Again we praise the Lord for a blessed Lord's day. Mike preached on baptism as we are preparing for our baptismal service on June 3rd. Pray for the 6 canidates that will be interviewed. Pray also for Memo and Carina as they have more questions about being baptized. We also enjoyed the Lord's Supper together.
Praises:
- Señoras Maria and Gloria, (the elderly ladies), were able to attend for all 4 1/2 hours!
- Do you remember the 18 year old twins, Elsa and Alondra, that the church people "adopted" when their mother abandoned them? They were with our church for 2 years at least, but stopped coming about a year and a half ago. Well, they were both there today. That is a wonderful praise. Alondra is living with her boyfriend, Miguel, and has a new little boy who is about two months old. Pray that they would all come back again to be under the Word.
- Janet and Vanessa returned after not coming for two weeks. Thank you for praying. Vanessa is very discouraged. She has asked the Lord to forgive her, but she wants to go and ask someone else's forgiveness for something that she did against them. That person will not talk with her. She feels the weight of the unresolved conflict.
- Gabriel---is a workaholic who provides for his family well, but has been putting work before the Lord.
- Marcos and Ruth---for complete dedication to God.
- Juana and Fidel--You may remember praying for this family who was in danger of losing their property unjustly. This was the family where thirty men came at 6 AM three years ago and threw out all of their belongings into the street. Well, they found out that they lost the case. It seems as if the judge was paid off. They may lose their home and property or lose their home and property and go to jail. Juana is one of our most if not THE most faithful lady in our church. She has a wonderful testimony and has looked at this trial as an opportunity to again preach to the people inside the jail if that is the Lord's will. Please pray hard for this situation. Tomorrow morning they have to again go before the judge. Their son, Abram was unjustly accused of punching the man that is trying to get the property. (Abram never did anything.) Please pray that all will stay out of jail if that is the Lord's will. And pray for this situation to work in Abram's heart as he grew up in our church and has stopped attending since he was eighteen.
- The above situation was not Noemi's property situation that we mentioned two weeks ago. Even though the judge miraculously ruled to give her freedom (after her neighbors falsely accused her to get her property), for some reason they want her to come back before the judge on Wednesday. So please pray for calmness for Noemi and for fairness in these horribly unjust courtrooms.
It is amazing to us to see what these people have had to go through. These ladies are both relying in the Lord and looking at their trials as permitted by the Lord to strengthen their walks with Him. - Mike's grandfather, Vince Ostrander, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday. He had just turned 97. Grandpa was an incredible man who seemed to always be busy serving in the Lord's work and serving others. He fell off a ladder at our school gym while he was helping to build it when he was 80! Mike's brother graciously bought Mike a ticket to fly back to Ohio and then called to let him know. All seven siblings will be there to be with their mother. Please pray for Mike as he will be gone from Monday evening to Thurday. Pray that the Lord would be honored in the funeral. And also pray for Faith as she "holds the fort." (Morgan will be continuing his series in Hebrews on Wednesday.) We praise the Lord that Amara, Faith's neice, will still be here to "hold the fort" with her.
Mike, Faith, Mikey, Cristiana, Carissa, Matthew, Cherith, and Caralyn Goldfuss
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