Labor Day 2009

Dear Friends,
OK, let's be honest for a moment. I mentioned in my last blog, written last Thursday, that I would be making my weekly entry today, Monday, September 7th. This is Labor Day and most everyone is off for the day- off from work and from school and taking this final holiday as the break before the "real school year" begins! But be honest now! When you read I would be writing today did you not think to yourself, "Oh, yeah, sure. GJ writing on this Monday is a pipe dream!" Come on now, you thought that, right? Well here I am all ready to write for a few moments. Miracles still happen!!!

Seriously, so many of you ease up to either me or Judy and you say something like this: "You know, I am following your blog!" That just blesses us. Thanks. Thank you for your thoughts, your effort in reading and keeping up with us, and your prayers.

Judy and I are working hard in preparing ourselves for this trip to Thailand. We leave early morning from LAX on September 24th and return October 12th. We have books to read and papers to write as we prepare for this intense two weeks. We will be spending eleven days in the classroom with about 20 other people as we take THE JONATHAN TRAINING in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This will put the proverbial "legs and wheels" to what we have been talking about since we began this ministry April 6th. Under normal circumstances you are trained before you begin a ministry, or a job, or some project. Because all of the training in THE JONATHAN PROJECT to date, is overseas, we needed to begin working in this ministry but we had to wait for our actual training because it would invlove an overseas trip. So we have been working hard for the past six months, talking about a ministry and all of the possibilities connected with this ministry, without having walked through the training...yet! These past six months have been a whirlwind. With the experience of the two weeks of classroom work I can only imagine how our work will pick up even more dramatically! We both are truly excited for the adventure and we are thrilled that at this season of our lives we get to be involved in some global initiatives that have eternal consequences...namely...seeing that the Gospel is preached to the "difficult to reach," Unreached People Groups of the world.

With prayers of thanksgiving,
Graydon and Judy Jessup
gjessup@stadia.cc
Speaking and Travel Schedule
I'll be speaking two times this Sunday, September 13, 2009
LifeSpring Christian Church, Beaumont, CA
Pastor Dwight Addleman
Church is located at 3rd and Maple Ave in Beaumont
Morning Service 9:30 AM
Dedication Service of the upgraded different facility is at 2 PM

Chiang Mai, Thailand, Sept 24 - Oct 12
Alaska in four different churches on four different weekends, Oct 15 - Nov 9
National Missionary Convention, Peoria, IL, Nov 18 - 22
India essentially for the month of January 2010