March - April 2005

Dear Pastor and Praying Friends,

Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.  We want to thank you for being so faithful to our Lord and Savior.  The Lord is answering your prayers and we rejoice to report that we have had four people to make professions of faith in Christ as their personal Savior.  They are Adrian, Florica, and Andres from Romania and Terry Clark, a U.S. serviceman, who is stationed in Rota, Spain.  Along with the saving of these precious souls, the Lord has brought others to our services.  Please pray for Javier (a Spaniard) and Cristiana (his German wife).  We are also glad that the Lord has allowed Domingo and Anna Lopez to return from their trip to Argentina.  Domingo still needs to be saved and is need of your prayers.

Andres has been a particular blessing to us.  Since accepting the Lord, he has been with us out in the streets passing out tracts and inviting people to church.  He is 15 years old and it is a blessing to see the Lord work in this young man’s heart.  I recently called upon him to pray in a church service and he prayed as though he had been praying all of his life.  Amen, Praise the Lord, Hallelujah!!!!  Please pray for his spiritual growth as well as for the others recently saved.

Brethren, we have been faced with a trial of whether or not we are going to be forced to leave Spain.  We had applied for a renewal of our Spanish residence and it has been denied.  The reason for the denial, we learned, is because anyone who has a residence card cannot be out of Spain longer than six months in any given year.  As you know, we were back in the states in 2004 for eight months to raise more support.  We had to report to the local National Police station and they stamped our passports telling us we have to be out of Spain by May 21st.  We are filing an appeal that will hopefully overrule the decision.  We will be permitted to stay in the country until a ruling on our appeal has been made.  We were ignorant to this particular law, but understand that it is not a valid excuse.  One major thing on our side is that Daniel is a dual citizen of both the U.S. and Spain.  Legally, they are not supposed to be able to deport a Spanish national.  So please pray that the Lord will help us not to have to leave Spain or re-apply for our visas.  We ask that you pray for our lawyer as she prepares the appeal.  Josefina is a true Christian and is helping us at no charge.  She said, “I am helping you for the glory of God.”

Since last September, one of our goals has been to cover all of El Puerto with Gospel tracts.  So far we have passed out over 5,000 tracts.  We are praying that with the power of the Holy Spirit and our continual presence among the people that we will soon see more results.  If nothing else we want them to know who we are and whom we stand for. 

            While battling spiritual darkness, false religions, and just plain atheistic attitudes, we have one particular adversary that we ask you to pray for.  The Jehovah Witnesses are spreading their poison here in Spain rapidly.  We have had numerous opportunities to witness to them about the truth and although we haven’t convinced them of their error, they are at least thinking about what we say.  Please pray especially for Monica and Sr. Gonzalez.  I have had a couple of encounters with them and each time their arguments are weaker and weaker.  I want to encourage all you back in the states not to give into their deceitful lies that they use saying that they believe basically the same as we do.  It is blasphemy!  They preach another Jesus who isn’t God Almighty.  They are antichrists and we need to be on guard.  The Word of God does matter and every jot and tittle in the Word matters.  We also encounter Mormons who are very well organized and financed.  They recently built a beautiful facility that includes their church and courtyard.  Our offer of “in home” Bible studies doesn’t hardly compete, especially when you are dealing with people who are not accustomed to visiting in homes of people they don’t know. 


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