October, 2003

Dear Faithful Supporters,

Hello from Puebla!  We trust you and your ministries are going well.  The past 6 weeks have been extremely busy for us, as we settle in here, and we’d like to give you all an update.

We praise the Lord for the safety in travel back to Mexico .  The car ran well, and the boys did pretty well during the 5 day trip.  Thank you for all of your prayers for us that week!

God has also supplied much of the need for our car repairs.  Several churches and individuals gave special gifts to help with the expenses of the car problems we had on the way out in July, and almost all of the expenses have been covered!  We thank you for your gifts and prayers, and we praise God for how He supplies!

Since we’ve been back, Susan has been busy with unpacking, organizing, cleaning, and painting.  We feel pretty well settled now, and the projects in the house are coming along nicely.  The boys are doing well.  Caleb celebrated his first birthday a couple of weeks ago.  He is walking really well now, and is into everything (his toys float really well in the toilet!).  Josh is excited to have a new pet – a kitten, who somehow found a way through the brick wall and into our yard (we rescued him just in time from the dog).  So the boys stay pretty busy, and so does Mom.  Josh is learning some Spanish, and really enjoys playing with the other kids at church.

Bryan has translated and adapted an evangelism course to use in the church here.  It is an eight week course which will help the people to develop evangelistic relationships and a plan in sharing the gospel.  We will be starting the course in the end of October.  He is now working on developing some evangelistic Bible study materials for the church to use. 

One of our goals for this year is to start at least ten evangelistic Bible studies.  We have been trying to make some contacts, and will be making many more through different outreaches.   Bryan is looking into the possibility of tutoring English courses at one of the universities here in Puebla , with the hope of developing a Bible study out of the class.  He is also playing soccer in some neighborhoods as a way to meet people, and develop relationships, also with the goal of starting evangelistic Bible studies and sharing the gospel.  Gabriel and Julie are a couple that we met at a soccer game.  They are studying English and are interested in some tutoring.  Please pray that the Lord will open up the doors for this.

We are also meeting once a week with the pastor’s daughter from Cuernavaca , who is attending a university here in Puebla .  She is tutoring us in Spanish, correcting grammatical errors in Bryan ’s translation, and answering some of our cultural questions as they come up.

Praises:

1.                  We arrived safely to Mexico .

2.                  The evangelistic contacts that have been made here in Mexico .

3.                  Money for car repairs.

4.                  Our profitable trip to the States.

Prayer Requests:

1.                  The evangelism course

2.                  New contacts to be made.

3.                  The evangelism Training course that will be given at the end of the month.

4.                  Our goal of 10 evangelistic Bible studies.

Thank you for all of your prayer and financial support of our ministry. 

In Christ’s Service,