Posted under prayer letters on February 8, 2010.
Dear friends and family,
Desafío
There is so much to be thankful for as 2009 was wrapped up and we enter 2010. We do not wish to be remiss by not giving God the glory for all he has done, as is mentioned in the verse above where ten were healed and only one returned to give thanks.
These last two months have been no exception. Since our last prayer letter in October, we have been very busy. We had a wonderful Bible conference with one young man surrendering to full time Christian service. Two of our deaf students who were graduating this year were baptized. We have been working with them for a long time. One of them, Aleksei, is praying about returning to enter our Bible College next year.
We are still completing the work on the church renovations... Read more!
Posted under prayer letters on November 23, 2009.
Dear friends and family,
We thank the Lord for all that He is doing here at Efata. We are grateful for the opportunity to serve Him here in Peru. Our labor is never in vain when serving the Lord!
We are blessed to see growth in our church family. We are regularly seeing souls saved on visitation and in the services. We have had some recent adjustments to our church schedule for more effective ministry. These changes seem to be working well.
We have two big events this November...
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Posted under prayer letters on August 16, 2009.
June-July 2009 Prayer Letter
New Church Platform
The last couple of months have been so very busy and exciting here at Efata. We have had the privilege of hosting several mission teams and individuals from the States who visited and helped us with various projects. All have been a tremendous blessing, and we give thanks to God for them and all they did to be a help and encouragement to us.
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Concert Photo Album
Check out the pictures from our benefit concert on August first. The concert was the second of two events held to raise money for our new pregnancy crisis center.
Posted under church on July 8, 2009.
Our church has been working on a major renovation/expansion project for the main auditorium over the past several months. We are so excited about what God is doing here!
Several groups from the States have come and helped us with various parts of the work, and we want to thank those of you who have given your time and money to support us with these projects. God bless you!
As of right now, we are almost finished with the platform. Soon we will be ready to extend the roof over what will now be the back of the church and put in flooring there. Pray for us as we continue this work.
Other prayer requests:
- We are almost ready to open the new Pro-Life Center. Pray for wisdom, blessing, and funding for this endeavor.
- One deaf church member fell and broke his femur; please pray for his complete recovery.
- As always, pray for the lost souls in Peru, both deaf and hearing. Pray that God would send more laborers into his harvest.
Click here for a photo album with pictures of our progress on the church so far.
Posted under church on June 18, 2009.
Efata Baptist Church has a vibrant, growing youth ministry, and our young people love to have fun! Every Friday, the teens meet for an evening of games, contests, music, and Bible teaching.
Last Friday, the contest involved bringing a tasty, decorative fruit salad to the meeting. Assistant Pastor Jonathan Ramirez posted pictures to his blog. Click here to view them and more!
Note: Pastor Ramirez’s blog is written in Spanish, but pictures transcend language barriers.
Posted under prayer letters on May 27, 2009.
These past few months have been a whirlwind of activity. There is so much to share so let me get right to it.
Ministry News
On March 8th we licensed two of our deaf preacher boys, Frank and Hugo to preach and commissioned one of our deaf missionaries, Jorge Pozo, to continue the new work in Huancayo. Now that new work has a permanent missionary family working with them.
Also I was privileged to preach the anniversary of one of our missionaries to the Deaf in a town called Ferreñafe near the city of Chiclayo about 10 hours north of Lima. This was a blessing. A deaf/blind man was saved during this time. Pray for this work as their landlord has given them 30 days to move out of the house they have been using for their home and the church for the last four years. They need to find another location and are praying for $7000.00 to purchase a piece of property for a permanent home for the church. This property is around the block from their current location.
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March - May 2009 Prayer letter
Posted under prayer letters on February 19, 2009.
Frank and Hugo in Huancayo
HOME! We are now back in Peru and have hit the ground running. We arrived on Jan. 14th and immediately went into our Mission conference. We had a great conference with Bro. Bill Schutt Deaf Evangelist from First Baptist Church, Hammond, IN.
Also, we had the special treat of having my mentor in Deaf ministry Steve Houghton with us for a few days as well as he was helping his sister Rebecca with her move to work with us here in her new ministry with us here at Efata. She is going to be a great blessing for us and the work at Efata, especially with our ladies.
To top this all off, Missionary Jim Sloan, Missionary to the Deaf came down as well to visit and preach in the various deaf ministries here in Peru. The Deaf really love it when he comes and so do I.
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