James Family June 2015 Update

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Hi from Bolivia!

Here's our June Update (a few days early)! I just returned to Bolivia after several weeks away holding ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) conferences in Peru, and visiting our ESI groups in Mexico. Last week 7 people from Parkside Church in Cleveland joined us for a medical missions trip to the Bolivian Aymara villages of Cayimbaya and Cotana behind Mt Illimani in the Department of La Paz. This Update features photos of these events.

Thank you for praying for us,

Kep James

James Family June 2015 Prayer & Praise

• Praise for Equipping Servants (ESI) pastoral training conferences in Peru with 70 pastors, and Kep’s visit to Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico ESI groups last month. I saw encouraging evidences of pastors growing and impacting lives in spiritually and physically challenging areas where the church struggls.

• 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.

• Pray for God’s supply for the 2500 pastoral book sets needed between 2015 and 2018 as we press forward to begin the work of ESI in 5 new Latin American countries in the next 5 years -- Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Columbia and Argentina.

James Family May 2015 Prayer & Praise

• Please pray for Kep as he holds Equipping Servants (ESI) pastoral training conferences in Peru, and then visits ESI groups in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico in late April and early May. Pray that his visit and Biblical teaching will encourage pastors in spiritually and physically challenging regions where the church is struggling.

• 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.

• Pray that pastors and church leaders will build a strong commitment of Biblical friendship with people in their churches and with other pastors and church leaders in their cities, to grow the unity of the Body of Christ in Latin America.

Debbie James Easter Greeting 2015

Hi from Bolivia!

Debbie wrote this for you. Thank you for praying for us,

Kep

Hi Everyone!

As I reflected on Easter this year, and the incredible hope of new life because of the death and resurrection of Jesus, I couldn't help but also reflect on all of the many miraculous events in our lives over the past few months. So much has happened!

First, I had surgery in December, and was told it was cancer. Then, Andrew, Angie, and their children left Bolivia for a time of training and preparation at Parkside Church in Cleveland. Then, our miracle grand-baby Ethan was born! Then I traveled to the US and was told that I actually didn't have cancer after all! WOW!

James Family April 2015 Update

Hi from Bolivia!

We hope you have a worshipful Easter! Thank you for your partnership through prayer with us here in Bolivia. I have a few prayer items that we'd appreciate your prayer for this month.

1. Tonight our ILC church in La Paz hosts an evangelistic dinner -- we're expecting a couple hundred people. Pray for much fruit that remains.

2. Saturday I'll be with 100 Aymara pastors on the Bolivian Altiplano teaching on the topic of evangelism.

James Family April 2015 Prayer & Praise

• Praise: Kep helped organize a Pastoring of Pastors event in Cochabamba, Bolivia in March with 100 pastors from Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay and Peru to encourage pastors to honor Christ by being true to the Scriptures, to grow in discipleship and to walk in Biblical friendships.
• Pray for Kep’s Equipping Servants (ESI) ministry in Bolivia, Mexico, Peru and Ecuador as each week 800 pastors and church leaders grow in their commitment to Christ through the study of God’s Word.

James Family March 2015 Update

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Hi from Bolivia!

I'm happy to report that Debbie arrived last week from her short medical trip to the Cleveland Clinic, and that she is free from cancer. For this we are very thankful!

Our March Update explains my work training Pastoral Assistants in La Paz, with details about how you can be praying for these men.

Thankful for your partnership in the gospel with us,

Kep James

March 2015 Missions Focus- James Family

This past January marked our 27th year in Bolivia. The Lord has been faithful, and we are seeing encouraging growth in the ministry, by His grace. The ILC Church we planted now has 400 members -- Pepe Rocha and the church elders are doing a good job with the leadership of the church. The ILC church started a church-plant in Mallasilla that now has 150 members and is close to finishing its own building construction.

On another front, Debbie’s women’s ministry in the ILC Church is reaching many women for Christ and seeing many grow in their commitment to Christ. And finally our Equipping Servants (ESI) pastoral training ministry is expanding through Latin America. We now have over 1000 graduates since 2002, and 800 active participants in the 3-year training process. Listen to a few stories from ESI participants.

Update on Debbie

Hi from Bolivia!

Debbie flew up to the States on Tuesday and met with an Oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic. The results of 3 Pathologists at the Clinic studying slides from her surgery -- indicate that Debbie's condition was mis-diagnosed here. What she had was in fact hyperplasia and not cancer. We are thanking the Lord that Debbie is free of cancer!

Also, our ILC Church in Bolivia has its annual Family Camp at Camp Yungas this weekend with over 100 people. Value your prayers for a time of fellowship and gospel impact.

Thanking the Lord!

Kep

James Family February 2015 Prayer & Praise

• Pray for Andrew and Angie James and their 3 children as they get set up in Cleveland and Andrew starts with Parkside Church’s Missionary-In-Training process

• Pray for the 700 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.

• Pray that pastors and church leaders will build a strong commitment of Biblical friendship with people in their churches and with other pastors and church leaders in their cities, to grow the unity of the Body of Christ in Latin America.