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But the word of God connue to grow and be mulplied Acts 12:24 The Psalms, what an encouragement, Semilla de Mostaza has had a series of preaching on the psalms. To find Jesus and the gospel on the select psalms encourages us to see the power and sustainability of Scripture in our own lives. On April 22 nd , we had our pre-retreat gathering of church planters. The theme was our belief on Trinity and prepar- ing for the celebraon of 500 years of the Reformaon. The focus on the gospel and having some pastoral applicaon for our ministries. Church Planters from Macara, Nabon, Charqui, Nambacola, Gonzamana, Catamayo, Occidental, Sauces norte, Suro, Amaluza were present, plus our Worldventure team that is serving in Loja. The Messicks and Fergusons, Worldventure units staoned in Loja are developing workshops such as, marriage, parenng, doctrinal statement, how to interpret the bible all these with the purpose to be offered to the church planng places. They have had great recepon indicang busy schedules for the fall. An un-expected provision for land toward our church in Vinces. An Ecuadorian gynecologist has been serving on the volunteer basis on the outreaches that our church planter Jairo Mena does in Vinces. She provided the money for pur- chasing a small piece of land to build a building for the church there. The church was praying and God provided in an out- standing way. We Praise our Lord for his provision. Officially, our sponsoring of the Macara church has started. We ask for your prayers for Pastor Richard and Estefan- ia. They are doing a good job of reaching the surrounding areas there. Also, they are a young couple and we don’t want the church people underesmang their capacity due to their age. During Easter week, three of our church planng places, Occidental, Sauces Norte and Catamayo in partnership with a ministry E3 did an outreach in their communies with medical services and evangelism door by door. At this point, a follow up has been conducted to have discipleship in those communies. This past weeks a group from Semilla together with SIM have been working through a series on grief. This week they leſt to Pedernales one of the earthquake sites. They will be sharing the Good News and giving this workshop and work- ing one on one with people plus working in other ministries. This will be done alongside a local church. What an encourage- ment it is to see people from Semilla de Mostaza go to other areas of Ecuador. Prayer Needs. Due to changes and high increase of medical insurance, supporters that are no longer supporng and the increase of the family. We are experiencing a lack of financial support. Wood Village Bapst church has been very supporve and has sent a leer to our supporters about considering an increase or joining our financial team. Would you consider joining our financial team. We are currently 900 dollars short on our monthly support. Three churches will be coming to help us down in Loja this summer and fall 2017. Faith Bapst Lincoln city, First Bapst Salem and Baker Creek church McMinnville. This is of great encouragement for Lulu and I. Outreaches, VBS, English spotlight nights, women groups and various other ministries are being planned. Please pray that the hearts of peo- ple will be recepve to the gospel. On July, we will have our church planters retreat and we are expecng more couples, the team mulplied. We need to raise $1500 for making this possible, if you would like help with the church planters retreat and those church plant- er’s families to renew and refresh, please send the donaon to WorldVenture, Calvas Ministry Account. June 2017 Macara church partnership. Pre-retreat Church planters Land for Vinces church. Praise the Lord!!!!
