hi everybody!
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| Booboo always helps me make friends quickly |
Thanks for your prayers, i've sure needed every last one. The ministry here is in full swing. The folks from Projecto Culiacan are all here this month too. Thanks to your support I've got this van down here, affectionately dubbed the blue beast, and have been using it to get out to the work camps 4 nights a week. in just the last month, we've seen 4 cell groups spring up with 5, 10, sometimes 20 people in attendance. We share the fundamentals of what it means to be a Christian, how to repent and walk with God, the power of prayer, and the nearness and great love of God by the Holy Spirit. workers are getting involved from 3 different churches so far, so thats indeed answered prayer. i imagine there are as many camps outside the city as there are churches in the city, so we only have another 100 or so to go!
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actually, i feel like i'm kinda doing what i did back in slo. i'm mobilizing believers to step into evangelism and discipleship and respond to the needs of the nations around them. at first it looked like i'd have to bring a message 4 times a week but God has been so faithful to provide others to shoulder the burden. i've been training and encouraging them to lead the different discipleship meetings we started. soon i'll be able to move on to different camps and God willing continue this trend of inviting local believers from the churches to come join us and eventually take responsibility for a camp.
the indigenous people have been so overwhelmingly welcoming I still cant get over it. every where we go there is someone who wants to be discipled and wants a bible. i'm amazed at how few of them have actually had access to the word of God enough to even know how to find a scripture. they listen intently whether its through Esther's faithful translation, or my bumbling spanish, and come back week after week for more. someone is always giving us stuff too, a bag of tomatoes, hot tortillas and beans, or ten hard earned pesos to put in my gas tank. its humbling to be so richly rewarded for simply doing what i love to do.
Health wise we could use prayer. Booboo got really sick with a stomach virus a few weeks back and had to spend the night in the booboo hospital hooked up to an IV. she's well now but still acts like she's uncomfortable at times. i got some kind of cold-flu-allergy extravaganza a month ago which is mostly gone but still threatens my speaking ability. not so good when your job is to teach english, your ministry to preach the gospel and your greatest joy to sing in church. just pray and i'll be fine.
So here's a new development. my landlady just popped by to let me know she'll be needing me to either vacate the premises by april or may, or else buy the house. Hmmm, which one..... She's asking about $12,000 and i've got nearly half of that in my savings. perhaps we will be able to work something out. I'm dreading a long drawn out process of complicated paperwork and visa red-tape ahead. i'm working on finding a lawyer who might be able to help me actually make the purchase legally, and maybe even begin establishing residency. so lots to pray about on that end.
so here are the prayer requests in summary:
God raise up more local believers to lead small groups in the camps
God increase my business to provide for gas and other costs
God make us all healthy and strong to do His work
God give super clear direction and provision in regards to purchasing the house
God provide a team to come down with natalie in may/june
If you'd like to pray for my ministry co-workers by name they are as follows:
mama cande: spiritual mom of 70+ years, joins us three times a week.
esther: roommate and friend, translates for me mondays at san emilio
geraldo: 17 year old going on 30, preaches to the men in the camps
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| Geraldo in Campo 21 |
marissa: mother of four starting a new cell group with me next thursday, campo vaquero
jovita: powerful woman of God will take over giving messages on fridays, campo cuota
Pastor Amado: as beloved as his name implies, has adopted campo 21
Fredy: 18 year old missionary, works in the fields by day, evangelizes in the camps by night
Amigos n Hermanos youth: will begin joining us three nights a week, God willing
there's more pictures on facebook. Thanks so much for your keeping up the prayer and the faithful financial help. Together we are spreading the gospel to hundreds of people just dying to hear it. i just wish you could see how grateful they are for what you are providing for them.
much love in Christ,
sally
