Parkside Missionaries

Pray for effective follow-up after the Klosterneuburg women’s breakfast, held last month. Pray that women will desire to meet again for fellowship and small groups. Pray for Gregory, Kim and their son Nathaniel, a new family that will be joining their GEM missionary team in Austria.

| Guadeloupe | Christianity is a cultural veneer for most. The rapid growth of sects and evangelical groups highlights the spiritual emptiness. Occultism and magic are widespread influences. Pray for the Holy Spirit to convict of sin and bring many to true repentance.

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your prayers. April was a busy month of flying, maintenance, paperwork and more paperwork. We flew two different teams lead by our staff out to visit communities in response to invitations. Edgar Rivera and his family along with Rebecca DeVries went to Amoltepec for a long weekend. Edgar (our Mexico MAF Director) trained local pastors and preached several times each day in different churches. Ceci (our chaplain) took a group of Bible School students out to San Mateo. They worked with local women, teaching them handcrafts and Bible stories. Mike spent a long weekend traveling with Edgar in order to visit two new ESI (Equipping Servants Internships) Bible Study groups in Edgar's home town of Pachuca, which is a 7 hour bus ride Northwest of Oaxaca.

Pray for the 20 missionaries raised up by Parkside: Arunesh, Balwant, Chhote, Dharmendra, Dhermendra, Dilip, Dinesh, Jai, Kamelsh, Lakshman, Mahendra, Nirmala, Punam, Rahul, Shiv, Suresh, Thoyphil, Vipin and Vishal. Pray for protection, boldness and clarity as they share the Gospel in Northern India.

Pray for Isaac and the leadership team of DBI: Ramrajh, Abdul, Numgail, Abwan and Yogatah as they continue to train men to preach and teach the Word. Pray that God would grant wisdom and guidance to all.

• Pray for Tomas Diaz training two groups of ESI pastors in Loja, Ecuador. God is using the study of Romans to impact the lives of 30 Module 1 participants.

• Pray for our 15 Pastoral Assistants (PA) in La Paz that God will use the training in 2012 to help them learn to think and live Biblically for effective ministry in Bolivia and throughout Latin America.

• Pray for PAs Ramiro Sanjinez, Mateo Cruz, and Juan Cruz as they continue studying 16 hours each week in Romans, preparing messages through Romans, and being involved in a variety of ministry training in the ILC and IBM churches. Each reports that God is changing their way of thinking and doing ministry through this intensive process.

• Pray for PA Gumercindo Coronel (age 36) who is in the hospital with a life-threatening condition in his brain (something like a stroke), and the doctors here don’t know how to help him.

Download the James' May 2012 Update here.

Hello from Bolivia!

Definite signs here that our Andean winter has arrived! We trust you are well. Thank you for praying for us and our ministry.

This month's Update features ESI (Equipping Servants) -- current locations, and where we hope to expand. We now work with 640 pastors and church leaders throughout Bolivia,and in Ecuador and southern Mexico. Next year we plan to start in Huanuco, Peru. After that -- asking God to give us the right contacts to expand into Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile and Costa Rica.

Thank you for praying for our dual citizenship -- still no word as we continue waiting -- now 29 months. We have peace and confidence in God's sovereign timing in all this, as we continue to ask God to give us favor so that Debbie can travel to see her dad (age 91, failing health), and so that Kep can travel to oversee ESI groups around Latin America.

Thank you for your prayers,

Kep and Debbie