fort Collins. It has been some of the richest times of friendship Ive ever known.
We've been working perfect jobs for the transition, my job at a grocery store was awesome, I was totally favored in the position I was given and the pay I got. Brittany worked with children, as a nanny for a 3 and 1 year old, as well as volunteering at a day shelter for women and the boys and girls club. Its been amazing, a real testimony to the faithfulness of God to us...He has led us so well.
We are off to Oklahoma City, the plan is to start a house of prayer and to do inner city children's ministry, and to establish ourselves with a team of people known as NBI (No Boundaries International). We've grown very close with the founders who worked alongside with us in Sierra Leone. They took multiple trips to Sierra Leone while we were there and provided vision and funding for much of the work we did.
We know this is the next step, and that's as much as we know, we have such a promise in our hearts about the move despite the unknowns. There is so much grace to make this step, we've felt the hand of God all over it since we said yes. (even our plane tickets, 40 dollars)
Be praying for us, God has plans for us while we are there and is directing our steps to the next place He wants to send us in Africa.
You are all such a blessing and we love you so much!

A friend of ours recently prayed for Brittany and I. While she was praying she said she saw a picture in her minds eye and felt it was from the Lord. It was a quilt, one piece being completed, another just beginning, the entire quilt was scattered with hearts, the lives of people we have helped to love.


We know all of you reading this are being challenged just like we are by the current devastation in Haiti. Our hearts are opened when we see the orphaned, the injured, the mourning, the hungry and the thirsty. It makes us ask, 'but what can I do?' That question right now is leading people to do more than they thought they could. Many are giving their hard earned money. Some are dropping everything to go and help. There will be many who leave their lives as they are now and join the people of Haiti in rebuilding their country.

Why? Because of the love awakened in us all realizing that these people are no different than you, than me. Their lives are so important, so precious, so worth everything.


This 'stretching of the heart' is what has most impacted us during the last 2 and 1/2 years in Sierra Leone. We have lived with Pastor Andrew and his BIG family, we have ate and been hungry, laughed and cried, we have learned to give of ourselves in ways we never thought we could, spurred on by love. Sierra Leone has been a training ground for us, and a very good one. God used Pastor Andrew and his family as our teachers. They patiently lived with us, taught us, fed us, and loved us. They are our S.Leonian family.


Our plan has been to spend through 2010 in Sierra Leone helping with Iris Ministries there. We have always felt, along with Pastor Andrew, that God has another nation in mind for us in the future.

We are transitioning sooner than we originally thought. As we have prayed and sought the Lord we know that the time is now for this new 'piece of the quilt'.

We plan to spend this 2010 in Colorado. Brittany is going to study theology in an on-line school as well as volunteer at a Denver organization for single mothers. I am going to get my health back and work. We are also going to set up our own 501c(3) because our vision for the future is going that provision.


We need your prayers, that we would know the will of God, that our hearts would be able to give what He has put inside of them in the place that He has purposed for us.

We love you all. We want to thank you for believing in us, supporting us, praying for us. You have cared for us and stood behind us in our pursuit to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength and love our neighbor as ourselves.

If you are currently giving to us, thank you. We won't be needing it during this season. If you want to continue to give to Iris ministries go to www.irismin.com .
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We will keep you all posted as we are setting our sights on our next assignment in Africa.


We love you all

Isaac and Brittany Oltersdorf