2024 Ministry & Financial Update

Pastoral Retreat we had in early November

Ministry Update

Ben began this year in a new role as you know. He began serving as the national coordinator for New Life Network here in the USA. His role is supporting Hispanic Pastors to fullfill the mission we have in common which is: To form and reproduce disciples of Jesus, healthy churches and faithful and prepared servant-leaders, in the Hispanic communites in the USA. 

This was and is a big learning curve for him as it is a much different context in the USA than in Guatemala. He has learned a lot and has a lot yet to learn. There are many challenges facing the Hispanic Church in the USA. (Even the term hispanic is debated if it is the propert way to describe those from Latin American origins)

But despite the challenges, we have seen the Lord begin to work among the existing churches we have as a part of the network. We have also seen a few new churches join the network and we are in process of helping a couple more churches join. One of the biggest challenges and yet big opportunities is helping Anglo churches reach hispanics and plant churches within their exsisting churches. There has been a big interest in us helping these churches with this interest. Please pray the Lord will give us wisdom in helping them. Here are a few things we celebrated with our pastors a few weeks back in our pastoral retreat. We share them so you too can celebrate and praise the Lord with us:

• 13 Commissioned Disciplers at New Life Church in Indy
• 2 Churches Joined RNV in 2024
• A Monthly Prayer Time Together was started
• A Pastoral Retreat Together (pic above)
• A New discipleship group preparing 3 churches to start discipleship in their churches (see pic below)
• 3 New churches in the process of discernment if they should be a part of New Life Network

Thanks for your prayers for us in 2024! To God be the Glory!

Financial Update

Our role with New Life Network even though we are in the USA is still a role in which we have to raise %100 of our own financial support. We began the year in a good place financially with about 3 months of support in our account but that has been slowly eaten away at and is now just over one month of support. The reason is that our monthly budget is about a $1,000 a month more than we are receiving in support each month. We would like to end this year getting out of the "red" and raise $10,000 to get our support account where it needs to be.

Would you consider a year end gift to our family to help us get to a healthy spot financially?

You can give here or mail a check to: Red Nueva Vida, 7010 E Thompson Rd, Indpls, IN 46239 (memo as Ben Kunkel Support)

Thanks as always for your prayers and support!

The Kunkel Family

"And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others." 2 Timothy 2:2

Pastoral Retreat

 We had a great Pastoral Retreat a few weeks back with the pastors we have the priviledge of serving. The theme was united in the mission of God. We really wanted to help foster strong relationships between all of us and I think we took some good steps toward that goal. I had my friend from Colombia, Remberto and also Daniel Godbey another friend who serves with the network share with the Pastors. Check out some pics of our time together below.

At our first session Jonathan Morton our president shared with the pastors too.

We had a beautiful time of sharing and prayer around a campfire.

Pastor Remberto sharing with us on how to heal from ministry hurt and to last in ministry.

Ladies and guys had some prayer and sharing times together.

We did a workshop on creating a culture of discipleship in our churches.

Heres the whole group minus Daniel who was taking the picture.

Lots of time in prayer together!

Thanks for those who prayed and supported this retreat!