Goldfuss update

Dear Prayer Partners,

 

Church update:

 

1.  Praise The Lord for two new families that have come.  Alberto and Connie with their little son Issac have asked for help with their son, want to be baptized, and seem to want to be a part of our church family.

 

2.  A man has been discouraged when he sins.  While this is good, he seems to be trusting in his own power for victory instead of trusting in Christ.  He swings from mountain tops to deep valleys.  Since he has been a leader, this has really affected the church.

 

3.  Fransico still meets with Mike on Wednesdays.  Pray for his salvation.

 

4.  A mother who left her family has returned after two months, and has been coming with her family.  Pray for true repentance and true restoration with her family.

 

5.  Laura, Nico's daughter, has been at church the last two weeks and has shown signs of conviction.  Please pray for her salvation--- and also for her little daughter, Jennifer's salvation as well.

 

6.  The Lord allowed me to be able to open a non- profit bookstore/ gift shop at the church this week.  We are charging the discount prices that we get as missionaries, and the people are thrilled.  The ladies are making some of the gifts and donating these items so that the profit of those items will go toward buying more books!  The people are using the items as gifts for unsaved relatives and friends to help them come to Christ.

 

Sunday was full!  Praise The Lord

 

 

On the home front:

1.    Carissa and Matthew played in their last games do the season.  Carissa's team placed third, and Matt's team placed second in a very close game.

2.  Grades for high school AHE need to be in by Friday.

3.  The girls are celebrating the end of school by making crafts.  Some are for the new bookstore.

4.  All the kids are sleeping out in our tent in the yard with Shadow to protect them!

5.  Cheri got a horrible infection in her mouth---  Antibiotics and the whole nine yards.

6.  AND on Monday night, I got stopped by the police AGAIN at no fault of mine own---only for being a blonde.  I had just cashed all of our money for the month, so Carissa hid it.   I had all of the girls in the car, and they wouldn't let me go--- saying that something was expired--which wasn't so.  He asked me where I lived, and I told him where and that my husband was a pastor. He then THREW all my papers at me like they were on fire and said ---GO!  Cristi and I were amazed because that never worked before, but we were thankful again for God's protection.

 

Thank you again for praying!

 

Faith for all the Goldfusses

Fwd: Goldfuss update

Dear Prayer Partners,

 

This has been a crazy week!  We are thankful for all that The Lord is doing.  We had two new visiting families this Sunday!   I am trying something new in this update.  It will be a family update:)

 

Mike-----Had lunch with a man struggling in his life after leaving his wife for another woman.  He is back with his wife.  Pray for Juan Carlos to truly understand salvation.  He has claimed to be a Christian for over 17 years, but his church before coming to ours has been very weak on doctrine and what conversion truly is.  Please also pray for wisdom for Mike in dealing with Sergio.  He is a very proud man who knows a lot.  He constantly seeks to answer in our SS hour and almost always what he says has many errors.  He has not responded well to admonitions regarding this.   On a very happy note, Mike taught the last Bible Club story on Samuel.  Everyone went outside to play and Mike asked two boys why they did not go outside.   Both boys said that they wanted to talk more about what Mike had taught about sin.  Please pray for a genuine conversion for both Tonio and Mauricio.

 

Faith---- had another good opportunity to talk with the lady at the orange juice stand.  She is very interested in coming to church.  Also, a friend, Georgina, who I knew at former gymnastics gym, called on Thursday night and  asked to have a Bible study!  Please pray as our studies will be every Tuesday night at 6pm.  I also was able to get with a graphic designer who helped me make up maps for the church that we can stick on the back of our tracts.  Tere volunteered to help me cut all of them out.  She regularly gives many tracts.  One lady called on Saturday because of a tract that she received from Tere.

 

Mikey---was able to do the gran finale as Prince Mofutofu for Bible Club this last Saturday.  His friend Elias did a great job as the king and Shadow did a great job as the king’s lion.  The children seemed to love Mikey's renditions.  Overall there were 30 different children that came to Bible Club for 8 weeks with an average of 22 each week.  Pray for these seeds to keep bearing fruit.   Mikey is super busy finishing up 11th grade while taking History of Civ. for college credit. 

 

Cristi---was a great helper in Bible Club and even taught one week.  At the beginning of last week, Cristi fell all the way down a flight of stairs and was very bruised.  Thankfully, nothing was broken.  We had to take her to the doctor on Friday because her foot was still bothering her.  He put it back in place.  This last Saturday (the next day) right after Bible Club, we rushed to one of her few yearly gymnastics competitions.  She placed 3rd and helped her team win 1st place overall!

 

Carissa---also was able to teach one week of Bible school!  She helps with the food preparation for Bible Clubs and is always making us goodies.  Last Friday her basketball team was in the finals.  Unfortunately, they lost ; but Carissa did a great job and made the last points for her team-----a three pointer from way out!

 

Matthew---had fun reenacting last week's break-in.  He was the very first one finished with school---about three weeks ago!  He helped me this week make a box for church where we can keep all of the tracts.

 

Cheri---has been learning how to teach the songs in Bible Club.  She also just learned how to do a back-flip!  Always pleasant, she is the one who rushes to help with the dishes. 

 

Cara---is constantly swinging or flipping.  I spent most of the day on Thursday getting x-rays because she fell really hard on her arm.  Again, we praise the Lord that it was not broken!  (Maybe we should invest in bubble wrap to protect everyone). 

 

As the mom-nurse, I am so thankful that the rains have come to clean away some of the pollution.  Breathing issues and asthma have been better. 

 

Thank you again for praying!

In Christ,

 

Faith for Mike, Mikey, Cristi, Cari, Matt, Cheri, and Cara Goldfuss