#9-8 Addendum: August Update from the Pent Family

#1 · September 9, 2006, 12:16 pm

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Posted by: hopechestnews <hopechestnews@...>
Dear Hope Chest friends,

Boni Pent just sent this other update after I sent the newsletter featuring their family's upcoming home school mission to South Korea.  I also realized that I forgot to include the Pent family's web site: www.pentfamily.com. If you would like to contact them by e-mail, their address is [email protected]

Blessings,

Virginia

AUGUST UPDATE FROM THE PENT FAMILY

6/17/06 OPEN HOUSE Clermont, Florida

Our faithful friends, the Hicks, hosted an open house for our family and friends to hear about the Korea project and allow us to thank all of them for 26 years of working together in Orlando. Yae Jin, our house guest visiting us from Korea for several weeks, took part in the program by playing the cello and helping us visualize how blessed we are to be working with this gifted nation.

6/30-7/8/06 CONFERENCE IN KOREA

We arrived without suitcases (they were lost for four days of our visit) but not without a warm welcome. There is something about being in need that expedites help and friendship. The Sumralls, who are currently serving in Korea with FMI, were our hosts for the week. They happened to be the right size, give or take a little, to loan us all we needed. (We knew we were going to be walking in their shoes but not their suits.)   This, strangely enough, is a picture to me of how similarly we (the Sumralls and the Pents) have been "sized" for working together. We discovered as we were working together that we have been led in similar ways in teaching our children, in thinking philosophically about ministry, in the use of the Scripture, and in the priorities of life.

It was a full week of many varied experiences. I spoke seven times, Boni four. Though we spoke through translators at a home school conference, at two church services, at a family Sunday School, at a home school co-op, and at a family retreat in the mountains, the comfort of seeing the smiles of understanding on their faces as we spoke, and sometimes before the translators even finished translating, assured us there was something they had been prepared to hear. At the home school conference at Global Mission Church, we spoke on character training from a Biblical perspective. At a home school co-op at Discipleship Church, we spoke on Biblical discipline (foreigners teaching foreign material!). I preached on "Learning to Enjoy God" in the work world and in the hardships of life from John 6 and Deuteronomy 6 and 8 at Church of Joy (Ghibbum Church). The retreat topic was an assignment on prayer from John 15 as I believe these folks are pioneers in need of supernatural strength as they are establishing new models of education for their families and, hopefully as is their desire, for their nation.

We were also able to observe the many assignments of our host family and get a feel for what is involved. In addition to their responsibilities of training and discipling these pilot families, they are also writing the curriculum for these families (the first of its kind for Korea) and then turning right around and teaching it on the spot. Watching all this gave us a new respect for how much is being accomplished here by so few.





THE LAST THREE JOBS

Completing our contracts remains the push of our life. This is a great test for God to reveal if what we think He wants us to do is what He is going to do.

7/30/06 FAREWELL AT CHURCH

The last Sunday in July, we were asked to give an update at our church here, Pine Ridge Presbyterian, PCA, and were sent off by the ones we have been with for these so many years. "And now brothers I commend you to God and the word of His grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified." (Acts 20)

SUPPORT

We are grateful for so many generous responses from you all to be ministry partners in this endeavor. The more I witness the odds of pulling off a new project like this in Korea the more I truly and desperately value the ones that say their prayers are all they can give at this time. My favorite gift that gets the "widow's mite" award is that of two dear children (7 and 10) from our care group who sold homemade popsicles and did odd jobs in their neighborhood all on their own. Actually, their donation was rather large, and I am very touched at how the Lord touches who He will. We now have about 80% of the support needed from our end. This is very amazing to me.

Lord willing, we will leave for South Korea on September 20 and then return to the States in the Spring to complete some unfinished contract work in '07, as well as be home for Christa's wedding (!), and then head back to Korea for one or two years to finish our project.

VISION FOR YOUR FAMILY

One of the affirmations of this conference in Seoul to me was the emphasis of the director, Brad Voeller, as well as one other conference speaker, Eric Enlow (professor of law in Busan), on family worship. As the nationals are concerned naturally with academic success for their children in these uncharted waters of family discipleship and home education in Korea, they are being told that the center must be a focus on a love of God and His Word and the daily use of the Scripture by the father in family worship. Cultivating an affection for Christ together will sustain and protect their efforts in all other disciplines.

If this rings true to you and your family, you should be encouraged that what you are doing as a family in simple worship and service together is what is spawning this new work in Asia. You may also want to consider and pray about some hands on "Great Commission" projects for you and your family. 1.) Coach a family.

2.) Host a family. 3.) Go as a family.

You can read more about these opportunities and Family Mission International in a recent article by Bernie Beall, the FMI representative in the United States, recently posted on the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) website. www.hslda.org/hs/international/SouthKorea/200606300.asp

(Our family is mentioned in the article.)

UPDATE ON SUPPORT

The address for sending support has changed from the San Antonio, Texas office to the Brunswick, Maryland office. Due to this transition, the receipts for any donations to date have not yet been sent out. Everything is in place now, and the receipts should be sent out to you the first of September.

New address for sending support:

                                    Family Mission International

                                    P.O. Box 92

                                    Brunswick, MD 21716-0092
-- To subscribe, send ANY message to: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: [email protected] Visit my web site at www://thehopechest.net   

Posted by: hopechestnews <hopechestnews@...>

Dear Hope Chest friends,

Boni Pent just sent this other update after I sent the newsletter featuring their family's upcoming home school mission to South Korea. I also realized that I forgot to include the Pent family's web site: http://www.pentfamily.com. If you would like to contact them by e-mail, their address is [email protected]

Blessings,

Virginia

AUGUST UPDATE FROM THE PENT FAMILY

6/17/06 OPEN HOUSE Clermont, Florida

Our faithful friends, the Hicks, hosted an open house for our family and friends to hear about the Korea project and allow us to thank all of them for 26 years of working together in Orlando. Yae Jin, our house guest visiting us from Korea for several weeks, took part in the program by playing the cello and helping us visualize how blessed we are to be working with this gifted nation.

6/30-7/8/06 CONFERENCE IN KOREA

We arrived without suitcases (they were lost for four days of our visit) but not without a warm welcome. There is something about being in need that expedites help and friendship. The Sumralls, who are currently serving in Korea with FMI, were our hosts for the week. They happened to be the right size, give or take a little, to loan us all we needed. (We knew we were going to be walking in their shoes but not their suits.) This, strangely enough, is a picture to me of how similarly we (the Sumralls and the Pents) have been "sized" for working together. We discovered as we were working together that we have been led in similar ways in teaching our children, in thinking philosophically about ministry, in the use of the Scripture, and in the priorities of life.

It was a full week of many varied experiences. I spoke seven times, Boni four. Though we spoke through translators at a home school conference, at two church services, at a family Sunday School, at a home school co-op, and at a family retreat in the mountains, the comfort of seeing the smiles of understanding on their faces as we spoke, and sometimes before the translators even finished translating, assured us there was something they had been prepared to hear. At the home school conference at Global Mission Church, we spoke on character training from a Biblical perspective. At a home school co-op at Discipleship Church, we spoke on Biblical discipline (foreigners teaching foreign material!). I preached on "Learning to Enjoy God" in the work world and in the hardships of life from John 6 and Deuteronomy 6 and 8 at Church of Joy (Ghibbum Church). The retreat topic was an assignment on prayer from John 15 as I believe these folks are pioneers in need of supernatural strength as they are establishing new models of education for their families and, hopefully as is their desire, for their nation.

We were also able to observe the many assignments of our host family and get a feel for what is involved. In addition to their responsibilities of training and discipling these pilot families, they are also writing the curriculum for these families (the first of its kind for Korea) and then turning right around and teaching it on the spot. Watching all this gave us a new respect for how much is being accomplished here by so few.

THE LAST THREE JOBS

Completing our contracts remains the push of our life. This is a great test for God to reveal if what we think He wants us to do is what He is going to do.

7/30/06 FAREWELL AT CHURCH

The last Sunday in July, we were asked to give an update at our church here, Pine Ridge Presbyterian, PCA, and were sent off by the ones we have been with for these so many years. "And now brothers I commend you to God and the word of His grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified." (Acts 20)

SUPPORT

We are grateful for so many generous responses from you all to be ministry partners in this endeavor. The more I witness the odds of pulling off a new project like this in Korea the more I truly and desperately value the ones that say their prayers are all they can give at this time. My favorite gift that gets the "widow's mite" award is that of two dear children (7 and 10) from our care group who sold homemade popsicles and did odd jobs in their neighborhood all on their own. Actually, their donation was rather large, and I am very touched at how the Lord touches who He will. We now have about 80% of the support needed from our end. This is very amazing to me.

Lord willing, we will leave for South Korea on September 20 and then return to the States in the Spring to complete some unfinished contract work in '07, as well as be home for Christa's wedding (!), and then head back to Korea for one or two years to finish our project.

VISION FOR YOUR FAMILY

One of the affirmations of this conference in Seoul to me was the emphasis of the director, Brad Voeller, as well as one other conference speaker, Eric Enlow (professor of law in Busan), on family worship. As the nationals are concerned naturally with academic success for their children in these uncharted waters of family discipleship and home education in Korea, they are being told that the center must be a focus on a love of God and His Word and the daily use of the Scripture by the father in family worship. Cultivating an affection for Christ together will sustain and protect their efforts in all other disciplines.

If this rings true to you and your family, you should be encouraged that what you are doing as a family in simple worship and service together is what is spawning this new work in Asia. You may also want to consider and pray about some hands on "Great Commission" projects for you and your family. 1.) Coach a family.

2.) Host a family. 3.) Go as a family.

You can read more about these opportunities and Family Mission International in a recent article by Bernie Beall, the FMI representative in the United States, recently posted on the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) website. http://www.hslda.org/hs/international/SouthKorea/200606300.asp

(Our family is mentioned in the article.)

UPDATE ON SUPPORT

The address for sending support has changed from the San Antonio, Texas office to the Brunswick, Maryland office. Due to this transition, the receipts for any donations to date have not yet been sent out. Everything is in place now, and the receipts should be sent out to you the first of September.

New address for sending support:

Family Mission International

P.O. Box 92

Brunswick, MD 21716-0092

-- To subscribe, send ANY message to: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: [email protected] Visit my web site at www://thehopechest.net