James Family October 2014 Update

Greetings from Bolivia!

We trust you are well. Thank you for praying for us and our ministry in Latin America. We are seeing encouraging growth in the lives of many pastors and church leaders involved in Equipping Servants (ESI) pastoral training. Currently we have 900 graduates and 750 active participants studying the Bible with us in Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico.

A few things you can be praying for:

James Family October 2014 Prayer & Praise

• Pray for Andrew and Angie James as they wait hoping to finalize their immigration papers to be able to move to Cleveland for the next season of their life. Andrew will be going through Parkside Church’s Missionary-In-Training process. They hoped to travel Oct 15, but it is unlikely that the paperwork will finish before the middle of November. Pray that they will be granted this so they can travel soon.

• Pray for Jacob and Dunia Sanchez as they join SIM in preparation to move to Villarrica, Paraguay to begin Equipping Servants (ESI) Pastoral training ministry in January 2015.

James Family September 2014 Update

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Hi!

Thank you for praying for us and our ministry in Bolivia.

Please pray for the Equipping Servants (ESI) pastoral training conferences in La Paz and Santa Cruz, Bolivia -- this past week we had 250 pastors and church leaders at the conference in La Paz, and next week we expect 200 in Santa Cruz. Pastor Jonathan Holmes from the Parkside Church pastoral team is with us teaching on Biblical Counseling.

James Family September 2014 Prayer & Praise

• Praise for the two ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) pastors conferences in Bolivia (La Paz and Santa Cruz) at the end of August and early Sept with Jonathan Holmes.

• Praise that Andrew, Angie, Nicole, Camille and Zack James will be moving to Cleveland in October. Andrew has been invited to become a Parkside Church Missionary-In-Training. Pray for the US citizenship paperwork they are completing, that they will receive it soon so they can travel. Praise that Andrew finished up his MA studies in theology last month.

James Family August 2014 Update

Hi from very cold La Paz! We trust you are well!

Thank you for praying for us.

We have three important prayer requests this month:

James Family August 2014 Prayer & Praise

• Praise for the two ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) pastors conferences in Bolivia (La Paz and Santa Cruz) at the end of August with Jonathan Holmes.

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

• Pray for God’s supply for the 2500 pastoral book sets needed between 2014 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 July 2014 Update

Thank you for praying for us and our ministry in Bolivia!

A quick update on Zack -- he needs to be on oxygen for at least the next week. We truly value your prayers that the Lord will develop his lungs so that he can breathe on his own.

Our Equipping Servants (ESI) pastoral training ministry continues to grow. We just held our semester graduations in Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico with hundreds of participants in our 3 year process. ESI takes participants through an intensive two-year study through the book of Romans, as well as many other books like Howard Hendrick’s “Teaching to Change Lives” to equip pastors and Christian workers for more effective ministry and leadership.

James Family July 2014 Prayer & Praise

• Praise for the two ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) pastors conferences in Bolivia (La Paz and Santa Cruz) at the end of August with Jonathan Holmes.

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

• Pray that pastors in Latin America will spend quality time with their wives and children, and that God will transform marriages as pastors live in obedience to God’s Word.

James Family June 2014 Update

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Hi from Bolivia!

Thank you for praying for us and our ministry in Bolivia. Attached is our June Update telling about Equipping Servants pastoral training expansion into Paraguay next year. Also about Divine encounters to make Christ known,and news about the birth of our newest grandson.

We thank the Lord for your partnership in the gospel with us,

Kep and Debbie

James Family June 2014 Prayer & Praise

• Pray for Debbie and the team of committed women in the ILC church as they evangelize and disciple women in 2014.

• Pray for Sami and Heather as they develop a ministry of Biblical counseling in churches in La Paz.

• Pray for Katie, working as a nurse at the Cleveland Clinic and serving God in a multitude of relationships.