Preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ! The Advance of the Gospel Spring 2025 Since the first of January, our ministry has been blessed with 59 people receiving Christ as Savior and 12 being baptized so far.  These advances in the gospel have come from Waikareibi, Blackwater, Whitewater, Canal Bank, Unity Square, Lower Kaituma, and Tobago Villages.  The strength of our work comes from the dozens of faithful men and women who serve in more than 15 villages throughout our region who are bringing the word each week to men, women, boys and girls.  In February, we held our first service in Blackwater (our second village named Blackwater).  We had about 60 in attendance, and five gave their life to Christ.  In March Pastor Nobert led eight people to the Lord at Whitewater.  In April Pastor Romel led fifteen people to the Lord at the Riverside and Tobago Churches.   "Commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." In keeping with our ministry vision, we launched a discipleship course on Sunday afternoons at the Riverside Church.  We have 12-15 adults who come every week for training.  It is encouraging to see the faithfulness of those who are coming to learn.  We anticipate those who are being discipled will begin to make disciples and thus fulfilling the responsibility God has given to every believer. In addition to the discipleship training, we continue to host monthly pastoral and leadership training time.  One of the men who has just started coming is showing signs of real growth.  He is bringing in a boat full (literally!) of people each week, and now he is asking for another boat to bring in more!  Keep in mind, he comes by river every week and travels more than two and a half hours one way.  Beyond the pastoral/leadership training, we hosted our pastors and the wives for two days in March.  The ladies were encouraged by being included, and they enjoyed several hours of sessions just for themselves. Riverside Celebrates One Year! On the last Sunday of March, our Riverside church celebrated its one-year anniversary.  Leading up to the anniversary, we taught for two months on our ministry core values, both in the main service and in our children’s church, which culminated with a “charter signing service”, where people had the opportunity to show their intention to be members of the church.  Several dozen have already signed, and we expect more to come! Important Prayer Request! The immigration system in Guyana is challenging, but for the most part, it is fair.  We are required to apply every other year to receive an “extension of stay.”  We do not know why, but our application this year has not been renewed.  We left Guyana on April 16 to comply with the law.  At this point, we still have no word on our status.  Our plan for the immediate future is to travel in and out of Guyana regularly until we can resolve this situation.  We have 4 different teams coming over the next few months.  We will be able to continue our leadership training, camp, and VBS plans.  However, this status is a challenge to our life and ministry.  We are asking God to intervene on our behalf and grant us favor – please join us in this request.

Preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ! Merry Christmas from Guyana! As I sit here on a hot, rainy, December morning writing this newsletter, I am thankful for the amazing partners that stand behind this ministry.  Through the prayers and sacrificial giving on your part, we get a front row seat to see what God is doing with your investments.  I know that most of you will only see pictures, but one day you will meet the people who have benefitted from your compassion and love.   One example of what generosity looks like, as you can see in the pictures you see below, is our Bible distribution.  Each year we give away hundreds of Bibles.  We rest on the promise that God's Word is a living seed that never dies.  Only eternity will reveal the full impact of these Bibles put into the hands of people all over our Region. School Ministry One of the wonderful opportunities we enjoy here in Guyana is the freedom of religion.  Our freedom here gives us the open door to do ministry in the public schools.  Pastor Romel and his family have taken a lead in this area.  Each week the Word of God is being sown in the schools here in our Region.  This may be our single biggest opportunity in the upcoming year to evangelize.  Pray for more open doors and wisdom to use our time and efforts wisely. Reaping in the Harvest Field Each week there are dozens of men and women who preach and teach in the many village churches we have scattered throughout Region 1 in Guyana.  These are the men and women that deserve the thanks for faithfully sharing the Word of God to the hundreds who attend our churches.  One day you will have the opportunity to meet these fine people and shake their hand.  We are privileged to serve by their side.  Since our last newsletter, our ministry reports 16 souls who have trusted Christ and 9 have followed in believer's baptism! Christmas Wedding Bells Pastor Paul and his wife Gladys were blessed to see one of their daughter's marry just days before Christmas.  It has been our privilege over 20 plus years to watch Judith grow from birth, to salvation, to teaching Sunday School, into the woman of God she is today.  Her new husband, Bawi, is a former student of mine from Trinity Baptist College.  He came 2 years ago to help with our Youth Camps and a VBS where he and Judith met.  Notice the picture below, to the right, showing Pastor Paul, his wife Gladys, and their beautiful family gathered for the wedding!  We wish Bawi and Judith all the best in their new life together. Celebrating God's Blessing! Our wedding anniversary always falls during our Youth Camp and VBS time.  This year was no exception.  In August, we celebrated our 30th anniversary during our Youth Camp in Whitewater Village, but we determined to do something special at a later date.  When we were asked to speak at a supporting church in the Fall. That was our opportunity to carve out a few days for just us.  30 years ago, we honeymooned in Oregon, and late this Fall we retraced some of our steps from that same trip.  God has surely been good to us.  We pray for 30 more years together!

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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