Jonathan & Theresa Baldwin
Laboring for every nation to hear the love of Christ
On July 4th early in the morning, we awoke to Theresa’s water breaking. Our little boy was ready to come! However, what followed made us realize that Theresa’s body was not quite ready. Through 40 hours of extremely intense, induced labor we finally had our son on July 5th at 6:02 pm. He was born […]
We Are Pregnant! January 2016 We are happy to announce that we are going to have a child around the first week of August. We are excited to raise children in the house of prayer. We have our first prenatal appointment this Thursday where we will get to hear the heartbeat for the first time. […]
We had a great time at our wedding. Our only wish is that we could have visited with our guests more! We were blessed by how it all came together and how people came around us to serve us. Our heart for our wedding was that people would see Jesus through it. The most profound […]
July 1-7 Billy Graham’s daughter Anne Graham Lotz called for a 7-7-7 prayer initiative calling for 7 days of prayer in the seventh month ending with seven hours of fasting and prayer July 7th. We joined in prayer as a ministry taking the urgent call seriously. She had a three-fold prayer focus: “For God the […]
I had so much fun this past week! Kids from all over the nation came to be trained in the Worship Track of our Children’s Camp. I had a group of about thirteen kids that I taught how to pray, sing, and play their instruments in our “Harp & Bowl” model of worship (combining worship […]
Last month, I got engaged to Theresa Olson! The past two months have been the beginnings of our wonderful adventure planning our August wedding and working to buy a house. It has been an incredible opportunity to grow in trusting Jesus’ leadership. I am excited to work with Theresa to see Jesus’ name glorified all […]
Friday, April 4th, my dreams came true—a beautiful, godly woman, Theresa Olson said yes to spending the rest of her life with me. I am excited about our future as we work to see Jesus’ Name glorified in the ends of the earth. The past two years and seven months of dating have been the […]
E. Jay from the Solomon Islands From the Ends of the Earth to Fire in the Night in Kansas City Eleazar Jimmy Riria (E. Jay) grew up in the Solomon Islands (a small group of Islands in the South Pacific). His grandma taught him from the Word of God and how to pray when he […]
Monday Feb. 8th, I departed for Minnesota and Wisconsin for a week of vacation and ministry time with friends and family. At 5:55pm, I spun off into a ditch due to ice on the roadways near Story City, IA. Towing was prohibited in the area because of the weather, so the state trooper brought me […]
Over one full year ago, I was saying good-bye to friends, to family, to Eau Claire, WI, and to Duluth, MN for what I thought would be 6-months. As I came down to participate in the Fire in the Night internship, God apprehended my heart to move here and serve as a missionary full-time in […]