Prayer Letter July 2006

FRIEND DAY
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We thank the Lord for His continued blessings. We are starting new Bible Studies and have seen a few saved. One way we start studies is by door-to-door visitation. I recently lost my American partner, who took his family back to the States. But, I still have two Mexican men who go faithfully with me soul-winning every week. They also go with me to the studies and are learning how to both go from house to house, get a study started and then do the study in their home. Fernando Nava just did his first study solo this past Saturday. It went well and he will continue the study with the young man and his wife. Pray for Fernando and Emanuel, his brother, as they witness for Christ. Fernando also leads the singing for us now and they both sing specials.

Another way is by church groups coming and flooding a neighborhood with tracts. We have had four groups this year. One group was form Fairhaven Baptist church and we had 3 new families visit and started one new study from all the tracts they passed out. The other group just left but I’m sure someone will visit from their efforts. The last group is here now and I will mention them in the next letter.

Yet another way is by special days. We recently had ‘Friend Day.’ We had each person put the name of a friend who they would invite and we all prayed together for these friends. We had the Paquette Family, some missionary friends of ours come and preach and sing. Bro. Clark preached on ‘How to be a Friend to Jesus.’ His kids sang beautifully as his wife, Robyn, played the keyboard. It was a blessing to the people. We thank the Lord for the 65 present but mostly that they learned to be a friend to Jesus. Pray for their continued growth.


PUTTING THEM IN PLACE OF SERVICE
We are trying to get the people involved more in their church. We now have a man who is in charge of making sure somebody cleans the church each week. He also opens on Sunday. As mentioned above, I am training two young men, not just to witness, but to be trainers themselves.

Jeremy is training Angel to teach the Young people. He told me Sunday that he is ready as soon as Jeremy says, ‘Take it.” He trains men where he works at Nissan and said the best way to learn is just dive in and start doing it.

Teresa is also training his wife, Elizabeth to take the children. She is teaching a series of stories in the Bible that deal with water; that’s why the room is decorated as you see it. You know that the people who grow the fastest are those who are involved in the work. Pray for them as teaching and witnessing is a new step for them, and news steps always bring a little preoccupation with them.