“But without faith it is impossible to please Him...” (Heb. 11:6) I was reminded of this passage of Scripture the other day during a mission’s conference that we were attending. I could hear myself repeating a phrase that I had uttered many times before but on this occasion something was very different. Someone from the church had asked me when we were planning on going to the field and I said, “Well, we would like to be on the field in one more year.” In that moment the Holy Spirit began convicting my heart of my lack of faith. I realized that it was time to make plans to leave for Spain this year. So after much prayer and planning we have set our departure date for December 1st, 2010. We have over one hundred churches to visit from now until December. We are thrilled to announce that since our last prayerletter we have had eight new churches take us on for support and we are currently at 71% of our needed support.

For this letter we have some very specific prayer requests that we want to share with you. Because we have set our departure date for eight months from now we have already begun the process to obtain our visas for Spain. Please pray that this process will go smoothly. It is very time-consuming and stressful at times but we trust God for the visas as well as the support. Favianna will have to go to Peru very soon to pick up some documents that we will need for the visa process. My wife is really excited because she will be able to say goodbye to her family in Peru before we go to Spain. Also, continue praying for our daughter. She has to go see the cardiologist in August. It would be such a blessing to know that she is improving and that the hole in her heart is closing on its own.

As we approach this final stage of our deputation we would like to thank all of you for taking the time to read our prayerletters and follow along with us in this amazing journey to Spain. Thank you for holding the ropes for us with your support and prayers. God has given us a big vision for Spain. We ask God every day to give us the privilege of being used of Him to shake up a nation with the gospel. We have a great job ahead of us but we know that if the task was impossible He wouldn’t have commanded us to accomplish it. Because this is such a special time in our lives we want to begin sending prayerletters every month until we arrive on the field. We want to allow you to see how God is going to answer our prayers in the next eight months. Based on the average support that we have been receiving we only need about 33 more churches to partner with us to reach Spain. We have visited over 200 churches since we started our deputation and we have another 100 yet to visit. We only need a small percentage of those 300 churches to join with us and we will reach our goal very quickly. Would you consider partnering with us to evangelize Spain in our generation? God Bless.

Reaching Spain for Christ,