Dear Friends! This has been an incredible month, and it isn’t over! We kicked off our public TEAM classes, and started a new evening worship service. Over one hundred students are signed up. The Tuesday night session was so well attended we had to divide it up into 3 sections, just to keep it manageable! Twenty-four folks came to our Wednesday service. It was well received, and we expect larger crowds to come. We still need equipment and...

June, 2008 Greetings from the “Land of Eternal Spring”! At least that is what they call Cochabamba in the tourist brochures. However, we are having the coldest Winter anyone remembers. The temperatures are down to the 30’s at night, which means our unheated house is in the 30’s as well! BRRR!! We are excited to launch two new Bible studies this month, in the Sacaba area, East of the city. These will be held at the HQ of a secular charity...

May, 2008 Dear Friends, May has already been an exciting month, and it has barely begun! On the 4th, the largest departmento (state) held a referendum on whether to declare autonomy from the federal government. Everyone expected severe violence to result, and that perhaps even civil war would begin. The government promised 80,000 anti-autonomy protesters would march here in Cochabamba. Confrontations were feared between the two factions. Most...

Exciting News! We have found a house in Cochabamba! It is on a major street, just two cuadras (blocks) from a major landmark of the city. Everyone in Cochabamba will know how to find us! The bottom floor has two large rooms, when combined, will seat 80+ people! The rooms can be divided for two classrooms when needed. There are two other class rooms on that level, for Sunday School and such. The living space that remains will be slightly smaller...

January 9, 2008 Dear Friends, The new year started with the sound of explosions all over the city! No, it was not civil war, it was fireworks! All over Cochabomba there were beautiful displays. Unfortunately, even on New Years, we’d like to get some sleep, but some folks insisted on partying all night. There is a popular huge firecracker named the “mother-in-law-killer” that sound like a grenade going off! These went off all night, leaving...

December 27, 2007 Dear Friends, First let us thank you for a wonderful Christmas! Several churches sent us extra gifts. Along with goodies for the kids, Nicholas was able to have emergency dental work done, and urgent repair was done on our “new” van! The last praise deserves some explanation. Speed limits are not enforced by traffic cops here in Cochabamba. Instead they use huge speed bumps, nicknamed “axle breakers”. It is normal to...