Goldfuss update (May 27)

Dear Praying Partners,

It is such a joy to serve the Lord here in Mexico. Most of the congregation is now arriving for Sunday school also. What a blessing it is to have prepared people with their lessons completed ready to answer and participate. Almost everyone was in attendance today. All are excited about the upcoming baptismal services next Sunday.

Praises:

• Gabriel--who has been working on some Sundays was in the Lord's house today.
• It appears that Juana and Fidel are going to lose their property but they will not have to go to jail. They are to appear before the judge in one month. Thank you so much for praying.
• Noemi's property situation--I am not sure if this is a praise, but Noemi's courtroom date was changed from last week to this next week. The neighbors who assaulted her and her son were sent to jail for two days before they paid money to get out. They are now even meaner than before. Noemi is scheduled to go back to the judge this next week. Please keep praying. The praise is that Noemi is not in jail (yet). Keep praying for calmness for Noemi.
• Mike had a safe trip to Ohio to attend his grandfather's funeral. Grandpa's life was spent serving the Lord and serving others and it was very evident in the funeral.
• Two more ladies have agreed to teach the children's Sunday school class. So we now have five teachers which gives everyone four out of five weeks to be in Sunday school.
  

Prayer requests:

• THE BAPTISMS----JUNE 3RD!!!
  11:00 Sunday School
  1:00 Church
  3:00 We will all load up in cars and go to the swimming pool down the road for the baptisms.
  5:00 Back to the church to eat dinner.
  6:30 Film--Behind the Sun--This is a film about a Muslim man who becomes a Christian and the consequences of his decision.
• Pray for wisdom in individually speaking with the candidates. We now have 8 that are interested---and we have not been able to speak with all of them due to Mike's trip last week. Some may need to wait for the next bapitismal services to increase their understanding.
• Pray for the people to use this as an opportunity to invite unsaved friends and relatives.
• Pray for everything to go smoothly in the services---Whenever we have a big day planned like this, it can be very hectic. In the beginning of our church, people would forget to bring plastic forks or very needed items. Then they progressed to bringing everything, but not coming to the services because they were preparing the food. After much teaching, they now come with food prepared-----and they come early! This is such a praise. We do pray though that everyone would be safe as we go back and forth from the baptism and that we wouldn't lose any children during the confusion. :-) Pray for all visitors to feel welcome.
• And mainly, please pray that everything done would bring honor and glory to our Lord Jesus Christ.
  

The trip home for Mike from Cleveland was rather eventful on Thursday. All planes were grounded in Dallas due to very bad weather. Mike had to spend the night in a very smoky hotel room WITHOUT his luggage or a change of clothes. The airline said that he was booked on Friday on the 6PM flight, but he could possibly fly standby on the 9AM flight. After arriving early and waiting a very long time, Mike was the very last person to get a seat on the morning flight! Nearly everyone was traveling with someone else, and there was only one seat left. He arrived home at 4PM looking rather disheveled and "scruffy" ---- BUT we did not care! We were just glad to have him home. By the way, Faith and Amara survived. :-)

Thank you for praying,

Mike, Faith, Mikey, Cristiana, Carissa, Matthew, Cherith, and Caralyn Goldfuss