BRAZIL

7th July 2010
Brazil, PRAY

Pray for God’s future for My Father’s House in Olinda. The government have placed a compulsory purchase order on this (rented) property, in order to build a new coast road. Pray for Ian Meldrum seeking to safeguard the boys’ welfare. Other house and land owners have begun legal action against the compulsory purchase. Pray for Andy and Rose Roberts and the staff team, for strength and hope to continue working through the uncertainty, trusting God to provide.

 

Praise God for the Easter evangelistic outreach from the Living Waters Church, alongside the ongoing ministry bringing hope to the poor. Pray for Ian and Siméa, and for God’s guidance in their vision for the future use of the farm.

 

Thank God for the visit of Marcos and Tamara Throup and baby Rebekah to the UK and their time with supporting churches. Pray for their return to João Pessoa as Marcos resumes his study, teaching, preaching and mentoring, and for their family life together.

Big Night for URUGUAY

6th July 2010
PRAY, Uruguay

If you have ever experienced being in South America during a world cup it will stay with you forever. It’s so much more than football. With Uruguay in the sports media we encourage you to keep the following people in prayer.

 

Pray for Bishop Miguel Tamayo and his wife Martha, who is a deacon. Pray for them in leadership and pastoral oversight, for Suffragan Bishop Gilberto Porcal, clergy and people.

 

Remember Latin partners Gonzalo and Leticia Soria, Abril and Guillermina, leading the church in Fray Bentos. Give thanks for the home groups which build up church members through prayer and Bible study, and for their imaginative outreach into the community through craft and cookery workshops, and helping children with homework.

Caroline’s news from Paraguay July and August 2010

6th July 2010
Paraguay, PRAY

There’s lots happening – please pray for us on these dates

 

From 15 – 25th July Women from isolated indigenous communities in the Paraguayan Chaco will be exhibiting their crafts at the national agricultural show in Asunción. They have only exhibited once before in 2004. Many indigenous families depend on their sales for food and clothing so they hope for lots of customers and to raise awareness of the difficult situation they live in.

 

Mission Paraguay volunteers will launch 3 sewing workshops. We’re aiming to teach the basics for tops, skirts and trousers in one week (19 – 23rdJuly) and

then one day, 8th August. A special 3 hour course on making shoulder bags will run on Friday 6th August. Volunteers are stepping in to replace the course the government workers are not continuing. Pray we’d overcome any language barrier and make great friends very quickly. Please pray that all the participants would enjoy the training and get everything they need to make good use of it. That some may be able to sew for a living. Once again thanks to all the donors of lovely cloth and haberdashery. It’s a joy to use

 

Happy holidays, Caroline

Cecilia Valdiviezo News

6th July 2010
Argentina, Latin Partners, PRAY

Dear  friends

 

I know I haven’t been in contact with you for a while but you know me! These couple of months have been very interesting for me, God is showing me the need I have to trust in his will and to realise He is in control of everything.

 

As you know the church I am working in is very new (3 years old) so we are in the process of growing and that takes lots of planning, time and hard work. The pastor I work with is a very talented and humble man whose heart is in “mission” so he and his lovely wife support my ministry and encourage me to keep on. For the past weeks I’ve been visiting different churches and helping them with some workshops and some meetings for the youth and women. The one that took my attention was one that is in a shanty town, where almost 60% of the people are into drugs and prostitution. Pastor Celso introduced me the pastor that lives and works in this area, he wanted me to go and visit them and encourage the youth about being a Christian. When I got at the place I couldn’t believe where they meet, they have a tiny room and as there is not enough space they take chairs outside and sit on the sidewalk, the kids are around 40 and almost all of them have serious problems with “paco” ( a popular drug for “the poor”). The pastor, Jorge is his name, has a great love and compassion for these kids and I do know God is using him greatly because through him two gangsters received Jesus and now they are attending the group and since they became Christians violence had decreased . For me this is a real challenge because I worked with 2 drug addicts before and the works is exhausting and because they are sick sometimes they just change their mind and don’t want to go on. As they don’t have a youth leader they ask me if I can visit them at least once a month and spend time with them, so we agreed to do it twice a month and a friend of mine who is also a youth leader will visit them twice a month, we know that is not enough but at least it is a good beginning.

 

Last weekend I spent 4 days in Bermejo (Bolivia), as you know I’ve been doing this for the last two years. For me every time I visit my brother and sisters there is a time of joy and of course a time of very good food!…lol. I don’t mind travelling by bus during the night because I know that as soon as I arrive there the blessing is amazing. I met the women and we spent a beautiful afternoon meditating about the “role of the woman”, that was a time of sharing their stories and learnt from one another, I also spent time with the youth and preached. The best part of my staying there was after the service, when a couple approached to me and asked me if I wanted to be the witness of their marriage! I was over the moon, as I told you before this type of society just live together without getting married but I and some friends have been working during this 2 years about the importance of putting in order our lives so God can bless us. They are the second couple that are getting married I hope this is just the beginning.

 

I don’t want to say good bye before letting you know that yesterday I was invited to El Circulo where the pastor Celso is in charge. Yesterday was their first Sunday service and I know that for almost most of you that have been here know how important this is! The building was used just for the youth meetings and the Happy Hours but now they also are opened on Sunday. We had a great celebration with lovely food…of course!.

 

My friends, there are lots of other things I would love to share with you but I’ll do it in the next letter. I just want to tell you that none of these things will be possibly without your support, I thank God for that.

Once again thanks for you support, your love and your prayers.

Cecy.

 

Prayer Points.

 

Thank God for my time in Bermejo and the blessing of this new marriage.

To give me wisdom to start helping the church in the shanty town twice a month.

To thank God for the visit we did in the schools and to for the future visits in other schools.

For the activities we have in my church so the community can see God is available for everyone.

My future trips to Buenos Aires y Bermejo so I can keep safe.

My future volunteers that are coming in August and September.

To Thank God for my good health.

 

Blessings

Cecy!!! xoxoxox

Prayers for Mission Paraguay : SUMMER 2010

29th June 2010
Paraguay, PRAY

Thank God that once again this year he has called people with generous hearts to give of their time and resources and to use their gifts to serve the Church in Paraguay.

Pray for safe and smooth, uneventful journeys for the volunteers travelling from England and Ireland on 12th, 13th, 15th July and 7th, 10th, August.  Pray especially for a smooth passage through immigration and the additional check-in this year at Sao Paulo Airport in Brazil.  Pray for the safe arrival of luggage and donated goods.

Pray that through the mutual dependence upon each other, the volunteers and the Paraguayan Christians should grow in faith as they work together.

Thank God for our brothers and sisters in Christ who live in a different culture, often suffer from severe hardship but have warm, welcoming and generous hearts.

Praise the Lord for his generosity through donations from supporters towards the work of Mission Paraguay this summer and for the great encouragement from SAMS Ireland.

Ask for the Lord’s direction and guiding hand over the planning meeting in Asunción on 14th July when decisions will be made upon the allocation of donated funds between the different projects in Concepción, the Chaco and the Asunción areas.  Pray that the funds should be used wisely to extend the work of the Church, to relieve suffering and to promote self sufficiency amongst marginalised people.

Thank God for Bishop Peter Bartlett and all pastors and lay workers in the Anglican Church in Paraguay.  Pray for their ongoing work amongst the poorer communities in outer districts of Asunción and Concepción and with the indigenous people in the Chaco.

Pray for the missionaries in Paraguay who will be working with the volunteer groups:

  • Caroline Gilmour-White is the Paraguayan based link person for the volunteer visits and will be working with the July group.  She coordinates the sewing workshops began by Mission Paraguay in 7 venues;
  • Chris Hawksbee who will be working with the Chaco group in August on water storage projects, new homes and toilet facilities for Indian people;
  • Ed Brice our link missionary who leads the Rio Verde church and supports the Indian pastors in the Chaco churches;
  • Tim Curtis who leads the project to translate the Bible into the Enxet language.

Ask God to oversee the day to day arrangements for travel, accommodation and meals.   Thank Him for the work of Silvia and Paula, our translators and Elias our driver.

Pray that through the work of the Mission Paraguay volunteers this year the churches visited may be strengthened and encouraged with more people entering into a living relationship with Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.

NEWS & PRAYER MISSION PARAGUAY 2010

29th June 2010
Paraguay, PRAY

Thank God that once again this year he has called people with generous hearts to give of their time and resources and to use their gifts to serve the Church in Paraguay.

 

Pray for safe and smooth, uneventful journeys for the volunteers travelling from England and Ireland on 12th, 13th, 15th July and 7th, 10th, August.  Pray especially for a smooth passage through immigration and the additional check-in this year at Sao Paulo Airport in Brazil.  Pray for the safe arrival of luggage and donated goods.

 

Pray that through the mutual dependence upon each other, the volunteers and the Paraguayan Christians should grow in faith as they work together.

 

Thank God for our brothers and sisters in Christ who live in a different culture, often suffer from severe hardship but have warm, welcoming and generous hearts.

 

Praise the Lord for his generosity through donations from supporters towards the work of Mission Paraguay this summer and for the great encouragement from SAMS Ireland.

 

Ask for the Lord’s direction and guiding hand over the planning meeting in Asunción on 14th July when decisions will be made upon the allocation of donated funds between the different projects in Concepción, the Chaco and the Asunción areas.  Pray that the funds should be used wisely to extend the work of the Church, to relieve suffering and to promote self sufficiency amongst marginalised people.

 

Thank God for Bishop Peter Bartlett and all pastors and lay workers in the Anglican Church in Paraguay.  Pray for their ongoing work amongst the poorer communities in outer districts of Asunción and Concepción and with the indigenous people in the Chaco.

 

Pray for the missionaries in Paraguay who will be working with the volunteer groups:

 

·       Caroline Gilmour-White is the Paraguayan based link person for the volunteer visits and will be working with the July group.  She coordinates the sewing workshops began by Mission Paraguay in 7 venues;

 

·       Chris Hawksbee who will be working with the Chaco group in August on water storage projects, new homes and toilet facilities for Indian people;

 

·       Ed Brice our link missionary who leads the Rio Verde church and supports the Indian pastors in the Chaco churches;

 

·       Tim Curtis who leads the project to translate the Bible into the Enxet language.

 

Ask God to oversee the day to day arrangements for travel, accommodation and meals.   Thank Him for the work of Silvia and Paula, our translators and Elias our driver.

 

Pray that through the work of the Mission Paraguay volunteers this year the churches visited may be strengthened and encouraged with more people entering into a living relationship with Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.

 

Northern Argentina

29th June 2010
Argentina, PRAY

Pray for Andrew and Maria Leake working in Northern Argentina. Pray for Andrew as he participates in public hearings on deforestation with partner organisation Asociana where he defends and promotes the land rights of indigenous people. Give thanks for the way in which they have been able to coordinate actions with Asociana. Pray that further opportunities will arise, and that their new working arrangement might prove fruitful. Continue praying for safety and wisdom as they research further into the process of local deforestation. Also pray that they will find people and funds to undertake the necessary studies. Pray for the ongoing work on the formal proposal for the Land for Life initiative.

Brazil

29th June 2010
Brazil, PRAY

Siméa Meldrum writes from Recife, Brazil: “According to the latest figures from the National Centre for Disaster and Risk Management: in Alagoas were recorded at least 19 deaths, 32,335 people are homeless and 25,843 displaced in 22 cities. In Pernambuco, there are 17,719 homeless, 24,301 displaced, 13 dead and 53 cities have declared an emergency. Right now we’re trying to empower the youth of the Church to be more helpful at these times of disaster. We know that nobody is free of these events, so the church must be prepared to assist and even prevent, when possible. We ask our prayer partners to pray for this training, because today, they already are mobilizing to help some people who are homeless with their families. They are making collection of clothes and personal items to send to the cities where these people are homeless.”

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