- The Wedding. Sarai and Humberto were married on Saturday. Thank you for your prayers. It was a very difficult week or two leading up to the wedding, but that was probably because we had some OUTSTANDING opportunities to give the gospel during the reception. Please pray for Isaac and Sylvia--not married and living together, a doctor and his wife, Liliana Olivares' 2 cousins, Bety and Yolanda, and Hilario and Sandra. It was an exhausting day but very very profitable. Praise the Lord that Yolanda came to church yesterday. She had said that she was not interested at all in a Christian church, but she wanted to see a wedding. After the wedding, she came to our services yesterday and said she really enjoyed being there. Please pray for the Lord to save each one of these people. (We are including some pictures from the wedding Saturday that Lourdes from our church took. The family one has a not so nice-looking green tarp over us all.)
- This Saturday at 2 pm we are planning two teacher training sessions for our SS teachers and the young people who help them. It is also open for anyone else who would like to teach in the future. Faith and the girls are doing a sit-down lunch for all of them--about 25 people total are expected.
- A week from this evening, the BJU Spanish team will be arriving. We have a lot to do to get ready for that this week.
- Pray for one of the kids who is still finishing up school. Please pray for endurance to finish.
- Andrea delivered Timothy Wesley Crocker a week ago this past Friday. Things were a bit hectic, and he came 3 weeks early, but praise the Lord that they are both doing well and back here in the cabin again.
- As many of you might remember, we had an extended period of time in this past year where men were not showing any patience or love toward others. There is a new man who has been coming recently, Luis, who comes from a cult named "The Perfects." We have a few other people who have been attending for a few years who have come out of that group--they have joined us, "The Unperfects." :-) Anyway, in our SS class right now we are going through sanctification and the flesh. Morgan asked a question yesterday that he would not have asked if Luis had been there. The questions, answers and comments back and forth throughout the class were a tremendous blessing as no one was prideful or overbearing in their answers. It underscored God's grace to us in these last few months in seeing how He has brought some of the men along tremendously in their love, charity and humility in their answers to and treatment of others. To give you just an idea of the kind of discussion we had yesterday, Galatians 5:24 states: "And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." If Luis had been there, he would definitely have taken that verse to say that if someone is in Christ, they then don't sin because the passions and desires have been crucified. So we tried to honestly search out the verse and it's meaning and understand it in relation to other verses that talk about the fight in the believer. Liliana Olivares had a great statement yesterday. It even rhymes in English--"So before I was saved, sin was my delight; Now it's my fight." Praise the Lord for His work in teaching us through difficult times. Praise the Lord for the patience he is teaching each one of us with others, when He is and has been so patient with us.
In Christ,
Mike for all the Goldfii
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