News from Our Latin America Ministries
Honduras
As reported in September, a team of Honduran friends of Cristo Salva are helping to prepare for the new school year. Dina, Oscar, Miriam, Enrique and their families have been putting the school supplies together for distribution, spending the last couple months ordering and purchasing everything. The distribution will begin in a couple weeks. Thank you sponsors for making this possible!
Sponsorships are still needed. If you’d like to sponsor a Honduran student, please send Cristo Salva a message at development@cristosalva.org.
Enrique and Miriam, of the Pinalejo Church, have been personally ministering to four families that live in the Figueroa community (near their home in Pinalejo). They bring them food a couple times a month and share the gospel with them. The children have been attending Sunday school. Enrique and Miriam were able to bless them with some clothing provided by your donations to Cristo Salva.
Please pray for these four families to surrender their lives to Jesus. Their living conditions are extremely bad and life is not easy. We look forward to meeting these families when we are able to return to Honduras and are thankful for the opportunity to help provide food and clothing through the efforts of Enrique and Miriam in our absence.
Mexico
Pastor Javier Cota’s church had a Christmas festival for the children of the church (“Centro Cristiano Restauracion”) and the community (Colonia Monte Mar) where they are starting a new church plant. For many of the children in the area, it was a gift they would not have received otherwise.
The Casa de Restauración Church with Pastor Marcos Luna and Pastora Gloria Sanchez had a Christmas party for the neighborhood children to whom they minister. The event, which included a meal and a gift for each child, was attended by many of the parents as well. The church members and their families provided the gifts. Pastora Gloria’s prayer was that God would repay their generosity by returning the blessings to them 101 percent.
(Submitted by Area Director John Gilbert)