Ministry News and Photos from Brazil

Pastor Geraldo continues his evangelism outreach at Belo Horizonte in Brazil (see pictures below). He writes:

Good evening,

We had a week of hard work here on Belo Horizonte. Our faith has been repeatedly proven, but God has been very gracious to our family and church. A testament of the care of our God was last Monday, after much work with our car and with little gasoline, our fuel ended up on a street with many cars in Belo Horizonte, cars honked behind us, Elaine was with me . But I also had another problem, had no money to buy gasoline. By faith, I pushed the car to the side of the avenue, and went out walking and praying for 15 minutes until a gas station near you. The Elaine was also praying in the car. We ask God for a miracle. We pray that God would move the heart of any brother at that time to deposit some money in our bank so we could supply the car. Arriving at the gas station I phoned the bank again to check the balance and see if the answer of God had arrived. To my delight someone had deposited that very moment, R$ 200 (or U$ 130). I bought petrol and returned to the car running, I put gasoline and after then the car started flow. Hallelujah! Glory to God!

On Wednesday talking to a brother of Florianópolis on skype he told me that on that Monday he was in the bank to make a payment, but the card did not work on self-service, so he had to go to the clerk to pay a account and at that moment he remembered me and my family and had a great desire to put an offer to us before pay account. He did that at exactly the moment that Elaine and I were praying for help for gasoline. He concluded by saying that after making the deposit, the card self-service back to work. When I told him that this offer was the response and provision for us at the moment, he was much edified with the testimony and thanked me. I who had to thank him, but he thanked for having been used by God in that situation. God be praised! We are experiencing the greatest needs in these days, but we're full steam ahead by doing what our God has called us to do. Yesterday Elaine and me got our afternoon in the hospital with sister, Arlinda. She suffered a infarct last week. Yesterday we visit her in the hospital afternoon and were a very blessed time. Pray for her, because she will probably have to pass a heart surgery.

The evangelism today was very blessed; we were me, Elaine, Joel and Natã, many people professed Jesus Christ as Savior. Hallelujah! Please pray with us for evangelism that we will do next week with material for the Jews, to the day commemorating the Jewish New Year.

Pray with us for a provision for our family, we are going through hard days and we need a bailout.

Sending some evangelism photos. Thank you for your love and prayer.

A bigger hug,

Pastor Geraldo, Elaine, Isac, Joel and Natã.

Pastor's Conference in Colombia - Photo Album

Pastor Leonel Ortiz, a ministry partner of ours in Colombia, sends this Picasa web album with photos from a Pastors and Pastors' Wives Conference in Villa Vicencio, Colombia:









View entire album as a slideshow by clicking here.

The Gilbert Family Prayer Letter - Summer 2010

Ministry news and prayer requests come to us from the Gilbert family of Sepal Ministry in Guatemala this month:

"Dear brother and beloved church:

May the Lord continue blessing your lives, family, and give you success in all that you do in the name of the Lord. Our prayer is that the Lord fills you with joy and wisdom each and every day.

We want to share with you some of the great things that the Lord has done through the ministry that He has blessed us with, and you are a very important part of God's work here.

Report of activities: July 8th

We visited the pastor of the Restoration Church in a town called Zapote at the base of Volcano Pacaya. We vbrought them help for sustaining their ministry and we took pictures to show others in soliciting help to rebuild the roof of their church that fell in due to the great amount of sand dumped on it by the eruption of the volcano. We ask you for your prayers for this servant of the Lord.

Saturday, July 10th

We traveled to Salama, in the department of Baja Verapaz to the town of Cuacuchito. There (with the Church of Universal Prophecy) we started the first classes of ELI and 22 teachers attended. Sister Theresa attended some of the sessions last year, and saw













the results of these teachings. The pastor of this church became very interested and brought all of his church leaders to attend. The road was very difficult to travel now that rivers have been overflowing and running strong. The children helped us to carry boxes of materials to the site as my vehicle just couldn't get up enough strength to be able to travel the rest of the distance. A supervisor from the churches of IDEC in the area of Tactic also attended, and we are now going to begin the ELI Program in that region. God has been faithful in opening doors for ministry.

Sunday, July 11th

We helped a group of students from the University of Biola that is experiencing missions for a month here in Guatemala. We were in Chisec, in the department of Alta Verapaz with the Assembly of God Church there. We worked with children from a town in this region. It was a great time, and was good to spend time with these children. The challenge was that these children do not speak Spanish, only K'echi (a Mayan dialect). In the afternoon we did ministry for children from the Central Church.

Sunday, July 18th

We were invited to the church of Faisanes to teach about the importance of children's ministry and to motivate them to begin the ELI Program in their church.

Monday, July 19th to Friday, July 23rd

We worked with a Sports Ambassadors' team from Mississippi in order to share the Gospel with youth through sports. It was a great experience for the team as they presented the Gospel to hundreds of youth. More than 1,500 students were impacted.

Saturday, July 24th

We traveled to Tumbador, San Marcos, in order to support the children's ministry and to continue to motivate them to take part in the ELI Program. This area lies about 275 kilometers outside of Guatemala City. We worked with more than 50 children there.

Sunday July 25th

We were invited to Berea Church in order to motivate teachers and their children's ministry. We presented the ELI Program. About 60 children attended.

The Lord has given us opportunities to provide social help:

1) We are bringing medicine to Pastor Raul Herrera as he is working alongside his church to provide medical clinics.

2) We are also bringing medicine to a missionary couple, David and Katy Huizt, as they also work in medical ministry providing medical clinics each weekend.














We ask you for your prayers, that each of these activities continues to bear fruit:
1) Pray that the youth that have given their lives to God continue growing in His love.
2) Pray for the teachers that they will continue to practice principles that they have learned.
3) Please pray for those touched by medical clinics that they would know the love of God and that God will continue opening doors in order to receive more donations of medicine.
4) Pray for the lives of future missionaries, the students from Biola University and the Sports Ambassador's team. Pray that the ministry that they have taken part in her in Guatemala will continue to impact them and that they will continue to walk in God's call for their lives.

Don't forget to write to me. I would love to receive news about how you are doing, and this also helps me to better pray for your lives and for your families."

Many hugs from the Gilbert Family,
Dora, Luis, and our children, Emanuel, Abigail, and Yhoshua
escuelaliderazgoinfantil@gmail.com