Wednesday, June 27, 2012

June 25 to 27 update (Miles)

June 25 ( Monday) -

Jennifer arranged for us to do a Bible storying session at a school on the outskirts of Arequipa. There were about 50 children. Martin lead music, Ben shared his Bible story, the others acted out the story and then Martin challenged the children with questions. We passed out some treats and had a blessed time.

We toured the Cathedral of Arequipa which was pretty amazing, and had lunch at a great restaurant. The flight to Lima was fine. Kristi's brother Terry and sister-in-law Vicki arranged for us to stay for free at one of the missionaries' apartment who are out traveling. So God has used lots of people to bless us during this trip.

We flew to Lima with no problems. Terry and Vicki found a missionary's apartement that we could use while the missionary family was traveling. Very much a blessing for us to stay together (and for free!).

June 26 ( Tuesday) -

We met Terry at the IMB headquarters in Lima for the America Affinities. He gave us a tour of the offices and told about the ministries there to determine how to reach the unreached people groups of North, Central and South America. Very interesting and inspiring. Makes us glad to be part of the Southern Baptist mission effort. We then met Martin's friend TJ (from Utah) and his wife Pamela (Peruvian). TJ started a children's ministry in the slums of Lima about two years ago. We lead a Bible school there for a couple of hours and met some very precious children. Annie May told her Bible story and we played and had coloring pages for the kids with some snacks as well. Also had some exciting city bus rides, and the moto taxis as well. Terry and Vicki brought us some pizza and we had a nice evening visiting together.

June 27 (Wednesday) -

returning to help with TJ's ministry today. Jake is scheduled to tell his story. Please pray that the children hear the message and that we have a safe flight back. We head to the airport at 9 p.m. tonight and are scheduled to land in DFW at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Thanks for your prayers.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

RECAP: June 22-24 (Miles)

June 22 (Friday) -

Carey was sick most of the day with a stomach virus and stayed in bed. Kristi stayed with him while he rested. The rest of us went down to the high school for the dance festival. All the schools within the 30 minute walk radius participated (about 25 schools). Very interesting. We watched about 15 schools. The preschools went first (about 12 of them). Very beautiful costumes and very sweet children. When we arrived, the director of the elementary school on the plaza where the 2010 and 2011 BST teams have done their Bible schools asked us to sponsor their school like the SMs did last year, making Miles the "Good Papa". We purchased sodas for each of the 33 children in the school and gave to them after their dance. They were very excited and appreciative and we felt this was making a connection for our Monday Bible school time. We watched for about 3 hours (15 schools) until our sponsored school danced. Carey felt some better by the afternoon. The youth played with the kids in the plaza. In the evening we ate at Marita's restaurant and had devotion time.

June 23 (Saturday) -

As we were packing for our overnight stay in Huancane, we got news that the miners were striking and closing the roads in the Juliaca area and Puno area next week. So we decided that it would be best to get out of Juliaca on Sunday so we settled up with Sofia and packed everything up and went to Huancane. We met Martin and Ruben in Huancane and settled in the new hostel on the plaza. We had a great time with Ruben, his family and church. We hiked and visited with Ruben's family, ate some great food in Huancane. Miles preached a message from Jesus' parable of the sower and we enjoyed the worship music.

June 24 (Sunday) -

Traveled to Juliaca, tried again to get a flight from there to Lima but the only available flight was too expensive, so we took the bus to Arequipa. Jennifer (our translator) is from there and made arrangements for us to stay in a very nice hotel at a great rate. We were able to get flights out of Arequippa to Lima for Monday at a good rate.

Update on BST team - June 25 (Miles)

We had a great day today. Jennifer, our translator from Arequipa, arranged a Bible storying session at an elementary school in a poor section of Arequipa. Martin (our translator from Lima) led in music while our team signed "Jesus Loves Me" and tried to sing along in Spanish. Ben told his Bible story and the others acted it out. Very well received and the children responded well.

Afterwards we took a tour of the Cathedral of Arequipa http://www.sacred-destinations.com/peru/arequipa-cathedral.htm, which had a great view of the city and surrounding volcanoes from the roof and had a great lunch downtown.

Then we flew to Lima without any problems. We are staying (for free) in one of the missionary's 4-bedroom apartment in Miraflores, a very nice suburb of Lima. Very blessed.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday we are scheduled to work with an American missionary who has started a children's ministry in a poor section of Lima. Pray for Annie May and Jake as they share their Bible stories.

Keep on praying,

Miles

Escape from Juliaca (from Miles, June 24)

Proverbs 16:9 "In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps."

Greetings all,

The subject is overly dramatic but I wanted to get your attention. All is well but our plans have changed for this week.

We had a good week in Conima last Tues-Friday which was pretty different than planned due to conflicts with school events but we had a some great contacts with several teachers in the area. We played volleyball with them two afternoons and had dinner with three of them one evening. We did have two Bible school sessions with a pre-school and then on Friday we got to host one of the elementary school at the area "folk dance" contest. That was very interesting to watch. Hopefully I'll have some pictures to post (on Facebook) later tonight.

On Saturday as we were about to load up for our scheduled overnight trip to Huancane to worship with Pastor Ruben's church, Sofia met Kristi in the street and was very worried about the miner's strike that she heard about between Juliaca and Puno and how it might affect our leaving from Juliaca on Wednesday. So we took all our stuff with us to Huancane in case the strike threat became a problem. We had a great time in Huancane with Ruben and family. We hiked, ate and worshiped with his wonderful congregation. We asked around about the strike and found that is almost certainly going to happen Monday and Tuesday around the Juliaca area. It was rumored that it would be limited to closing the roads but after last year's problem with the miner's destroying the airport, we were especially concerned with the possibility of not being able to leave on Wednesday. So we discussed and all agreed it was better to be safe than sorry and felt it was best to get out of Juliaca on Sunday.

We attempted to change our flights from Juliaca but the only option was way too expense. So we decided to go to Arequipa (home of Jennifer, one of our translators) and then take a flight from there to Lima. So.... currently we are in a VERY nice hotel Arequipa that Jennifer arranged at a great rate. She is hoping to arrange a school for us to do a Bible storying session tomorrow in Arequipa before we catch our 6:45 p.m. flight in Lima. Our other translator Martin is arranging us a Bible storying session in Lima so we will get to continue our ministry.

Lots more to the adventure that we are having but will share with you later.

Thanks for your prayers. All are safe and sound and enjoying being here.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Summer 2012 Update (call from Miles)

This morning (Thursday) at about 11:15 a.m. I (Jonathan) received a phone call from Miles giving me an update on the Conima Bible School Team (BST).

If you saw my prayer request post on Facebook yesterday, you know the BST was not going to be able to have a Bible School. There is a teacher strike going on in Conima (and some other towns apparently). Additionally, the children & town are preparing for a dance festival on Friday. These festivals are "cute" in that the children dress up and dance. But it is a tradition that comes from the Aymara peoples' pagan beliefs & the festivals are filled with a lot of alcohol consumption by the adults. Please pray for the Holy Spirit to convict hearts of sin & for God to reveal His Power.

Back to today's phone call.


Miles did give me some GOOD NEWS! Many at our church and friends on Facebook prayed specifically for the Lord to give the team wisdom and opportunities to share the gospel. In typical fashion - GOD ANSWERED THOSE PRAYERS! We sent the team from Van Meter, Iowa (who is partnering with us this summer) to Huancane. This is the town where Pastor Ruben lives. The Van Meter team made it into the school before they shut it down for the week due to the strike, and advertised a Bible School to be held at Pastor Ruben's house. Ruben had been wanting to minister to children in the town for a while, but didn't have an outlet to do so.

When it came time for the Bible School at Rubens ... 20 CHILDREN SHOWED UP! Praise the Lord for giving this team a chance to share the gospel!

Our BST back in Conima ended up seeing a group of children playing outside. The team began to play soccer with these students. After talking with them & some of their teachers, they asked if they could do an impromptu Bible School - AND THE TEACHERS SAID YES! This is a different school than our teams have been able to work in the past two years.

Although it is not as structured as the team had planned, for the last TWO DAYS our team has been able to do a Bible School w/ children!

More than that, they were able to share the stories with the teachers, who may even be believers in Jesus! The teachers were very encouraged by the stories of Jesus and the gospel - and by seeing a strong group of believers like our team. Miles has been talking with them more to see if they are true believers in Christ - at present, he has said they are agreeing with everything (doctrinally) he's shared with them.

Please pray for these teachers. They live in Moho & Huancane, but work in Conima. Miles said they "tolerate" the paganism in Conima. If they are Christians, it is very difficult to work in Conima because there is no church there and few, if any, believers (hence why we've been going for the past 3 years).

On Monday, our BST has a 4-hour block scheduled to be at a different school than the one they've already been in. This school on Monday is the one we've worked with the previous 2 summers. The teachers are trying to find something to do with the kids since they're "on strike." Our team was more than willing to fill up time during the day for them (and share the gospel to as many as possible!)

Today the team plans to hike to Nancy's house. She is a believer the Summer Missionaries found last year and shared many Bible stories with.

So here's some specific things to pray for:


  • Pray that the Holy Spirit convicts people of their sin during the festival.
  • Pray that God would reveal Himself powerfully to the people of Conima during the festival.
  • Pray for safety as our team travels to worship with Ruben & his church on Saturday (the roads are only open for about an hour between Moho & Huancane).
  • Pray more children show up, hear the gospel, and respond to the Gospel at both Bible schools (this week and next).
  • Pray for the Bible School on Monday at the school we've worked with previously - both for children & teachers to be open to & respond to the Gospel.
  • Pray for those who are/may be believers - Nancy & the teachers - that they would be encouraged.
  • Pray for divine appointments w/ the people in the town as our team walks around in hopes to share the Gospel & Bible stories (community storying has not been very successful / effective thus far with only one lady showing up the first night).
Hopefully we'll have more to report on what God is doing in Conima and Huancane, Peru soon! Thanks for your prayers.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Conima Mission Trip – June 10 to June 18 (from Miles)

Miles, Kristi and Ben arrived first and spent a few days in Lima before heading to Conima. On Tuesday, they visited with Ben's Compassion child Luis and his family and toured the “Compassion-run before/after school” program which meets Monday/Wednesday/Friday. It was great to meet the faithful Compassion teachers and see how the children are consistently taught God's Word as well as practical life skills. Very humbling visit but we can all rejoice that about 55,000 children in Peru are being ministered to faithfully and regularly by the Compassion ministry.

John & Sonia Grady and their boys Samuel and Jacob joined Kristi's brother Terry Lassiter and wife Vicki with the Phillips on Wednesday and the team traveled to Conima with no unexpected events. On Thursday, the team got settled in the house and secured permission to host the dental clinic. John, Sonia and Vicki blessed the team with their translating abilities. Some of the team had a good visit with the police chief and gave the books and DVD that Steve Travis from the April 2012 sent. The Phillips and Lassiters hiked up the mountain twice to find Nancy whom the May 2011 and Summer 2011 team had befriended and requested that our team encourage her. The team failed to find her but James Spencer has since given more detailed directions so hopefully they can find her next week.

The team hosted dental clinics on Friday and Saturday. Terry treated nine patients and Ben got to play with several children. There were several conditions that lead to a low turnout despite the team's effort to advertise. Ben and Miles walked around town recruiting with their broken Spanish. “Necessitas el dentist?” Everyone said they would come, but only a few made it down the hill to the clinic. Pray that the love shown to the patients and the community will make a difference in their lives and help them be open to really hearing God's Word.

Also the team hosted community Bible storying sessions on Friday and Saturday evening. A lady named Katie came on Friday night and John Grady did a great job telling the story of Jesus calling Peter. They had a very good visit with her and she responded very well. Several of the police were expected on Saturday night but no one showed.

The Gradys traveled to Huancane to worship and visit with the hermanos and hermanas there who they had discipled over the years. On Sunday, the remainder of the team worshipped at the Conima house and then had lunch on the Isla Suasi. Very nice. They all met back together in Juliaca later on Sunday and had a good time of fellowship (dinner in the mall food court and bumper cars!). Who would have thought Juliaca would have bumper cars?

Early Monday morning (4 a.m) the Van Meter team arrived, got a little rest and heading to Moho with John for orientation. Martin from Arequipa joined that group, serving as their translator. Great guy and very called to this ministry. Terry and Vicki left on Monday, leaving the Phillips and Sonia and her boys to wait for the FBC Willow Park Bible Study team to arrive on Tuesday morning. Jake Valdez called at 9 a.m. on Tuesday to update on the status of the team. They are in the air at the moment, flying from sea level to 12,500 ft above sea level.

Pray for our team as they travel to Conima today and get set for the Bible School sessions. Only God can change lives and bring people to repentance. Pray that we will be His humble servants and not miss any opportunity to minister in His Name. Pray that the people of Conima will have their lives changed by the redeeming love of Christ and that churches will be started.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

June 2012 Conima Team - leaving in 3 days

Kristi, Ben and I are getting ready to embark on our adventure to Conima.  We leave early Sunday morning (June 10th) and would appreciate your prayers that we will have a Christlike spirit and seek every opportunity to be a vessel of God's grace.  Annie May Denny, Jake Valdez and Carey Williams are scheduled to leave June 18th and join us.  Hopefully we will be able to post updates throughout the trip to keep all informed.  

Pray that the people of Conima will come to Christ, lives will be changed and churches will be started in Conima.

Serving Him,
Miles

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Friday, April 27, 2012

    This morning five of us decided to take a quick trip to the Reed Cities on Lake Titicaca. We had boat trouble going so we cut our 2 hour tour short not wanting to miss our ride to the airport. The Islands and their inhabitants were very interesting.  On the way back to the dock our boat broke down. David Travis prayed that the boat would miracously start so we would get back to the hotel in time to meet our driver taking us to the airport in Juliaca. The boat did not start but another boat stopped and offered us a ride. We got back to the hotel in time to take one last hot water shower, pack and get our luggage downstairs. Our driver never showed up. To make matter worse Dr. Barbara's backpack was stolen while we were distracted trying to figure out what to do. Our devotional today dealt with "Finishing Strong". Indeed we finished strong in Conima and we stuck together and dwelt on what God had allowed us to partake of during the week. Spending little time worrying about our few problems.
  We make it to the airport fine. Got to Lima and returned to Houston Saturday morning, early. I flew from there to DFW where my wife picked me up. In Houston we found that the church van coming from Port Neches to pick up their people had tire trouble and they had to send another vehicle to pick them up. You would think that this in no way reflects "Finishing Strong". But it does. Our group grew in the Lord during this week together. It developed strong resolve and all the inconveniences of are tolerable because of our love for Him. Knowing good and well that either individually or as a group we could never suffer what Jesus suffered.
  We return home with new enthusiasm and a prayer to our God that He decide how we can best serve him in our lives and the lives of others around us.
  It has been a great experience for me. I have grown spiritually. I feel that I have give my best for a great cause. I am grateful to Him for this opportunity.
God's Love:
Les Lopez
 

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Thursday, April 26, 2012

We did most of our packing yesterday. This morning we had our devotional by the lake. It had to do with the satisfaction that doing the Lord's work bring us. We are glad to get home and yet sad that we have to leave these people at this point. We felt worse when we got to the clinic and found a small group of people there for medical service. Everything was packed away and being loaded on our van.
  We said good-by to John Grady and Pam Donaldson who left early. In Juliaca we dropped off our two Peruvian young ladies and now we are in Puna for an overnight.
  The biggest blessing from the Lord today for me is HOT water. I scrubbed and scrubbed and enjoyed it. The Lord is good. My heart is full of love and my body is clean. He knows what we need and provides it for us.
  I also got internet today and as I mentioned a few posts previously I am spending the evening catching up on these posts.
  Tomorrow we fly to Lima and home. This will then be my last post. May God be with each and everyone of you and bring us safely home as we go our different ways.
Les Lopez

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

  Because of transportation, a special presentation the clinic personnel has planned for us Thursday morning we realize that today will be our last day of clinic. And, the lines are long, the weather is strangely varying from a bit of sunshine to a bit of rain and some cold, cold wind. It is muddy and wet in the clinic. Totally impossible to keep clean what with the streets all torn up and mud everywhere.
  Early this morning Ruben and I went to use an international phone so I could call home. On the way we helped a very old lady who was having difficulty handling the wet pavement and the mud. We struck up a conversation with her and she told us her knees hurt badty and so did her back. We mentioned our clinic and she knew nothing about this. At this point we were a good mile away from the clinic. She said she would walk up to her house, another 1/2 mile, change clothes and come down to the clinic for treatment. She did show up and was such an inspiration to everyone. She was so sweet and loving and kept thanking us and God for our presence here. The day was much easier to handle with her presence in our lives.  All of us have developed a BIG heat for these people and their plight. Wish we could reach each individually and tell them about God's love and how they can have it also.
  Tonight Pam and I met with Sofia, Andres and their daughter. Sofia surprised us by having invited another couple to join us. I had been given a gift of a bottle of natural corn juice by a grateful patient which I had in my pocket. So I mentioned that I had brought refreshments. They quickly brought out some plastic glasses. What an ice breaker. The visiting couple Leoncio and Catalina seemed to enjoy the session very much. But it was Andres, Sofia's hsuband who had the questions. There was a lot of confusion about many things he had been exposed to from the various religious groups coming into Conima constantly. He was disappointed and discouraged. God gave Pam and I the right words to answer his questions and invite him, his family and guests to come to Christ. We spoke about the Love and the Peace that loving and living with God gives a person. Two hours later we left with the promise that they would visit with Ruben in the months to follow before our June group goes there.
  Other home visits look very fruitfull also. Believe me the entire group went to be praising God and feeling like our sacrifice in serving these people is beginning to yield fruit.  As always, we could use one more day.
Praise the Lord for his wonderful rewards.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

  Today we challenged each other to increase our efforts, during our devotional. Our challenge is the long lines of people needing service, a very cold wind and finding a place to get fed. The Lord provided. Louisa Toledo, Ruben's wife and another lady, member of their church in Huancane came in for medical service and voluntered to cook lunch for us in our apartment. How they did it with limited cooking utensils I will never know but it was by far the very best meal we have had while in town. God bless these two Christian women. I jockingly told them that there would be no charge for the medical service.
  It was also a challenging day with a few difficult patients and some complecated cases but our people are all professionals. The core of the group out of Port Neches have done this several times and are totally devoted to Christ and to the Mission program. Our director, Steve Travis, is a very well organize individual who seems to be everywhere at the same time. I love brother Travis.
  I had re-connected with Sofia Toque who owns the store next to our apartment. Her husband, Andres, is the nephew of the owner of the apartment. We deal with Sofia on all matters pertaining to our stay there and get wonderful response with the help of her daughter. Sofia's husband was due back into town today so she agreed for us to come by at 7:00 and continue discussing the bible with her. Pam Donaldson and I were assigned to do this. Unfortuantely, when we arrived, we found out Andres had already scheduled a local group for a meeting at their store so we had to post pone our meeting until the next evening.
 Several other private visits worked out well and our "Storying" session was, again, well attended. Out of that we made a couple of good contacts. Fortunately there enough of us so we can split up and take care of all our home visits.
  Personally I am a bit apprehensive since meeting people on this basis is a little foreign to me. But after our devolional and a prayer I went to bed feeling much more confident.

Monday, April 23, 2012

  We have breakfast in our appartment. It is a bit of a rat race with 10 people in the kitchen but we managed. The enthusiasm of the group was noticeable. Today we are inviting our patients to a "Storying" session this evening at 7:00 p.m.  The city has offered to open up the municipal building, located by the plaza, for our meeting.
  The lines are longer than yestaday but we are now experts and have the Lord on our side. Our devotional dealt with the bar for Christians. Ultimately the bar is set by Jesus himself and his sacrifice. We are only his disciples.
  Among my duties today was giving my testimony to some 80 people waiting in line for medical service. It was also an opportunity to invite them to tonights meeting. They were all very attentive and even got some clapping. It is getting easier for me to talk to these people, on their own level. They understand that we come in the name of God and come to distribute His love among them. The medical treatment is just part of why we are here.
  We have sought out several of contacts made by previous groups and find most of them no longer live in Conima. This was a bit discouraging at first until we realized we had a crowd of 15 invitees at our meeting. That went very well and several of them indicated a willingness to have us meet with them in their homes for further discussions.
  Tonight we all went to bed with new encouragement and new visions for our role in Conima.

Sunday, April 22 - Conima, Peru

 The crew working on the medical clinic promised us Saturday afternoon that they would have the building cleaned up and ready for us to set up on Sunday morning. They must have worked all night because the building was ready. After breakfast and a brief devotional we headed to the clinic to set up. Late the previous evening we had been joined by John Grady our missionary in Peru who had met our two Peruvian members in Juliaca. Angel Garate, a dentist and Jennifer Dias, a translator.
  The clinic was ready to function by 9:00 a.m. The lines outside were getting long. We sang a couple of songs, welcomed the crowd and prayed for the success of the clinic. We then started doing business. Two people manned the front door, Our nurse was stationed inside the door, she is bi-lingual. The three dentists and one dental assistant and myself as translator, traffic director, etc. were in one room. The two people working the optical clinic and a translator were in another room. The Doctor and her translator in a third room. It was a bit rough but by mid-afternoon we were buzzing right along.
  Because there was a political rally in the plaza we did not plan any presentation for Sunday night. We held our own devotional and had myself and another of the new members give their testimonial. Everyone was dead tired, we had no hot water and it was cold, cold, cold. The devotional that evening had to do with sacrifice. We all realized that the sacrifice of Christ on the cross was one we could not match. Our discomfot was nothing to His suffering. The entire group, the core group from Port Neches and those of us who were added to the group feel the spirit of the Lord with us. We are confident that we are doing what He wants us to do and look forward to a great day tomorrow.

Update on Conima Mission - April 26

Unfortunately the internet store in Conima has closed and I could not get internet correspondence out. Briefly:
FRIDAY, APRIL 20
 I met the group from FBC Port Neches in Houston and we arrived in Lima that evening at 11:30. Slept on benches at the airport,

SATURDAY, APRIL 21
 1, Took a 5:00 a.m. flight to Juliaca.
 2, Met our nurse Pam Donaldson and Rubin Toledo the pastor of the Huancane church at the airport. Rubin had a van for us so we loaded up, stopped briefly at Rubin's house in Huancane to pick up supplies we had shipped ahead and headed for Conima.
 3. We arrived in Conima Saturday afternoon April 21 to find the entire town in disarray. They decided to put in a drainige system and started working on the entire town at once. Ditches, piles of dirt, rocks, bricks, etc all over the town. We had to circle around in order to get to the plaza and our apartment.
2. Unfortunately the same thing happened at the clinic. They decided to remodel and the whole building was a mess. But we unloaded, nontheless and settled into our apartment after a brief devotional and orientation.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Departure Day:
  The mission team is on the way. Tomorrow we set up the clinic in Conima and open up on Sunday morning. We are armed with a few songs to share although most of us cannot carry a tune. We have skits to perform although we have not practiced them. We will communicate with the local residents although half of us cannot speak the language. You may ask...Why do we do this.  If with the help of the spirit and your prayers we can light one match...we will help illuminate the spiritual darkness that exists in Conima. Your prayers are needed.
Love you all:
Les Lopez

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

  All is 'GO' for our Medical-Dental-Opthalmic-Evangelistic Mission trip leaving from Houston Friday. Thanks to FBCWP we are loaded with non-prescription medication, toothbrushes and reading glasses. We expect to care for some 400 patients during our stay. That will allow us to make fantastic contacts.
  We have 4 songs in Spanish that all of us have memorized, I just finished loading the tunes on my Sanza Fuze so I can learn them on my way to Lima.
  And how about that wonderful poster that our church members decorated and signed for me. What a hit a "soft spot" surprise. Love you all. Sorry that due to a  memorial service for my cousing Alberto Lopez in Corpus Christi caused me to miss being at our church last Sunday. Albert was in the Navy and they had a military burial, (he actually passed away in 2010 and was cremated), in the new Coastal Bend Military Cemetary in Corpus Christi. All the family was there and we got to hear a wonderful preacher. It was a great spiritual time.
  I am packed and will meet the group from the coast in Houston Friday afternoon. We will pack all the empty suitcases with supplies and "mule" them into Lima. God has already been wonderful allowing us to find qualified medical volunteers both from here and in Peru. The blessings keep pouring and we are praying that our presence there will allow us to shine a little light on the residents of Conima. It is hard to imagine the spiritual darkness they live in. Keep praying that God will open the hearts and minds of those residents we come in contact with and His Spirit will lead us in such a way that we can have a successful ministry while we are there.
  God bless you all - more will follow.
Les Lopez