God is working! The Bible Institute is growing, our youth need prayers, and families face challenges. At the church in Bello, discipleship is thriving, and we are praying about purchasing our current house.
We also received $800 for the land purchase, with $34,100 remaining. Great news is coming soon!

We finally hosted our first youth retreat! 13 teens came, and we had a great time of growth in the Lord, along with lots of fun! Teens here in Colombia often live a vain life focused on the things of the world, but this retreat helped them commit to a life of serving God.

Iglesia Bautista Vision celebrated its 6th anniversary with 4 baptisms, 11 discipleship graduates, and new visitors. A trip to the Amazon connected the church with Missionary Jonathan Hernandez, inspiring future ministry support. With 11 new discipleship teachers, the church prays for more growth. In Bello, Chestley and Yessica Howell continue expanding the work at Iglesia Bautista El Refugio.

Even though we do outreach every week, we have a monthly church wide outreach for a specific event. This month on this event we were able to hand out more than a 1000 tracts, invite several to church, and give the gospel to many.

We officially started our first Bible institute class. On September 1st we taught our first class on Soteriology-Justification. We have 18 students that are coming and learning. They are hungry to learn more.

Today as I walked into our rented church building, looking for a place
to sit down and teach a discipleship class, I went into the first room but
it was busy, brother Roger was doing a discipleship lesson with
another young guy from our church.

July was a month in which we had several independence celebrations:
• As a team of missionaries we celebrated July 4th at our home with the Howell family.
• Here in Colombia we also celebrated the country’s Independence Day on July 20th.

We are currently working on the paperwork for the church land. We also ask for your prayers in helping us
raise the remaining $60,000 needed to purchase this land for our church in Colombia.

We are currently in talks with the owner of a plot of land . We are asking God to direct our decision making.
Please pray that God will help us raise the remaining $68,000 to purchase land for this church in Colombia.

March has been a difficult but amazing month: Thanks to God we were able to find a house and rent it after a few weeks back in Colombia.
• We are currently in the “setting up house” mode: It is a huge blessing to be able to find a house so quick and to start to settle.