Dear Friends in Christ,
I trust all of you had a blessed Christmas and that we will have a prosperous New Year, with our churches more dedicated to preaching the gospel to this lost and dying world, as we see that day approaching! Thank you for the special Christmas gifts, and for all the faithful support and prayers as we work here in Mexico!
In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. Proverbs 14:26
Iglesia Bíblica Bautista, Camargo: Praise the Lord for His continued faithfulness to me, and that most of my supporters have been able to continue faithful! The church here, with some difficulty, continued supporting our missionaries as well!
We had good seventh anniversary services! Bro. David Lydick preached and challenged our people to stay by the stuff and not waver in our resolve! The day our conference began, they heightened the Covid restrictions! So not allowed to meet together, we had to publish it on Facebook, which is not nearly as good!
Bro Lydck was sure disappointed not seeing our church as he did last year!!
With the quarantines and restrictions again since the end of October, only a few people have been able to come to the services. We are just now allowed to meet, with all of the “safety guidelines. There’s a lot of apathy, as only about a third of our folks coming to the main service on Sunday, but we are praying and visiting!
We had to cancel our Christmas program, and Watch-night service, but did have a special Christmas celebration with the kid’s club, with 70 in attendance!
Sick Teen: Please pray for 15 year old Jovanni, whose body isn’t making blood cells! Pray the treatments will be effective, and that the Lord would lift him up, according to His will! Also pray for his mom that she can hold up, as her husband is in the U.S. and her other 2 sons that came down to help her, will soon have to go back home to the U.S! She will be alone, at the hospital in Chihuahua, more than 2 hours from here! Because he was born in the U. S. he is a U.S. citizen, so the socialized health-care system here won’t pay for any of his treatments. They have to pay all the expenses for private treatment, which is much better, but expensive. In hospitals here the family has to take care of all the patient’s personal needs, and locate, buy and provide specialized medicines!
Jovanni played guitar in the services and was very active with the teens!
Building: Our building remodeling is going well, removing walls to make bigger classrooms for the kid’s clubs, and making offices and a bigger kitchen. We feed the kids that come to the Bible clubs, because many come without breakfast. They are very appreciative, and I believe listen better when they aren’t hungry!
Praise: Faithfulness of my supporters; Able to support our missionaries; Kid’s clubs doing well
Prayer: Souls to be saved and baptized; Churches to congregate again as they should; Jovanni healing; Building remodeling; Mexican Pastor for the Iglesia Bíblica Bautista
In His Service,
Bro. Ron Winter
Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico
Hands to the Work – Ron Winter
Missionary to Mexico