LAM News

02/04/2025

What a picture… Samuel preaching in Pucallpa… look at the little girl praying during his sermon!!! Looking forward to getting back, hopefully next month…

01/01/2025



As we close out 2024, once more we want to thank you for your love for our Lord and his church world wide. We are especially thankful for your concern and involvement in our ministries. This past year has been exciting and blessed as we have seen so much happen and the growth of our Lord’s church.

Beginning the year I made a trip with my brother Jim to Peru to visit with the church leaders. We also were able to have concrete supports put under the parsonage in Pucallpa. While there, we went up river to visit a couple of Indian (Shipibo) villages and take sporting equipment for Teco and his sporting activities outreach. As a side note, one of the teams he works with won the national championship for their division, the only purely Shipibo team to ever get that far in competition... While there, we met with the leadership of the church in Victoria Gracia (Shipibo congregation) and made plans for a VBS in the summer and listened to their plans for and dreams of building a worship center. As of this writing, the building isn’t entirely finished, but they had their first meeting in the new facility this past week. What an accomplishment!!!

Then later in the Spring I was in Spain with Erick, Sira and family. It is always so great to see the way our Lord is using their family to minister and reach Spain for Christ. Erick, Sira and daughter Ericka were also able to be with us in the US for the Missionary Conference last Fall in Lexington KY.

Also in late Spring Bette and I met up with Tony Liston and one of his leaders (Mark) on the tri-border area in South America to do some leadership teaching and encourage Victor and Hilda in Argentina, Daniel and Renata from Paraguay and Ademir and Nilva in Brazil. Also, Bruno (missionary in Brazil) came down from Recife Brazil to visit the work there and meet Tony and Mark as his ministry and ours merge and he begins overseeing the work in that area. You will hear more on Bruno and his wife Lucy this year as they become more involved with and get to know our supporting churches and ministries.

During the summer we were able to put a really interesting mission team together from Markle and Auburn Indiana along with a couple of guys from the Michiana area and travel to Peru. Erick and Sira’s two older daughter’s and Bruno also met us there to help build on the church construction in Pucallpa, and hold two VBS’s at the church in Pucallpa and the Victoria Gracia church (Shipibo congregation). Ericka and Sirita were amazing and a great help with translating, and Bruno was able to get to know the leaders in Peru and preach at both congregations.

2025 should be an interesting year as we plan for VBS’s, new ministries and encourage the congregations to continue ministering to their people and reaching the lost. It has been amazing to see all the baptisms in Argentina, Brazil and Peru this year. It has been inspiring to see the willingness on the part of the Shipibo congregation to sacrifice to build their church building and hopefully this year finish it. The church building in Pucallpa is really looking great. Samuel and his people also worked hard and long finishing up the parsonage, and classroom downstairs. Erick and the congregation labored long hours getting their building ready for the dedication. Teco and the leaders of the church in Victoria Gracia were amazing at raising funds and volunteering to work on their building and Bruno and Lucy are doing a great job at raising funds, both here in the States as well as from the congregation there in Recife to get their building up and useful. Lots do to still on 2025 while we wait on our Lord’s return…

All of us from Latin American Ministries wish you God’s blessings in this new year!!

12/27/2024

1st service in their new building in Peru… so neat to see the Shipibo congregation sacrificing and working to get their church building up and using it… pray for them as they move into the new year with the vision to reach more of their own people with the message of hope…

12/22/2024

Just got these… They are set up for services tomorrow…

12/21/2024

Wow… just spoke with Bruno and they have their roof on… Tomorrow they will hold their first service in the building under construction… We need another $18,000 to get the walls up and close the building in… Would love any help you can give, including your daily prayers… pray for their continued progress and worship service tomorrow!!!

12/11/2024

Bruno update on church building construction in Brazil…

12/07/2024

Wow… check out the progress on the church building in Recife… Bruno is doing all he can to raise the funds needed to complete the building so the congregation can move out of their rented facility… they would love a Christmas offering designated to the construction… keep Bruno and Lucy in your prayers as he lead the ministries in South America…

12/02/2024

Exciting to see the progress the Shipibo congregation is making on finishing up their worship center… we would love to be able to send a Christmas offering so they can pour the floor, close and secure the building… keep the congregation leaders in your prayers as they continue ministering to their community.

11/24/2024

Erick, Sira and Ericka made it back to Spain… great service… keep their family and the ministry in your prayers!!!

11/19/2024

Great things are happening in Argentina… Victor and Hilda are ministering with the church in Puerto Iguasu, Argentina… Keep them in your prayers as they enter the holiday season…

10/30/2024

Wow… The church in Victoria Gracia is working really hard to get their building up… All of you who were on the trip last summer, I’m collecting to help them finish up… They are hopping to get the tin for the roof this week, then, they need to pour the floor, then windows and doors… Going to be great next summer for the VBS!!! Keep them in your prayers…

10/21/2024

10/21/2024

The church building in Victora Gracia is moving along… today they started working on the trusses and as they can they will buy the tin to close the building in… Keep Jose Teco and the leaders in your prayers!!!

08/20/2024

So excited for the mission team that spent time working and encouraging the churches in the
Pucallpa area. The church in Victoria Gracia is working hard to get their roof on their new building and Samuel and Gladis in Pucallpa are back from Lima and working at finishing up the construction work there… Getting the water system, bathroom and kitchen finished up…

08/15/2024

Well… today they (church in Victoria Gracia) plan on finishing up with pouring the columns… getting exciting to see putting the roof on… Keep the church and leaders in your prayers as they look to the future…

08/11/2024

Well… they (the church in Victoria Gracia) are working hard to get their building walls up. This week the Lord willing they plan on pouring the concrete columns and hopefully the tie beam around the top… Samuel and Gladis have made a quick trip back to Chosica/Lima, but before they left the water tower was installed at the church parsonage in Pucallpa. We are all so grateful for those who have been to Peru, those who have supported the work,and those who faithfully pray for the churches as they strive to minister to a people in need of the hope we all can have in Christ…

08/05/2024

Well, sounds like everyone finally made it home, some with lots of airline and airport changes. John and Andrew drove back from JFK after a cancelled flight there, but thankfully everyone is home… Thanks for your prayers!!… Construction continues in Pucallpa thanks to a special memorial gift and funding from the trip… Got a video from Irma who visited a Shipibo congregation this past week end in Paraíso using some of the left over VBS materials. Thanks for your prayers and we ask you to continue remembering God’s family in South America…

08/01/2024

The rest of the mission group is leaving today… Had opportunity to meet with the leaders of the Shipibo congregation this morning and have Scott, one of the leaders from the Markle group, share and encourage them. We also later met with Samuel in town to encourage the church there as well… I don’t think we could have had a better group than this one… what an impact they made on the lives of all they came in contact with… The churches here are anxious to know when there will be another visit… I really want to thank you for your prayers, and many of you for your financial support… Pray our Lords blessings on all!!!