Dear Pastor, Congregation and Friends,

“Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before Kings; he shall not stand before mean men.” (Proverbs 22:29)

This has really become one of my motivations while on deputation. Although we know that God has called us to be missionaries and that where He guides, He provides we realize that this does not excuse us from working hard to reach our goals. When we pray for God to help us we are asking him to bless our efforts and our diligence. I cannot say that I have always “stood before Kings” in these past two years but I do realize that without a combination of prayer and good old fashioned work we cannot accomplish   anything of eternal value for God. Notice that I said prayer because I certainly can do nothing in my strength alone. So based on this philosophy we have set out to leave for Spain December 1st. During the month of April we were able to present our ministry in 14 different churches and 5 new churches took us on for support. Already this month we have been in 13 churches and 3 have partnered with us. So since our April prayerletter we have had 8 new churches take us on for support and we are now at 80% of our needed support. Deputation has been such a wonderful training experience for us. We desire to continue what we have learned here when we start the work in Spain. We have a plan to evangelize the city of Parla, Madrid. It is so exciting to see what God is already doing through our partners in ministry on the field.

Because the Lord has commanded us to preach the gospel to “every” creature we have developed a plan to reach the city where we will be starting our first church. In order to reach the entire country we need to evangelize Parla, Madrid first. One of the things that we have observed about Spain is that it is very difficult to visit people in their homes because most people live in apartments and they don’t open their door to strangers. We want to hit every home in Parla every year in a systematic way so we have started the gospel DVD project. We want to thank all of those that have had a part in helping us with purchasing these DVD’s. The Lord has already been using these in a mighty way. Although we are not in Spain our partners on the field have been busy with this     exciting project. As of now they have distributed 9,193 DVD’s and we know that many souls have had the opportunity to hear the gospel clearly presented in the privacy of their own homes. As most of you know the DVD ends with an invitation to visit our website, estudialabiblia.com (studythebible.com). Since my brother-in-law started the website we have had 780 people visit and over 5 people from the city have requested a free Bible. This brings us so much joy because we know that these DVD’s are very effective. Just wait until we have placed all 50,000 DVD’s that we plan to distribute in every home in Parla. Our next project will be to distribute literature and Bibles across the city. Very soon the church will officialy start and we are anticipating great things. As you can see we can’t wait to be on the ground in Spain. Only 6 more months to go!