Known as the George Washington of South America Simón Bolivar was born July 24th 1783 in the city of Caracas Venezuela. He is famous as the liberator of the South American countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. Not only did the country of Bolivia get its name from him but Bolivar wrote their first constitution which was one of his most important political … [Read more...]
Special Days and Changed Lives
For the past eight months it has been amazing to see how our church has grown and lives have been changed. This past month we had stewardship month in our church teaching the people how that everything we have belongs to the Lord and that we are responsible for what we do with His things. We have given out offering cards for those who want to participate and many are now using … [Read more...]
English Graduation
We have just finished up our second semester of English classes at the church. This time around we seemed to have a lot less in attendance. We promoted the classes a little less because we had so many the previous semester and wanted to be able to accommodate those who came. The classes went well being able to get to know those who came better, because of the smaller … [Read more...]
Week of Passion
The first Thursday thru Sunday in April here in South America is called Semana Santa or Holy Week. This is the week that everyone here trys to make up for all the bad things they have done throughout the year. They attend mass up to twelve times in one day and on good Friday they don't eat any meat. Along with this they have processions where they parade statues of Mary, Joseph … [Read more...]
Reaching Families
We have written many times about the need here and all over the world to strengthen families. We are currently working to reach out to these families in different ways. From our English classes that we are now having for the second time to a ladies meeting that was started by our wives this past Saturday. Our main activity has been a couple’s meeting that we have every … [Read more...]