Dear Praying Friends,

FROM TIM:

Check out this group of promising young adults! All 33 of them (some not in the picture) came from
different parts of Peru for the month of February to attend SELADIS, a pre-university program offered
by the Evangelical Seminary of Lima. I had the privilege of teaching them a 35-hour course on Strategies
of Church Planting. To pass the course, students completed two writing projects: 1) evaluate an existing
church (1200 words) and 2) present a plan of action you could use to start a new church (5000 words). Of
the group of
33, nine are
currently
planting
churches and
many others
are looking to
start a project
this year.

FROM
DEBBIE:

I have begun
seeing clients
in my new
office in El Redentor church, in addition to my Thursday afternoon work in the low-income community
of Flores de Villa. Each individual or family comes with a background of family dynamics that has
contributed to current heartache and dysfunction—absent fathers and husbands; children who feel
abandoned, misunderstood, and often rejected; couples with failed marriages who are attempting to start
over again; women and children suffering the effects of sexual abuse. Please pray that I can be a channel
of God’s hope, comfort, and healing, as well as someone who can help lead them to more successful
ways of individual and family functioning.

Prayer Requests
1. One of Tim’s ProMETA students in his Team Leadership course has just gone through a
major transition. Sarit was the administrative leader of the largest evangelical church in
Venezuela but recently resigned. Pray for her next steps.
2. Joel and Stacy’s wedding is May 1. Yikes! Lots to get done in the meantime.
3. We are lacking a lot more support than we had previously calculated, at least $1000 is
needed to keep the family united. If this amount doesn’t come in Tim will have to spend
considerable time in the states raising the funds.

Tim and Debbie

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