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The big weeks in January are always centered
around preparing for the baseball clinic.
Having the baseball clinic. And
the week after the clinic is also very busy.
Thankfully that was the same this year.
We had many more Peruvian translators this
year. We worked on three different ball
fields. In the afternoons we worked with
the 11 and 12 yr old select teams that would be involved in a South American
baseball tournament the following week.
In the mornings we worked with the regular league teams and in an
outreach to new players.
After the baseball time we share testimonies
and stories from the Bible. On the last
day we see a group we give them an opportunity to respond. We had several parents participate this year
in this last storying time. Many
Peruvians received Christ and a few Nikkei Peruvians also made a decision. Please see some of the pictures. Please pray for the people who heard and that God
will use this witness in their life.
One key thing to pray for within the baseball
ministry is the coaches and the Christians in the league. At each of the three parks there is a
missionary that we met that has a child on one of the league team’s. One of the fathers told us that he had been
praying for a way to get the kids together to share the gospel. We are coordinating with all three to
hopefully connect the new believers with local churches.
Pray for all of the kids in the Summer English
classes. We have ICSL students helping
us and some Peruvians.
Tomorrow I will go to Brazil to follow up with
a Brazilian pastor that came to Peru in October to participate in a meeting to discus
how we could mobilize the church to reach the Nikkei. We have been invited to a meeting in
Brazil. There will also be a Christian
family from Paraguay at this meeting. A
Peruvian pastor is going with me to this meeting. Please pray that we will clearly
see God’s plan and that we will work together to implement His direction as we
work together to share with the Nikkei people.
2 Timothy 2: 1-2
You then, my child, be strengthened by
the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the
presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach
others also.
From
last month: We could also use your help
with mission teams. Please pray to see
if God might be speaking to you or your church about coming to Peru and helping
in the sharing of the Gospel to a group of people that historically have been
closed to the Gospel.
It is very interesting how God works!!! We have been in Lima now for several
years. And now after we have committed
to move to Japan to coordinate the Nikkei work for South America from the
factory areas outside of Tokyo we are starting to see a movement of God’s
people to come and begin to work among the Nikkei people.
Please prayerfully consider a mission
trip to Bolivia, Paraguay, Mexico, Japan, Brazil or Peru….
Thank you for your prayers. We are seeing God at work and we believe that
when people pray things happen.
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people who are
called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from
their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and
heal their land.
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