Help new missionaries get started
We want to thank you for your prayer & financial support to us as a family & also for the support of different GOI ministries in Latin America.
Due to COVID, overseas travel had been cut to a minimum. In 2020, the only out-of-Canada ministry was a 1-week Mex Gateway City trip (26/2 - 4/3) & the Amazon River boat ministry trip in Bolivia (4 -17/3). We are grateful to the continual support from our supporting churches that we were not in the red for 2020 & even have a surplus, PTL.
At this point, our working theme is "Plan, Change the plan but with our Goal intact".
1. From Hardware to Software
Mexico
As the La Paz Mexican church plant is almost finishing its 1st floor with a multi-purpose sanctuary, 2 washrooms, a small office, & with walls unfinished, while the Mex GOI Chinese church had already acquired its church building in May, 2020. Gateway City ministry is gradually moving from its "hardware" step to "software" stage where we can begin to accommodate young people (software) for ministry & training.
Bolivia
We ask for your prayer for a August 3-wk stm in Bolivia targeted at English & Spanish speaking 2nd generation. It is a courageous plan but we have to pray, plan, & prepare. They will participate in 2 ministries involving 3 indigenous groups. The 2 sites are in the Amazon & in the Valle area 3-hrs south of Santa Cruz. Both are future partnership ministry points of GOI with 2 national church bodies. The Chinese church ministry in Santa Cruz will constitute part of the stm too.
2. Compassion ministry
Kinder Iztapalapa is a social concern & community development project in marginalized area of Mex City where GOI continue to seek financial support for them. Covid had taken a toll in impoverished area as unemployment had gone up & social assistance from government is not enough to pull the families through such hard times.
3. Santa Cruz, Bolivia bible study via zoom
Please continue to pray for the Santa Cruz, Bolivia zoom bible study every Thursday night. We began with the book of Ephesians in Jan, our goal is to rebuild the church focusing on building individual lives of the brethren. The last Thursday of the month is now reserved for a prayer meeting with small group breakout room in Mandarin, plus a brother & sister group. Please pray for the 8-weeks (30/3 -20/5) Zoom Spanish class the church is planning, it is a pre-evangelistic outreach effort to serve & build bridges with the community of non-believers.
4. Renewing relationships with Venezuela
In Feb, I shared in 2 worship service, 1 in Venezuela & the other in Colombia, such is the Zoom world we live in now. My last visit to Venezuela was in 2015, & now what a blessing to see over 60% of the brethren do not know me personally & the majority of them are Spanish speaking youth. I will continue with preaching assignment with the Caracas Chinese Baptist church in Venezuela in the coming months. Please pray for the continual growth of the church, as mobilizing & nurturing the next generation of mission workers for the Kingdom will be our theme.
为使命 学西语
Another Zoom platform event…..Spanish class. Following up on the enthusiasm of 2019 (30 regular attendance) when we did a Spanish class with Vancouver CBC, a new 12-weeks Spanish class will begin in April. This interest group activity will twist our tongue & rejuvenate our mind to new phonetic rule & grammar structure. Of course, it will prepare in a small way those who are ready for mid-term mission ministry in Latin America.
Keep in touch, keep in prayer.
