“When you go on the internet, please pray for the Hoffman Family – your missionaries to Cyberspace.”
Volume 39 Issue 1 (January/February/2026)
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! We pray 2026 has been (and will be) a blessing to you!
The Latest News:
Over the past several months, Bob has been diligently working to consolidate our hosting ministry servers. The goal has been simple but important: to strengthen our ability to recover quickly in the event of a disaster and to maintain better oversight of the entire hosting environment. By bringing everything together into one managed system, we are working toward greater stability, consistency, and standardization across all the ministries we serve.
Our new managed VPS server now provides both site-level and server-level backups, along with enhanced security protections. These improvements give us a stronger safety net and a more dependable foundation moving forward. This step has been on our prayer list for nearly ten years, and we are grateful to see the Lord allowing it to come to fruition.
At this point, 100 ministries have been successfully moved to the new server, placing us about 65% of the way through the transition. We are thankful for the smooth progress thus far.
As we continue, we earnestly covet your prayers. With so many ministries now consolidated under one provider, we are dependent upon the continued stability of that service. Please pray that the server remains reliable, that there are no unexpected disruptions, and that our provider continues offering this service at a reasonable and sustainable cost.
Bible Correspondence Courses:
We want to thank Oleta Ferrell, Joyce Hall, Ron Henrici, Lorraine Meier, JL & Florence Smith and Freddie Vaughan for helping with the Bible correspondence courses over the last quarter.
- 4th Quarter Stats: Lessons sent out:468 / Certificates:26 / Students 64 of which 35 are prisoners and 3 online. Lessons were mailed to Canada and USA.
This quarter, one student, Gideon Deshi Katmut from the Emmaus Bible Centre in Kwang, Nigeria has completed all of the courses that we offer. - 2025 Stats: Lessons sent out:1973 / Certificates:91 / 1 Salvation
Tract Ministry:
- We have had over 297,000 individuals read our Bible Tracts online.
- Through our ad campaigns we are offering over 1 million tracts to unique individuals per month in 7 languages worldwide.
- Our online tracts been handed out to over 55 million people since we started advertising in February 2020!
Social Networking Outreach:
Support: We are currently at 70% of support for our ministry expenses.
Prayer Needs:
- As stated above, we urgently need prayer for the stability of the server and the hosting provider.
- Bob is still cancer free. Pray it stays gone. More oral surgery coming up.
- Pray for Maureen’s health and for wisdom regarding some potential upcoming treatment.
- Would you consider praying for us when special needs arise? If so, please subscribe to our prayer warrior’s mailing list.:http://eepurl.com/SYbI9.
Specific Financial Needs:
- Estimated additional cost of Bob’s oral surgery is $2000 over the next 2 months.
- 2026 server costs – $1000.
- $150 reaches over 1 million people worldwide in 7 languages!
Please consider a donation. FamilyNet is a 501 (C)(3) charity. Donations are tax deductible in the US – You can donate via tithe.ly (Give button is on https://cyber-missions.com) or mail a check:
FamilyNet International Inc
P.O. Box 451951
Garland, TX 75045
(214) 257-0229
In Jesus’ Service,
Bob and Maureen
Phil 1:3
