The Journey continues....

Finally I am leaving the boxes to update the blog. I think

that the boxes will never end somedays:)

but we are very happy to be in town in the house God picked for us.
Living in town on Montrose has reduced my stress level at least 75%!
It is soo convenient!

Now on to even more exciting news we have some tentative travel dates from Christian Light Foundation.

The last week of April we will work in Costa Rica along side the CLF missionaries there.
We will be serving in the Philippines in June and Africa in July. David and I will be sharing
the gospel and working with children's ministries.

CLF is working on a vitamin program in combination with their feeding the children
program that is already in place. David and I will be heading up this vitamin program
for CLF. I am excited about ministering to nursing moms and moms of small children.
I will also get to do some education with them----God has used the last 14 years in the
Maternity Center @Archbold to prepare me for this time.

David and I ask for your prayers for :

*a clear vision of what God want us to do on each mission

*our future trips
*the people we will minister to that God would prepare their hearts
*traveling mercies
*safety
*strength
*safety for our children who will stay in Thomasville with grandparents
*We have stepped out on faith on this journey--we know God will provide for us financially!

Thanks to each one of you for your prayers and support of our ministry.

CHRISTIAN LIGHT FOUNDATION, INC
P.O. box 23881
Jacksonville, FL 3224
http://www.christianlightfoundation.com



Hola
David and I are writing today to invite you to become a partner in our missionary journey with Christian Light Foundation. As most of you know on January 23 of this year David and I were approved as missionaries with the Christian Light Foundation. This foundation enables the called to be enabled to go. We are very excited about this opportunity that God has given us.
David and I will be able to go on the mission field for short terms. This allows Thomas, Ben and Jacob to remain in school here in Thomasville. It also lets us continue working and supporting Matt and Josh while they are in college. David and I feel very blessed.
During the next year the two of us will be visiting Costa Rica, Haiti and the Philippines for ten days to two weeks. David and I will be sharing the gospel and meeting the missionaries that CLF has already in place. We will begin the ground work for the vitamin program to be implemented later this year. You will hear much more about this in the weeks and months to come. The trips with CLF are in addition to the medical mission trip to Nicaragua in June with First Baptist and another trip to Costa Rica for Jacob and Latrelle in June with Dr. Jerry Spencer.
David and I would ask that you and your family would join us on our journey. First we would ask for your continued prayers. Secondly we will be raising our own funds for air fare and for travel expenses. Please help us by making a donation to the Christian Light Foundation. There are three ways you can do this, mail your check to the address listed above or visit the CLF website and with a click you can make a donation to our account or visit www.conesjourney.blogspot.com and click on the CLF link at the top of the page.
We thank you in advance for you prayer and financial support. David and I look forward to working with you as a partner on our journey to wherever God takes us. With our hope placed firmly in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ we cannot go wrong.

His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of a man; the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love. Psalm 147:10-11

David & Latrelle Cone, Christian Light Foundation Missionaries

God did it!!

Today he revealed another piece of HIS plan for our lives.

David and I dropped the boys off and then headed

to Jacksonville. We met with the Christian Light Foundation board.

Jack Cummings who went with us to Nicaragua and with David to

Africa is the head.

David and I were approved as missionaries. We will go to different

countries to start up the vitamin program for children while sharing the

gospel with them. Our schedule is being planned out now.

CLF will allow us to go on short term mission trips so we can continue to

work and the boys can continue in school.

Our prayer requests are for a smooth transition to a new house,

and to a new schedule with our mission trips.

This weekend is DNOW so please pray for the hundreds of kid that

are involved in bible studies around Thomas County.

We are very excited about where God will lead us

Christian Light Foundation

THE JOURNEY CONTINUES

After much prayer and seeking God's will for our lives
we take the next step in our journey.

On Friday we go to Jacksonville to meet with the board of the
Christian Light Foundation. They will interview us for missionary positions
that we have applied for. CLF will allow us to be able to be flexible---we feel
that God would allow us to continue Cone Machinery and the raising of the boys
in Thomasville and to keep Matt and Josh in college
as well as go on Mission trips several times a quarter.

This is an answer to many hours of prayer as we try to follow the plan that God
has for us.

We are excited about this opportunity. Please pray for us as we go..........

On Saturday Benjamin Price Cone was 14!!

Time really does fly. I was in my next to last semester of nursing school when
we had Ben. As most of you know nursing is my second life. After getting a masters
in education and teaching a few years I was sure that I was supposed to stay home with
Matt and was pregnant with Josh. After staying home about 5 years I went back to nursing school when Thomas was just a baby.

Now here we are----Ben is 14 and it seems like yesterday I had him............
we celebrated his birthday with his friends with the annual no sleeping allowed
sleep over. This year they actually slept though and Ben slept through several of
his friends leaving the next morning. For his actual birthday though we went to Disney
for a quick trip to visit the mouse! We had so much fun. The boys are so easy to travel with
and I enjoyed spending time with them. We all rode Mount Everest together--it was funny
my eyes are closed tight, Jacob's are open and Thomas and Ben are posing for the camera!!

The news from the Louderbacks sound better--except for the earthquake--it was a 6.5 and
3 people died. Please join me in praying for the Louderbacks and their safety. Tim and Tina
start school today. I am starting Rosetta Stone this week so I can keep up with them!!

Wow---2008 is over!
but I must confess that I am very excited to have 2009 begin.

In the next month we will close on our house, purchase a new house
and meet with the missionary board at Christian Light Foundation
in Jacksonville. I cannot wait for God to reveal HIS plans for our future.
Please continue to pray for that---Here am I send me!!

Please please keep Tina and the Louderbacks in your prayers as they settle
into a very different world in Costa Rica. Total immersion is the best way to
learn a language but the culture shock has got to be so hard!

Continue to pray for Anna Blackwell---she is home but is still trying to recover.

All of the kids are headed back to college this week or next. They need to be covered in prayer.
There are so many temptations for them in the world.

God is so good to allow us down time to enjoy our families and recharge. Going nowhere
and doing nothing has been awesome!!

Happy New Year!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

This day as we celebrate the birth of Jesus

and share the day with family, I ask you to

pray for these and their families......

Todd Bennett's father, Michael Hanna's father,

Jason Smith's mama, my daddy, Montana Brown,

Haley Eason, Timmy Weaver and so many others.....

Please continue to pray for the Herndon family and the Malletts and Sodays
and the Barwicks and the Bentons.......
Christmas is such a hard time to lose a loved one.
We know they are at the feet of Jesus and rejoicing to be there.
Thank you God for the promise of a place where there is no more tears,
pain or sorrow.

Merry Christmas