Mango is a 3rd generation church start. They were born out of the Churute church plant just down the road, which in turn was born out of the Duran house church. If you haven't had a chance to read the Churute story, please don't miss the blessing! What follows is, "the rest of the story" of what God continues to do. Read more >>
An Xtreme Team Update
During our trip, it seemed that God didn´t answer any of our prayers. In fact, many times He did the exact opposite of what we had been praying for. Through this, and the constant hardness of the trip, God really broke Quinten and I and taught us a lot.
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SC CHURCH IN PERU
The leadership conference was a blessing. Praise God for answered prayers. We had 130 or so attendees with 75% coming from the rural areas where the REAP churches are working. Read more>>
RIGHT NOW?
Recently a call was received from Teresa and Alvaro, a young couple from one of the Baptist churches in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Teresa asked when our next training would be for new church planters. I was pleased to be able to share with her that a training was scheduled two weeks from that day. There was silence on the end of the line...
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THE POWER OF GOD
A lightning bolt struck the home while a house church there was meeting.
Everyone scattered and screamed so loud was the hit. The study went on and everyone spoke of how they sensed that this was a spiritual attack.
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VISION BRINGS PASSION
Remember "496,355" the number of new disciples we are asking the Lord for over the next five years? Well, we have upped that number to an even 500,000--much easier to remember!
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GUAYAS MESTIZO TEAM
After 7 days of praying
and fasting a meal/day, 23 house church
believers, it was decided to go to Montalvo
for an all-day evangelistic blitz covering
the whole town.
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NEW GROUP
Yolanda, a grandmother
at the young age of 40, has worked in prostitution
most of her life. She was baptized on April
11 and has not returned since to prostitution.
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GOD'S STORY
Pastor Manuel Castillo received
the evangelism/literature training with
the group of 8 people from his church. When
it got time to do the store to store distribution,
he decided to “loan” rather than “give away” the bilingual videos of the Jesus Film (Arabic/Spanish).
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MIRACLES STILL HAPPEN!
We arrived at So.' house tonight for Bible study. So. was very upset because little F, the newborn of Sh. had stopped breathing twice -- actually was dead and came back twice, and was experiencing convulsions.
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