We launched a Saturday night soccer ministry in Colombia, attracting new visitors to the church. Our recent missions conference was a great success, inspiring many, including a young lady who committed to serving God. Two teenagers were saved and are growing in their faith. We celebrated great fruit in Bello with new visitors and two men stepping up to serve in the church. Please pray for Josh Sullivan, a missionary in South Africa, and for the work in Bello.

We hosted a Romantic Night on February 15 to invite new couples, strengthen marriages, and raise funds for our youth camp. God blessed us with a new couple! In Caldas, we are preaching through Matthew and Psalms, with Bible Institute lessons on the Holy Ghost. We’re also growing our youth and couples ministries. We had the privilege of hosting Brother Jeff Bush. Please pray for the Missions Rally (March 27-28) and for Luz Mery’s family in Bello, who need prayer. We’re also close to our $30,000 goal for the land project!

God is working! The Bible Institute is growing, our youth need prayers, and families face challenges. At the church in Bello, discipleship is thriving, and we are praying about purchasing our current house.
We also received $800 for the land purchase, with $34,100 remaining. Great news is coming soon!

We finally hosted our first youth retreat! 13 teens came, and we had a great time of growth in the Lord, along with lots of fun! Teens here in Colombia often live a vain life focused on the things of the world, but this retreat helped them commit to a life of serving God.

Iglesia Bautista Vision celebrated its 6th anniversary with 4 baptisms, 11 discipleship graduates, and new visitors. A trip to the Amazon connected the church with Missionary Jonathan Hernandez, inspiring future ministry support. With 11 new discipleship teachers, the church prays for more growth. In Bello, Chestley and Yessica Howell continue expanding the work at Iglesia Bautista El Refugio.

Even though we do outreach every week, we have a monthly church wide outreach for a specific event. This month on this event we were able to hand out more than a 1000 tracts, invite several to church, and give the gospel to many.

We officially started our first Bible institute class. On September 1st we taught our first class on Soteriology-Justification. We have 18 students that are coming and learning. They are hungry to learn more.

Today as I walked into our rented church building, looking for a place
to sit down and teach a discipleship class, I went into the first room but
it was busy, brother Roger was doing a discipleship lesson with
another young guy from our church.

July was a month in which we had several independence celebrations:
• As a team of missionaries we celebrated July 4th at our home with the Howell family.
• Here in Colombia we also celebrated the country’s Independence Day on July 20th.

We are currently working on the paperwork for the church land. We also ask for your prayers in helping us
raise the remaining $60,000 needed to purchase this land for our church in Colombia.