Greetings friends!
In July of 2025 we hit the road in our little blue ministry van and covered more than 35,000 miles while visiting friends, supporters, and churches in 42 states. We enjoyed more than 50 different sleeping arrangements in several hotels, dozens of AirBNBs, and in many of your homes while you showed us outstanding hospitality. We shared our ministry in 17 churches and attended service in a handful of others, even while participating in memorial services, vacation Bible schools, mission conferences, Sunday schools, and Bible studies. Also, our family received planned and unplanned medical and dental care in Michigan, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Texas, f it all around our conferences and church visits!
Our time on home assignment, “furlough,” is coming to an end. Soon after arriving back in the US, we were asked if we were looking forward to our return to Togo. In those early weeks and months of our furlough, the honest answer was “no.” We had just spent nearly five years on the field, a long and trying term to be sure. Our thoughts were turned toward upcoming travel and visits with many friends, old and new. Yet, even then, we knew that our thoughts and hearts would turn again toward “home” in Togo and the ministry that the Lord has given us there. Indeed, although we are better aware of trials and difficulties that await us on the field than we were before our last term in Togo, we are excited to return to the task the Lord has given us.
Photos: (left) Visiting with former missionaries to Togo, the Ebersoles, (right) Sightseeing at Crater Lake
If you heard us speak at your church over the summer or fall, you probably heard us talk about how the gospel – the truth of God’s word – has become more meaningful to us than ever before. As the Lord has grown us and worked in our lives, often through the darkest trials, His promises have become more deeply meaningful to us. We are slowly learning to trust Him completely, and this causes us to rejoice through those valleys and storms. And because the truth of God’s word is so real to us, we are excited to share it! The gospel message is more than words and lists of verses – we get to share our hope which is real and living! Because of this, we are excited to return to our work at the hospital and our work with the Yikpa church. We go now to encounter the eternal souls of others and to offer them true hope and genuine salvation through Jesus Christ.
Thank you for joining with us in our ministry. Please continue to fight spiritual battles with us and for us and pray for our family and for the ministry in Togo. If you are interested in supporting our ministry financially, we are trying to raise another $1000 per month and could also use some one-time donations as expenses continue to rise both here and abroad. We are certain that the Lord will provide. Let us know too if you’d like to donate cash to a patient benevolence fund that we use in Togo for food, transportation, and other needs for the poorest of our patients.
Be blessed in the Lord today as you read this brief update. Turn again toward Jesus and fix your eyes on eternity. These moments that we have are few. Renew your mind. Pray for us. We pray for you!
Seth & Becca Mallay and family
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