Misión Montana Vista
Montgomery Family Newsletter, February 2004
Happy New Year to all and I truly hope God is blessing you richly
as we continue onward into 2004. Along with a new year came several new
changes here in Montana Vista. The most significant were the changes in
our meeting time and consequently changes in personnel. As many of you
know we had been meeting only on Sunday evenings due to schedule
conflicts. After much prayer and thought, beginning in February the
church decided to meet on Sunday mornings. We all believe that this time
will help in evangelism because the culture here (like in most places I know)
really places church attendance on Sunday mornings. Several of our
members had invited friends to come to services and were rejected when their
friends found out that we were meeting in the evenings. So, we believe
this move will greatly increase our attendance in the long run. In the
coming weeks, however, we are a slightly smaller group. Unfortunately for
us (but fortunate for God’s kingdom) Paul and Gloria will remain working at
Eastwood church of Christ and will only have limited activity here.
Likewise several brothers and sisters that had been coming to our services will
focus on serving at the Eastwood congregation. Thus, our numbers are
slightly smaller but I believe this will not be for long!!
Some other exciting activities that have been going on since the beginning of
the year are as follows:
• Alicia began a discipleship class with three of the ladies here to
show them how to study and present lessons just as Paul commands Timothy (“The
things you heard from me . . . entrust to faithful men, who will be able to
teach others also” 2 Tim. 2:2) These are going VERY well and will show their
fruit in the months and years to come!
• Saturday before we changed times we had the core group knock
doors around the building, telling them of our time change and inviting them to
our services. It was great to see everyone’s involvement!
• Ladies class continues to be a big hit! Even as I write
this letter my house is filled with ladies learning about Biblical repentance
from Alicia. Praise God for his work here among these ladies!
• The members of the church here are continuing to invite and
encourage their friends to study and visit our services. I’ve been
blessed to meet many new souls that are interested in learning about the
Messiah through individual members. Please, please pray that this will
continue and only grow! Some specific individual that need our prayers in this
regard are: Juan and Aidé (pronounced “I-day”), Suzi and Lalo, Erica and
Santiago, Elva, Vero and Ramona.
The Montgomery family continues to do well overall. We are still fighting
colds/flues but are relatively healthy at the moment, thankfully. Alicia
continues to teach both ladies’ class and the discipleship classes, while
helping teach the children’s classes on Sunday. Needless to say, she
keeps herself busy! I’m continuing to teach English/Bible two nights a
week and teach a youth class or adult class each Sunday (Lonnie and I take
turns between the two). Bethany, well . . . she continues to be really
cute! She’s learning more and more words in both languages. In fact she’s
become thoroughly adept at speaking Spanglish (English/Spanish mix). She told
Alicia the other day that her food was “muy hot.” We live on the boarder, what
can we expect!!
May God richly bless each of you, and may you keep serving the King.
Under His command,
Kevin, Alicia and Bethany Montgomery