VICTORY in Jesus!

We had a great day yesterday!  The spirit was great, the service went great, God spoke to hearts, and the attendance was back up to normal!

It was difficult to keep doing the same thing that we had been doing, in the midst of the wolf attacks and massive drop in attendance.  We stuck to it, though, and doubled our efforts.  God punished the wolf and he's doing right now.  The other she-wolf still has yet to get right or come back, but we won't grow weary in well doing knowing by faith AND experience that we WILL reap.

God's always good and we're so thankful.  The people are getting really excited about the "Dia de Vaquero" and we're busy getting the plans together.

The family is doing well.  We can't complain!  We're looking forward to having some family come in from out of town to stay with us for a little while.  They heard about God doing something in our family and want to come find out what we have going on!  We look forward to prayerfully winning them to Christ.  If they do get saved, we are praying they'll move into town and get involved in what God's doing here in our family and community.

Word gets around about us pretty fast, somehow.  People have been telling me that they've recently heard that in our church we only preach The Bible, and it doesn't matter if it's "duro" (difficult, hard, and in this case offensive).  Our people enjoy handing out tracts and talking to people about what's going on, and inviting people to church.  Some come, some go, and some stay.  It's God that is doing the work but it's exciting to see the people of the church performing their responsibility to go, plant, water, and reap.

As a result, people have been referring us to people that need help, like a family where the husband beats his wife, is drunk, and doesn't let her go out of the house.  I've visited 2x since Saturday, and both times a scared family member came to the door (2 different, 1 lady and 1 teen-girl) and very timidly told me they weren't allowed to talk to me, let alone come to church.  Another family the man is a drug-addict and only works to buy drugs and liquor.  His wife and baby boy have absolutely nothing, and she is terribly confused between being catholic, mormon, jFw, 7thDA, and a practicing witch.  She's came to church 2X, but not since last June.  Also a result of the people doing such a great job with evangelizing the community, they are bringing friends, neighbors and family to church.  Some are even bring family that live 45 minutes away from our church!

We're so proud to be here as God's messengers to Arteaga.  The field truly is white and the fruit is definitely ripe for the picking.