James Family February 2016 Prayer & Praise

• We return to Bolivia in late January after a wonderful and busy Home Assignment. Please pray for Debbie as she works with her Women ministry team in La Paz planning 2016 ministry (evangelism and discipleship). Pray for Kep and his Equipping Servants team as they plan for 2016 ministry.

• Pray for the Lord’s guidance as we continuing expanding Equipping Servants pastoral training through Latin America and into Africa to help church leaders honor Christ by being true to the Scriptures. Pray for a mature church that disciples believers and reaches the lost with the gospel of Christ.

• Pray for the 800 ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) participants in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Pray for the 1073 graduates, that many churches will be transformed as pastors and church leaders honor Christ by being true to His Word.

James Family January 2016 Prayer & Praise

• We thank God for quality time at Parkside Church during our Home Assignment in Nov and Dec. Please pray for us as we return to Bolivia in January.

• Pray for the Lord’s guidance as we consider continuing expanding Equipping Servants pastoral training through Latin America and into Africa to help church leaders honor Christ by being true to the Scriptures. Pray for a mature church that disciples believers and reaches the lost with the gospel of Christ.

Missions Moment with Kep and Debbie James

Parkside missionaries Kep and Debbie James, in Cleveland for a 4-month home assignment, visited Pastor Jonathan Cameron’s Sunday morning Life Group on Dec. 6th to catch up and answer questions about their work in Bolivia. Here are some excerpts from that recent conversation:

James Family December 2015 Update

Home Assignments, Mentors, and Pure Emeralds

We’re half way through our 4-month “Home Assignment”. We’ve spent quality time with family and friends, and currently are reconnecting with people at Parkside Church. My mentor has urged me, “Kep, less is more this time back in the States – make sure to get time alone with God, grow in your relationship with Debbie, and get some rest”. So during our stay, amidst the busy activities of meetings and time with people, we have added extra space to read, pray, reflect and learn. It’s been refreshing.

James Family December 2015 Prayer & Praise

• Please pray for our time of Home Assignment at Parkside this month.

• Pray for the Lord’s guidance as we consider how we might expand ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) around Latin America to help the church and church leaders honor Christ by being true to the Scriptures.

• Pray for the 800 ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) participants in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Pray for the 1073 graduates, that many churches will be transformed as pastors and church leaders honor Christ by being true to His Word.

Missions Moment with Kep & Debbie James

Location: Room 203
Start Time: Sun 22, Nov. 2015, 2:15 p.m.
End Time: Sun 22, Nov. 2015, 3:15 p.m.

Come greet Kep and Debbie James at Parkside Church on Sunday, November 22 at 11:15 am in Room 203.

Kep and Debbie are Parkside missionaries with SIM in Bolivia and they will be sharing an update about how God is using them in Bolivia and throughout Latin America.

James Family November 2015 Prayer & Praise

• Pray for Kep and Debbie as we spend the months of November and December with folks at at Parkside Church during our Home Assignment.

• Praise for gospel impact in the lives of the 70 women who attended Debbie’s October women’s ministry retreat at Camp Yungas in La Paz.

• Pray for the Lord’s guidance as we consider taking ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) into spiritual needy South American countries. We are currently working in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico -- and considering how to help pastors in Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Venezuela and possibly Brazil in the next few years.

James Family October 2015 Update

Hi from Cleveland! We trust you are well. We’ve just started our Home Assignment in the USA -- we'll be here until after Christmas. Thank you for praying for us and our ministry in Bolivia and across Latin America.

In the past 6 weeks I have visited Montevideo (Uruguay), Bogota (Colombia), Santa Cruz (Bolivia), and Loja (Ecuador) meeting key pastors and church-associations about needs they are facing. The overwhelming sense is that the Evangelical church is growing, but that it is incredibly weak and off-track due to a lack of grounding in God’s Word. There is a general respect for the Bible, but people are ignorant of what it says. That’s a recipe for heresy! The crying need is for discipleship. One pastor in Loja told me that he had gotten involved in the Health and Wealth heresy because he wasn’t reading his Bible, and it all seemed to make sense to him. But after studying Romans with us in ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) he decided to get serious about knowing God and His will by engaging in a life-commitment of study of the Word. The result is that God is using him to impact an entire denomination of churches in his city.

James Family September 2015 Update

Download the James Family September 2015 Update with photos here.

Hi from Bolivia!

Attached is our September Update, describing the 3 ESI (Equipping Servant pastoral training) conference in Bolivia and Ecuador. It is so encouraging seeing what the Lord is doing to build up leaders and grow His church across Latin America.

Please pray for these last 2 very busy weeks of ministry in La Paz before we leave for our 3-month Home Assignment in the USA.

Thank you for standing with us in prayer,

Kep and Debbie James

James Family September 2015 Prayer & Praise

• Praise for gospel impact in August in La Paz and Santa Cruz, Bolivia as Jeff Mills taught through the book of Acts. 400 participants attended the 3-day ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) conferences.

• Pray for the Lord’s guidance as we consider taking ESI expansion into various spiritual needy South American countries.

• Pray for the 850 ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) participants in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Pray for the 1050 graduates, that many churches will be transformed as pastors and church leaders honor Christ by being true to His Word.