Dear prayer Partners,
Thank you for praying! We truly rely on your prayers.
Our main prayer request is that the Lord would work in a main man in the ministry here. We had to deal with a situation in December and it appeared that he responded biblically. Time has shown that response to not be lasting. Please pray for the God of light to bring glory to Himself even in a very dark situation.
Praises:
1. In the midst of this heartache, school has been going full force. Jessica, our teacher left on May 6th. Cristi and Carissa (through the Lord's help) were able to finish over 3 1/2 weeks early! They have been assisting me every day with the 3 little kids. We are hoping to finish by the end of May.
2. Two ladies worked out a rather large problem between them. One asked the other for forgiveness--and the other forgave her.
3. There was a young man, Victor, who was saved about 4 years ago in our church. We had him with us for less than a year before he had to return to Spain. He was able to find a small church when he went back to Spain, became faithful, and began serving there. The pastor in Spain recommended getting further studies in the States. So Victor went to a Bible college in the US and just graduated! He is getting married in August, working at the college for one year, and returning to Spain to help (become a pastor??) in the church there. We are so happy to see what the Lord has done in his life.
(It is humbling to see how The Lord uses small things. This all has c ome about because we met a family at the Olympic Village where our kids do sports! Two of the family members became faithful members at our church, and they invited their nephew (Victor) who was spending the year in Mexico!! Our God is so amazing!!!)
4. For safety during another earthquake.
Prayer Requests:
1. Man’s problem in the church—see above.
2. Strength as we still have effects from the flu or whatever it was that we had---weakness.
3. Visitors that have now come faithfully--Vicente, Pillar, Tamara, Maria.
4. For growth involving two men that Mike is having a weekly Bible study with via Skype from a jail in Missouri. The man definitely seems to be genuinely saved and is delving into a theology book. He is having his sentencing today and will find out how much more time he will have in prison and when he will be deported back to Mexico. He is originally from Mexico City.
5. Visitors from the States: Lydia and Jonathan Layton --May 19-26th AND pastor Eric Sipe--May 23rd-26th. Pray that all would have a wonderful time and be blessed and burdened for the lost, and that the Lord would accomplish His purposes through their visits.
6. Our big, huge, enormous Graduation Party and Goodbye Party for Mikey with the church and all of his friends---May 31st. We are praying that the Lord would give us wisdom in knowing how to set everything up, and how to run the ceremony and activities. It may rain and we need to have it outside. Pray that we would be a good testimony and that the gospel would be given.
7. Our emotions. We all have such mixed feelings during this very happy time. (#6)
8. We need to also be packing and getting ready to leave by June 1st to come to the States for a mini-furlough.
9. Jon Crocker’s leadership in the church with the other men while we are gone this summer. Jon will be preaching most of the Sundays but the people will be doing VBS and discipleship and helping preach on Wednesdays.
10. OUR VAN. We are supposed to pick it up again today—hopefully with a transmission fixed. We don’t have much hope that it will be due to everything that has happened to this point. But we do trust in our sovereign Lord.
Thank you for praying! We are tempted to feel overwhelmed, but we know that He is our Rock.
In Christ,
Faith
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