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Preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ!
50 baptisms in 30 days!
Last month we reported reaching the milestone of more than 1000 professions of faith since January of 2021. This month we follow that by reporting 50 baptisms in just the past 30 days! For the year, we celebrate 244 professions of faith and 87 people who have followed the Lord in believer's baptism.
We recognize that with these numbers, we have a great responsibility. We are accountable for every person the Lord gives us to disciple. Maybe the greatest challenge is the great distance that our ministry covers. We have people who travel one way as much as 3 1/2 hours to come to church. Our churches, from one end of our ministry to the other, are as much as 3-4 hours apart, even with a fast boat.
Below you can see some of those who have followed the Lord in baptism over the past 30 days.
Spanish Language Ministry
Over the past few years, we have made it known of our need for a Spanish speaking person to reach and disciple the ever-growing Spanish speaking population coming from Venezuela. Through a contact from one of our supporting churches we were able to get access to some English/Spanish discipleship materials.
Two of our pastors have taken these materials and are using them to work with the migrant community near them. In addition to this breakthrough, one of our supporting pastors, Pastor Daniel Rogers, met with a group of migrant believers from our Yarakita church through WhatsApp. Pastor Alvin has done a wonderful job of reaching the migrant people in his community and now bringing them to us for training. The meeting lasted nearly an hour and out of it has come a plan to meet weekly. These two young women and two men will meet with Pastor Rogers over a Zoom connection at our Training Center to receive Biblical discipleship.
Please pray for our ability to meet the logistical challenges of this new outreach. This group will catch a bus from their village before sunup. The weekly meetings should take about 3 hours. After their training they will catch a bus back to their village. The transportation and food will cost our ministry about $250-$300/month. Maybe your church or Sunday School class would like to help meet this need? Below you can see Pastor Alvin (top center) and the 4 that will meet each week for training.
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