| Leadership Development News |
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| El Rosario |
| Our church in Rosario (1 hour south of Mazatlan) is currently without a preacher or any leadership. We�ve been going on Sunday mornings to bring messages of encouragement and to get to know the small congregation. Please pray the Lord will raise up a leader for this group. Right now there are only a handful of established believers. Their adult children attend our church but also attend another church that doesn�t believe in the Trinity. We face |
| some real challenges here. Pray for Francisco who is a believer. He is in need of glasses so isn�t able to read but with prayer and encouragement (and glasses) he just may be the leader this church needs. His son, Luis Miguel, goes to the anti-Trinitarian church but we believe he could be converted. He also goes to our Lutheran church and is asking questions. Darwin hopes to have in-depth studies with both Francisco and Luis Miguel. Father and son would make a good team. |
| We are currantly encouraging, and training workers in el Rosario, el Castillo, Mazatlan, Ceuta and Tayoltita. |
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| El Castillo |
| Darwin also serves the small community of Castillo (1/2 hour south of Mazatlan) where we have a church. He does visitation and participates in the service in the afternoon. This church has just called Juan Valenzuela to be their pastor. He and his wife, Georgina, are young and both have full-time jobs. The last two pastoral experiences they had were very discouraging so he and his wife will need your prayers in this new calling. Pray Juan will go with Darwin as he shares the Gospel in the community. |
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| Mazatlan |
| The church in downtown Mazatlan is starting to have a monthly workers meeting. There are cells groups just starting up in three homes, an outreach in one of the poorer areas of the city, various Sunday school classes, adult classes being taught, etc. We praise the Lord for this congregation. The |
| members are a true blessing to so many people including us. Pray with us for them. One need is an assistant for Pastor Guadalupe. His health is declining and needs help. There are several young, faithful men in this congregation. It may be the Lord has one in mind for this position. |
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| Ceuta |
| Darwin and Ismael Ponce, the pastor of the Ceuta congregation are going to begin |
| training and practicing Evangelism Explosion together now. Ismael will be seeking a disciple to train at the same time that he learns. Pray for Ismael to be able to memorize and find his disciple to train. He has in mind brother Roberto who he won to the Lord last year from the camp. |
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