Dear Friends and Family:
Last Friday after I finished teaching I sat down in our
apartment. Within a short time I began
feeling terrible with various symptoms: headache, earache, dizziness. I took some medicine and, before going to bed
early, Margarita prayed with me for strength to “get through” the jam-packed weekend. I felt the same on Saturday, though, with a little
more energy—enough energy to enjoy teaching a class at a local Bible
institute. Later I still had sufficient
strength to lead a college-age church service that went late due to an engaging
discussion. On Sunday I woke up eager to
finish preparing and later present a sermon.
I thank the Lord for providing strength so that I not only accomplished,
but savored, the weekend’s activities. In
light of recent sicknesses Margarita and
I ask for your prayers for protection over our and Ana’s health.
On April 21st Paraguayans will decide who will
lead their country for the next five years. Please pray for a peaceful presidential election with a beneficial
outcome for Paraguay. Choosing the
right president is indeed important.
However, if Paraguay is to experience long-term, Christ-centered
progress, there must be a commitment to reaching out to children and youth (who
are currently the vast majority of the population). Margarita and I spend the greater part of our
week working with many of the 700 students at the New Horizon School and the fifty
teens and college-age youth at our church.
Their great talents, creativity and potential reveal that they truly are a
heritage from the Lord and a reward
to their community. Considering our weekly activities as well
as our other involvements, you can say that you are reaching out each month to
almost a thousand of Paraguay’s children, teens and young adults through your
support and prayers for Margarita and me.
Thank you, and please keep these
youth and our ministry in your prayers.
Furthermore, we appreciated your prayers for the
March 15th Missions Night.
We carried out the event with a certain degree of flexibility. A few speakers couldn’t make it. It rained, which, in Paraguay, is an
automatic excuse for anyone to stay home.
About a half hour after the event was scheduled to begin, most of the
few dozen participants began arriving.
Overall the event went very well.
The presentations were inspiring.
One young woman shared her sense of a calling to be a missionary in
Asia. There was a powerful time of
prayer for national missionaries and against obstacles to evangelism in
Paraguay. The participants had only
positive comments to share afterward. We
considered it a successful first missions conference for us. Please
pray for these upcoming Ministry of Evangelism and Missions events: · April 26th-28th: Mission trip to Repatriación (a city in eastern Paraguay).
· May 17th-18th: Outreach in the Trinidad neighborhood of Asunción.
From fighting through health issues to helping students achieve, and from working with teenagers to mobilizing national missionaries—Margarita and I are in one of those seasons when activities accumulate. It’s natural to take on the perspective to simply “get through” all that is happening; yet, it’s more enjoyable when we look for strength in Jesus, who came that we may have life and have it abundantly.
Missing you all (but having a good time here),
Margarita, Ana and Tim
Revett
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