August 2025

News:

• Former E-Team Member Rebeca: Do you remember Rebeca who used to work with us for many years? Great news, she will be moving to the States by the end of this month, first of next month. Look for wedding details at a later date.
• Bible Clubs:
• Coastal Bible Clubs: The Bible clubs are growing strong, but we have lost a lot of our older kids that have moved up to high school and are in school while we are doing the Bible clubs. God helped me to see that our program has prepared them for not being in the Bible clubs anymore, knowing that they have great foundations of the Word of God and know how to accept Christ and live for Him, if they never get to come back to a Bible club.
• Youth Bible Club: We will have a special after Youth Bible club event coming this month with a bonfire and hotdogs. It will be a great event for the youth to invite their friends to come and hear the Gospel.
• Mountain Bible Clubs: We will be visiting the mountain Bible clubs this month to restock and encourage the leaders.
• Tuesday Community Evangelistic Outreach: The 3rd week of July, the whole outreach, celebrated my (Dena) birthday with cake, singing many different "happy birthday" songs, and of course, the traditional "bite the cake" in which Andrés smashed my face into a small cake. It was so sweet for them to be so excited for my birthday. Andrés and Gary did an excellent to hide 400 slices of cake from me.

Big News:

• Jeannie McGalliard: Jeannie is back from the U.S., it makes it easier to handle the crowd for our clinic.
• Andrés: Help us wish Andrés a Happy 35th Birthday.

Bigger News:

• Property: We are still waiting on the money (donation) to be transferred the first week of August for the documents to be finalized in order to start building up the ground level prior to start construction of a new ministry center, playground, and skateboard park - all to be used to reach the community with the Gospel of Christ. God has heard our cry and answered our prayer! The community voted to give us a land transfer to the ministry so that we could build a new ministry center a crossed the street from our current location that we lease. Glory to God for this miracle.
• Rio Blanco Heath Clinic: Dena, Jeannie, and Amy, a visiting nurse and Holly, both from Virginia, along with Polivio, Veronica, Sofi, Rebecca, and Heidi went to the coastal jungle rainforest, Rio Blanco and performed health checks, give out first-aid kits, and delivered backpacks to the little school. We had no idea that we would attend more than 67 patients, but they were so grateful and many walked over 2 hours each way to be treated. It was a great experience and the road does not do justice to the term off-roading. There is so much need in this community.

Special Prayer Request:

• Pray for the land transfer to be completed soon so we can begin the construction.
• Pray for Rebeca, our former E-team member as she will be leaving for the States soon to get married and that all of the transition will go smoothly.
• Pray for God to soften the hearts of the Montañita people to receive His Gospel.
• Pray for the national house church leaders who continue the mountain Bible clubs.
• Financial Support: Please pray that Christ will continue to provide for the ministry's financial needs for the mountains and the Coast.

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