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.

Preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ! More than 1000 professions of faith!   1,016 Professions of Faith - 2021-2024 God has uniquely blessed Achieve Guyana over the past 3 years and 8 months.  During this time, we have recorded 1016 souls that have professed Christ as Savior!   This new milestone is reason to praise God for blessing Achieve Guyana.  We are thankful for the simplicity of the gospel and the hearts that God has opened.  We are thankful for the dozens of faithful men and women that work with us each week in our more than 15 villages.  We are thankful for every bus driver and boat driver that brings people to church.  We are thankful for the churches and individuals that pray and give faithfully each month to make this all possible.  We have so much to be thankful for! Vacation Bible Schools and Youth Camp This summer we were joined by three supporting churches – Fellowship Baptist in Thonotosassa, Fl; Liberty Baptist in Clermont, FL; and All Nations Baptist in New York City.  In all we had 37 short-term, US based, missionaries joining our local staff over a 4 week period to make these outreach events work.  More than 300 were ministered to, with 76 publicly making a profession of faith in Christ.   We concluded our Youth Camp by baptizing 23 young people!  These efforts were no small task for our team.  We brought in children and youth from at least 12 villages, often from very remote areas.  We celebrate the staff and volunteers that planned and organized, drove boats, drove buses, made snacks, cooked meals, washed dishes, translated messages into Spanish and Warao, washed clothes and bedding, cleaned buildings, delivered fuel for the boats, kept the grounds clean, provided security, taught lessons, led games, purchased food and supplies, led worship, assisted with crafts, preached in the churches, and led in small groups.  Once again, we know that there were faithful supporters who stood with us financially and in prayer to make this happen.  We are especially encouraged by those who took a moment to send a quick text or email to express their prayers and encouragement during this very busy season of ministry. The Enemy Is Always Near We knew in advance that these major outreach events would stir up the enemy, and we were not wrong.  One of our pastors told us that children were threatened by their parents if they came to VBS.  Many of them came anyway.  Another told me of the horrible lies that were spread in his village, keeping some from attending.  It was said that we were going to poison the children with the snacks.  (We have never thought it was funny when people joke about Jim Jones.  We see how the devil uses that to keep people in darkness).  One of our pastors was told that someone said that if the village leadership did not stop our pastor from going door-to-door, that he had a bow and arrow that would stop him.  These lies and threats are the reality we live in.  When people are in spiritual darkness, we should expect nothing less.  Prayerfully one day they will be free from the lies that keep them from Christ.

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