Lesson’s I’ve Learned:
To me one of the most important things that will determine if we meet our goals or not and accomplish the things we want is our personal growth. While there are many things that you could do to help in your personal growth, I think one of the most important is self evaluation. Not being always critical of yourself but evaluating and learning from you mistakes and successes. The past four years of being on the mission field has taught me many things. As I reflected on those things there were several that seemed to stick. This is a abbreviated version of it, but if you would like the whole thing you can go to our website www.operationbolivia.com.
1. The importance of personal growth.
This might seem obvious with what I just wrote but in reality if you are not intentional you will not grow.
It is very important to be reading, listening to podcast, asking questions, anything that will help you grow.
2. The importance of focusing on men
I heard it said once that the success of our ministry is not in how many we have or keep but send.
There are many responsibilities in the ministry but few more important than investing in training men.
3. The amount of time it take people to grow.
If we are honest we all probably have many things in our lives that we still need to work on regularly so if you take a person starting from zero, it really takes a lot of work and time to help them grow to maturity.
4. The importance of spending valuable time with family.
Referring back to number 2 the one ministry that I can say that is more important than any other is our family.
Balancing family and ministry is not easy and like personal growth if we are not intentional it won’t happen.
We must determine to spend valuable and quality time with both or spouse and children. Time passes too fast and the lost moments can’t be gotten back.
Keep Praying:
The Lord continues to bless in the giving for our land fund and although we still have a ways to go we are getting closer each time. This past month we had a supporting church give $1000 and another give $100. One of the surprise blessing that we received is two Vacation Bible School offerings that were given, one for $91.50 and another for $2000. In all that brings us to right at $22,000 left. By the time you read this we will probably have a little over a month till the deadline to pay off our loan so we would like to ask you to continue to pray for us and this need so that we can reach our goal. If you would like to help us please let us know at kwhite@goreachtheworld.org and send to;
Vision Baptist Missions
c/o Bolivia land fund
P.O. Box 442
Alpharetta GA 30009
Prayer Requests:
1. Pray for the Saucedo family that is part of our church in Bolivia. They lost their 3 year old daughter.
2. Pray that my car in Bolivia will sell to help pay off the land.
3. Pray for Isaac and Pablo as they lead the churches in Cochabamba and Quillacollo.
4. Pray for the construction of our new church building so that the church can have services on the land.