Here in South America we have to face many times difficulties and challenges. One of the difficulties that we face on a regular basis are strikes. During a strike roads are closed, and all transportation is stopped from going in or out of the city leaving it without out gas, meat and other necessities. The first part of this passed month the rural people from surrounding areas … [Read more...]
Reaching out to Youth
This past month we started a youth meeting at the church to help those young people that are coming and to reach out to more in the community. At our first meeting we just announced it to the church and had about 13 show up. At the second meeting we divided them up into two groups one being called to faithful ones and the other called the gladiators. We started a competition … [Read more...]
Christmas Program
This Christmas was a very special time here in Bolivia. To celebrate Christ's birth we planned a Christmas program with the children of the church. Each child that participated had lines to memorize or a song to sing. The Sunday night of the program there were over 90 in attendance with many parents watching as their children presented the true story of Christmas. Angels … [Read more...]
Opportunities for Growth
We would like to thank each of you for your prayers for the need to purchase land in Cobija. We currently have $1500 promised for the land and are praying that the Lord will supply the rest. As one of our ministries here in Bolivia that we are helping get started our goal is to help them become a self supporting church. Unfortunately, the land that we were looking at has been … [Read more...]
Financial Conference
This November we had our first Financial Conference here in Bolivia. I was truly a blessing to us and many of the people in the church. There were almost fifteen people visiting for the first time and several that had visited before and returned for this special event. On Saturady we had over 70 in attendance with a banquet that followed. Many people commented on how much they … [Read more...]