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July 16, 2008
Dear Prayer Partners,
Thank you for praying for the Lost Sheep of rural Mexico. Much has
transpired since our last communication and the Lord has been very
active in our people segment. In March of this year (2008) we began a
new phase of our work/lives here in Mexico. While we have had you
praying for the rural communities of Querétaro, the prayer need has
expanded. We need you to begin to pray for other Mexican states also
that they will be reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ. These states
include: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Nayarit,
Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Michoacán, Guanajuato, Mexico, San Luis Potosí,
Hidalgo, Morelos, Guerrero, Colima, Tamaulipas, Querétaro, and Coahuila.
The segment that we are responsible for are cities less than 500,000
population and all rural communities. This segment will total around 40
million in population all less than 2% evangelized. Pray biblically and
ask the Lord of the Harvest to send more workers into His harvest field.
Do you know anyone whom the Lord is calling to serve on the
international mission field?
I am going to update you on the church planting work in Querétaro
also. A few weeks ago a group of faithful workers came from Brownsburg,
Indiana and worked for a week along side of our Mexican team in San Juan
del Rio, Querétaro. One of the events took place in a community called
Nogales. We have tried to open works in this community in the past but
have not been successful. The volunteers from Indiana shared tracts and
witnessed in the community. One team member worked as a doctor in a
clinic to check glucose levels and also blood pressure. Several
professions of faith were made and the community will have their first
Baptist church by next month. Please continue to pray for Nogales.
Last week a group from Crockett, Texas came and also worked with our
Mexican members and we entered a community called Loma Linda to start a
new Baptist church there. The event took place in a salon that the
community leaders rented to us for about $10 a day. In this event we
witnessed door-to-door, offered free haircuts, counseled with troubled
families, fed several from the community that would not have had any
food that day, showed movies, and had activities for the entire family.
Each day we had rain and I believed that the community would not respond
well during rainy days, but I was wrong and I am thankful for the long
tiring hours that the Texans and the Querétaro para Cristo team invested
in this community. The community representative that we rented the salon
from said that no one had ever impacted a community like the team had
last week. Please pray for Loma Linda. Specifically pray for the new
church plant there that they would not fear persecution from the
community and boldly witness to their neighbors. Many of the new
believers in Loma Linda are low literacy level so please pray for
Antonio and his team as they teach chronological bible storying in Loma
Linda.
We have also had two different Baptismal services in the month of
June. Six of our disciples were baptized and we rejoice with them. For
those of you who have worked here with us you may remember some of the
newly baptized believers, Betty and Margarita from Aquiles Serdan,
Maricruz, Cecelia, Jessi and Jairo, from La Roca. In September we have
two more baptismal services scheduled.
Why do we do what we do? Three weeks ago we received a call from one
of our believers in Aquiles Serdan named Ismael. His mother had died
during the previous night and he asked if we would come to the funeral
service that would be in one hour. We agreed to come and share with the
people at the funeral about Ismael’s mother as she was a believer in the
Lord Jesus Christ. All of Ismael’s brothers and sisters were from the
national church and they do not believe in Jesus as their only Lord and
Savior. As we shared and looked into eyes of hopelessness the Lord gave
us great peace that He was in control. We sowed seeds of the gospel into
people who had never heard the true story of Jesus. We haven’t seen the
harvest yet from this simple event but we continue to pray for the
Queretanos to come to faith is Jesus as their only Lord and Savior.
That’s why we do what we do, so every Mexican man, woman, and child will
have the opportunity to hear the true story of Jesus Christ.
God bless and thank you for your faithful support of International
Missions.
Rich & Jody
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