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March 2009

Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord

Praise Report: We are so thankful for the young adults who have taken leadership positions in the ministry here. Our assistant pastor Carlos Rivera is doing well in his institute studies as he grows in the Lord faithfully serving and leading the young people, driving one of the vans to bring the children to church every Sunday, plays the piano for worship and willing to do anything else that needs to be done. His wife Claudia also a faithful young lady teaches the children in Sunday school. Last Sunday Carlos baptized three of his young people. Noé, Jessica and Gizela have become a great help to Carlos leading our young people. In December we had an overnight youth retreat and four got saved in the morning as the SON came in. There were three young men (20’s) and one teen girl. One of the men is a teacher in a public school. The teen girl has not missed a service since she got saved and now brings her parents and sisters. Carlos is receiving calls from other churches that have been losing their young people. We are scheduling meetings to meet with their young people to challenge and encourage them

Hector is another faithful young man studying for the ministry. Every Sunday he and his dad drive one of the vans to pick up children for Sunday school. Hector loves to pray and leads prayer in our services.

We praise God for our praise and worship leader José Rivera a faithful young man with a willing heart who attends our music school and leads praise and worship in the church. José is such a blessing in every aspect of our ministry from being a substitute driver to doing whatever else needs to be done. We are thankful for Melisa, Herberth, and Elias for their faithfulness in bringing others to church and playing and singing in our worship service.

Another student of our music ministry is Alexander Santos who leads praise and worship in his father’s mission and has been a great blessing to our ministry. Alex came and preached at our young peoples meeting and 14 young people responded to his invitation to receive Christ as Savior and to make other important decisions in their lives.

The music ministry has reached its capacity of students until we can train up more teachers. We are hoping to have some musicians working independently in other churches by the end of this year. One student is already teaching others in the town of Amatitlan. We are preparing for outreach concerts, and music for missions and evangelistic conferences for the months of March, April and May.

The roof on the print shop has been replaced and soon we will be able to start working on the tracts and other materials that the pastors have been asking for. The “Little Red Book” tract we print here has become a favorite. As seen in other countries, it’s a tract the people are more careful with and take home.

There is much to do but... Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Prayer Requests: Pray for our leaders - Wisdom for outreach in the various neighborhoods. - Souls saved in conferences, concerts – Printshop and finances to print the literature - Protection from the increasing crime in Guatemala City...really bad!

Your Servants in Guatemala

Don and Cathy Hinds