http://blog.efm-missions.org News and Updates from EFM Missionaries Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:24:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Donald Smith M.D. has completed his first month at work in the home office of EFM.  He has started to learn the daily workings of the home office.  Many people have asked what a doctor is going to do at the home office.  He will have three primary jobs.  First, ... http://blog.efm-missions.org/efm-news/doctor-smith-on-board-at-home-office.html February 11th starts the new school year for Instituto Teológico Emanuel here in Honduras. We are praising the Lord for 8 new students this year! This will give us a total of 18 students in our Resident Bible School program. We are in the process of decorating the classrooms and ... http://blog.efm-missions.org/honduran-news/new-school-year-starting-at-the-bible-institute-in-honduras.html November 14-18 marked the special occasion of our Guatemalan brethren moving into a new place of worship. They are renting from a congregation that has purchased a large building that was once a Jewish synagogue and school. The stained glass windows in the sanctuary have symbols of the ... http://blog.efm-missions.org/efm-news/new-worship-place-for-trenton-congregation.html As I write I am in Trenton, NJ, accompanying EFM's Guatemalan congregation as they "estrenar" (use for the first time) their new worship facility.  It's a rented hall at one end of a large church.  The entire church and hall used to be a Jewish synagogue, was sold to a ... http://blog.efm-missions.org/efm-news/new-worship-center-in-trenton-nj.html How's EFM's website doing? I don't know if you wonder or not, but I do, so the other day I took some time to look at the statistics that are kept by a couple of web analysis programs. In October we had a total of 10,747 hits.  That's about half of the ... http://blog.efm-missions.org/efm-news/some-efm-website-stats.html The summer is passing quickly!  Lots has happened for us , bringing many changes!  Then on the  first we traveled to WV to visit a very special friend (almost family to us).  We took dinner and enjoyed a special visit with Sis. Loraine Straight who was a main figure in ... http://blog.efm-missions.org/efm-news/already-into-august.html My wife, Kathy, and I, along with Rex and Hannah McDowell, had the pleasure of taking part in a missionary convention in St. Louis, MI, located at "the middle of the mitten." Unfortunately, a predicted blizzard, which never fully developed, cut our convention short. However, on Saturday evening about seventy ... http://blog.efm-missions.org/efm-news/winters-blast-shortens-michigan-convention.html Welcome to EFM's new blog! This is where you will find news, updates, perhaps even photos, from our staff--both at home and on the mission field. We trust you will find the blog interesting as well as a means of information that will help you to know how to more ... http://blog.efm-missions.org/efm-news/efms-new-blog.html