Greater Portland Baptist Church

Jonathan and Becky Earnhart: February 2008

Dear Friends,

Summer in Peru is coming to an end. We have concluded our last activity of our "Crazy Summer" program.

Last weekend we had 10 couples participate in our Couple's Retreat. We were missing quite a few couples, but we had a good time and we were able to teach a number of very important and relevant classes. Our teens and singles prepared a banquet and program for Friday night and ran a day care for the whole retreat. We are blessed to have some terrific workers in our church!

Our Evangelistic meetings brought in over 70 first time visitors. We had a number of salvation decisions and we are following up on every visitor. We praise the Lord that a number are still attending services. Please pray for their spiritual growth.

The Sunday we finished with that meeting we traveled with a group of 21 leaders from Tacna to Arequipa to help Pastor Henry with his VBS. We combined the VBS with our Leadership Camp, so we had a very busy week. The turnout was tremendous, with over 115 kids every day. It rained every day which made it even more amazing that the kids would attend faithfully. We had over 40 in the Leadership Camp and it was exciting to see many decisions made for the Lord.

Pastor Henry is still super-elated that they are now the owners of their own property! They have been busy painting and cleaning to be able to use the entire property. We are doing our best to scrape funds together for a temporary tin roof for the back patio. That will serve as an auditorium that can seat up to 150+, but we will divide the extra room into classes until the church needs the entire space.

Our new work in Tacna is now averaging 25-30 in attendance. We are currently meeting in the yard of one of our church members. We are trusting God to provide for the purchase of a lot where we can put up a temporary roof as well as construct simple living quarters for the family that will be living at the new property for security reasons.

Please pray for a couple of other needs. First, we are in need of new supporting churches. We visited 42 new churches last year, but only 6 were able to begin supporting our ministry. The dollar is dropping every day and we are having to look at cutting back on different ministries as well as printing tracts. The other need is for a van for our family and ministry.

We praise the Lord for a surprise gift that paid for Sarah's school books. We are still paying on Andew's shoulder operation as well as our return airplane tickets. We know God will meet each and every need as His Word promises!

Please especially pray for my counseling load. I am counseling 4-5 couples every week and some of them have some very serious marriage and family problems. I have never felt so overwhelmed as I do right now. I know that God has placed us here for this time, but it is an incredible struggle to try to understand all the cultural differences as well as face things that I have never faced before. Please pray for God's perfect wisdom for us!

Thank you for faithfully holding us up in prayer!

Fellow laborer,
Jonathan and family

Jonathan and Becky Earnhart: February 2008

Dear Prayer Partners, As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Praise the Lord, we are enjoying a little of both; cold water for our summer heat and good news to share with you! Fundamental Baptist in Arequipa is FINALLY owner of their property! AMEN! For over two months we have been in legal paperwork and yesterday the last paper was signed and...continue

Jonathan and Becky Earnhart: January 2008

Dear Friends, Greetings from the Earnhart family. I will try to be brief in this update, but we have a LOT to share with you! We are getting settled in our new house and everyone is VERY thankful to have their own bed! God really blessed the work in our absence! The attendance has been well over 100-150 for every service. Our 1,200 sq ft. building can't hold any more!...continue

Jonathan and Becky Earnhart: September 2007 (update)

Dear Friends, I just wanted to send you a quick update to let you know that Andrew is out of surgery and that everything went well. They said he should be able to come home today. The doctor said it was a good thing he had the surgery because the collar bone was separated and overlapping. The plate they fastened to his collar bone will make the recovery healing time...continue

Jonathan and Becky Earnhart: September 2007

Dear Praying Friends, Winter has officially arrived in Michigan. It was 55 degrees and I'm sure it's about to snow at any minute!!! My toes are staying warm thanks to Pastor Payne!! We are excited to share with you that 5 adults from our ministry in Calvario (Tacna) will be baptized in the upcoming week. Isn't that amazing!! Two of the ladies that will be baptized have been going through...continue

Jonathan and Becky Earnhart: April 2007

Dear Prayer Partners, Well, I guess you could say that this is a three thousand mile letter! We started our trip back to the States with a 20 hour bus ride to Lima, Peru. After a day lay-over, we then took an 8 hour flight to Atlanta. We were blessed to have Becky's brother's family waiting for us at the airport as well as our BIMI Field Director, Bro. Blevins....continue

Jonathan and Becky Earnhart: March 2007

Dear Praying Friends, Greetings once again from sunny, southern Peru. We are enjoying wonderful weather as we enter the fall season. A spiritual harvest is exactly what we have been experiencing in the church. Praise the Lord, we have seen several salvation decisions as well as new believers taking the step of faith to be baptized. Coming from Catholic backgrounds, it takes a bit longer for our people to understand...continue

Jonathan and Becky Earnhart: February 2007

Dear Prayer Partner, Once again we send our greetings from Peru. We trust that all is well there in your respective ministries and that God's grace is evident in your lives. We have had some great days here in Tacna. Last week we finished our Leadership Camp with over 60 in attendance. We had young people from Tacna and Arequipa as well as Arica, Chile. The spirit was wonderful and...continue

Jonathan and Becky Earnhart: July 2006

Dear [Friends], Hello again from our family to yours. Thank you so much for your prayers for our family. We truly count it a privilege to be serving the Lord together as a family. I have been reminded throughout the month how blessed Jonathan and I are to have children who love the Lord and enjoy being a part of the Lord's ministry. Sometimes I feel bad for the 'American'...continue