Goldfuss update (March 2)

Dear praying friends,

Thank you so much for praying for our church. The only thing that we can say right now is that God is answering your prayers. His power has been so overwhelming that even though we are in the middle, we can only stand back in awe and praise the Lord. This situation has involved five different men. After dealing with the situation for over three weeks now, in the last three days, four of the five men have explained how the Lord has showed them through His Word of their need to change. One other man has been changing gradually as well. This is only a result of your prayers. Mike still needs to talk to one more man, but praise the Lord for His work. The last three nights, one with each man, have been physically exhausting. But praise the Lord for His work and His strength. It is so obvious that it is not our work nor our strength. Please continue to pray that the meeting will go well. It very well may be tonight. Pray for humility and a biblical Christ-like response.

We are grateful to each of you who have prayed and ask that you continue to do so. Thank you so much for holding the ropes. The Lord has worked, is working and will continue to work and build His church.

Praise His name,

Mike for us all

Goldfuss update (February 26)

Dear Praying Friends,

Several weeks ago, we had extremely high winds and rain--way out of season for that. There were many trees down and our electricity was out for about 5 days. Then when it did come back on it was extremely low. Praise the Lord that for the last week or so we have had it at the correct voltage and strength. The little things in life that we take for granted are certainly nice to have after not having them for several weeks. This is one reason that we have been unable to write---very little or low electricity.

We really need serious prayer for some difficult situations in the church. There are several men who have really had some divisions over different issues. We prayed for years for men. Now that we have some good ones, there has been a great deal of division during the last two months. Some of the things have been corrected and repented of, but there are still some things causing division--most of it is different preferences and personalities, not anything over sound doctrine. We really need you to pray for a Christ-like love in each of our men for each other. Please pray that we will be patient with each other and recognize how much our Savior has put up with us. Then pray that that would transfer to our attitudes and actions toward each other. These men, Lord willing, will be the future leaders of this church. They have to love and care for others, not only be concerned for their own opinions. Please pray for the Lord's working.

I will admit, this has probably been the most difficult and heart-wrenching month of ministry that we have ever experienced here in Mexico City. Pray that Satan would not have a foothold, that we would all be Christlike in our attitudes and actions, and that we would bring glory to our great God and Savior Jesus Christ through it all. We are thankful that HE has promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against His church.

Thank you for your prayers,
mike for all the goldfii

Goldfuss update (February 5)

Dear Praying Friends,

We have received extremely high winds and rain this past week. That is absolutely abnormal for this time of year. We are without electricity and telephone/internet and aren't sure when it will be back up. I came down around the church today to connect to see if we had any new messages. If you need to contact us, please write an email and we'll respond as soon as we can--as soon as our phone service is resotred--and that could possibly be a long time. We can get by a good bit with the generator, but that does not help the telephone situation.

Thank you for your prayers for us and the church here. There are several problems that people are communicating about and trying to get taken care of. Please pray that we would all confront and respond in humility and love.

Thanks for praying,

Mike for all the Goldfii

Goldfuss update (January 24)

Dear Praying Friends, 

People we have been trying to reach for awhile now:

1. Thank you for praying for Citlali and Lorena. They have both accepted study Bibles and devotional books gratefully. Please pray that they would both desire to have a Bible study and time with Faith. Both of their lives are very hectic and unstable.
2. Eric and Delilah are still coming faithfully to church, but have not been able to come for a study on marriage yet. Continue to pray for the Lord to work in their hearts.
3. Victor has been coming faithfully and seeking to learn. What a blessing. He is studying his Bible on his own and showing some good signs of life.

Growth Among our church people:

1. It is such a blessing to see men who are seeking to follow the Lord. Nico has been going out on Saturdays on his own to different parks in Mexico City. He has been doing an evangelistic questionnaire for people and giving out tracts and speaking to people about their need of the gospel. He has also been inviting different families to his house on Sundays and seeking to encourage and exhort them. It is neat to see people seeking to show hospitality to others.
2. Memo has been seeking to witness faithfully to several of his co-workers. We were able to have dinner with their family today and were able to talk about a few issues that they were wondering about in the church. Memo could be a major leader in the church. We have been trying to persuade him to try to preach on some Wednesday nights. Please bathe him in prayer. His wife Karina is already getting excited about VBS and has volunteered to participate in a major part. (We have not even brought this up to the church yet!)
3. We had a nice visit yesterday, complete with wonderful food brought by our visitors, the Olivares family. They brought chicken, pork and beef and grilled tacos out in the front yard. They are really growing by inviting friends and relatives and striving to please the Lord in what they do.

Recent Newcomers:

1. Bettie and her son Gabriel--came today. Bettie has come about three times throughout the last three years and today was the first day her son came with her.
2. And we will end this week with a real encouragement. Tania showed up to church last week. She has been praying for a good church to attend as she recently left a cult. Through some people in Monterrey who know the Zartmans, she made it to our church and the first people she met were the Olivares--who also previously had been in the same sect. She is very confused about a lot of things but has enjoyed preaching from God's Word the last two weeks. Please pray for the Lord to really show her His truth. She plans to bring her parents next week.

Thank you so much for your support and prayers!

Mike, Faith, Mikey, Cristi, Carissa, Matthew, Cherith, and Caralyn

P.S. Pray for Ruth and Marcos. Ruth broke her foot and it is difficult for her to take care of their two little ones.

Goldfuss update (January 4)

Dear praying friends,

The Lord is working in Eric and Dalilah's hearts. They came to church yesterday and agreed to come tonight to talk with us again. Please pray for salvation in both of them. It was an incredible surprise and blessing to see Dalilah's sister, Aurora, in attendance yesterday. We got to talk with her first about a year ago and we saw her again on Christmas Eve. She has two daughters who also attended with her--Samantha and Andrea. Please pray that they will return and also that God will open their hearts as He opened Lydia's heart in Acts 17.

Victor, who we mentioned last week, came on Wednesday night to our testimony and special hymn night. He was eager to give a testimony. The Lord is obviously working in his heart and life. Please pray as we seek to follow up with Victor as well.

Please pray for the Frutos family that has been struggling with a time of marital infidelity in the family. They were absent today. Also absent for the second straight week was the Lopez family. Please pray for the power of the gospel to work mightily in both of these families.

School has started back up again today. Our distinguished staff of Peniel Christian Academy, Jon, Andrea, Reme and Faith are all upping their load this semester in helping teach. We do ask that you would continue to pray for the Lord to provide another school teacher for this semester if He so wills it. Our distinguished staff is also very thankful for another teacher this semester--Mikey will be proctoring Matthew in 1st grade Science. We are very thankful for the great start that Bekah helped us achieve during our first semester, and we will miss her a lot.

Some have asked about the resolution of the money problem that we had with our offering situation. No one has come forward to confess that, so please keep praying to that end so that there may be restoration.

Thank you for all of your prayers.

In Christ,

Mike for all the Goldfii