Have you ever wondered how you can connect your members better with the missionaries that the church supports. Well here is a great ministry that I recently learned about from some great friends of mine at Vision Baptist Church in Alpharetta GA. It is called the Yokefellow Ministry and has the goal to partner church members with the missionaries that the church sends out to be … [Read more...]
April Prayer Letter
Couples Retreat: This past week we had our annual couples retreat here in Bolivia. It is always a special time for our church and really a blessing for our families. Our special speaker this year was Pastor Austin Gardner from Vision Baptist Church in Alpharetta Ga. He is always a great encouragement to us, and the ministry here. We started our … [Read more...]
Family, Fun and Recreation
One of the activities that is very common here, and that the people like a lot is when as a church we go out to a park or recreation area for the day. We did this several years ago and had a great time. This year, as summer was coming to an end we decided to have another one. We reserved a recreation park that has courts for basketball and soccer and a pool along with play … [Read more...]
Special Offering
The Bible tells us that it is more blessed to give than to receive. I can say that I have seen that to be true not only in my own life but also in the lives of many others and also in the ministry. After seeing the work and sacrifice that Pastor Lorenzo Laura and the church in Cobija has made it is exciting to see that they only lack a little more to be finished adding on to … [Read more...]
March Prayer Letter
La Ch’alla: As I walked into the grocery store I saw that the place was filled with smoke. My first thought was, “there must be a fire” but then I saw that the people were walking around, of course bothered by the suffocating smoke but they weren’t fleeing for their lives as I thought they might be. Then as I got a whiff of the smoke I knew exactly what it … [Read more...]