Dear Friends in Christ,
“And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” Luke 5:31,32
Camargo: The Iglesia Bíblica Bautista has been increasing in attendance since the first of the year. In the last month and a half, we averaged in the 50’s on Sundays, with visitors in many services.
In one year, we have knocked about half of the doors in Camargo, a city of 60,000. Our goal with the “Every Creature Campaign” is to get a John & Romans into every house and of course present the gospel whenever possible. As many as 13 come out every week to help us.
Rosa Isela nearly died from a car accident in July and our church has been praying for her ever since. After several surgeries, amputating one arm, reconstructing a leg etc, and much therapy, she is walking and back home with her parents and siblings and 1 year old daughter. We went out to the village to visit her and she and her parents called on the Lord to save them! Amen!
Karla, one of our faithful ladies, had witnessed to Rocío, who is a trial lawyer. She came to a few services and asked if we would visit her to show her how to be saved! Connie and I visited her and she said she had tried getting more religious, doing more good deeds, being more kind to others, but still had an emptiness that she couldn’t fill. Upon calling on the Lord, she said that was what she had been seeking and that a peace had flooded her soul! Amen! Please pray as the devil is really fighting her.
Miguel, 70 year-old Francisca’s son, said he had heard of us and thought we could help her. Since a son had been gunned down over a year ago, Francisca hasn’t walked, has kidney problems and was depressed. After some Bible study, she called on the Lord to be her Savior! Though Miguel listened to the plan of salvation, he let me know he had sought me out for his mother. They are very kind and every week invite me into their home to study the Bible with Francisca, ‘but they have their Catholic faith’, so don’t listen. Pray that the whole family would also be saved.
When the pope came to visit Mexico, even the news media here was saying that sects like the J. W. and Baptists were tricking people to leave Catholicism by learning the language and communicating to them in their own language! Though I don’t appreciate the association, we must be doing something that irritates the devil! “Beware when all men shall speak well of you.”
Workers: Bro. Gilberto and Lucy, teen-agers Daniel and Dana and 6 year-old Esteban are coming to work with us in June! Praise the Lord! We plan for them to work with our teens, music and etc, and see how the Lord would lead. Pray we can find affordable housing, to be able to take care of them.
In January we went to an ordination service for Bro. Gil and for Bro. Alberto, who have been working in the church that Bro. Jerry Collins started in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico.
Health: Connie’s white blood counts continue to be quite elevated. She is still under the supervision of a nutritional doctor, who with God’s help has kept them from climbing higher. Please pray for wisdom to know what to do to best help her and for God to heal her if it is His will!
Praise: Good attendances; People saved; Gilberto & Lucy coming
Prayer: Rosa Isela and Francisca – healing; Rocio – spiritual growth; Connie’s health
In His Service,
