Thank
you for taking a few minutes to read this slightly abbreviated July 2017 update.
Tonight
we said “so long” to Ken Casillas, one of our former pastors and seminary
teachers and a longtime friend. During the past week he taught an intensive
Hermeneutics class to a group of pastors and other leaders in Paysandú, a city
on the river that separates Uruguay from Argentina. Numbers of you prayed over
the last several months that the Lord would superintend the logistics of this
class. Thank you! We’re thankful for the group of approximately 25 students who
were able to attend and for the excellent reports we’ve heard.
A
highlight of Dr. Casillas’ time in MVD for E & DJ was
asking lots of
questions—and learning a little
Hebrew!
Tomorrow
evening the new FEBU semester begins. Our focus for the next several months
will be the teaching of Hermeneutics, Apologetics, and the second semester of
Research and Argumentation. We will undoubtedly be entrusted with many
discipleship opportunities. Please pray for wisdom!
“Punto de Contacto” is the electronic newsletter that FEBU has begun to publish—in Spanish.
(We’re sorry that an English copy isn’t available.) Please feel free to pass
this along to your Spanish ministries or others who may be interested.
Pictured
next are teens and young adults and some of the staff that attended the brief
winter camp in Guazuvirá earlier this month. Some of the faces are those of
current and future church leaders. Others represent struggles with love for the
world or such questions as the truth of Christianity or whether to believe in a
God that mandates sexual norms. Some represent youth who have grown up hearing
the gospel and have yet to follow Jesus.
Four
from Iglesia Bíblica Maranatha in Pando (and two invited visitors) attended
camp. Please continue to pray for perseverance and growth of (especially) the
teens and young adults. Several continue to take good steps. A few hours before
going through security at the airport this evening, Dr. Casillas challenged the
church from Psalm 84:
The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in You (Psalm 84:11-12).
