Life Back in CR

Well, I've been back in CR for about 2 1/2 weeks now. It's been somewhat different getting back to life here after being home for a month, but not as hard as I was thinking. Both my transitions into life at home and life in CR were much different than I was expecting. (Which is a good thing!)

Since I've been back, the new intern has arrived. It has been good having someone else to do the different activities with, I am no longer riding around town by myself! We haven't done a whole lot yet, because he's working on learning Spanish (but he's progressing very rapidly!), but we've kept fairly busy.

Another new thing that has started since I have been back is a small group that we're hoping will turn into a church plant in a town not too far away. We have had 2 Bible studies. There have been about 12 adults and 5 kids at each so far, so that has been nice. Please be in prayer about this church plant. Please pray that more people (outside our church group) will start coming and that soon we will have enough to have 2 groups. This is an exciting time and your partnership through prayer will be greatly appreciated!

The final new thing that has started up is an ESL class. Last week we started a 4 week course to get the idea planted before Christmas, and hopefully after Christmas we will have even more students! For now, we have 6 teachers (our last week we will have 4 because 2 of the teachers are visitors) and we teach Tuesday and Wednesday nights for an hour and a half. We want to use this as an outreach ministry to bring in people from the community (our eventual hope is to use this near our church plant, but for now, we do not have the space, so we're staying at the Alliance churh we attend). We currently have about 20 students, and the majority attend our church (or other local churches), but we do have a few who are not Christians, so hopefully through this class, we will be able to win them for Christ. Please also be in prayer for this ministry. It is an exciting ministry because we will have people coming to us, and therefore will be more likely to be more open to the Gospel message. Please be prayer for us teachers, for the students, and the ministry in general.

Please continue to be praying for me as I am here and that I will be effective wherever God places me and with all the people He puts in my path. Your prayers specifically in that will be a huge blessing. Thank you for all that you are doing to make my time here possible. I am blessed and honored to have your support!