December 2000 -
January
2001
Dear Pastor and Praying Friends,
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior,
Jesus
Christ. We are excited to see a new year and new opportunities to
serve
our Lord. We have already seen two young ladies come to know
Christ
as their Savior this year and are looking forward to seeing many
more.
We must be busy bringing in the harvest before the return of our
Lord.
"The fields are white unto harvest". We are hoping to do more for
the
Lord this year than we have done in all of our lives. It is our
hope
that you have made a similar decision in your lives concerning this new
year.
We want to thank everyone for their prayers in
behalf
of my mother, Cathy Beck. The Lord called her home to be with Him
on
December 14, 2000. Though we miss her greatly, we rejoice in the
fact
that she is now in Heaven. My dad is doing very well through all
of
this. The Lord has given wonderful peace to all of us.
Please
continue to pray for our family.
The Lord has helped us again in filling up our
schedule.
We had only scheduled a few meetings into this year due to not knowing
how
my mother's health would be. I began calling the second week of
January
to try to fill our calendar, and so far, the Lord has given us various
meetings
all the way through September. He is so wonderful to us.
What
a blessed opportunity to serve such a Glorious Savior!! Our
support
level has not changed much since our last prayer letter, but we know
that
we will soon be making plans to buy our tickets and enroll in language
school.
We are talking to different missionaries already in Spain and they have
been
very helpful with information and are excited that we will soon be
there.
Sadly, we have learned of more missionary
families
coming off the field in Spain. Our spirit is stirred within us to
do
all we can (with the Lord's help) to get to Spain as soon as
possible.
Spain is now being called the "Missionary Graveyard". Please pray
for
Spain. We know of one other family, currently on deputation to go
to
Spain, but it is still not enough to evangelize the whole
country.
The Spanish people are very hard to the Gospel and are even turning
from
their religious belief in Catholicism to Agnosticism or even
atheism.
When we started deputation, the last count we had showed that 98% of
the
people there were Roman Catholic. That number has now dropped to
around
88% (only 35% of which are practicing). We believe the Lord is
preparing
to do a great and mighty work in Spain, and that through their
dissolution
in the Catholic Church, the people are being prepared for the
Gospel.
Please pray that we will be His faithful servants in Spain and that He
will
use us in a great way. We prayerfully ask that each person who
reads
this letter would honestly ask the Lord what He would have you
personally
to do about Spain. Please pray, give or go!