Good News!!!

Jesus is Lord of all the Earth!    Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord!! Amen!!  

Avin and myself are so excited to play a small part in what God is doing in SE Asia!! After our fundraiser on June 24^th, we feel really supported by so many people who love the Lord and care about what He is doing all over the world!! 

Tim Lindberg and Crystal Asplend blessed us with some great folk music, the Thai and Khmer food was amazing, but more importantly, we just loved seeing many of you and being able to thank you face to face for getting behind us as a couple.   Thank you as well to many of you who gave so generously at the fundraiser! 2300 dollars was raised for the work in Cambodia, praise God!!

Avin and myself will be quitting our restaurant jobs in the next week and a half, and focusing entirely on writing courses for our teaching stints at ‘Impact School of Missions’ in Bangkok ,Thailand, as well as continuing to fundraise and share at different churches. 

In July we will be sharing at Vernon Full Gospel Tabernacle,  Coquitlam Community Church and Osoyoos Pentecostal, as well as a fundraiser in Kelowna and 3 Hills, Alberta.  

We are still believing God for 25 percent ( 1,300 dollars) to come in, in the form of monthly support.   Please be believing God with us for this last amount to be raised.

We would love to see many of you this summer so don’t be shy!! Email us or give us a call. Would be great to get together!!

Blessings,

Joel and Avin

Can you taste it?!

We have updated our blog, www.joelandavinreimer.blogspot.com, and wanted to post it here for you all as well!

We are so close!! We can taste the Thai food and feel the heat on our skin! Praise God!

Traveling to Victoria

To be honest, for Joel and I, nothing much has changed over the last few months. You have heard it all before, working, fundraising, etc…BUT all of this working, fundraising, etc. has paid off and things are getting ready to change. Joel and I will officially be finishing our jobs at the Vault and the Washington Ave Grill at the end of June. We have been so blessed to have been a part of such an amazing “family” and have been able to work through all the changes God has brought in our lives over the last 2 years! Now we are at 70% of our budget needs and, with the next few commitments that have been promised, we will hit that 75% and will be ready to book our flights back to SEA!

God has heard all of our, and your, prayers for an August departure date, and it looks like that is what is going to happen. We are planning for the end of August, allowing us time to land in Bangkok, teach at the ‘Impact School of Missions’ for the month of September and head to Cambodia in October to start our new life there! That means we will celebrate our one year anniversary in our new home!!!

We want to thank all of you who have heard our hearts, heard from God and have chosen to be a part of this journey – really, our hearts cannot say thank you enough. We hope to see you all at the June 24^th Fundraiser to celebrate and share together.

So stay tuned as details unfold, this is only the beginning…your prayers and love are so needed and appreciated!

Cambodia Fundraiser- June 24th!!!

Guys!!!  What is happening?!!!  Hope you're all enjoying life as summer approaches!!! 

On behalf of Avin and myself, we just wanted to personally invite all of you to join us for a Backyard, Asian Themed, Music Filled Evening on June 24th at 4pm!!   

The purpose of the evening is to hang out and enjoy good food and good music with all of you, and to raise funds as we prepare to return to Cambodia this August.  

We're planning on ordering in some great Thai and Khmer food from local restaurants.  For those of you who haven't had Khmer food before, this is will be your chance to try some!! 

We will be entertained and blessed by the talented Tim Lindberg, a successful singer/songwriter, who actually spent time in Cambodia working with myself, and led several missions teams to Cambodia!! ( http://timlindberg.bandcamp.com/) 

We would really love to see all of you that evening!   We are confirming the location based on how many people will be attending, so please get back to us (RSVP), and we'll keep you posted as to where this party is going to be!! 

Blessings

Joel and Avin

(ps- Once we figure out how many people will be attending, we will let you know what the suggested donation will be to cover food costs.)  

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Spring!

Newest Post to our blogspot - www.joelandavinreimer.blogspot.com

 

Welcome Spring! God is great! We have had a blessed month! We have spent time with our families, celebrated Easter, and shared our vision for Cambodia with new people and churches!

April started off with Avin’s Grandpa’s 80^th birthday, so we began planning our family trip to Kelowna where we could have time with the family and then spend some time connecting with new churches in the Okanagan. Everything was going perfectly, until days before the trip. The road reports started warning people of travel, news of blizzards and horrible road conditions on the Coquihalla! A sad last minute decision led us to post-pone the trip. But the next weekend, with roads looking good, we packed our bags and headed up to the Okanagan. Praise God, beautiful blue skies and dry roads were waiting for us this time around. With God’s grace and leading this trip was meant to be post-poned, we were able to make some wonderful new connections throughout Vernon, Penticton, West Kelowna and Kelowna!

Thank you to the wonderful Koch family, who hosted us for our time up there!!!! Amidst meetings, there was some wonderful Easter bread, time to catch-up, and a rousing game of Pass the Pigs!!! I think Isaac Koch and Joel might have thoughts of joining the Professional Pass the Pigs League! (lol)

We are so encouraged by the Pastors and people we have been meeting with, and the connections they are so generously helping us make. There are doors opening up in other provinces, so please keep praying for these opportunities where we can share our hearts and what God has called us to!

So slowly but surely God is opening the hearts of those around us to partner with us. We are also planning to have a Missions Night Fundraiser over the next while, so stay tuned for more details there!

March is here!

Avin and I have also created our joint blogspot to update you as a couple and create places for you to interact with us. I will keep this site updated as well but please feel free to visit us at www.joelandavinreimer.blogspot.com for more information!

Here is what has been going on for us!

We are amazed that it is already March and how quickly this year is flying by. There have been so many incredible things that have happened to re-confirm our vision and our decision to join the PAOC (Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada) as Global Workers (missionaries), and our plans to return to Cambodia. We know with our whole hearts that we are following God’s will for our lives and are enjoying the process of “going”. This past week we had the privilege of joining the PAOC at their annual pastors’ conference for the BC and Yukon districts. What a blessed time shared with some inspiring men and women of God! We were commissioned with 3 other Global Workers (missionaries) and were covered in prayer. The encouragement and love that this family shares, and has shared with us, is beyond encouraging. This past month has been fun! We have had many opportunities to meet with a lot of you who support our vision. Thank you for all your words of encouragement! Plus, we were able to be a part of Christian Life Assembly’s Missions’ month! What a great way to highlight the work that is happening around the world through different Global Workers (missionaries). So needless to say we have been busy! Working at the restaurants, fundraising, taking time with family and friends, and working with our churches wherever we can, time is flying by! We are preparing for a June/ July return and so we have also been working on growing our monthly support base. Since we are planning to be in Cambodia long-term, we are required to have at least 75% of our monthly donations/ support in place BEFORE we are allowed to purchase our plane tickets. This will allow us to leave with the confidence that we will be sustainable once we are out there. So we are preparing our hearts and minds, and God has been so gracious with us, as He continues to bless our connections and relationships along this path.

Life and Friends!!

Currently it feels like our life is in Limbo!! We are wanting to be living and serving in SE Asia, but at the same time need to be working and preparing in Canada, Both places are truly amazing but at this time it seems, emotionally for me,

we're kind of stuck in the middle! The blessing about being home is of course being around family and friends! Good friends of ours Kris and Tabitha Pagan, missionaries in Thailand, were traveling through Vancouver on their way back to Thailand and spent 4 days with us. It was so awesome having them around and part of our lives. They have a little boy, Ephraim, who was truly a miracle, and we just had a great time showing them around the lower mainland despite the rain and cold! When the Pagans were here we also had a little mini 'Band' reunion! We all got together with Kyle and Andrea Hendy and their little baby girl Ivy in Walnut Grove. It was the first time that Kris, Kyle and I have been together since our Bible School days in Thailand where we ended our Graduation night with a concert for the staff and students. We called our band the 'Sriracha Rangers' Kris was the lead singer, Kyle played guitar and I was the drummer. In our minds the one and only concert was legendary!! So I had to include a picture of the band reunion! The other pictures are of me and Avin at a little getaway, that was part of a wedding present from her old neighbors in White Rock. Blessings and please be praying for us as we prepare to go back to Cambodia to preach the Gospel and make disciples. Joel Reimer

Reimer News!!!

Friends!!!!! How are things going?!!! Pray you're all doing well!! We are doing fantastic!! We have been married for over 5 months now and every day just keeps on getting better! God is so Good!!! We just wanted to give a little update as to what we have been doing, and what we're planning on doing in the future!! To start with, we are both still working at sister restaurants, 'The Washington Avenue Grill' and 'The Vault'. God continues to provide for our needs through our jobs and we're both amazed at how many 'God' moments we have at work with customers and co-workers. Despite the late nights at our jobs, we have been able to share with the Missions classes at my old high school, MEI in Abbotsford, and help teach Thai and Thai culture with an MEI team heading to Thailand this spring. As well, I have had the the opportunity to serve on the worship team at our home church, Christian Life Assembly (CLA) in Langley, and on occasion preach at evening services. This month at CLA there is a Missions emphasis and we will be involved with some of the banquets and different meetings to encourage people to get involved in missions. Recently we were in eastern Washington state, visiting my cousins church, and we were able to share our vision and our hearts with them. Driving home from there in blizzard conditions was quite the adventure but that's another story! As many of you know, we are still planning on returning to Cambodia as soon as possible. We are planning on moving to Phnom Pehn, the capital city, and enrolling at a Language school and learning the Khmer language, as well as volunteering at New Life Church and whatever opportunities God brings our way. We also have been asked to teach various courses at 'Impact School of Missions' in Bangkok, Thailand in September 2012, and January 2013. After our first year in Cambodia we are hoping to continue to plant churches and preach the Gospel wherever the Lord would lead us. At this time we are fundraising and believing God for the monthly support that we will need to live overseas. The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC) is encouraging us to have 75 percent of our budget raised before buying our tickets for Cambodia. At this time we have raised 45 percent of our monthly budget. Please be praying for us as we prepare to head back to Asia. Pray that God would use us while we're in Canada and that Jesus would be glorified through our lives in all that we do. If God is leading you to support our ministry in Cambodia, please go to www.paoc.org/donate/JoelAReimer Blessings Joel and Avin Reimer joel_reimer@hotmail.com www.joelreimer.blogspot.com 604-832-2603

Christmas Pictures!!

2012!!!!

Friends!!! Myself and Avin are doing awesome!!! Jesus Christ is Lord and we are so blessed to be called his kids!!!
We went to CLA for the Christmas Eve service with the Houghlands, spent Christmas with our families (the Houghlands on Christmas Morning and the Reimers Christmas night) and on Boxing day we went to Vancouver Island to visit Avin's Uncle Richard and his family. Pretty much everyone drove up these old logging roads in 4x4's with guns and ammo and for a couple hrs we just shot targets on the side of a hill! It was awesome!! We shot Winchester rifles, .22's, shot guns, AK-47 type guns ect. Had a a blast! Avins Cousins and family were such good hosts. We ate like Kings the whole time and just had a lot of fun!!

On New Years Eve we both worked at our restaurants, The Vault, and the Washington Avenue Grill, and since then we have just been working hard and getting little details worked out and things organized in preparation for going back to Cambodia.

Blessings
Joel and Avin

Reimer's Update!!

Hello Friends!!! I pray you are all doing well!
This update is long overdue, sorry for leaving some of you hanging!!!

I’ll get right to it, I AM A MARRIED MAN!!!

On October 8th, 2011 I married Avin Leigh Houghland from White Rock, BC!!

The Lord blessed us with a gorgeous fall day, and a powerful ceremony where we felt the presence of the Lord!! God is so Good!! He answers prayer!!!!
We had an unreal honeymoon in Mexico, despite the hurricane that blew through our resort!!!!

We are now living in South Surrey off 152nd Street, and we are both working 4 nights a week at restaurants. I am also doing landscaping and construction during the days for friends whenever I can.

This also may come as a surprise to you, but I am no longer working with Victory Churches International. Before Avin and myself were married I made the transition from Victory Churches to the ‘Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.’ As you can well imagine, after being with a ministry for 11 years, it was not an easy transition for all involved.

Avin and myself have both been approved as ‘ Global Workers’ with the PAOC and are now preparing to head back to Cambodia to serve the Lord.

We are planning to live in Phnom Phen, Cambodia for a year to study the language intensely and to serve in various ministries part- time. We also have the opportunity to teach and mentor young people at ‘Impact School of Missions’ in Bangkok, Thailand September 2012 and January 2013.

After our first year in Asia together, we are hoping to continue to plant Churches and make disciples wherever the Lord may call us in Cambodia.

We ask you to please be praying for us as we prepare to head back to the mission field.
Please pray that God would prepare us spiritually in Canada, that He would provide the necessary connections, and that He would provide the finances.

Please check out these sites for more information on how we can work together to see the Lord build His Kingdom.

www.paoc.org
www.paoc.org/donate/JoelAReimer

We would love to hear from you so please don’t be a stranger!! You can call me at 1-604-832 2603 or email me at joel_reimer@hotmail.com

Blessings

Joel and Avin Reimer

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