Banana Boat Blog Update - December 2022

 Family update:  Joel continues to enjoy his job and supporting all our family activities.  Megan is excelling in her pre-med program in college.  She continues to dance and enjoys all her ballet activities; teaching, directing a nutcracker, and performing professionally in two Nutcracker shows.  Cade and Dylan enjoyed baseball last spring and just completed the first half of their senior year where they played football and competed on the High School Bass Fishing team.  Joel also really enjoys being the boat captain and fishing with them during their tournaments.

Ministry update:  Tiffne continues to serve as a Texas Baptist Missionary, an advocate for victims of human trafficking, and through service with various safe houses.  She even had the opportunity to fly in a very small prop plane where she accompanied a lady to a safe house in a different state.  She recently became certified for Equine Assisted Learning and enjoys working with the horses and the ladies to facilitate healing and restoration in our newly opened HADTs Equine Assisted Learning Center.

Merry Christmas from the Whitley Family

Merry Christmas

 Banana Boat Blog Update

December 2021

 We are enjoying all that Texas has to offer; horses, high School football, professional ballet, and high School Bass fishing tournaments.

Joel is continuing to enjoy his job and Tiffne is enjoying serving with Texas Baptist missions and Anti-Trafficking ministries.

 We are so thankful for each of you. We hope that you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 Love,

The Whitleys

 

Banana Boat Update

May 2021

                We are enjoying being back in Texas!!

The kids are enjoying their extracurricular activities and Tiffne is enjoying serving as a new Texas        Baptist Missionary.

We attended an Easter retreat at Falls Creek Baptist retreat center.

Prayer Requests: Please pray for Tiffne’s Dad, who recently had urgent spinal surgery.

Please pray for anti-trafficking ministries as they continue online outreach ministries including reaching out to victims of trafficking through online methods. Please pray as they provide prevention training about safe ways to engage in online activity.  

Please pray for three specific victims of Human Trafficking…

For "T" that God would save her from the hands of the wicked, that He would renew her mind, and that she will be able to be in a safe place.

For "K" for God to lead her into a new job and for her family member who will have surgery this month.

For "E" that she would continue in her restoration process, that God will continue to heal her mother's health issues.

November Update

Tiffne serves in a home for victims of human trafficking.  Each morning during their group devotional time each lady shares what she is grateful for.  On one particular morning one lady said, “I am grateful for a safe place to wake up each morning.”  We have begun this practice during our family devotionals as well; learning to be mindful of the things that we are grateful for year round.  During this time of year we are especially thankful…

-We are thankful for Joel’s new job.

-We are thankful that Megan is enjoying college and dance and will be dancing in the Nutcracker.

-We are thankful that the boys are adjusting to school in Texas, enjoying football, the Texas High School Bass Fishing Association tournaments, and looking forward to baseball.

-We are thankful to be in Texas to see family and friends again; especially during this time as our extended family is experiencing health issues.

-We are thankful for the ministry opportunities that God is providing here in Texas, as well as in Germany and Europe (virtually).   Acts 1:8b “and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

We are so thankful for you prayers and support over the years!

Prayer Requests…

Please pray for Tiff’s mom as she continues to face health challenges.  Please also pray for Tiff’s dad and nephew who have COVID, and for Joel’s grandmother, our GG, who is in the hospital and not doing well.

 Please pray for the ladies in the safe house here in the United States.

 Please pray for the new safe house soon to open in Germany.

 Please pray for the European Baptist Federation’s anti-trafficking Global Prayer Summit this November 18^th.

We hope you have a very
Happy Thanksgiving,

 Tiffne, Joel, Megan, Cade, and Dylan

                                  

 

Banana Boat Update - May 2020

What’s been happening…

Global prayer summit – The European Baptist Federation’s anti trafficking working group hosted a Global Prayer Summit in which people from all over Europe and the United States gathered together to pray for anti-trafficking ministries.  It was awesome to hear prayers in 7 different languages.

Prayer walking in France, Germany, and at the beautiful park on the French and German border.

Kilos of Care for Kainos during Corona

 Lily project – We have been delivering groceries and new clothes during the Corona crisis

It has been 2 and ½ years since we have been home on furlough, so it is that time again…  We are looking forward to coming home to Texas again to see family and friends.  This furlough will look a little different: Megan will be attending college in Texas, changes with COVID, and Joel will be working in the same job, but in Texas.  So this will be an extended furlough for us, allowing us to be in Texas longer this time.  Tiffne has been asked to continue her work with the anti-trafficking ministries here in Europe virtually.  She will continue as the European Baptist Federation’s Anti Trafficking working group Coordinator, and serving with Kainos in Germany.  She is also looking forward to getting involved in anti-trafficking and other ministry in Texas as well as possibly taking courses in Seminary.  We will also continue to seek God’s will for MissionsTogether and where God will lead us in the future.  We continue to be so thankful for your financial and prayer support.  Thank you so much for partnering with us.  We have seen God do amazing things through prayer!  Eph. 3:20, “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us!”

April 2020

Speaking at a women’s conference at the Baptist Seminary in Madrid, Spain

Outreach/prayer walking team meeting in the park on the border of Germany and France

 Prayer walking the red light district in Frankfurt, Germany; one of the largest in the world

        

Speaking at an international women’s Bible study in Strasbourg 

The Whitley’s are doing well in Germany amid the COVID-19 shutdown.  Europe is facing many challenges…our friends in France can’t leave their homes without an official document.  In Spanish, the word corona means crown.  Our friends from Spain are saying, “The crown belongs to God, not to the virus!”

Thank you for continuing to pray for us. 

Please pray for Joel as he serves with a team responding to the COVID-19 virus.

Please pray for our Global Prayer Summit with the European Baptist Federation’s anti-trafficking working group.  We will be meeting online to pray with people from all over Europe on April 13^th.

We are praying for you all as well.

Merry Christmas

This time of year we are very thankful for you all.  We are thankful for your prayers and support.  We love watching God work.  He has done amazing things this year. 

~Please continue to pray for the anti-trafficking ministries.  Please pray for our outreach teams that continue to reach out to victims of human trafficking.

~Please pray for our family as we continue to pursue God’s will.  Please pray for Megan as she finishes her senior year and prepares to go to college next fall.  Please pray for Cade and Dylan as they continue their freshman year at Kaiserslautern High School.

~Please pray for Joel as he continues to organize our ministries’ administration through MissionsTogether.

~Please pray for Tiffne as she continues to serve with the European Baptist Federation’s Anti Trafficking Working Group.

Merry Christmas and

Happy New Year

from the Whitley family!

Love, Joel, Tiffne Megan, Cade and Dylan