July 2025


Encouraging, busy month!


We were encouraged in July by the family in whose home we have been meeting on Sunday Mornings deciding they want to have weekly Bible Studies instead of only once a month. We have been enjoying great fellowship with them on Sunday mornings and my wife started a Sunday School class for their children. There was even a visitor in July.

During our Wednesday night service we had several blessings as well.  One of the Wednesdays, I had been sick the whole week and my son, Jonathan, preached for me.  On the last two weeks of the month we had a high attendance of 23 and 24 respectively.  With the great number of visitors comes a great number of Bible questions and discussion.  There is a lot of influence from charismatic groups in the area which seem to be very popular and unpopular at the same time.  They seem to always be very full of people, but at the same time when I talk to people I hear almost universally that the charismatic pastors are cheating and robbing the people and only want their money.  A group of about four that visited our service one night was talking about the problems that they were having with the female “pastora” that they had at one of those churches and how she would create superstitious fear with her members if they didn’t do everything how she wanted.  One of the ladies visiting wanted me to come to her home, scream at Satan and get rid of the demons out of her house.  I explained that what her home needed was not me waiving my arms around, burning incense and making incantations but repentance and faith in the saving blood of Jesus Christ!  Please keep us in prayer as we try to speak into people’s lives and understand that many time the road is very long from where people are to where you would like them to be.

I am very proud of Marcelo and the direction he has been leading his family.  There were several concepts that he did not understand when I began working with him seven years ago.  It refreshes my heart to hear him share the definition of what a scriptural church is and when it was founded (during Christ’s earthly ministry).  Concepts that he was never taught and never heard of before we came.  Marcelo and I have had some very great discussions lately about the next steps for the work.  One of the things that I try to constantly emphasize is that we are more interested in the quality rather than just the quantity.  We are hoping to have a day sometime in the near future to baptize several.  For many, there is still a lot of foundation to lay in their lives and understanding.


A visit from our daughter, Hannah


One very great blessing this month was a visit from our daughter, Hannah!  It was a very packed visit with lots and lots of activity.  We enjoyed catching her up on all that the Lord has been doing in our lives for the last year and the older kids enjoyed getting to go with Hannah to a special youth camp with their friends at Templo Bautista.


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June 2025


Please pray for our first time visitors and regular attenders


It feels as if it has been a very long month.  When I look back on the photos from the month and the events that took place, I realize that it was a long month.  We have had two first time visitors to our Wednesday night service, David and Fernandez.  Please pray for them both of them are needing to restructure their lives.  I had a really good talk with both of them.  Both of them had struggled with addiction.  One of them had hit bottom and looked upward.  Not so sure about the other one.  He needs the Lord.  I hope to see them more.  David said that he had plans to come back as he would like to seek the Lord.  Our Wednesday night service can be quite an adventure as you never really know what to expect.  A couple of weeks ago there was a large neighborhood fight taking place in the street next door to where we were meeting.  There were at least thirty people involved all hitting each other.  People need the Lord! 

We have also had several visitors to our Sunday night service.  There is a young man in his twenties named Bryan that has been coming every service for the last month. He has problems.  He needs Jesus.  Some of the Sundays, he is sober, others he is not.  We have been trying to show the love of Christ to him.  We feel that whether or not the message gets through to him, the neighbors, at least, see our kind treatment of him and are impacted.  One of the Sundays, we were pleased to have Abel visit in our service.  He is a professional trumpet player for the Cordoba Symphonic.  I think that he enjoyed getting to play the hymns with my kids.  Jonathan, who had invited him was very happy that he not only said he would come, but he actually came.  My kids have invited several to come since we have been in this location. It can be disappointing when there is no response.

One phone call that I received was from Hugo. (pictured above)  He has never been to one of our services since we began in the location where we are on Sunday nights.  He was one that we met from 2019 when we were meeting every Sunday in the plaza of Alta Cordoba. At the time he was a bread vendor in the plaza that would stop and talk to us and ask questions. Before the pandemic I was meeting with him personally every Tuesday night to try to share the Lord with him.  Though we have had many discussions of the Gospel, I am still convinced that he does not completely understand God’s simple plan of salvation through grace, apart from works.  He called me one Sunday and told me that he planned on being there that evening.  He told me that since I had invited him so many times in the past that he decided to come.  Please pray for him and his wife, Susana.  Especially pray for our normal attenders as they have been out a lot lately.  They have been on our minds and hearts a lot this last month as we pray for them to make good decisions and to seek the Lord first.

We also had a couple visit for the first time at the very end of May of which we had a couple of very good conversations even though it appears that nothing had come of it.  The Lord knows now and we will know in eternity!


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June 2025