Weekly Eye On Missions: March 3, 2010
Jonathan Earnhart, GPBC Missionary to Peru
Dear Prayer Partners:
Praise the Lord for His continued blessing upon His work here in Tacna. We praise the Lord for a number of salvation decisions over the past few weeks. We have been preaching a lot on salvation, assurance of salvation as well as the rapture, tribulation and end times. God has been faithful to bless the preaching of His Word!
We are really asking God for a bus for our ministry. The bus we are using is a 1982 Dodge that one of our church families had in storage. It has been in so many accidents, that if we were to remove the bondo and fiberglass patches, the bus would literally fall apart! It really is not safe to transport children. If you were to push on any of the windows, they would fall out! I know, because it happened--a few times! The brakes barely work and the bus only starts when it wants to! Please pray about this great need! Literally dozens of teens and adults have come to the Lord through the bus ministry and it would be a huge loss to not have a bus.
God has opened quite a few doors for us to minister to small churches that are outside of the big cities. Most of them are forgotten and the pastors are getting no encouragement or help. A new bus would also enable us to travel to these outlying areas and be a blessing and help to these small churches.
Pastor Henry is doing well in Arequipa. Their attendance has begun to grow once again. He has formed a pastor's fellowship and once a week they are fasting and praying for their different churches. They are also meeting once a week at their different churches to accompany the pastor of that church in his visitation. Pastor Henry is a tremendous encourager and servant!
Here in Tacna, Grace Baptist Church is doing well. We have seen a large number of young people accept the Lord and Asst. Pastor Roberto is doing a group discipleship with the young men.
We are continuing to work in Calvary Baptist as well. Christian has one more year of seminary, then he is planning to get married and work with me full time. Richard has 3 years left and Jose' is planning to enter seminary this coming fall. We also have two young ladies that are praying about going to Bible college in March. Thank you for your prayer and your investment in God's work here in Peru. Your labor is not in vain in the Lord!
Fellow laborer,
Jonathan and family