The summer months are upon us, everything is green again here with the coming of summers rain. Even with the rain though, we still have water rationing so that the reservoirs can fill up once again. We have learned to appreciate water and not take it for granted in these last months.
Lynn and I enjoy our ministry and are thankful for God´s blessings.
Praise Items
1. Legal Matters. Most of the property transfers are now done: La Urbina and Macaracuay churches now have their property in their own names. Pastor Jorge Barradas apartment is in the final stages of being placed in his name. We have encountered a recent glitch in transferring the bookstore property from the mission to the local church so we are attempting to do it in a different way. How boring! True. But it is big stuff here with rampant government expropriations of foreign property.
2. Lynn Discipleship Classes. Lynn recently had a lady approach her indicating that she wants to do what she is doing…one-on-one discipleship, going through a 10 lesson manual. Lynn is really excited that she´s be able to pass this off to another lady. In addition, she completed teaching a seminar called “Women of Worth” in two different locations.
3. Center of Ministry Development.(CDM). Harry has four more classes and he will finish the seminar on “Last Things” or Eschatology. This has been fun. The class members (2 MD´s, 1 university post-graduate professor, 1 Ph.D. biologist, 1 salesman, 1 secretary) are a pretty close knit group. Confession time: it´s not that the CDM material is that sterling (but generally pretty good really) but rather there is a hunger among some for basic, no nonsense Bible instruction.
4. Rental of New Meeting Location in Guatire. The meeting room in Pastor Armando´s house has gotten too small for the Sunday morning worship service. We praise God for opening up a nice size meeting room in a private medical clinic where one of the church members works.
5. Lynn praises the Lord for a great women's retreat the end of April. Our theme was "Cords of Love". We were much encouraged over the different ways God draws us to himself with love, strengthing our faith, helping us in the midst of difficulties and using discipline to draw us back to Himself. This is part of the group of women who enjoyed the retreat.
Prayer Items
1. Venezuela Economics. Pray for the economic situation of the country, It’s very bad and sad. For example, inflation is pegged at around 40% this year. Anyhow, this impacts a broad range of areas: giving to the churches, repayment of loans, income of church people, unemployment, etc.
2. Jaime and Maglery Torrealba. They are the pastoral family at the La Urbina Church. Jaime needs major back and neck surgery. Also, his wife Maglery has a severe case of hepatitis A. She´s on total bed rest, has not regained her strength, and now she´s into the third month of being severely ill. Furthermore, their health insurance policy doesn´t cover any of this.
3. Armando and Carolina Díaz. They are the pastoral family in Guatire and are undergoing major stresses with work, teen age children, finances, etc.
4. Men´s Retreat. Harry has a Men´s Retreat June 25-27. Pray for spiritual renewal and commitment for the men, many of whom are on stress overload.
5. Vacation. We´ll be in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area June 28-July 23. Harry has a major goal of spoiling as much as possible the 10 grandchildren so their parents have something to do in August! Seriously, we can´t wait to see the family.
We greatly appreciate your friendship, prayers and support.
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