Missionary Travelogue

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I’ve talked with people whose parents would often invite missionaries to stay with their family whenever they passed through on deputation. Some have told me what an impression it left on them to hear those missionary stories while growing up. They were amazed and even inspired at the sacrifice and faith they saw in missionary families who visited them.


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Patterson Update 2010 07 22

Our July, 2010 family and ministry update is now available. Read about

  1. Our new address!
  2. Max and Elisabeth’s summer
  3. Music Together at Trinity extended through the fall
  4. Teaching on Acts in Rockford and Naperville
  5. Our support team building status

We appreciate your prayers for us, especially now as we are raising support to return to Slovakia. Please pray that we’ll be able to go by December of this year.

Newsletter archives

Patterson Update 2010 05 19

Our May, 2010 email update is now available. Read about

  1. our new goal for departure to Slovakia
  2. our ministry development status
  3. Jana’s trip to New Jersey and more

You can also get access to previous newsletters.

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Our latest newsletter is now available at this link:

naSlovensko XIX 2
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New Newsletter Format

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Whenever I send out a newsletter I also post it to our blog. Our latest naSlovensko newsletter is available at this link. You may have noticed that
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Patterson update 2009 10 22

Our latest email update is available here for download.

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We send out six updates per year.  Two are in newsletter format (December/January and June/July), four are simple emails.

And a Good Time Was Had by All

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From the Bannockburn Gazette…

“Todd and Jana Patterson, missionaries to Slovakia, visited the Growing in Grace Sunday School class at the Evangelical Free Church of Naperville on Sunday, October 4th.  Todd finished a five week series on the book of Genesis and the class hosted the  missionaries along with their two beautiful children, Elisabeth (7) and Max (5), for a pot-luck dinner.  Afterwards John and Lois Rabb invited them for an afternoon of conversation … and a good time was had by all.”
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Our Latest Newsletter

Click on the icon below to view the latest edition of our newsletter naSlovensko.

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(Na Slovensko means “to Slovakia”)

Financial Status Update

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This week we got some not-such-great news in an email memo from our ReachGlobal Europe Division Business Manager.  He informed us that our individual ministry account has dropped below the required family minimum.  He indicated that we need to cease submitting expenses and take the initiative to decrease our salary as required.


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Contributions


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Thank you for considering a contribution to our ministry!

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