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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