This months Challenge: Plan a night to go eat Mexican - either with a friend or with your family. Make a point to pray over the requests here in Leon before you eat. One method that has worked in Leon to share the gospel is to share with the waiter or waitress and obviously to leave a big tip - because really, who wants to listen to a bad tipper ;). One easy way to share is just to tell them why you came - you can use this challenge as your excuse. Let me know how it goes or if you do it at all :)

Prayer:

• Last Monday we went to the orphanage for the first time. The director never can remember exactly what she has told us from the previous time we met her, which is quite frustrating and ate up about 30 minutes of our time. However, we finally did get to interact with the children and I think it went pretty well. Please pray for these children. Obviously none of them have parents around and many of them have suffered emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Most of them are under the age of 7 or 8. Pray that this ministry would touch their lives and that the director would also come to salvation. Pray for the youth from my church that are coming and helping and learning to teach - Pray that this ministry would be catalytic in their relationships with Christ.
• On Tuesdays we have a Bible study started in colonia M which I have mentioned before and is the same place we are having the Saturday kids club. Our purpose in the kids club is to meet parents who will hopefully want to attend the study. On Thursday night, J and I, went to follow up with some of the parents and to invite them to the study. God really blessed it and several of them expressed interest. Pray that this Tuesday these new women would come and that our study would be full! Pray for me as I lead it in Spanish ;). Also pray for the kids club. As we walked to these different houses it was very obvious that many of these children live with drug-addicted brothers and sisters or parents and that many of them are probably abused. These kids are precious and we are starting to get to know them on a more individual level. Pray over them.
• Pray for a group that we have going in colonia A A. We started this one a couple of months ago and the family has been very faithful to come and very excited to learn from the Bible. If they haven't accepted Christ already, we believe they are about at that point. Pray for us as we lead and try to move forward with them.
• Pray for the University work that I am still trying to figure out how to start. I met with two believers who are students in one of the Universities here and who are trying to reach out on their campus to find out how they are going about it. They shared some good information with me and I have a few ideas now about working but it still isn't clear. Pray for this vision to be completely guided by the Lord.
• The last thing I can think of right now is for several of the women in my church who have decided to form an evangelistic singing group. This is very exciting to me because several people in my church have now expressed their desires to reach out to this city. Pray for wisdom and discernment for me as I try to help them in what ever way I can. I would love to sing with them if possible :) They also need help with vision as to how to actually get out there and make it happen. Pray for these 4 women D, D, A, and M.

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing." 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

This verse has spoken to me lately. I am praying for love for these people. Sometimes, honestly, they are hard to love. They look at me funny and constantly try to speak English to me when I am speaking Spanish (which can be slightly discouraging when they think their "hello, how are you" is better than my 7 months of learning), and a mountain of other reasons that would not be edifying to me or you all if I went into them. The point is, is that God has called us to love. I am praying that my heart will be overflowing with love for these people and that when offended my heart will immediately say "they know not what they do." I encourage you all to love those around you as well. Especially those who offend or hurt - pray for them. God will bless it :)

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