Raising Children to know of love the Lord

Pastor Dave and Nancy Hammond from Calvary Evangelical Free Church (Rochester, MN) arrived on April 18 to teach about the importance of raising children to know and love the Lord.  Often people ask questions about what can be done so that children who grow up in the church will continue in the church and not fall away from the faith.  Dave has been addressing this question as well as other questions that face children and youth.  His teaching has been excellent and the people have responded honestly about the need for improvement in their ministries to children.  Nancy also is a teacher who works with children that have special needs.  She will be teaching as well, particularly talking to couples who have children with special needs.  Together, they make quite a team and we are so glad they came to minister with us.

They are here for 11 days and during their visit, they will be teaching in 5 communities and 1 school.  We have planned formal times (during church services and special conferences) and informal times for them to share.  Informal times include going to visit the people in their homes.

Today in the morning, Pastor Dave spoke in the church in Jarabacoa.  In a few hours, he will preach the same message in the Buenos Aires church and the church from El Montana will join.  But seeing a need, we informally inited a young family that was struggling to our house for lunch and spent a good part of the afternoon talking with them about their marriage.

All this to say, our days are filled and we need your prayers as we make the most of every day.

Pastor Dave preaching at Nueva Vida in Jarabacoa

Dave and Nancy taught at a house on Saturday evening.

Keep this family in your prayers - Raymond and Jeny. 

Having someone come and teach is a huge blessing to our ministry and to the churches.  Ideally we would like to have a couple come every 6 months to teach on different topics.  Would you be able to come and join as Dave and Nancy have done?  If so, we would be sure to keep you busy!