Dear Praying Friends,
Thank you for your prayers for a busy week.
This week promises to get busier. Home school starts bright and early tomorrow morning. The task seems overwhelming at this point (this year we will have five taking classes), so please pray for Faith and the kids for patience, strength and lots of work to get accomplished. We praise the Lord that on Friday Melissa Pate is coming to help with the home schooling. That will be a tremendous blessing.
Our men's meeting went very well on Friday night. We had 10 men present here at our home and had a good time continuing our study on elders. Please continue to pray for the Lord to raise up men who will be faithful shepherd elders here in Mexico City.
On Saturday we had another creek walk with the young people. We had several more attend this month than last month and the new ones really enjoyed the cold water. There was one place where it's very slippery and you have to cross the creek there. The only place where the footing is not slick is right in the center of the rushing water. I planted myself there and helped each young person across one by one. They would put their feet against mine and get across. All was going well until one girl tried it by herself about 6 more feet upstream, fell and knocked the next guy who was about three feet away into me which in turn knocked me into about a 4 foot deep pool of FREEZING COLD WATER. Needless to say, it takes your breath away. The human bowling was successful as I was the only "pin" to get knocked into the gutter. :-) Our Bible study was on Daniel and his three Hebrew friends who were taken to a foreign country and remained faithful to their God when apparently all the other Hebrew captives capitulated to the pagan influences. Pray for the Lord to raise up faithful young people amidst the pagan influences of Mexico City also.
Today we finished Hebrews 8 in SS and also finished our 3rd and final study on Biblical modesty. There were some good comments and one young lady even asked Faith to help her after the service as she didn't even know that there was such a thing as immodesty. Praise the Lord for tender hearts and for a desire to please and glorify Him in order that the Word of God be not blasphemed.
Last week we asked you to pray for Marcos and Ruth as they had moved quite a ways away to be with her parents. Last Sunday they were not in attendance but that day they had a problem with Ruth's parents interfering with their discipline of their daughter Jimena. Ruth's father denounced them to some government officials on Monday. Marcos called on Monday night and asked if they might be able to move up to our cabin for a time. So, at 10 PM on Tuesday night, Gabriel (who owns a pick-up) and myself went with with several of Marcos' brothers to load up their stuff and bring it up to our cabin. We got them all moved in and into bed by 3 AM. So, Marcos and Ruth are attending much more faithfully then they were. :-) Thank you for praying. Pray for them as Ruth is 7 months pregnant now. They will have to change Jimena's school along with a few other changes, but praise the Lord they are closer and can attend all the services again. (As long as they are in the cabin, they have to. :-)
Matilde was not in the services today as she is again having kidney problems. She has suffered several severe kidney infections this year. Please pray if it would please the Lord that He would remove this thorn in her flesh and if not, that His grace would be evident in her life. Her husband Erasmo is to have his gall stone operation next Tuesday so please keep this family in your prayers.
We asked you to pray last week for Miguel, Nico and Liliana's son who left home--he's all of 12 years old. He returned again this past Friday. He is very very hard to the things of the Lord. Please pray for the Lord to arrest him and save him by His grace.
We covet your prayers,
In Christ,
Mike for all the Goldfii
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