Mission to the Americas

Serving Ministries and Missions in Latin America

Upcoming Schedule for Feb – April

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Here are some of the ministry opportunities coming forth for our ministry in the next few months.

January

  • January 7-15 Vida Joven, Matgalpa Nicaragua
  • Jan 16-20, Kids Bible Camp, Panama
  • January 25-28, Dunamis Fellowship
  • End of January, Coastal Carolina Presbytery

February

  • February 10-13, Missions Conference, Staten Island Church, New York
  • February 19-22, School of Missions, Foursquare Church of Venezuela, Maracay Venezuela
  • Feb 29-March 5, Healing Dunamis, Matagalpa Nicaragua

March

  • March 7-11, Evangelism Dunamis, Grand Rapids Michigan
  • Week March 12, Young Life Panama
  • March 29-April 2, Young Life Training, Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic

April

  • April 21, Young Life Team Training, Panama Viejo, Panama

Support

This ministry depends on financial gifts from our supporters.  Most of the trips to the US are paid for by the inviting organization, but those in Latin America are funded by gifts from individuals like you.

If you’d like to make a tax-deductible gift towards any of these projects,

  • visit our Support page, or
  • make your donation on line via the button on the side.  (If you use Paypal, please email me a copy of the receipt so I can make sure it’s processed correctly).

Gifts provide for airline tickets to Latin American events as well as ongoing ministry expenses in Latin America.

Celebrating 11 Baptisms

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Our church recently celebrated 11 baptisms.  We thank God for the work He is doing in our midst.

Each one of these lives has a precious story of how they came to faith in Jesus Christ.  I’d love to tell you some of their stories.

Here are some photos from the celebration:

I was away on a teaching trip and not able to be there. But the family reports that this was a priviledged moment. Many of these young disciples are already sharing their faith with their friends.

Video Report of Mission To Venezuela

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Here is a video report for those who like this style

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Coaching a Venezuelan Pastor and Missionary

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One of my friends in Barquisimeto works with the missions department for a major denomination in Venezuela.   Each time we get together, whether it’s here in Panama or there in Venezuela, we always “put on my coaching hat” and I get to help him as coach.

This trip was no different.

We spent several hours one afternoon talking about his upcoming appointment as pastor in a mountain community and brainstormed ways he could lead his new church in the work of community development while proclaiming the gospel.

The Lord gave me a great time to be with this young man and his family as they seek to make a difference in this new community.

In his role with the missions department, he’s inviting me to be their plenary speaker at their annual event in August of 2012.  About 200 teenagers will gather for a time of intensive study about missions and evangelism.    Pray that this will come to pass.

Later on in the same week, he got to minister to me as I shared with him about our work in Panama and Latin America.

Imparting Evangelistic Passion to Small Group Leaders

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During my recent trip to teach at the Wesleyan Seminary of Venezuela, I received a short notice invitation to teach a workshop with small group leaders of a local United Methodist Church.

Their pastors were students in my class.

After the 2nd day, they invited me to come to their leaders retreat to spend time imparting vision and passion to their small group leaders.

About 50 people had gathered in a house that had been modified for their meetings.

50 Small Group Leaders

I’m guessing at the number of people that fit in that small little room on a not too cool Saturday morning.  (About half the room is pictured here).  More were outside on the patio.

They were gathered for their planned retreat, when the opportunity was given me to speak to them.

I shared a similar message I had shared the Wednesday before at a different church, focused on the heart of God for the lost, but calling the church to develop that same passion.

One challenge for the evangelical church in Latin America is a tendency to judge people as sinners and try to remain separate from them.  This leads to the same attitude the pharisees had in Jesus day:  “Why does your teacher eat with sinners?”

Instead, I believe and teach God wants us to be seekers instead of judges (busacdor en vez de juzgador):

to seek those who don’t know Him rather than judge them for them sin.

The work of prayer

Teaching is one thing.  The work of prayer is another.

At the end of the teaching, we moved into a time of intercessory prayer, confessing sins of

  • having a hard heart against reaching people for Christ.
  • loosing our passion to reach the lost.
  • judging rather than seeking.

The church lingered in prayer, doing the hard work of evangelistic prayer, followed by a time of intercession for people they know personally.

We wrote down names on sticky notes, put those names in a basket as a symbolic offering of our labor in prayer.

But that sense of God’s working wouldn’t let up – the prayer continued and continued. . .

We felt as if God was sharing His heart with us, melting our insensitive hearts, and causing some to weep over the lost.

Perhaps this is what Jesus felt on the mountainside (Matthew 9:38ff) when he “felt compassion.”

I believe that church will experience a harvest in coming months because of this work.  I hope the pastor’s will send me some results a few months from now.

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Your financial support helps us do this work.  Learn how to support our work in Latin America by reading here

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