I give thanks to God for what He has been doing in our midst, especially among the brothers and sisters in the faith. The work that we are doing with families in our church is proving to be a great blessing. The Lord has helped me through many counseling opportunities with married couples.

The ministry with the young members of our church, which includes counseling and discipling them, has brought many blessings. I am teaching them through the 9 Marks of a Healthy Church and it is being used to create a greater commitment as members of the local body. It is a great blessing for me and my family to be involved in this ministry that the Lord has given us. As we continue working in the ministry we are seeing families grow in the grace of God.

Please pray for Luciano, a faithful brother in our church, who is now in the regional hospital. They have diagnosed him with a malignant brain tumor and Tuberculosis, and he needs to have an emergency operation. Last Sunday I visited him in the hospital and his strength in the Lord was very encouraging to see. Even though the sickness is severe, he told me that he is well in the Lord. He said that God has a purpose in it all, and that maybe God’s purpose through it is to save his family. He said that his prayer is that God would save his family through this. Please pray for this man’s son and wife, who do not know the Lord. His oldest son is a Christian, but he greatly desires the salvation of his other son and his wife. May our God be glorified through the sickness of our brother.