Dear ones,
We keep you all in our daily prayers..picturing each one and families..
We are so grateful for your support and prayers. Our health is improving as we take steps to do our part in the natural..as well as seeking the Lord more earnestly and interceding for others. These last 30 days have been days of interceding for others..family and friends..somewith serious health and economic issues..
As the photos show, we have been able to have a time of outreach.
Photos 1 to 5 are taken around the Central University area with souls saved.
Photo 6 is of a special friend, a widow, who works downtown and is a zealous distributor of our gospel tracts.
The rest of the Photos are of our outreach area in the very busy downtown area with street vendors galore and lots of noise ( hear in the video clips!) . The photos also help grasp the sprawling I( and continuing to be) housing up the mountain sides. When I arrived in 1981, the mountains were covered in beautiful Eucalyptus forests!
and now with an explosion of immigrants and many young ones leaving their family farming, hoping to find fortune in this Capital, housing is constructed ( often illegally) wherever it is possible!
However, this explosion has made the city a hub for gospel tract distribution and soul winning!
Again thank you all for your concern for us the our part in the commision of getting out the Word to the Masses.
We are wanting to print a FORMATION OF VALUES project, a programme for children, called STEPS, which consists of 20 books with pages to colour and anecdoted to express the particular value. The one attached is about FRIENDSHIP. We’re grateful for any help towards the printing of these books.
Thank you for your heartfelt participation with us in this mission,
gratefully,
Gonzalo and Jenny
A little addition as food for thought: GOLDEN REPAIRS: ( Edited from an article..)
KINTSUKI IS a form of Japanese pottery repair . This means “golden joinery” or “golden repairs” and it is the art of fixing broken pottery by mending the broken parts back together with a lacquer mixed with gold or silver powder. In this practice, you recognize that, when a beautiful thing is broken, that is part of its history and not something that needs to be hidden or disguised….
When looking at a broken plate with kintsugi in mind, you don’t think, “Ah, now the plate is unsightly and useless!” No, you think, “This plate has gone through an experience that will mark it, but beautifully. And it will become even more valuable, more remarkable, and more precious because of it.”…
…I like to think of God performing some kintsugi on me, taking all my cracks and flaws and mending them to form a pattern that exceeds anything that could have existed without those broken lines.
If we let Him, God can use our imperfections to make something truly stunning out of what would have been discarded.
Don’t fear the blemishes. They can be opportunities for the Lord to come in and make golden repairs in your life…..
