Dear
Friends and Family:
4,000 workers recently lost
their jobs in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay.
Its urban market—one of South America’s main shopping tourism destinations—experienced
an 80% drop in sales largely due to the depreciation of the Brazilian
real. Many of the city’s inhabitants face
an unexpected life transition without any clear direction. A former seminary professor and fisherman
once told me, “Fishing is best done where there is a transition in waters.” If
this is true, next week’s timely mission trip to Ciudad del Este could yield a
sizeable harvest. Pray for us on the 9th, 10th and 11th
of October as we share a message of hope to people in a desperate situation.
Really,
we need your prayers for this trip.
We leave in one week, and we still don’t know who all will go. Paraguayans often make last-minute decisions,
and some church members may suddenly decide to go on the trip while some team
members may decide not to go. Some doubt if the church van will make it there
without problems (even though a mechanic recently fixed it). Also, as much as Margarita and I want to
bring Ana and Antoine, we hesitate to do so remembering the 2013 mission trip
when Ana was hospitalized for an asthma attack.
Please pray for wisdom and for
our mission team.
The Ciudad
del Este mission trip will include a children’s event, home visitations, a
soccer game, and evangelistic services.
We’ll help a church that has been led all year by two recent seminary
graduates since the former pastor left the ministry. Despite divisions and struggles, the church
experiences growth among children, young adults, and women; however, there are very
few men. Furthermore, we are told that
when it rains, no one participates in church activities. Please
include the weather in your prayers for the trip.
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[Margarita’s
juniors researched and presented about the Toba native tribe.]
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Additionally,
pray for Margarita’s junior class to overcome negative family cycles and to make
decisions that will result in beneficial outcomes. One day, the students demonstrate great
talent and creativity. The next day, they
make bad decisions that could result in destructive consequences. Nearly all of them live with dysfunctional
families and have few positive adult role models outside of the New Horizon School.
In July, you prayed for 8 inmates
who started a Bible study in the Esperanza Prison. 7 finished, and there is hope that they will
reach out to other inmates. Likewise, we
now request you to pray for Margarita’s students in addition to the people in
Ciudad del Este as we encourage them to put their hope in
the Lord, for with the Lord is
unfailing love and with him is full redemption (Psalm 107:30).
Yours
truly,
Tim, Margarita, Ana and Antoine Revett
Tim, Margarita, Ana and Antoine Revett
