Our PURPOSE - Helping Churches Honor Christ by Being True to His Scriptures:
“We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone complete in Christ.” Col 1:28
Prayer and Praise
• Pray for the ESI (Equipping Servants Internship) participants throughout Bolivia and in Oaxaca, Mexico. Currently we have 425 participants involved in weekly training, and 325 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. Kep spent time with the ESI participants around Bolivia in May, and is very encouraged seeing how God is touching the lives of many pastors and church leaders as they dedicate time to study His Word.
• 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 one way) 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 and his ESI group meeting 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 for the impact of this training as ESI Expansion has purposed to establish ESI in 5 new Latin American countries in the next 5 years.
• Pray for Pepe Rocha that God will grant him wisdom as carries a heavy load pastoring the ILC Church. Pray for much fruit that remains, as he devotes himself to teaching and preaching God’s Word.
• 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 get 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. Angie is pregnant – due in early November!!
Kep and Debbie James
