Hola Brothers and Sisters!
Yes, this report is a month behind schedule and our apologies but that is due to the fact that these past three months have been some of the busiest we have seen in yet. Thank you for your patience and we are excited to share what has been happening here since August! God has been moving in big ways and we are doing our best to keep up and raise up workers along side us.
So many of you know that the large part of our work is evangelism, edification and restoration, most of that work is done through personal bible studies in homes or visits. Laura and I sat down and counted it out and over the last 3 months I have been studying with 32 different people weekly in homes in one or more of those three areas. That number has never been so high before and not without its fruits.
In the last 3 months we have had 17 new baptisms glory to God. 2 in September, 13 in October, and 2 in November. September we celebrated our churches 27th year anniversary as a congregation with a big congregational dinner, we were so blessed to have Brian and Michelle visiting us from Ecuador, they blessed us by taking my wife and I to the Southern part of Chile for a 3 day couple get away which was a time of prayer, renewel and fun! What a blessing, we also have our Chilean National celebrations 18th of September where Chile celebrates it’s independence and the whole country goes on a 5 day holiday in honor of that! So there are a lot of barbeques and time together in family. But Church doesn’t stop and as our church continues to grow and the demand for my time and the other evangelists time is needed
more in outreach. Yet God in his provision has also brought more great young men willing to serve to the fore front. So in October, I offered a Lord’s supper and devotional preparation training for men in our congregation who are interested.
There was a great turn out, around 14 men of all ages showed up. Several have taken great initiative and are doing a wonderful job. The Congregation in La Villa also held there annual evangelistic campaign where I was again honored to be invited to be one of the speakers and that campaign resulted in 3 of the 17 baptisms I am happy to tell you about.
Laura has also been very busy working on a series in Genesis for our women’s ministry here in Nogales. She has given three classes and is set to give the fourth at the end of this month. The series is called “Us” looking at the relational nature of God and therefore the relational dynamic we were created for with each other and God as being image bearers. It is very exciting work and our ladies are loving it. She is also working very hard as a tutor for our girls home school community, teaching our own two girls and investing in women in our church one on one ministry needs of various women just by having them in our home and listening to them and praying with them. This year she has worked very hard in building up
new leaders for our children’s ministry and has a great group of ladies.
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