1. Returning to El Salvador
A. Teaching Workshop 4 and Preaching Easter Sunday
Just a quick note to ask you to pray for my trip this week, April 15-23, to El Salvador. I will be teaching the fourth and final workshop in the "Growing in Grace" series for pastors and church leaders. And I have been invited to preach on Resurrection (Easter) Sunday in the Christian Reformed Church of Huizúcar located in the mountains an hour from the city.
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(Above) El Salvador pastors and church leaders
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B. Commissioning a new National Missionary Partner
Also, I will commission Helmuth Aguilar as our new National Missionary Partner to train pastors and church leaders in both El Salvador and Chile, and we will make plans for his upcoming workshops.
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(Above) National Missionary Partner Helmuth Aguilar grew up in Chile and attended the Baptist Theological Seminary of Santiago, Chile. In recent years, he moved to El Salvador where he lives with his wife, Hilda. He assists in preaching, teaching and leading music for worship at the Reformed Church in Santa Tecla near the capital city of San Salvador. Helmuth has arranged to teach workshops for pastors in El Salvador and in three cities in Chile. He is now waiting on the Lord for funding. You can donate to his work here. |
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C. Meeting with Workbook Translators
Two of our workbook translators live in El Salvador. So I plan to meet with Vanessa (French translator) and Carolina (Spanish translator) to discuss their progress on the remainder of our workbooks. Carolina translated Workbook 4 and the Children's Ministry Workbook into Spanish last year. Vanessa has already completed the Children's Ministry Workbook and is nearly finished translating Workbooks 1 and 4 into French. Soon she will begin work on Workbooks 2 and 3. Most of our countries speak Spanish, but French is spoken in Haiti as well as in parts of the Dominican Republic and Brazil.
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(Above) Workbook translators. (Left) Vanessa and Carolina. (Right) Carolina with her husband Walter overlooking the capital city of San Salvador and the San Salvador volcano (last eruption 1917).
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2. Latin America Teaching Schedule 2019-20
A. 2019 Trips Scheduled
Below are all the trips planned for 2019 to Latin America. Two have already been completed and I have seven more to go. Notice that we are working now in 8 different countries - up from 4 in 2018.
- Feb 11-16: BELIZE, Independence
- Mar 18-21: CUBA, Las Tunas
- Apr 15-23: EL SALVADOR, Santa Tecla
- May 20-25: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, La Romana
- Jun 14-20: ECUADOR, Guayaquil
- Jul 15-20: PERU, Lima
- Aug 13-19: COLOMBIA, Cartagena
- Sep 16-21: CUBA, Palmira
- Nov 1-6: HAITI, Jacmel
B. 2020 Trips to be Scheduled
Below are the trips still to be scheduled for 2020 in two new countries. Please pray that they will be able to find interpreters for these workshops. When we begin working there, that will bring us to a total of 10 different countries in Latin America.
- ARGENTINA, Rio Villa Rio Bermejito
- BRAZIL, Braco du Norte
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