MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
“When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Matthew 9:36-38 NIV
This week on a trip to Bangkok with my family we visited the highest point in the city, the 79th floor of the "MahaNakhon" skyscraper from where you have the best panoramic view of the city. A truly impressive construction and view.
From that place and with a 360° view, you couldn't see where the city ended. Bangkok has a population of around 10M. It is a port where all kinds of people and cultures, beliefs and philosophies, tradition and modernity mix. There is the king's palace, some of the oldest Buddhist temples and the statue of the Green Buddha, the most revered idol by Buddhists in Thailand. There is also the port where thousands of containers with shipments from all over the world arrive, there are hundreds of modern and old buildings, and many impressive shopping centers. All kinds of activities are done there in the light, but many of them are really dark.
Looking out from the skyscraper, at a city without end, but consumed in confusion, I couldn't help but think of the millions of men and women who to this day have never heard the message of salvation, who have never even heard the word Jesus and that they will die without anyone preaching to them. This hurt me so hard in the heart, and a tear ran down my cheek. For a second I could understand Jesus more when he had compassion when he saw the multitude that walked like sheep without a shepherd.
Seeing that immensity you cannot stop thinking about how small you are and how little or nothing our work may seem, but the Lord commanded us to do this alone, it is teamwork, a mission of the whole church to pray, sustain, go and send laborers to harvest.
What are you going to do today to support with your grain of sand the mission that the Lord has entrusted to us?
-Agustin
Translation for police and military curriculum
This week the Spanish translation of the first discipleship document for a ministry that works with police and military here in Asia was finished.
LENGUAS is the language and translation department of CENTRAL. This was their first project and it was successfully completed.
The material composed of 49 lessons that guide officers through a transformation to align with the purpose for which God put them in that career has in its last chapter a training on the great commission and the call that we all have to make disciples of all nations (ethnicities).
This ministry that transformed the military and police in the Philippines now wants to make an impact in Latin America. Just as the police were transformed in that country and are now sending police and military missionaries to other ethnic groups, we believe that this is a great opportunity and an example for Latin American officers to fulfill the great commission in their countries and also as missionaries sent to what last on earth.
Interview for Quichua brother
Juan is a Quichua believer from eastern Ecuador. He is currently pursuing his studies in Missions virtually at the Río Grande seminary and supports a missions institute in Orellana, a province in the Ecuadorian Amazon. He contacted us thanks to Elena to request an interview with a cross-cultural worker in an unreached ethnic group.
Agustín was interviewed and these were his comments: “It was nice to be able to tell you about my experiences as a cross-cultural worker in Thailand working with a Buddhist community. He especially struck me as he is preparing for the missions and the curiosity that he has aroused.”
We will stay in touch to answer all of his questions about cross-cultural service and feed his curiosity to learn more about unreached people groups.
Let us keep Juan in our prayers so that the Lord confirms his call to missions.
Team Meeting
This week at our team meeting, Caro led us through an activity to recognize in each of us the qualities we think we have, the ones our inner circle says we have, and the ones we can offer to our team. All of that together forms the qualities that we have as a team, and I was very pleased to see that when making a word cloud with all the qualities of the team together, in the center is God.
LIBERTAD#1: Hausa en Niger
Because I was hungry, and you fed me; I was thirsty, and they gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and they gave me lodging;" Matthew 25:35
The Hausa are a least reached ethnic group in Niger, they follow Sunni Islam and have a population of just over 10 million people and less than 0.1% followers of Jesus.
These are the prayer points for this ethnic group that came out of the meeting:
Divine Protection for women, mothers, children and schools
New projects such as: Artesian wells
For bivocational agronomists
For personal and food safety
For children and hunger
Mobilize Afro-descendant Latinos for that region
Courage, bravery and resilience of believers.
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