Day by day we are seeing great things. On Monday we had one of our street kids from years ago come back. He needed to talk and is worried about the accommodation that he is one of the leaders of. It is a street home called 'Casa Cuauhtémoc'. The founder is a psychologist who just lost his mother last weekend. The kids fear that he will close the centre down. Andrew talked to the founder on the phone to express our sympathies on behalf of the team and Alex and Paty will be trying to meet up with him to see if we can encourage and also start a house church there. Pray for an open door and a time to minister to him. This man has done many wonderful things for street kids over the years.
In the evening we had 60 adults and 9 children to the Independance day party. 15 from our sister church about 10 minutes drive north of La Raza, and the rest La Raza regulars and locals. What an answer to prayer. Many of the regulars to Thursday night bible study brought friends and kids from the holiday bible club came with their families.
7 Haitains came again on Monday and again on Thursday night this week. we have spoken to our wonderful Spanish teacher Tania, who many have been praying for to be saved and she is going to give Paty and crash course in how to teach Spanish to the Haitians this Thursday morning. They are very keen to get help to learn.
Street kid work was very exciting too. Monday saw 5 kids saved through discipleship and on Tuesday the team sat to talk about motivation and discipline resulting in some good deeper conversations. Please pray for one young man from the La Raza group who speaks excellent English and to whom the teams from Oklahoma 'visited with' every time they came to work on the centre. He has had a rollercoaster time since the last time we had contact but is coming everyday again and we pray that we will finally watch God work in his life.
And so Andrew begins his last week in La Raza as part of the staff. Pray for him as he shares with the kids for the last time and preaches on Thursday night. Pray that he will share the Gospel filled with the Holy Spirit.
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Hello, Agnews! Just a note to let you know that we are still praying for the centre at La Raza. Also, could you please pass on a message in particular to the young English-speaking man who is coming to the centre every day? Please tell him that Mark and Aylisa Marion in Oklahoma are still praying for him - that we think of him every day, and that we know that God has plans for him - to use him in a mighty way. Remind him that we have lost our son to drugs-and we are still grieving-but God is seeing us through, and He will see him through, too-through whatever changes happen in his life-if only he will take a leap of faith, and allow God to love him and claim him as His child. God bless you both, too - we will be praying for you. Keep in touch! Much love and blessings, Aylisa and Mark Marion
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