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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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