Red Nueva Vida USA Update

 One of the things I (Ben) get to do is work with the churches we serve in helping prepare them to use the resources we have. Our goal is to help move our churches towards forming and reproducing disicples, healthy churches and leaders. We offer several resources to help them work towards this goal. Our main resources is our disicpleship route. Here are a few trainings I have done recently.

This was at Iglesia Esperanza Viva a church here in Indianapolis. I was doing training on the next few steps in the discipleship process.

This is a retreat that another church in Indy did not too long ago.

This is a leadership training I helped with at New Life Church Indy.

This is a prayer time before a disicpleship group launched with this group.

This is an evangelism training I did in a church north of Chicago.

Thanks for the continued prayers and support for our family and ministry! 

We have seen the work grow from 4 churches, 10 disciples in our disicpleship route in January 2024 when I started in this role to now having 7 churches involved, 8 disicpleship groups with 114 disciples, and 9 leaders in training. All glory to God!

 

Birthday, Beach and Baptisms

 We are celebrating a few October birthdays. Here are pics from Caleb's 11th birthday. Hard to believe our baby boy is 11!

We were also grateful for some time away at the end of last month. We usually go with friends and rent a house but with Covid we have not been able to get away in over a year so it was great to be able to get away and relax. Below are a few pics.

This girl was a fish and would have lived in the pool if we let her.

Lots of pool time!

Enjoying God's Beautiful Creation!

The family with one extra below. Yeison who has served with us for two years but heads back to Columbia this weekend.

We are grateful that the Lord continues to change lives. Here are a few baptisms over the past month or so:

Thanks for those who pray and support all God is doing here! Love from the Kunkel family!

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.

House for Abuela Juana

 We did a visit about a month ago with one of the older ladies that attends our little church. Her name is Jane (Juana). She is a sweet lady with many challenges, but we were not aware of the housing situation until recently when we made this visit and found out where she was sleeping. We knew we had to do something to help. One of the values we have as a church is generosity and we are trying to teach our people to live lives of generosity and we have committed as a church to give away at least 50% of our offerings to help people like Juana, support missions and other needs and ways we can be generous. Check out some pics below of how we found her house and what her new place looks like. We were also able to get her a new bed. Gloria a Dios!

Her house was made up of old sheet metal with holes, dirt floor, plastic.

She just turned 77 years young.

Here is the work we did with our team of leaders from New Life Church:

Joel wanted to help and even gave some of his money towards it!

Our friends Eswin and Marvin bought and finished it up with a concrete floor. 

She did not want to move her few things back into her house until we came and prayed and dedicated it with cake and all!

Grateful for Abuela Juana!