Our church family is going through some very difficult trials right now. Please pray for the Lord to work in a mighty way and to have us make God look big and to think correctly about Him in spite of the trials.
- Juana and Reme and their family. You know of their ongoing legal struggles with their property. On Friday they told us that a paper had gone through giving them some sort of reprieve. On Saturday they called to tell us that they had a court meeting for today, Tuesday, and that they were going to be evicted and have their stuff moved out to the street again. Yesterday, they advised us that that has been delayed again. This has gone on now for over 4 1/2 years and they are desiring the Lord's will to be done either way, but they would just like the ordeal to end--either that the Lord would let them know that they have definitely won or lost their case. It has been very difficult for them to live with different accounts from different lawyers and people in the government. Please pray for continued grace for them and for their testimony.
- Marcos and Rut--Marcos is Juana's oldest son and they have been living with Juana for the past 2 months. On Sunday it became obvious that he is pretty angry with God about the whole situation. Please pray that he will not be angry with God but recognize that there is human responsibility in a lot of this too. We believe that he has guarded a lot of bitterness in his heart throughout the years toward some different people. Please pray for us to have wisdom in dealing with him too.
- Nico and Liliana--were not in church this past Sunday. They have had some serious communication problems in their family. We are working on that with them. In talking with them yesterday and today, they have been improving. Before knowing about God's Word, people are clueless about what they are supposed to do in a marriage and it takes a lot of time to go over and over different things. Please pray that they would both look to Christ and obey Him.
- Marta--We missed Marta this past Sunday and that was very surprising as she has been looking forward to June because her off days at the hospital are Sundays this month. I called her this morning and she said that her mother had a heart attack on Friday and so she was very occupied with that. Marta's dad just died about 2 months ago. With all of the family problems with her husband, with her health problems and now with her mom, Marta has really been tried. She said she is really looking forward to coming this Sunday so please pray that the Lord will allow that. Most Sundays she is only able to come to SS and has to leave for the hospital before our worship service, so ask the Lord to allow her to attend this whole month for each of our services.
Our 2 older ladies, Gloria and her mom Maria have not been able to attend our services for more than 3 months now due to Gloria's shingles. Visiting with them last week, they were looking forward to being there Sunday but were not in attendance. Please pray for the Lord's healing of Gloria so that they will be able to be back to worship with the Lord's people again. They are greatly missed.
This coming Saturday we have another men's meeting where we will be continuing our study on Biblical Eldership. Please pray for God to continue to work in men and to raise them up to be leaders for His glory in His timing. We praise the Lord that we finally do have men and entire families coming. This is totally a result of your prayers. There was a time, even just several years ago, where we didn't have any men attending faithfully. Please pray for Morgan, Humberto, Nicolas, Jose, Marcos, Erasmo, Uriel, Memo and Gabriel.
We appreciate your prayers for our family. We have had a few that have been sick and feeling under the weather for the past week.
Thank you so much for your prayers for us,
In Christ,
Mike for all the Goldfii
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