Vitters

ROBERT & LARA VITTER ~ 

FBA Faith Promise Missionaries serving with Adventive Cross Cultural Initiatives (ACCI), Italy/USA 

The Vitters' ministry strategy is to immerse themselves in the community seeking

opportunities to share their faith. Below is their newsletter. Please pray for them as the prepare to return to Italy.

           

Ciao Dear friends and family,

 

We hope and pray that this update finds you all blessed and doing well. We are officially moving back to Italy and we announced it to the church in Florida in May! Our plans are to start raising support again and hopefully apply for travel Visas in July and go back by October. We know all the details are in God's hands, and we are trusting Him. We are hoping and praying for prayer and financial partners for our team as our US support with the local church will end and we are not permitted to work a "regular job" with the "Religious Worker Visa" we will have for Italy. Will you please prayerfully consider joining us?

 

We will be helping plant a church near Venice, Italy. We will return to our old town first to settle in more easily and scout out places to rent near Venice. This area of Italy is spiritually very dark and expensive and we will have to raise quite a bit of support to move back. There is a huge need for workers.

 

Update on the church plant here in FL - The church building is almost done, and we are hoping to have the building completed by August! We still meet outside under a pavilion, and it has been such a blessing. We will be the first missionaries sent out from this church. 

Update on citizenship - We will try again for dual citizenship when we get to Italy. It is much easier to apply in Italy than the USA.

Update on Maxim - Maxim is officially a Vitter!! His new legal name is Maksym Hudym Vitter (we pronounce it Maxim) - that is his first and last name from birth now as his first and middle name, and he has a new last name! We had never officially changed his name because with all the surgeries, we did not want to change insurance documents and face complications and delays due to paperwork. We thought his procedures and surgeries were done, but Maxim will have another one done in July. He will have two combined in one and this will be small. His speech is still not clear, so they will do an auditory brainstem exam internally to see if he has hearing issues and add tubes to his ears to see if this helps his hearing and speech. His team of ten specialists are very supportive of our move and will be available for us for any concerns. Lara will likely travel home once a year with him to have check-ups. We are so very thankful for all the wonderful medical care that Maxim has been able to receive, and he is doing extremely well!!

We were chosen to go to an all-inclusive family camp for children with various special needs. This is called Camp Boggy Creek and was started by Paul Newman and all profits from his food products go to support this camp. It was an incredible door that God opened to walk alongside and minister to families with craniofacial needs.

Through all of this we are filled with joy and peace. We hope to visit so many of you soon and brag on all that God has allowed us to be part of. We are so thankful to you all and can't express our gratitude enough.

Love and blessings from all of us,

Lara and Robert

** Please let us know how we can pray for you too. We have been praying for you all and appreciate the prayer requests you share, and our family prays together for so many of you. Thank you so much for your continued love, prayers, and support. We cannot express how much you mean to us. What a blessing to be able to share in this journey as you partner with us in prayer and financial support!

 

Dio vi benedica e vi mandiamo nostra amore sempre (God Bless & Love Always),

Robert, Lara, Annabella Grace (14), Priscilla Hope (12), Lydia Love (10), Samuel Stephen (7), James Joseph (5), & Maxim Hudym (4) xxxooo

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PRAYER & PRAISE ~ July 5 - 11, 2023

 

7/5 ROBERT & LARA VITTER (This week’s blog guests)

Adventive Cross Cultural Initiatives, USA

Pray for the Vitters as they raise support and apply for travel Visas in July to return to Italy by October. The  new church plant in Florida will hopefully have the church building completed by August! The Vitters will be the first missionaries sent out from this church.

 

7/6 Gary & Esther Smith

Ethnos360, Papua New Guinea

Pray for Gary and Esther as they are on a seven-month home assignment which began in June. They look forward to spending time with family and friends in the States that they haven’t seen in a long time. Pray for Esther as she has the acoustic neuroma checked at the Mayo Clinic.

 

7/7 Paul & Karan Davis                         

TEAM, France

Paul and Karan enjoyed attending the 70th anniversary of the church group that TEAM missionaries began in the early 1950’s. Throughout the day they saw people whose lives had been changed through faith in Christ, people whom they had baptized, discipled, and trained, and praise God for people who are now leaders in their churches and engaged in discipling others.

 

7/8 T & A

Central Asia

Praise God for the time T and A had in the States to see most of their children and so many others who care for them and have walked with them through some period of their lives.

 

7/9 LINDA SUMMER

The Agape Puppets, USA/Worldwide

Many of Linda’s puppeteers are fighting on the front lines in Ukraine and dying. Linda is getting more puppeteers who are younger; from age 9 to 22 years. In August, when she is in Ireland, she needs a team of puppeteers. However, school-age students need to be excellent students for them to be exempt from school to participate as puppeteers. Pray this need will be met soon.

7/10 Sergio Mijangos

Avant Ministries, Guatemala

Pray for the seminary’s graduates and the ministries they will be getting involved in.  At this point, the seminary has graduates serving in forty different countries around the world, including some that are in very difficult areas. Continue to pray for Sergio and his sons.

 

7/11 MARK & PAT TERRY

CRU, USA (International School Project)

Praise God for opening doors for more travel again after Covid. So far this year, the ISP staff traveled to Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Uganda, Cambodia, Vietnam, Guam, Kyrgyzstan, and Ecuador.  ISP provided aid to many refugees in Ukraine and nearby countries.

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.” I Corinthians 15:58 (NASB) 

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