Pat Storey Newsletter (Spring 2025)

Greetings From Sunny Florida!

I hope you are all doing well and are feeling blessed today!

Boot Camp is coming very quickly and there is still so much work to be done. We have a total of 300 teens and leaders coming this year and are all looking forward to meeting them in June when they arrive to begin their training before leaving for their month-long trip overseas to serve the Lord and spread the Gospel.

The Tough Gator Mud Run was held on May 3 and was a huge success again. Over 630 people came to run again this year. It’s always a great day and even though it is a lot of work, we all enjoy the day. The proceeds go to help the underprivileged near our overseas bases.

My friend, Emily Brumbelow, and I, however, were not here for the Mud Run this year because we made a trip to Colombia, South America. We were gone for 12 days. Colombia is a beautiful country and our base is situated about halfway (maybe more) up on the side of a mountain. Our purpose was to teach English to our staff and students there. Some of them already speak a little English and a couple of them speak it very well. We had around 40 people in our classes and we taught about five hours a day for the six days we had. It was so much fun because they are just fun people, but also because they were all so eager to learn and tried very hard. We saw a huge improvement in all of them by the time we finished our last class and some of the people who already speak English said that they also learned a lot.

I was asked to share at the church service on Sunday morning and spoke on the book of Philippians, one of my favorite books in the Bible. Speaking in front of people is not really my “cup of tea”, but it’s still a great privilege every time I am asked to do it. They said 40 minutes which seemed to me a very long time, but with an interpreter repeating everything, it really meant 20 minutes. That is so much easier!

Anyway, we had such a great time. We got to see a little of Bogota, which is the capital of Colombia with a ton of history. Except for one day, all of our time was spent at the TMI base in a small town called Silvania. Our staff and students took very good care of us and we both felt blessed to spend some time with them and get to know them better.  

In my last newsletter, I let you know that I plan to move back to Iowa this November and asked you to pray with me about housing. Well, God has answered our prayers and allowed me to buy a small house in Chariton. I guess it’s about halfway between my daughter, Emily, and son, Jason. Apart from the cold winters, I am very excited to be closer to the kids (except Christina). I hope I can make it out to Philly to visit them more often after I get moved. 

I am so thankful that I will still be able to keep working for Teen Missions full-time doing most of what I am currently doing. Of course there are some jobs that must be done here and so I am training a couple of people to do those jobs, but I will take the “office work” with me to Iowa and work from home. I will also come back to Florida for Boot Camp every summer and for our Staff Retreat in the Fall. I love this ministry and believe wholeheartedly in its purpose and vision and so I couldn’t be happier that I get to stay connected and play a small part in the work going on here.

Once again, I am very grateful for your support, both financially and through your prayers.  Thank you so much! I couldn’t do this without your help and I hope you realize that your support makes you a part of this great ministry, too.  

After I am moved and settled, I will be closer to almost all of you (my supporters), so I will be available to share the work of Teen Missions at your churches or events at any time. Let me know, especially if I haven’t been able to give you an update in the past couple of years and I will be happy to set a date to come and share with you about what has been happening here and around the world through TMI.

Prayer Requests:

Preparations and operation of the 2025 Boot Camp and the teens that will be here and around the world.

Packing and getting moved to Iowa (moving is NOT my favorite thing to do!)

TMI has about six Boot Camps that are just finishing up in Zambia, Philippines, Myanmar and India. Please pray for those teens as well as ours.

In Him,

Pat Storey

Ephesians 3:20
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