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.

We would like to start by saying thank you. Thank you for your faithful support over the years, thank you
for your prayers for the ministry and us here in Colombia, thank you for the Christmas gifts and many
other gifts you have sent to us, and thank you, thank you for your sacrificial giving! I could write a whole
book on how we are so thankful to God for you all but I believe you also want to hear an update on the
ministry here in Colombia.

We hope you have a great time with your loved ones celebrating the greatest gift in
history.