Greetings and blessings to your homes and ministries,

In January and February I traveled to the area of Biavo for the conference that was held in San Rafael, and also to help address some of the problems in some of the churches.

On January 16th I travelled to Vainillas to celebrate the wedding of two couples and I preached about marriage. Thanks to God we had the conference in San Rafael, where we had pastor Martin Z. and brother Junior as teachers. There were 14 brothers, among them some pastors and deacons. We began on Friday the 12th and finished on Sunday the 14th, and it was a great blessing. The topics that were taught dealt with: the Doctrine of God, families and pastoral problems. Our brothers came back very encouraged and willing to start changing many un-biblical practices that they are doing in their churches, in ignorance or because of wrong teachings. The greatest thing is that everybody readily received the teaching that they received.

The next conference will be in Nuevo Progreso, Biavo area, God willing. On February 12th and 13th Pastor Martin Z.  preached at sister Anita's funeral, because she died of cancer. All the people in San Rafael gathered together and we preached the gospel, many of them felt uncomfortable and few accepted the message, and this is because pastor Martin's attack on men's sin. The brothers as well as the unbelievers said that they never heard a message like that. I'm evangelizing sister Anita's family (there are very many of them), they don't reject the Gospel  but neither do they repent.  So I will continue evangelizing them. Sister Anita shared the gospel with her children and all who visited her before she died.

We have had flooding because suddenly the Huallaga River flooded because of heavy rains in the jungle. In our church building the water entered like a river, my wife and children got frightened, and in these moments we are on high alert because the rain began to fall down very heavy.  In San Rafael  and in other towns the houses fell down, the harvest was lost and many animals drowned, even though we tried to stop the water from entering into the church building,  we couldn´t, and at this time we are worried because the authorities told us to be careful with our families.

Thank you very much for your prayers and financial support that we receive always on time, and thanks to it I can support my family and work in the ministry.

God bless you greatly!

Your brother in Christ,

Arturo M.