December 2009 - January 2010

Dearest Prayer Partners,

           The title of our Christmas program was “Proclaiming Christmas”. Praise the Lord we had a good turn out and many new people heard the gospel for the first time. We handed out 5000 invitations in the neighborhood for the Christmas program but none of our visitors came from those invitations. We continue to pray that God will bring to our church the people that he wants.
After 8 years of being in the States, I was able to spend Christmas with my family. One of the special things we got to do as a family was talk over the internet with my sister and brother in law in Ethiopia. Praise the Lord for modern day technology even though we were not all together we felt as if we were. I got to spend a week with my parents in Madrid and brought in the New Year at their church with a dinner and a time of prayer.
          The 5th of January a man in our church was taken to the hospital after falling off of scaffolding. He had split open his head and the doctors operated on him that night. He was in ICU for 2 weeks in an induced coma because the doctor had given up hope. Due to this event, our church and mainly our teens have seen the power of prayer and started to fervently pray for Bro. Edy. As the days went by they started to wean him off his medicine and he started to wake up. One day we received word that he was in a chair sitting up and looking around. The doctors and nurses at the hospital call him the “walking miracle” as he should be dead. Today, exactly a month after his accident they are sending him home. Only God can work a miracle in Edy like he has done. He is our “walking miracle” and we pray that God uses him in a mighty way to witness to his unsaved family back in Ecuador. He has some facial paralysis and will be going to physical therapy for a while but we praise the Lord that he’s home.
           I ask that you continue to pray for my grandma as she is doing well and has still not started her dialysis. Her surgery for her parathyroid removal is still not scheduled. We are still waiting on a bone density test first to see if she even needs her parathyroid removed. Also this month I had a small accident. Both vehicles involved suffered little to no damage although my neck was turned when I hit the car and due to that my neck and back are still hurting from the accident. I would also appreciate your prayers as my very "old" car is giving me problems and I use it a lot in my different ministries.
          There are several families in our church that are struggling due to family problems. I ask that you pray for 3 families and their children. The Pastor’s father in law father has only been given 2-6 months to live due to a long term illness. Please pray for Mari Mar (Pastor’s wife) and her family. Continue to pray for the different ministries that I am part of and that I can have good health to be able to carry out each and every ministry.
          Praying the Lord will bless all of you greatly in 2010 and that no matter what God may have in store for the New Year that God would be the center of our lives. Thank you for your continued support and encouragement.

Your missionary in the Lord’s service for the souls of Spain,

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