• Pray for the ESI (Equipping Servants Internship) participants throughout Bolivia and in Oaxaca, Mexico. Currently we have 425 participants involved in weekly training, and 300 graduates now since we started ESI in 2002. Pray that churches will be transformed as pastors and church leaders learn to honor Christ by being true to His Scriptures.
• Pray for Pastor Antonio Cruz who travels from Oruro (3 hour bus ride) each week to Challapata, and Pastor Jaime Cruz, who travels from Oruro (6 hour bus ride) each week to Potosi, to help encourage and equip pastors in these key areas through our ESI pastoral training movement. Pray for Pastor Zenon Hurtado, who has started ESI in the mining center of Huanuni.
• Pray for our Pastoral Assistant (PA) training program in the ILC and IBM churches in La Paz, that we will effectively help our current 13 pastors in 2010 learn to think and live Biblically. Pray that the impact of this training is that we will be able to start new churches and pastoral training centers in strategic places around Bolivia and Latin America during the next 5 years.
• Pray for Debbie as she trains a team to help carry the heavy load of evangelism and discipleship among women in La Paz. She continues equipping key women in how to communicate God’s Word effectively to women.
• Pray for Heather as she teaches and counsels in La Paz, prepares to marry Sami Ross on July 10, and as they look toward a counseling ministry in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz.
• Pray for Katie as she finishes up nursing school at Kent State University in August.
• Pray for Andrew developing a ministry of evangelism and discipleship in La Paz. Pray for his wife Angie as she heads up a ministry with Samaritan’s Purse in Bolivia, helping children with heart defects obtain medical attention in the USA. They are working with the Jr High students on Sunday mornings at ILC Church, and are seeing good fruit for the gospel in all they do.
Thanks,
Kep & Debbie
