Greetings to our wonderful friends and supporters,

Last month we mentioned how Bibles are hard to obtain and asked for your prayers to get Bibles into the hands of new converts. Thank you for your prayers and for God's provision. George, Sally and I were shopping at the market a few weeks ago and a foreigner (remember if you are not Mongolian, you are a foreigner) stopped me and said "You're the vet, right?" It seems that she had looked at our website (how she knew our website address is a mystery to me) and saw our request for Mongolian Bibles. She and her husband have had 56 Mongolian Bibles in storage for six years!! They also had 27 New Testaments! God had protected these Bibles all of these years and saved them for such a time as this. The day after we picked them up they went out to the countryside to be distributed to new converts in home groups. This was such an exciting answer to fervent prayer. We were reminded how God knows our needs and works years in advance to provide our answer. Why are we ever concerned?? What a testimony this has been to all of us in V.E.T. Net.

Thank you for your continual prayers for funding to be provided for our Continuing Education (CE) project. God is so good! God has worked through Richard and has provided funding for the first year of the CE project. This also includes funding for a Pharmaceutical program of providing veterinary drugs to the veterinarians in the country side. This funding comes through Mercy Corp, an International Relief and Development Organization based in the U.S. with offices here in Ulaanbaatar (UB). Richard has developed a wonderful working relationship with them and they are very supportive of V.E.T. Net.

This funding has just been made available to us so we are now busy putting together the CE program. Our first week of CE will be in May, 2005. That is when our first group of countryside veterinarians will come to our training center for one week of education in equine medicine, food animal medicine and surgery, business management, pet practice as well as other topics. During the evening times, we will offer activities which will tell about the One whom we love to share about - Jesus Christ. We believe that the country can be changed through better veterinary medicine skills and in turning their lives over to Christ. Of course, not everyone will give their heart to the Lord their first time here but they will be presented Christ year after year. Please start praying now for their hearts to be open to receive from God when they attend the CE meetings once a year.

The CE project is designed to carry on for many years so we have a wonderful opportunity to build relationships with these veterinarians and sow into their lives. As a supporter of this ministry you are right here with us sowing into their lives. Thank you so much!

My Mongolian counterpart to help coordinate this CE project has now returned from Australia. Her name is Baljinnyam Zolzaya. Zola has lived in Australia for two years and has attained her Maters Degree in International Public Health. She has also received some special training in evangelism. Zola has grown so very much in the Lord since 1995 when she first met Gerald and Frances Mitchum. Zola was a veterinary student here in UB at that time and started attending their English classes at the veterinary school. Zola was very shy then and would run the other way when Frances would try to speak to her in English. She had a hard time understanding their English words as well as understanding the joy that they seemed to have. However, she kept going to their classes. When Gerald and Frances started a Bible study outreach to the veterinary school on Sunday afternoons, Zola decided to see what they were really like at home. She saw the same joy within their home that they had in their English classes. Joyfulness was a new concept to Zola as well as other Mongolians. One day, after several months of attending the Bible study, she was on the bus returning home. She looked out the window and saw birds on the snow covered ground. As she watched the birds find food, she was reminded of Gerald and Frances' teachings of how God provides for us just as he provides for the birds. Suddenly she understood many of the things that they had taught her over the previous months. She gave her heart to the Lord at that moment. Her life and the life of her family has never been the same. Several of her siblings are now believers. One sister is also a veterinarian and works with V.E.T. Net. What a testimony!! Zola is now back from Australia and is on fire for the Lord and ready to help coordinate the CE project!!

The V.E.T. Net small animal clinic, Caring Veterinary Clinic and Training Center, has been very busy this summer. We have a great variety of animals brought in. I am always amazed with the varieties - turtles (four in one week), guinea pigs, hedgehogs, parakeets in addition to our regular dog and cat patients; however, this past week took the prize. A bear was brought in. He was about five months old and was not very nice. In fact, as the owner walked him into our clinic, he took a swipe with his big paw and very sharp claws at a tool box held by our maintenance man. Needless to say, Dorjprurav took a jumping leap into the bathroom!! Fortunately, the bear could be distracted with candy so his eye could be examined! We were also thankful that the owner brought the bear in muzzled. However, I don't know that I want to be at the clinic when this guy reaches adulthood!!! One of our V.E.T. Net veterinarians just returned from special wildlife training in South Africa. However, there are no bears in South Africa! But Ganzo jumped right up to take the bear case! Turtles and hedgehogs and bears - oh my!

Thank you for your continual prayers for us. We appreciate you so much!

In His Service,

Mary for Richard, George and Sally

Please look at our website www.bigfootmkt.com for new pictures. Thanks Nathan and Daniel!