Dear Friends in Christ,

Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We thank the Lord for you and deeply appreciate your faithful prayers and financial support for the work in Mexico. It would be much more difficult without your sacrifice.

Susie and I are doing well in our travels on furlough. We are thankful for the two souls saved, 4 baptized/joined, and 79 for special prayer in the U.S. churches these two months. We need your help more than ever to help keep things going in troubled Mexico.

The dangers continue with more killings and kidnappings happening every day. We are receiving reports of other missionaries being threatened and in some cases even shot at. Pastors and church congregations are being robbed and threatened with paying “protection money” in order to operate in certain communities.

Along with the many dangers that we face is the uncertainty of the coming presidential elections in Mexico. The two front runners both declare that they will continue the fight against the drug cartels. We hope and pray that they will be used by the Lord to bring an  end to the evil that has over taken the country.

We praise God for the people being saved in Mexico. The churches report 80 trusting Christ, and they are scheduling baptisms for the Spring when it warms up. Also, we are thankful for our dedicated students and staff of the Bible College who have won 92 souls to the Lord!

Continue to pray for Estella our Dean of girls. Her recovery from the amputation of the toes of her left   foot is going slow. They may need to amputate up to her knee, but they are trying another treatment first.

Please continue to pray for the churches, Bible College and the work in general. Thank you for your faithful    prayers and support.

Yours in Christ,

Rick and Susie