Thursday, December 18, 2008

Christmas 2008 / New Year 2009 Newsletter

There is no crisis surprising God... He is still at the controls... 100%

Panama: 200+ copies of Digistudy
If you share a CD containing some Bibles in English in New York, London or Sidney will be good. Most of those CDs maybe won’t be installed in any computer.
But if you share CDs containing six Bibles in Spanish, a couple in English, a Greek and Hebrew version among Pastors and Leaders in Latin America, that will make a huge difference because many of this pastors have little or not connectivity to internet because it is very expensive for most of them.
Some of this pastors and leaders have a monthly salary of $100 to $500. They really need to make ends meet.
We had the opportunity to attend to the biggest evangelical congress for the Latin community in Panama last October.
While buying a single digital Bible versión for them cost between $50 to $200, we gave for free 200 copies to the same number pastors and leaders who atended the congress.
They were very grateful and most of them did not believe that they were receiving that great searchable Bible content for free.
Thanks to those who are being part of our ministry making this possible to happen.

COMIBAM
One hundred and five leaders of Latino missions organizations who are involved in preparing, sending and/or supporting Latin Americans going to the worldwide field, attended a meeting during three days in Costa Rica. Latin America has been a missionary field for years. Although Latin America is still a missionary field, there is a movement of Latino missionaries who are being sent to all over the world. There are ten thousand Latinos serving fields now. We have the privilege of being part of what God is doing through a multi cultural missions force. We had forums dealing with key missions topics. Please pray for this.

Making a difference in Latin America and beyond
Thirteen years ago I was driving for more than 15 hours trying to reach a town in the Amazon area while my best friend was sleeping on the rear back seat.
We were carrying the Jesus film in Yanomamo language.
As I asked my friend about what would be the best organization to manage that film, he almost immediately said: “let’s give it to Alas de Socorro (Mission Aviation Fellowship) for them to manage the film because that organization has the best relationship with every single church and organization in the Amazon area.”
Five years later my family and I moved to that area to serve with MAF.
That characteristic that my friend knew about MAF is still true.
MAF is partnering with other organizations all around the world to fulfill together the great commandment of Mathew 28:18.
One of our partners in Latin America is ProMETA. They are known as Latin America Training Network; a ministry part of the Evangelical Free Church.
ProMETA is a premier international education ministry that provides theological training for Christian leaders in the Spanish speaking world. ProMETA decentralized approach enables proven leaders to continue their education without having to leave their families, ministries, or countries in order to do so. Making quality theological education accessible to those who need it the most is one of the greatest needs in today’s Latin American church.
MAF-LT is providing technology to ProMETA through specialized software to enable course authors to write and design their courses, and software to allow students to receive those courses in CDs to study on distance.
Most of the students are key pastors and leaders who are serving in Spanish speaking communities in 13 countries.
Every time you pray and give for us, you are supporting what ProMETA and other organizations are doing to equip pastors and leaders in the Spanish speaking world, and others who its mother tongue is Spanish but who are serving all over the world.



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