The Mysterious Providence of God

Praise be to God, who knows our hearts and is
deeply aquainted with every human frailty and
human inadequacy. He is guiding us, He led the
Apostle Paul, even when the missionaries were
¨trying to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus
did not permit them.¨ (Acts 16:7). May we be
willing to be led when the Good Shepherd moves
us along... (John 3:8; 10), at the same time working
out the salvation that He is working out within us.

Praise for safety

Praying friends, we wanted to thank you for praying.
Though therewas much evidence of high level
corruption and voting fraud we praise God that there
was much less violence in Sunday´s presidential
elections here in Nicaragua.

We praise God as well for putting it in my heart to have Damaris
stay home from voting due to warnings about potential danger
out in the streets in Managua.

My sister-in-law who my wife was supposed
to travel with to go vote was robbed by two
men at gun point, though she threw her purse,
in the yard where she was ringing a doorbell. The
two men ran away. Damaris mother was with her,
they are both fine. Both of them need to be saved,
and we pray that this situation may allow them to
all out to God for salvation.

They were happy to hear that we were
actually at home having family devotions and
praying for them about the time that the attempted
robbery took place the morning of the elections.

Praying for the Nicaragua Presidential elections

Please pray with us for the Nicaraguan Presidential elections, this Sunday (Nov. 6). It is also my wife´s b-day. We are praying much, as last elections in 2007 were very violent, and plagued with corruption. Nicaragua has had many issues related to political corruption. We pray for righteousness to reign in Nicaragua, and that the elections would be non-violent, honest and transparent.

¨But let justice role down like waters
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.¨ (Amos 5:24)

Reformation in Missions!

I am deeply persuaded that as today marks the near 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation that more than ever a new Reformation is needed amongst the church of Jesus Christ on a world wide scale. If we fail to uphold to preach Christ crucified, and pursue a cross-center posture in every area of world missions...we have failed to rightly represent God. Yes, word and deed is central to true biblical Christianity, but deeds without ¨sound words¨ with not rightly glorify God (1 Tim. 4:16 ¨Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching...)

Missions News for Oct. 2011

“We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ...” (2 Cor. 10:5)

Greetings from Nicaragua! The past couple months have flown by rapidly. We are blessed to have experienced the hand of God in our work and family life, and believe that God is leading us in His perfect will. One mark in the progress of the Bible school, which is slowly adding one new Pastor or church leader to its ranks on an ongoing basis, was the beginning of their fourth course for 2011. The course is a study of Apologetics (from the Greek word apologia translated defense in 1 Pet. 3:15, thus signifying a defense of the Christian faith), introduced by Dr. Eric Pennings with Miami International Seminary. We are encouraging the students that their work at evangelism is not a cookie cutter approach; every soul has a distinct understanding of life. Just as many stories of conversions to Christ are found in the book of Acts, so the work of communicating the Gospel to the lost world of individuals around us requires us to understand those to whom we tell of “the hope that lies within [us]”.