We need prayer about our motor home

[Jerry]

Hello Life Healing Ministries Friends and Partners,
I'm writing this to make you aware of a ministry need. We would like
to ask each of you to please pray about our ministry's motor home.
It's a 1988 Vixen 21TD. You can read about them on the internet. It's
small, but meets our needs, although there isn't any storage space in
it for hauling equipment. It's 21 years old and has 156,800 miles on
it, and up to now has served us reasonably well. I've spent many
thousands of dollars of my own money fixing it, and countless hours
doing labor on it. Let me put it this way, if I had the money I've
spent on it in the last 11 years, plus $10 an hour for each hour I've
spent working on it, I'd probably have enough to buy a brand new motor
home with a warranty. Not complaining, mind you, just voicing a
concern. We need a motor home to travel in, as we spend so much time
on the road, and it isn't practical to spend $60 or more a night at
even a modest motel (some are dives).
I need direction from the Lord concerning whether to keep fixing this
one, or to get another one. If we can get it fixed right, I'd as soon
keep it and continue using it. The one we have gets 27 to 30 miles
per gallon (diesel), but we're not saving anything if we're constantly
paying to fix it. Pretty much everything on it is either new or
nearly new, and now the engine is broken, with either a blown head
gasket, or more likely a cracked head. A replacement engine would be
great, but it takes an 1984 to 1986 BMW 2.4 liter 6 cyl turbodiesel
engine, and they're hard to find. Repairing it will likely cost
around $2000, which we don't have. As of today, 10-16-09, we've been
10 days on the road trying to nurse it home from near Lynchburg,
Virginia, and we're broke down in Louisville Kentucky. The Lord will
get us home, it's just a matter of patience, and we hope to minister
along the way.
Of course, I realize that if God wants us to have another one, He
will provide it through someone who has one to donate, as we don't
have the money to buy another one. We don't want another "fixer", but
need a dependable one that will get us where we're going and back
reliably.
Several have prophesied over the years that the Lord was going to give
us a new motor home, paid for. That would be fine with us, whatever
the Lord wants to do, as we're His servants, He is not ours. If any
of you get a word concerning this situation, please write or call. My
cell phone is 573-690-4367.
We love and appreciate each and every one of you. Thanks, and God
bless.
Rev. Jerry Baysinger, Life Healing Ministries