Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I send you greetings and many blessings to your homes and families.

On the 25th of March I traveled to San Ramon in the Biavo sector where Brother Serafin pastors his church. The brothers there had a late-night prayer meeting scheduled. The first service there was evangelistic and the other services were for the edification of the congregation. I arrived there with considerable difficulty because of the rains. Pastor Serafin and a lot of other brothers couldn’t cross the Ponacillo River and they had to spend the night on the other bank. The Ponacillo River flooded and destroyed a lot of believer’s crops and the river swept away a lot of cattle. It was a huge loss for several brothers in Christ but even so we were praising the Lord even early in the morning, praying and meditating on the Word. The believers there ended up very encouraged despite the adversities. We spent the whole month of April quite frightened about the rains and the threats of flooding.

On the 8th of April Brother Juan T. died after having had diabetes for several years. We had a wake for him and his burial was very well attended since a lot of believers from different towns came and a lot of unbelievers were present as well. Years ago God used this man to bring the gospel to the town of San Rafael. When we arrived there he was mayor and he was an unbeliever but even so he asked us to have a church service in front of his house and gave us everything we needed to have the service. That night we had used a superficial evangelism method and 13 people thirteen people raised their hands. This is how we first came to San Rafael. (I should mention that now not one of those thirteen is in church.) His now widowed wife is also a believer and we are praying for their children who are unbelievers.

As far as my personal life, I read 4 or 5 chapters of the Bible every day and I’m also reading Death of Death in the Death of Christ by John Owen.

May God bless you richly!

Your brother in Christ,
Arturo M.