Ministry
As I’m sure you have been made well aware 2018 has flown by, God has given yet another good year of serving Him. I can honestly say every day, and every year, gets sweeter with Jesus. We appreciate your prayers for us in this previous year, they were sincerely felt, and genuinely needed. I am certainly convinced that God has blessed us so tremendously, in no small part, because of your prayers.
Our church and its ministries have continued to grow, with us having hit a new high attendance of over sixty people; and more people coming to trust Christ as Savior. One interesting milestone we crossed in these past few months, is that we have now seen, in the second year of our church, people come from forty-three different countries. That is exciting, not only because it is a lot of countries, but because in six months we have surpassed our total for the entire first year.
Our soul winning ministry has also increased, with several more men joining me to go door knocking. We still go to the city thirty minutes to our south on Monday, each week, and were blessed to have our first visitor from there recently. We now have four more men who are starting to go on other days, boosting us to be able to go almost every day of the week. Four of the men who go with me, were some of the men baptized this past September, it is exciting to see them sharing the gospel with others. We will actually this week teaching soul winning classes at our church, so that others might start joining us.
I mentioned a building in my last letter, I have spoken with the owner; and seen the property. It is perfect for our needs and in a great location. The building is large enough for our church, for the foreseeable future, and has an apartment attached for our family. The price is very good for this part of the city, but still considerably out of our price range; it is nearly half the price of any building its size. Please pray for us though, we desperately need God’s guidance in whether this property is His will or not.