Goldfuss update

Dear Prayer Partners,

Praises:
1.  One visiting lady, Carmelita, has come back two times and also brought her grandson.  In talking to her, she doesn't have a good grasp of the gospel.
2.  The 5 men who said they would come to church two weeks ago, didn't. They said they would come this past Sunday; and didn't.  But, two of them came last night to our midweek service.  Mike is loaning them an MP3 player with a dramatized audio New Testament.  One of them today said that he "heard things last night in listening to that that he never ever knew before."  Pray for God to use His Word to open their hearts.
3.  Our church is rallying around Juana in prayer, presence, love, and monetary gifts.  We praise the Lord for their unity.  Sarai, Juana's daughter, is overwhelmed by the love that has been shown to her mother and family.  Our men's meeting last Friday evening involved some excellent questions as to how we can help Juana and her family and deal with her health situation.  All of us prayed about 40 minutes together with extremely heartfelt, serious, and caring prayers to our sovereign God for Juana, each letting our requests be made known and also trusting for God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.
4.  Lauren, our former schoolteacher, is coming from next Wednesday to Sunday.  That will be very joyful for the children as well as helpful to mom in school as she can oversee the older girls.

Prayer requests:
1.  A new family visited our church about a month ago and Faith and I were able to go and visit them.  The mom said that due to her work schedule that they would not be attending for four weeks, but then they hoped to attend again. Pray that they would come again this week.  Pray that they would make it a priority to be in the Lord's house.  They do not know the Lord, but have an interest.

2.  Pray for Juana and her family at this time.  As we mentioned in our last letter, she was supposed to find out the results of a biopsy this last Tuesday.  They have postponed that until Nov. 7th.  Right now things are not looking good.  Marcos, her son worked in an institution that helps children with cancer.  One doctor that worked with him, who now works in the woman's hospital, told Marcos that his mother was at stage 4.  How he knew that before the biopsy, we are not sure.  Yet her doctors are not saying anything---and won't for these next three weeks.  It is hard for all of us to wait.  The biopsy was also very painful and Juana is now recuperating from the whole ordeal.  She has had a tremendous testimony though to our church family and to family members who are unsaved.

3.  Please pray for all of us--- for our health.  We are doing much better with stomach issues, but the pollution is so bad that everyone is having a horrible time respiratory-wise.

4.  A taxi- driver by the name of Juan Jose, who was very serious about wanting to come to church.  Pray for his salvation.

5.  Our own children's salvation and for our love for the Lord to grow.

Thank you so much for praying!

Mike, Faith, Mikey, Cristi, Carissa, Matthew, Cheri, and Cara Goldfuss.