Iglesia Nueva Vida 4 year Anniversary & Bible Institute 2nd Year

 

It is hard to believe that New Life Church in Magdalena celebrated 4 years at the end of last month! We give thanks to God for his faithfulness. This is the word that kept coming to my mind the day of our celebration. See a few pics below of our celebration. We shared that day of all God has done over the last 4 years and here are a few things: 50 decisions for Christ, 45 baptisms, over 50 in our discipleship groups and this year we are in process of planting two more churches! Eswin pictured below with me in the service is going to be one of the planters!

We also started the second year of the Network's Bible Institute. The second year focuses on Pastoral Care. This is for leaders, pastors and future pastors to help prepare them for preaching, teaching, counseling and leadership. We have 11 students this year! Thanks for praying for these 11 students!

New Year at Love Guatemala

 We are grateful for another year to serve the Lord through Love Guatemala. As you may know we are in the process to transition out of Love Guatemala to serve full-time in church planting. But we will continue to support in some ways the work of LG. We are excited to see the team God is putting together to lead this organization into the future. As you know Katy Lopez will be the new Director. She is doing a great job and LG will be in great hands with her.

We have started classes this year and we are over 200 students. The Guatemalan government still has some restrictions in place, but we are able to have in-person classes at least half of the time and the other half we will continue virtually. Enrollment nationally seems to be down unfortunately because of the pandemic. It seems that kids got used to not going to school and don't want to return and/or they are tired of virtual learning. It is sad to see the affect this has had.

We have begun a new program that you can read more about here. But basically it is a high school program that people over 18 can take and then go on to college. We are excited about this opportunity!

Most of our classes are happening on Saturday. We have the high school program, we continue with the middle school program and English on Saturdays. We also have the primary program on Saturday and English is also being offered throughout the week. Our high school program is also offered on Fridays.

Please pray with us for these students, our staff and leadership including the Board of Directors. Pray that each of these students (and staff) will take next steps in their spiritual journey. Also pray for the transition of leadership.