As we are beginning a new year I wanted to take this time to emphasize a need. That need is more laborers. If you are a Christian young person reading this letter or hearing it read in your church, I ask you this: have you prayed about being a missionary? I challenge every man in his 20’s and 30’s who has graduated Bible college and is currently working in the ministry in the States: have you prayed about missions? I was a 32-year-old pastor when I surrendered to go to Argentina. 

Since we have been in the States, I have had the
opportunity to teach at the Vision School of Missions. This semester I
am teaching the poetic books to the second- and third-year students.
As students are working through the three-year missions program at
Vision, the mission also helps them connect with churches in the area
so that they can serve in those churches.

“Time flies” is a saying that we use often. Visiting churches on furlough, we have heard people comment on how much time has passed between when we came by the first time presenting our work, and now visiting and giving an update. People can’t get over how much the children have grown and how big they are. Time does indeed fly.

Who are you, I asked the man as I arrived at
Faith Baptist in Pergamino. His name was Andres, and he was
new to Faith Baptist Church in Pergamino.

It has been such a blessing to visit churches in the
month of July. It is very encouraging to have people come up
to me and tell me that they pray specifically for me and my
family every day. In the month of July I have visited churches in
Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, and Tennessee,
and for the very first time I visited a church in Indiana. For many
of these churches this is the first visit we have made in 9 or 10
years.