June 2007 Prayer Letter

Advancing in Missions
We recently had the privilege of having a new Mexican missionary, Jose Luis Fuentes, and his family who are going to Venezuela. He was truly a blessing to our church. He has a tremendous testimony. He was a gang member, on drugs and spent five years in prison. Upon being released from prison he went to Colima, Mexico where an American missionary led him to Christ. He became an effective witness and later was called to preach. He and his wife have since graduated from a Bible Institute and are on deputation to be missionaries.

We took advantage of him being in the Aguas area and put the whole month as Missions emphasis. We were able to have him preach twice. The other Sundays I preached on missions. We upped our faith promise giving to over 2,000.00 pesos/month. We were able to take on this new family. I also got him into other churches in the area. We took him door to door with the young men I am training so that they could learn from him. He commented to me on two occasions as to how willing and eager these guys are to learn. Now the ladies are saying they want to learn so soon Teresa will be starting a class for them on how to witness.

Ladies’ Meeting
This month we also had a Ladies’ Meeting. We invited ladies from the Paquette’s church as well. They had a great time. The theme was ‘watermelon’ and everything was decorated with that theme. Jessica and another missionary daughter made a cake and cookies that looked like watermelon. Teresa taught them a craft, making a peacock from a “watermelon.” Ladies from our church brought crafts that looked like, (you guessed it), “watermelon.” Teresa was able to share the Gospel using the colors from the ‘watermelon.’ The missionary’s wife, Adriana Fuentes brought a devotional. The Ladies played games and had a great time of fellowship. Some ladies came to this who would not go to a church service. That is what it’s all about, the Christian ladies having a good time and the lost seeing that and hearing the Gospel.

Note: I preached two weeks on “Separation of the Church from the World” and men and ladies are beginning to dress up.

Training Soul-Winners

The Lord has given me five men, (one not pictured), to train in soul-winning. The great thing is that these men are eager to learn. They pray for patience, they go out with me every week and, sometimes more than once. At least one of them is going with me every night except Friday and all of them go on Saturday. Angel, (in the Blue shirt), has won two people to the Lord by himself. He is so excited!

Fernando, (in the coat), has come very close to winning someone. He witnesses with confidence. This past week we saw 5 people saved. A couple of weeks ago we saw a Dad, mom, son and daughter, (21 & 22) get saved. The mom said, “The covering has come off my eyes.” In other words she now saw the truth. This past week, I went to see a young man that had received Christ and he wasn’t home but I won his mother and brother. Pray for these soulwinners.

Thank you for your prayers!