April 2014
Dear
Praying Friends,
We are
always happy to share our recent happenings with you all. We celebrated our Missions Conference last
month. We were privileged to have Adrian
Sandoval come to our church as our missionary speaker. He is a Salvadoran missionary that our church
supports, so everyone was glad to see him and hear him preach. Missions Conference is a highlight of the
year. We begin preparing for it with a special late night “Vigilia” for the
men. They pray through the night that God’s hand would be on our church and on
the Conference. The next day, the ladies
ministry has a Prayer Breakfast, where they pray all morning. We have these special
prayer times every six months. When we meet, we go over the lists from the
previous prayer service. We are always
greatly encouraged to see the way God is working. We counted over 20 answered
prayer requests, ranging from improvements to our buildings to the salvation of
special people in our church member’s lives.
After being encouraged that God does answer prayer, we start the
Missions Conference. We have missionary
trivia time with prizes, and a special meal to end the Sunday service. It was a great time of fellowship and
encouragement. Please pray that our
people will continue to learn the importance of missions and keep sacrificing
to sustain the missionaries we support as a church.
The Bible
Institute just completed another quarter with record attendance. The men happily received their updated
transcripts with more courses completed.
The new quarter started this past week, and the men are excited to be
studying Hebrews and Revelation. Please
pray for Steve as he continues to develop the curriculum and teach it. Please
pray for the students as they embark on a new study of two important books.
An area of
ministry that is developing is our teen ministry. We took six teenagers to a
park last Saturday to evangelize. It was
the first time that many of them attempted this. At first, they were a bit shy,
but after some time they were all passing out tracts, and trying to talk to
people. One of the teens went home and
told her grandmother how much she enjoyed the experience. We plan on continuing to help these teens
serve the Lord. Pray for them, they have many of the same battles that teens in
the States face.
The women’s
ministry was very happy to see a special lady saved this past month. Her
husband has been saved for about a year, and she has just recently started
coming to church. Some of the ladies had
the chance to visit her home, and during that visit, she asked Jesus into her
heart to save her. Please pray for Edwin
and Vanessa’s spiritual growth.
We always
enjoy sharing a little about our family in each prayer letter. But this time, we have a prayer request that
is heavy on our hearts. Steve’s mom was
diagnosed with cancer a few weeks ago. While we do not have many answers right
now, we are trusting God and seeking His wisdom. Please pray for us as we wait for more
details. Pray that everyone involved
(doctors, family members) makes the correct decisions that will ultimately
bring God glory. We thank you for your
prayers and faithfulness.
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