Planting our First Daughter Church

 Ben had the privilege of traveling to Guatemala to be a part of the launch of our first daughter church in Santa Lucia which is a community about 15 minutes from Magdalena. This work is led by Eswin (Pictured Below). He was our barber for several years before coming to know Christ. He was discipled by Ben and attended our Bible Institutes and Pastors School. We are so proud of Eswin, Evelyn and there son Richard and the whole team in Santa Lucia. 

Please pray for this new work. Pray for Eswin and Evelyn. Pray for disciples that make disciples. 

Helping others follow Jesus...

 One thing we have focused on here in Guatemala since day one is discipleship. We are trying to help people know and follow Jesus. This happens through a process most of us call discipleship. This has been the main focus and work of Iglesia Nueva Vida. Our desire is not just to help people know Jesus but also teach them to help others to know and follow Jesus and multiply the effort.

This has been happening and working. We work in coordination with New Life Network and we have partnered to start 9 discipleship groups that are going through an 18 month discipleship process in which they not only learn the fundamentals of the faith but also how to reproduce themselves in others. 

We recently had a retreat where we trained 20 more discipleship leaders. Please pray for these current and future disciplers. We planted some seeds that we know will bear much fruit in the future.

It is very exciting to think about these groups and leaders and future leaders of groups that in a year or two will be at least double and then continue to multiply from there. To God be the Glory!

Every Tuesday night we gather with our leaders for prayer and training too.

Happy 3rd Anniversary to New Life Church!

 

We are grateful for the Lord's goodness in allowing New Life Church of Guatemala to complete 3 years of ministry! We have seen about 50 decisions for Jesus and 40 baptisms in these 3 years. We have over 50 people in our discipleship groups and we are finishing our membership process. 

Our band, when we started we used youtube worship songs ;-)

To God be the glory!

Baptisms, New Life Church and Old Testament Survey

 It has been a challenging season for our church (Iglesia Nueva Vida) as it has been for all churches. So we were excited to have our first service in over 6 months. We have seen God's faithfulness in many ways over the last 6 months but it was good to gather again as a church family. We got to celebrate baptisms and the Lord's Supper as well. 

I am so grateful for what the Lord is doing through NLC! I am hoping to install Carlos as the Pastor of this church in the not to distant future and then move on to plant another church in another community. Please pray for this transition. 

We also did a half day Old Testament Survey class this past Saturday that was a lot of fun. I was encourage to see over 20 people learning together on a Saturday morning.

Birthdays and Anniversaries and more Kunkel Family Updates

 

Jennifer celebrated a birthday in late July. We had lots of chocolate cake (her favorite) and spoiled her a bit. She is an amazing mom, wife, lady, friend etc to so many. We are super grateful for her!

We had some fun and got her a cane for her birthday that she is holding here but hard to see. Luke escaped this pic as usual. 

We also got to go our for our 22nd anniversary. This was a special treat after 4 plus months of not being able to go out. I am grateful for this lady and our marriage. 

We also got to take the kids to Mcd for the first time in a long time.

Jake does a great job taking care of the girls. They love to go outside and swing!

This was a family worship time together with our friend Yeison.

Thanks for your continued prayers and support!

Iglesia Nueva Vida

On January 31st, We started a house church in our apartment. We are excited to see how the Lord uses this church to further our mission of making disciples who make disciples. We will be focusing on this through house churches that multiply.

 Please pray with us as we serve the Lord in this way that he may use it to bring Glory to God though the building of His church.

Thanks for praying with us!

This is a little dinner we had together this last week on Valentines Day.

We have our first baptism planned for February 28th. Please pray for this and those being baptized!