Hello friends.

Thank you for your prayers during what has been a busy season of travel, peppered with a new appreciation for the proper function of an ankle. Since spraining his ankle February 22, Charley has had multiple visits to an orthopedist and physical therapist. During four weeks on crutches, we discovered that California's winter weather is kinder than Minnesota's. Charley is now walking again, but still going regularly to physical therapy. Thanks for your continued prayers for his complete healing.

Travels in February and March
It was wonderful to be with people in five of our supporting churches in February and March (Fort Myers, Florida; Wheaton, Illinois; Rochester, Minnesota; and Long Beach and Thousand Oaks, California). We so much appreciate our support team and the many churches and individuals who pray for us and give regularly so that this ministry can continue.

A few new supporters have committed to giving, and we are grateful for that while we look to the Lord to bring in the remainder of our monthly and one-time support needs.

Thank you for your part, and God bless you.

Charley and Cheryl Warner

Warners' March 2007 Prayer Letter

Greetings.

Here's our March 2007 prayer letter.

Cheers.

Charley and Cheryl Warner
Barnabas International
Vienna, Austria
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March 2007
Vol. 21, No. 3

Dear Friends,

We have now entered the last stretch of our 2006-2007 furlough. It’s been a good 8 months so far. But our minds have already started to look forward to Vienna, our “second” home.

Update on Charley’s health
As many of you know the third week in February was not the best for Charley. First he had extreme shortness and slowness of breath and a reaction to some medicine he was taking for a persistent cough. We finally made it to the emergency room at our local hospital. After an EKG, chest xray and chest CAT scan the emergency room doctor determined that he had had an asthma attack and treated him with albuterol. The only problem was...this was not the problem! Charley went home and later in the day, as his breathing became worse again went to his allergy and asthma doctor who correctly diagnosed that Charley had actually had an attack of hypersensitivity pneumonitis or HSP, compounded by a reaction to the medication he was taking. Charley was put on steroids and over the course of 36 hours recovered to normal breathing again. Just to breath normally is a blessing.

Then, a few days later Charley went out side to retrieve our trash can which had rolled into the street in front of our house blocking traffic. As he stepped on the sidewalk he slid on some black ice and severely strained his left ankle. If you've ever seen those NFL football replays when it shows a player's ankle in an unnatural twisted position thus being injured, then you get a picture of what happened. Another trip to the doctor's office, more xrays and examinations. Fortunately, his ankle was not broken or he'd be facing 8 weeks in a cast. It is, however, severely sprained with a slight tear of the deltoid ligament. He'll be getting around on crutches and a boot for the next two weeks. Pray especially for our flight to LA and getting around southern California.

Finances Update
Needed to raise on furlough Amount raised so far Still needed to raise
$1,600/monthly support $ 400/monthly support $ 1,200/monthly needed

$ 8,000 one-time $ 2,000 one-time support $ 6,000 one-time needed

Some new individuals have joined our regular support team in recent months. Thank you! However, we have also experienced the loss of some regular support and our account at Barnabas International is still in the red.
Therefore, we are still looking for consistent monthly support of around $1,200 per month and one-time support of $ 6,000 so that we can return to Austria fully funded. We appreciate your prayers for this and know that God is at work.

Travel
February saw us at missions conferences at College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, McGregor Baptist Church in Ft. Myers, Florida and a brief visit to Calvary EFree in Rochester, Minnesota, which had a snow storm while we were there. While in Minnesota Charley also gave two seminars on “Caring for Missionaries on Furlough” at the Midwest Conference on Missionary Care in Roseville. All three visits went very well. Thanks for praying for our safety while traveling.

Future Ministry Travel/Activities
2007
March 9-22 California—Visiting Bethany Baptist Church and First Baptist Church of Lakewood.
March 23- Illinois and Ohio—Visiting churches and supporters (probable trip).
April 1
April 20-22 Ohio—Visiting Oxford Bible Fellowship in Oxford, Ohio.
April 25-26 Charley receives further training in Peacemakers ministry, level 3, in St. Louis.
June 22 Charley returns to Vienna and immediately goes to Odessa, Ukraine for EAAA Board meetings. Also, our daughter Elizabeth goes to Africa for a summer ministry with Teen Missions.
July 9 Cheryl and the girls return to Vienna

As you receive this prayer letter we will have already begun our trip to southern California. We will first visit First Baptist Church of Lakewood (March 11) where Cheryl’s father was Minister of Music in the mid-1960s and where Cheryl became a Christian. Then we’ll be visiting Bethany Baptist Church in Thousand Oaks (March 18) where Cheryl’s family were members for five years. If you live in southern California, we would like to see you. Please get in touch with us so we can make plans to get together.

Thanksgiving and prayer items
1. Pray for our continued ministries of encouragement among missionaries and national church leaders.
2. Pray for Cheryl as she works from home copyediting books for Barnabas International and helping launch an online magazine, “Encouragement Online,” which debuted in January 2007.
3. Pray for Charley as he recovers from a bout with his severe allergy (HSP) and a severely sprained ankle.
4. Pray for new support so that we can return to Austria fully funded.
5. Praise God for freedom to worship as we please
6. Pray for safe travels. We still have a lot of travel before we return to Vienna at the end of June 2007.

Thank you for your partnership in serving the church and missionaries in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. We appreciate you and hope to see many of you soon!


Charley and Cheryl Warner
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Communicating with the Warners

Skype over the Internet--Our Skype contact ID is: ccwarner (For more information www.skype.com)
Warners’ Electronic Updates--If you, your church or anyone else you know would like to receive our Electronic Updates, then please send us your e-mail address and we’ll include you.

FURLOUGH ADDRESS:
P. O. Box 88043 warner@barnabas.org (general)
Carol Stream, IL 60188-0043 charley@barnabas.org (personal)
Home phone: 630-665-9179 cheryl@barnabas.org (personal)
Charley cell: 630-456-6601
Cheryl cell; 630-456-6599 Skype phone: 630-687-1426

Tax-deductible gifts for the Warners’ ministry may be sent to:
Barnabas International, PO Box 11211, Rockford, IL 61126-1211 USA

Warners' January/February 2007 Prayer Letter

Hello.

A few people have asked if we could post our prayer letters in our blog. Here's our January/February 2007 prayer letter.

ATB,

Charley and Cheryl Warner
Barnabas International
Vienna, Austria
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January-February 2007
Vol. 21, No. 1-2

Dear Friends,

“Are we there yet?” If your family has ever taken a long road trip, you have heard this question. We’ve had two very long road trips in the last few months and heard that question often, coupled with “How much longer?” It’s a question we sometimes ask ourselves in ministry as well. We can’t measure our progress on a mileage chart, but we do stop to evaluate how things are going as we endeavor to care for missionaries, train national church leaders, and disciple believers. These are tasks that will continue. There will always be missionaries who need encouragement, emerging church leaders who are being equipped, and Christians in the local church who want to grow. We have ministered to many such people in the past 20 years; their faces are in our minds and hearts as we write, though we usually cannot share their stories. The questions seem more pressing applied to our own children. For Melissa, turning 17 soon, “how much longer?” has a clear answer: three semesters to go before graduation in 2008. Elizabeth’s turn will come just two years later. So are we there yet? We continue to run the lifelong race, determined to be anchored in Christ and faithful to Him. What follows are some stops on the journey.

Travel
Charley traveled to Washington, DC in mid-November to attend two conferences: Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS). The ETS conference was especially important because the outgoing ETS President is one of our supporters, Edwin Yamauchi. Ed, thanks for your faithful service to the cause of evangelical theology. We appreciate you! The AAASS conference is the main gathering for scholars in Russian and Central European Studies. It was Charley’s first time to attend this conference. He attended many seminars and workshops on the current political and religious situation in Russia, which is beneficial for doing our ministry to missionaries better.

Future Ministry Travel/Activities
2007
Feb. 2-5 Illinois—Winter Missions Festival at College Church in Wheaton, Illinois
Feb. 5-13 Florida—Global Impact Celebration at McGregor Baptist Church in Fort Myers, Florida
Feb. 23-25 Minnesota—Charley gives a seminar on “Caring for Missionaries on Furlough” at the Midwest Conference on Missionary Care in Roseville, Minnesota (suburban Minneapolis)
March 9-22 California—Visiting Bethany Baptist Church and First Baptist Church of Lakewood
March 23- Ohio—Visiting churches and supporters (probable trip)
April 1
June 21 Charley returns to Vienna and immediately goes to Odessa, Ukraine for EAAA Board meetings. Also, our daughter Elizabeth goes to Africa for a summer ministry with Teen Missions.
July 9 Cheryl and the girls return to Vienna

In late November, our entire family traveled by car to Texas (Thanksgiving with Cheryl’s family), and then after Christmas we drove to Florida to see Charley’s family. We were blessed with beautiful warm weather in both places and thankful to spend time with our extended families. In between those two trips, the girls stayed behind while the two of us flew to Charlotte, North Carolina, to share our ministry with potential supporters. This was also a special time of connecting with friends and getting away together. Then Charley stayed on to attend the Pastors to Missionaries seminar, an annual seminar sponsored by Barnabas International designed for those who care for missionaries.

February sees us at missions conferences at College Church in Wheaton, Illinois and at McGregor Baptist Church in Ft. Myers, Florida. At the end of February Charley gives a seminar on “Caring for Missionaries on Furlough” at the Midwest Conference on Missionary Care in Roseville, Minnesota.

March 9-22 we will be in southern California visiting First Baptist Church of Lakewood (March 11) and Bethany Baptist Church in Thousand Oaks (March 18). If you live in California or Florida, we would like to see you. Please get in touch with us so we can make plans to get together.

Finances
We wrote in November that our financial situation has been critical in recent months. Because of several months of shortfall, our account at Barnabas was in the red. We are grateful that some large one-time gifts have helped reduce this deficit. We even received a large gift from an anonymous donor which was very touching—thank you to that quiet, humble soul whose identity we do not know. Also, our house in Vienna has now been sublet to new missionaries who will rent it until we return, and this is a big boost to our month-to-month situation. Some new individuals have joined our regular support team in recent months. Thank you to you, too! However, we have also experienced the loss of some regular support. Therefore, we are still looking for consistent monthly support of around $1,600 per month so that we can return to Austria fully funded. We appreciate your prayers for this and know that God is at work.

Thanksgiving and prayer items
1. Pray for our continued ministries of encouragement among missionaries and national church leaders.
2. Pray for Cheryl as she works from home copyediting books for Barnabas International and helping launch an online magazine, “Encouragement Online,” which debuts in January 2007.
3. Praise for a subletter for our house in Vienna. They moved in on January 6, 2007. Thanks for praying!
4. Pray for new support so that we can return to Austria fully funded.
5. Praise God for Emily’s improved health and pray for the same for Charley.
6. Pray for safety in travels. Our traveling really picks up in early February 2007.

Thank you for your partnership in serving the church and missionaries in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. We appreciate you and hope to see many of you soon!


Charley and Cheryl Warner
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Communicating with the Warners

Skype over the InternetàOur Skype contact ID is: ccwarner (For more information www.skype.com)
Warners’ Electronic Updates--If you, your church or anyone else you know would like to receive our Electronic Updates, then please send us your e-mail address and we’ll include you.

FURLOUGH ADDRESS:
P. O. Box 88043 warner@barnabas.org (general)
Carol Stream, IL 60188-0043 charley@barnabas.org (personal)
Phone: 630-665-9179 cheryl@barnabas.org (personal)

Tax-deductible gifts for the Warners’ ministry may be sent to:
Barnabas International, PO Box 11211, Rockford, IL 61126-1211 USA

Charley continues recovery from ankle injury

Hello to everyone.

Greetings from Los Angeles where we're visiting supporters, supporting churches (First Baptist Lakewood and Bethany Baptist Church in Thousand Oaks) along with other friends and relatives. It's great to be here.

Charley is progressing well in his recovery from a severely sprained left ankle and slightly torn deltoid ligament. He's dutifully doing his physical therapy exercises and wearing his knee-length boot and using crutches. Hopefully he'll be able to be boot- and crutches-free by the end of March after which he will continue with physical therapy until towards the end of April. Thanks for all your prayers for his recovery. It really makes you appreciate being able to walk!

BFN,

Charley and Cheryl Warner
Barnabas International
Vienna, Austria

Charley gets air boot for a month

Hello.

Charley went to an orthopaedic specialist yesterday. Although Charley doesn't have a break or a fracture, the specialist advised him to wear an air boot (up to the knee) for the next month.

Charley's ankle is badly sprained and there's a good possibility of some slight ligament damage. The choice was a cast for four weeks or a removable boot. We chose the boot. He starts physical therapy next week.

Please pray for us as we travel to LA on March 9th (next Friday) for two weeks of visiting supporters and relatives. It will much harder for Charley to get around.

Thanks.

Charley and Cheryl

Two weeks of medical problems!--13-27 February 2007

(NOTE: This was first sent out on Thursday Feb. 22, 2007)


Hello to everyone.

Welcome to those who are just joining our Update List from College Church in Wheaton (IL) and McGregor Baptist Church in Fort Myers (FL)!

It's been a long medical week for Charley:

1. First was the sticker shock of having to buy prescription medicines in the USA. When did everything get to be so expensive!

2. Then, on Monday morning at 2:00 AM Charley was admitted to the ER of our local hospital due to slow and shallow breathing, i.e., his lungs were slowly shutting down. After an EKG, chest xray and chest CAT scan the emergency room doctor determined that he had had an asthma attack and treated him with albuterol. The only problem was...this was not the problem! Charley went home and later in the day, as his breathing became worse again went to his allergy and asthma doctor who correctly diagnosed that Charley had actually had an attack of hypersensitivity pneumanitis or HSP, compounded by a reaction to the medication he was taking. Charley was put on steroids and over the course of 36 hours recovered to normal breathing again. Just to breath normally is a blessing.

3. And now this morning. Charley went out side to retrieve our trash can which had rolled into the street in front of our house blocking traffic. As he stepped on the sidewalk he slid on some black ice and severely strained his left ankle. If you've ever seen those NFL football replays when it shows a player's ankle in an unnatural twisted position thus being injured, then you get a picture of what happened. Another trip to the doctor's office, more xrays and examinations.

Fortunately, his ankle was not broken or he'd be facing 8 weeks in a cast. It is, however, severely sprained and he'll be getting around on crutches for the next week.

Also, last week Cheryl was rear ended in a fender-bender accident.

It feels like we're really under spiritual attack. We'd really appreciate your prayers for:
--protection from the evil one
--better health for Charley
--safe driving to a Minneapolis on Friday for two missions conferences one of which Charley is giving two seminars on Caring for Missionaries on Furlough and the other is visiting with one of our supporting churches
--Calvary EFree in Rochester, Minnesota
--that our kids will due well this weekend staying with friends (It's just the two of us going up to Minnesota.)
--March 9-22 both of us will be in southern California visiting relatives and two supporting churches: First Baptist Church of Lakewood and Bethany Baptist Church in Thousand Oaks.
--We've been able to raise about $ 400 of the $ 1600 additional monthly support that we need to return to the mission field and about $ 2,000 of the $ 8,000 one time support that we need to return to the mission field in July 2007.

Please pray that the Lord would do this for us.

Thanks for praying.

Charley and Cheryl Warner
Barnabas International
Vienna, Austria

Thanks for your prayer and financial support. We appreciate you!