Doug and Melody Corley Just another weblog 
Dear Prayer Partners,
In our last letter we mentioned how life and ministry was going a lot slower than we had anticipated. You must have prayed! Life has gotten extremely busy, but that’s how we like it!
Doug has been busy researching various community development projects like building latrines for an extremely poor area of town where a group of Tarahumara Indians lives and makes bricks. One of the problems in this community is sewage runoff from a waste water treatment plant. The government sanitation department will be advised of this serious problem affecting the health of the Indian families. Also, Doug has been involved in marketing Indian handcrafts via a contact in Tennessee. These and other projects are in the very beginning stages. It’s not like in the States where you decide to do something and just go out and do it. Projects like these take months, if not years, to come to fruition. Pray for wisdom and guidance as we as a Mission move forward on these endeavors. While investigating these community development avenues, Doug has also been quite busy learning his two new responsibilities of supply buyer for the tribal missionaries and member of our mission’s security committee.
Below are a couple pictures of the ladies I have been discipling, as well as Chema, the high school student I was mentoring. Pray for them to have a profitable summer in the Lord. Pray especially for Chema to hunger and thirst after righteousness and to bring his heart into submission to what the Lord has for him. Pray for Sandy and Denesia to clearly understand what the Lord is saying to them and to walk in that light.
Sandy, 
Denesia, 
Chema (on the right)
In our last letter I mentioned some physical needs I was experiencing. Again, you must have prayed! The doctor I saw changed just about every one of the medications I was taking — removed some, added new ones, and now I am feeling better than I have in a very long time. Also, the Lord has provided the funds to cover all the tests. Thanks so much for praying for that need.
We have just returned from our annual field conference where our hearts were tremendously encouraged. We heard reports from each tribal team on how they were doing and how the work in their area is going. It is amazing to hear what God is doing in some of the most remote areas of the world! We also were challenged and encouraged by our guest speaker on living and ministering from God’s point of view. Boy! Are we ever excited about pressing on for Him here in Mexico! We heard story after story of tribal people hearing the gospel for the first time, of tribal churches thriving and growing, but also sadly of tribal people dying and going into a Christ-less eternity. It was very good for us to see, up close and personal, reminders of why we are here in Mexico with New Tribes Mission. Following are some pictures of some of our new brothers and sisters in Christ. 
Pray for these little lambs for protection from the Evil One while they are being grounded in the faith. Pray they will grow strong in the Lord and will understand the Word as it is taught to them.
There is a new development in our lives we’d ask you to pray about. Amelia Orrostieta is a young single missionary with NTM who has had the sole responsibility of raising her 2 younger siblings, Gaby and Tony. She works in a tribal area far away from Chihuahua, but Tony and Gaby have lived here in Chihuahua in a dorm situation for the last few years. Now that they have graduated from high school (Tony) and the Bible institute (Gaby), they need a place to stay while they attend university. So, we have opened our home to Tony for this next semester. Gaby will be ministering in Baja California for a semester, and then will be returning to Chihuahua in January. If all goes well with Tony, she will more than likely live with us, too. Pray that we will be what Tony needs.
He speaks English pretty well, but Gaby doesn’t. This should be a good opportunity for us to really advance in our Spanish, but it could also lead to misunderstandings. Pray for clear, open communication. Pray we can minister to this family in a powerful way.
One last prayer request. We leave Wednesday, June 4, for our “summer wedding” trip. The plan is to first drive to Atlanta and spend a couple of nights with my sister. Then we’ll go up to Chattanooga where we will see our youngest son, Zac and his precious family and attend the homecoming reunion at our home church. After that we will head over to Branson, MO to help Kate with the final preparations for her wedding June 28. After the wedding we’re off to Denver to spend a week or so with our Colorado Corley Clan, after which we return to Chihuahua July 15. You know the price of gas! Pray for the Lord to provide physically, financially, spiritually and every other way for this trip. Your prayers mean SO much to us. We’ve seen great things happen when you pray!
“In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.” Prov. 3:6
God bless and have an AWESOME day!
