April / May / June 2014
Greetings once again from Juarez, Mexico. We have been very busy since our last report, and I know that this letter is overdue so please forgive my tardiness. Thanks to your prayers and support, the Lord has done some wonderful things in the past couple months! While we still face daily challenges, we know the Lord is on our side and it is comforting to know we have your prayers on our behalf as well – Thank You!
Iglesia Bautista “Castillo Mio” – Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua – We held our annual missions conference Feb 27th to March 3rd and had guest speaker Brother Samuel Gomez from the state of Guanajuato, Mex. The Lord blessed and our faith promise commitment increased, and we were able to take on a new missionary for this coming year. Faithfulness to the promise has always been a challenge, so please pray that this year all would be faithful to their commitment. A few of our people were also blessed to attend a 3-day Bible conference taught by a messianic Jew here in Juarez. He taught us about prophecy and about the messiah from Isaiah.
Beside our own campaigns in June and November we were able to help in the campaigns sponsored by Bearing Precious Seed in early April. I calculate that we were able to distribute close to 35,000 John and Romans during the 2 days we participated.
Manuel Garcia is now fully installed as pastor. Brother Hugo has returned at least for the time being to Bermejillo, Durango where he is helping Pastor Lorenzo in the Grace Bible Baptist Church. Please pray that the Lord will bless this church as it moves forward.
Iglesia Bautista “Esperanza Mia” – Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua took part in celebrating the second anniversary of this work on May 4th, there were over 200 precious people in attendance. The Lord has certainly blessed this work with over 80 baptisms in their first 2 years. Pastor DeAnda and his family have done a wonderful job establishing and leading this church. Even after all the modifications that have been done to this house they meet in the room is insufficient.
Please pray that the Lord would guide them as well as provide a larger building for them to meet in. They will need more room if they continue on this pace.
NEW MISSION WORK – Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua – On April 22nd, we had first contact with the neighborhood where we plan to start the next church. For 3 Tuesday evenings in a row we’ve been able to go out to soul-win in the area as well as hold a kid’s club in the park in this area. We’ve had an average attendance in the park of around 25 children and 10 adults. There have been several professions of faith. Please pray that these sowing efforts would bear fruit. Pastor Angel Luna has moved back to Juarez and is heading this work. He is still unable to walk but is doing a great job from his wheel chair, pray for his continued recovery. Pray for this mission in an area called “Royal Desert”.
2014 Juarez Campaign – June 11th-14th– Please be in prayer for the first campaign this year. We plan to distribute 100,000 Chick Tracts on the streets of Juarez! We’ll also plan to have 3 open-air evangelistic meetings in the area surrounding our churches.
We have passed the half way mark towards the funds we’ll need to pay for the tracts. We still need your help! We need Just 50 more churches or individuals to sponsor these campaigns with a 1-time donation of $100 or more.
Please help us, just like you wouldn’t send your soldiers to battle without bullets, don’t let us go to battle without our ammunition! I’ve enclosed a couple more of the campaign brochures, ignore the deadline of May 1st (we arranged to make 2 payments) we’ll need these funds by Labor Day. Would you help? Please give extra brochures to those who might help. Even if you cannot help with the full $100 every little bit will keep souls out of hell.
Looking for that Blessed Hope and Glorious Appearing!