Dear Friend,
Greetings from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. This is an exciting week in Latin America. In every country there are special celebrations of Semana Santa, Holy Week. Throughout our continent secular TV stations will be showing the JESUS Film and The Story of JESUS for Children. Right here in Bolivia thousands of DVD’s of Magdalena: Released from Shame have been or will be distributed in the coming weeks. We are planning multiple theater premieres of Magdalena in the Quechua and Aymara languages in the major cities of Bolivia. Please pray with us as millions will be exposed to the Gospel through television broadcasts, theater premieres of Magdalena: Released from Shame, and DVD distributions.
While we broadcast the Good News widely, the work is often one on one. Last week Marcelo, a young man I had known previously from the ministry at the Modern Language department at the university phoned me. We got together for lunch and he told me over and over again of his need to draw closer to God. I shared with him an Iphone app version of the Four Spiritual Laws and he received Christ that day! Please pray for Marcelo as we meet together to learn more and he begins to grow in his faith.
Probably our greatest task ahead is working with the next generation of leaders to equip them to take the reins of ministry. Two weeks ago I met with staff from Chile and Bolivia to learn about their ministries. I am so encouraged by the quality of new missionary staff coming up through the ranks.
Marcelo and his wife Dita joined our staff a year ago in Bolivia. Marcelo is a recent engineering graduate from the big state university here. He heard the Gospel through one of our staff on campus, received Christ as his Savior and hasn’t stopped running since! He has created an amazing leadership training proposal for the Engineering Department that will allow him to teach leadership principles on campus while he gets to know students and builds a ministry there.
Please pray for Pato and Marcelo and hundreds of other young men and women who are responding to God’s call to reach their generation with Jesus’ love and forgiveness.
Andrew is in the home stretch of his senior year and has been accepted to the University of Florida for the fall. Go Gators! Jeanie is wrapping up five years of teaching at the Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center with mixed emotions: looking forward to change, but already missing the kids and her colleagues. We are looking forward to moving later in the year to Costa Rica.
Jeanie and I wish you a very Happy Easter. He is Risen!
Ron and Jeanie
