James Family May 2014 Prayer Update

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Hello from Southern Ecuador --

I'm here doing ESI (Equipping Servants Internship pastoral training) pastor conferences. This update gives details about how you can be praying for us today and next week when we're with pastors in Huanuco, Peru.

James Family May 2014 Prayer & Praise

• Pray for the ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) pastors conferences Kep will be holding with several hundred church leaders in Loja, Ecuador and Huánuco, Peru April 24-May 5.

• Pray for the 850 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 April 2014 Prayer Update

Hi from Bolivia!

Thank you for your prayers. We saw significant advancement last month in a number of key areas:

1. Pastor Pepe Rocha and I spent last week with our SIM team in Paraguay to discuss the possibility of us sending a Bolivian couple to begin ESI in the city of Villarrica starting January 2015. The response is positive -- please pray for the Lord's guidance as we seek His will for our next steps as we expand Equipping Servants pastoral training (ESI). The need around Latin America is huge for pastors committed to honoring Christ by being true to His Scriptures. Our website is up and running if you'd like to see more information on what we are doing at EquippingServants.com

2. Everything is set for our ESI pastor conferences in Loja, Ecuador and Huanuco, Peru at the end of this month. I look forward to being with them as this is the first year we are doing this in Peru and Ecuador. Please pray for the Lord to move those who will attend forward in their commitment to serve Jesus teaching and preaching God's Word to God's people and evangelizing the lost.

The James Family March 2014 Prayer Update

Hello!

We trust you are doing well. Thank you for your prayers and partnership in the gospel with us in Bolivia.

Here are few specific matters of prayer and praise:

1. Our Equipping Servants (ESI) Ministry website is up and running, in case you want to see a brief video / details of what do -- EquippingServants.com

2. The 14 Pastoral Assistant volunteers we're training in the ILC and IBM churches in La Paz in 2014 and 2015 are making good progress as they have started studying and preaching through Romans, as well as personal and ministry progress. 

James Family February 2014 Prayer Update

Greetings from Bolivia!

A brief note to thank you for praying for us and the work here in Bolivia. If you could pray for the following matters, we’d really appreciate it!

1. Pray for the 14 new Pastoral Assistant volunteers that pastor Pepe Rocha, Edgar Mamani and I are working with this year and next. This is an intensive Pastoring of Pastors training program that involves 16 hours each week preparing expository sermons through the book of Romans; as well as personal time discipling each one in areas of character, priorities, marriage, family; and then individual ministry development.

2. Pray for Debbie as she and her team of women begin another year of ministry working with women in the ILC Church in the areas of evangelism and discipleship. Pray for much fruit that remains.

James Family January 2014 Prayer Requests

Pray for wisdom as Kep, Pepe Rocha and Edgar Mamani finish the 2014 Pastoral Assistant (PA) candidate selection and begin a new 2-year PA process in January.  They will work with each of these 11 new PA volunteers as they study 16 hours each week and prepare messages through the book of Romans. In addition, they will work with each one helping them grow in their marriages, families and ministries.

James Family January 2014 Prayer Update

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Hello from Bolivia!

This month's Update features the ILC Church Christmas outreach to 100 children in one of the marginal areas of La Paz. Also the story of an entire family that was baptized in our church last month! Also please note our new Bolivian mailing address listed inside.

Thanking God for you and your partnership in the gospel with us.

Our love to you in this new year,

Kep and Debbie

James December 2013 Update

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Greetings from Bolivia!

Our December Update is about Kep's recent trip to Mexico to visit our ESI (Equipping Servants) pastoral training groups; Deb's women's retreat; 23rd ILC Church anniversary, and 2 photos of our grandkids. The Lord continues drawing many to faith in Christ and building His church!!

Thank you for standing with us in this ministry,

Kep and Debbie James

James November 2013 Update

Hi from Bolivia!

We want to thank you for your prayers. God is bringing many Bolivians to faith in Christ in recent weeks, and we are encouraged seeing evidences of the grace of God in many lives. Please pray for much fruit that remains as people grow in the Lord.

Pastor Pepe just returned from a visit to Ecuador and Peru to spend time with our ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) groups in Loja and Huánuco. Many of the pastors Tomas Diaz and Edwin Callejas are working with there report significant changes in the way they are thinking and living Biblically in their desire to honor Christ by being true to His Scriptures and to reach the lost for Christ.

James Family November 2013 Prayer Requests

• Pray for Kep as he visits the ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) in Mexico November 8-19 (in Chiapas with Neri Rivera, in Oaxaca with Mike Ross and Edgar Rivera, in the Oaxaca mountain region with Edgar Rivera).

• Pray for the ESI (Equipping Servants pastoral training) participants throughout Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru -- that churches will be transformed as pastors and church leaders learn to honor Christ by being true to His Word. Currently we have 750 active participants involved in weekly training, and 803 graduates since we started ESI in 2002.