Greetings once again from Chile.
(Please note our mission’s new PO Box
number.)
Visiting and speaking in
churches on Furlough
This
year has been very busy. From March until the end of May Lina and I
visited many of the churches, friends and partners who invest in our
ministry. That time was packed with many meetings in the different
cities, around Washington State. We enjoyed sharing what the Lord had
done through us not only in Chile but around the world.
The Lord continues to bless
the ministry
We
praise the Lord for the money we received while on furlough. With these
funds it made it possible to get a new server and digitizing computer
for the studio which allows us to put more and better quality
evangelistic and teaching videos over the Internet. We are happy to say
that this new equipment has helped the Internet site to double in the
number of visitors from close to a million in April to1.8 million in
August.
Letters from our Internet
Ministry
Here are a couple of paragraphs from some of the many letters we
get each month. This letter came in today from Francisco Rolando Gamarra
Tello, who lives in Peru. “I am very thankful for the wise counsel you
are transmitting through your web site. You helped me find a person
from El Salvador who was able to direct me to the inspiring messages on
your site which helped me in a very difficult moments of my life.”
Another letter that came in last month; “My name is Elio Herrera and I
am a law student in Caracas Venezuela. This may seem strange, but I
have been reading from your Web site, Passion of Christ, especially the
part where you ask, Is Jesus alive? While I was reading it, something
indescribable happened to me and it even continues while I am writing
this to you. Something invaded my body which made me quake and I
started to cry. When it first started, I didn’t know what was
happening, but I now realize that Jesus has power and He is alive.”
People from 30 countries
watching our videos
Our
stats say that during the last two months (July-August) 39,554 people
from 30 countries have viewed our videos over the Internet. I am in
the process of redoing the page and upping the quality of the videos
with the new equipment we recently purchased, so at the moment we only
have a small number of videos available on line.
As you
know, our son’s Paul and Steve play a vital and active role in our
ministry, Paul on the video production side and Steve on the Internet
out reach. Paul dedicates much time to editing and the engineering
part of using the Lords’ money wisely, especially in equipment
purchases.
Mary Jane is finishing her
3rd year in the university
Mary
Jane is completing the last semester of her junior year. Last December
she received an AA degree in Public Relations. At the end of four years
she will have completed a double major in Corporate Public relations and
English – Spanish Translation.
Preparation for Women's
Congress
Lina
is hard at work preparing her third National Women’s Congress. There
will be representation from almost all South American countries. The
Congress will be going on at about the time you receive this letter and
she asks for your prayers. The congress will be held in a beautiful
government convention center which has a capacity for 2,200 people. The
topics covered are Prayer, Intercession, Inter family abuse, and raising
children in the Lord.
If you
have e-mail, would you please send me your address as we are trying to
speed communication by sending our prayer letter by email to those who
have it. Please send your e-mail address to
jamest@terra.cl
We will continue to send our letters by regular mail to those who do
have e-mail.
Prayer
Requests:
1. For Lina’s Congress
Sept 23-25. She also asks that you to pray for a much needed 1500 lumen
video projector for her presentations.
2. For our health, that we may contnue our ministery
without health failures.
3- Since the work is
greatly expanding, we are praying for the finances to hire two nationals
to work full time with us.
4. We still need to up
grade some video equipment and systems for a children’s show. (Please
write me if you are interested in helping)
Thank you for your prayers and love for us.
Love,
Jim and Lina
Focusing on Latin America,
but reaching the world