Monday, March 19, 2012

A Special Prayer Request


            Hello to all of our friends and family!!  You have continuously been on our hearts and in our prayers.  We are missing you but we are really excited about what God is doing here in Paraguay! The Lord has been hard at work and so has the opposition.  You always know when the man upstairs is making His move and having His way because the battle is on!  We have experienced some awesome blessings and miracles and know that Paraguay is getting ready to see God move some mountains!

            One of the most exciting things that we have been a part of in the last few weeks has been reopening a church in San Lorenzo that has been abandoned for the last couple years.  In addition to the ministries that we are already working with, we have felt the Lord tugging on our hearts to reopen this church and begin to heal and rebuild the relationships within the community.  One of the projects that we are working towards in Paraguay is training and teaching new pastors, but because of the shortage of pastors that tugging includes pastoring the church as well.


            We have had several work days at the church.  Other local Nazarene churches have come together to help and have been extremely supportive.  What a blessing to see the church come together, lifting each other up, and unified in one purpose!  We have been having services for the last three weeks and had kickoff celebrations for the youth and children.  The response and encouragement that we have experienced in the community has been incredible.  God is awesome and always faithful!!

            There is a house that is on the church property that has been extremely mistreated and abandoned.  Because of past experiences within the community, we believe that it is important for us to move to the house and be a part of the community there so that the people can see how we live out our walk every day.  We believe that much of the healing will come because of the relationships that are built on a daily basis with the local people.  In order to do this, we really need your prayers and support.  
            The house is not livable at this time and is going to need a lot of work as you can see from the pictures that we attached.  It would take a tremendous amount of time to begin the process now of bringing several work and witness teams in so we have talked with several local construction workers here and have come up with several bids on what it will cost to remodel the house and make it livable.  Please pray with us that we will be able to raise the money that is needed.  We will definitely keep you posted on our progress.  We are looking forward to seeing what God is going to provide!

With lots of love and grateful hearts,
Barry, Charlie, Alex, and Alyssa
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