Big Answer to Prayer, and June Requests

Dear Friends,

First off: Please Rejoice with us! Enough gifts have come in to cover our family’s tickets and related expenses to go to Ecuador for the conference in August! Praise God!! We are so incredibly grateful for the generosity of so many of you, giving toward this missions trip... It is a blessing in so many ways to have received this huge answer to prayer! We are now looking forward to preparing the marriage workshop we will be teaching there, as well as Gus helping with sound tech, and other ways we will be able to serve our Ecuadorian brothers and sisters!

We have several prayer requests for June, and we would greatly appreciate if you could join us in lifting up these specific needs:

• Gus is currently in Ralco with the short-term team from Yuma, AZ! They are doing work in the church building and will have opportunities to reach out to the community as well. Pray for God to bless, protect and guide these few days there in Ralco!

• This Saturday (after the team heads back up to Santiago) Gus will be going to Los Ángeles to teach a worship workshop to the small church group there and have some community-building time. He will also stay the night there and preach at their Sunday service. Pray for this group of very motivated young people who are passionate and desire to receive training to better serve & reach out to their community!

• On Saturday the 15th, we will be going as a family to Melipeuco for the day, so that Gus can have a strategic meeting with the church-planting team there in the morning, and I (Karissa) can have an outreach/discipleship meeting with the women in the afternoon. Please pray that it would be a productive & blessed day!

• Then, it looks like on the 20th we’ll be heading back to Melipeuco for a couple days to help a short-term team doing some work on the church and outreach! Pray for the details for that trip (it’s a really big team!) and that the work we’ll all be doing would be a blessing to the community there!

• Also in the next couple weeks, I should visit three different friends out here in the countryside who have been asking me to visit for a while, but schedules just haven’t worked out. One is a believer who needs encouraging, one is a young woman who has recently made some very poor life choices but says she wants counseling, and one is not a believer nor is anyone else in her immediate family, but she is feeling very lonely right now. Pray that God would work out the timing for those visits according to His will (and not just human logic), and that I could be a blessing to these women who all live within a few miles of our new home.

• Please pray for our children in the midst of the busy-ness of trips, visits, schoolwork and colder weather (winter is almost here!): that they would stay healthy, be grateful for the blessings we have and enjoy this season too, even if they feel cooped up some of the time! Also, for us to not overlook the need to connect with them each individually, outside of schooling or ministry interactions...

• Lastly, June 17th will be Gus’ birthday and our 13th wedding anniversary! We would love to get some time to go out on a date that week to celebrate, not that it’s an urgent prayer request by any means, but it would be fun if it could fit into the schedule somehow. 😉  

Thank you so much for your prayers, financial support and encouragement!! We are genuinely privileged to partner in this Kingdom work with you...

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.” (1 John 5:14)

Because He answers prayer,

Gus, Karissa, Jeremy, Liz, Cristina & Diego