Kep & Debbie June 2023 Update

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We thank God for your prayers for the work in Africa and South America.

Attached is our June Update explaining some of what we have done March-May (with photos). Please pray for us tomorrow as we fly to Sao Paulo and Rio to guide 150 Brazilian pastors and church leaders through our ESI (Equipping Servants) Facilitator Training -- along with our dear friends Brazilian missionaries Paulo and Vania (Key leaders now in ESI Africa -- see description inside).

This is a team effort -- we VALUE your prayers!

Love,

Kep and Debbie

Kep & Debbie June 2023 Prayer Requests

* Pray for the ILC Church that Kep and Debbie planted in Bolivia, that its leadership will continue honoring Christ by staying true to His Scriptures.

ESI Latin America (Equipping Servants International – Disciples Making Disciples)

 * Pray for the 2,500 ESI participants in 220 groups meeting in 20 countries, with 2900 total graduates since beginning in 2002. Current ESI countries are USA Spanish, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Spain, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Congo, Uganda, and Botswana. Pray that these men and women will grow in their love for God as they study His Scriptures, that they will experience gospel transformation in their lives, relationships and local churches.

* Please pray for Kep and Debbie working with Paulo Sergio da Silva in June (1-10) leading 2 ESI Facilitator Training Retreats for 160 Brazilian pastors in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. After that, Kep will lead ES pastors conferences in Medellin and Bogota, Colombia June 11-17.
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Kep & Debbie May 2023 Update

We are thankful for your prayers during the past few months we’ve been teaching in Africa. In April, I led three 4-day training retreats in Zambia and Burundi. In our study of Romans we saw the Lord encourage many African church pastors and leaders. Many expressed that they had never studied the Bible, and even admitted that their churches have gotten off track from the gospel.

In Kasempa and Ndola, Zambia, 80 church leaders decided to study Romans in their local churches. In Bujumbura, Burundi, another 70 committed to this. One pastor from neighboring Congo decided to start doing this in his church, and another in Botswana informed us that as a result of last year’s ESI training in Tanzania, he is already taking 50 members of his church through Romans.

This week, we are in Nairobi visiting 8 ESI groups that began in Kenya in February. We always try to visit groups when they start to make sure they are on track with the plan to keep Jesus and the gospel in their center of their Bible study and group discussion.
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