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First of all, I like to thank each and every one of
you for all your prayers and economic support; for all those
prayers are honored in heaven as precious jewels, and they
don’t ever stop until they reach the very throne of God;
actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. On my
way back to Houston I started to think that my only purpose
as God’s missionary is to plant the seed wherever I go and
the Lord will produce the fruit. His plan is to save the
lost. The center theme of the Bible is salvation through
faith in Christ. Every moment of our lives, the enemy of our
souls has no higher goal than to take away the divine seed
planted in our hearts, to change us from being Sons of God
to sons of his malignant devices. Satan has no power except
that which God gives him. But Jesus uses Satan to fortify
His Church. His Grace enables us to live now in a wise and
correct way to serve Him. Because the supreme force in
salvation is God’s Grace. I, as His servant, lack faith and
power to even do a simple task therefore, without Him I
can’t do anything. Thus, to be really effective as His
witness I must trust my Lord Jesus with all my heart; I must
always remember that my Maker is also my friend and brother.
In Him all is well. I must share my life with Him, see Him
in everything I do, and rejoice in the fact that He’s my All
in All. I must go forward, unafraid, knowing that He is in
complete control of everything, and presenting His Good News
to the world. To count all things as loss so that I may gain
His Son in my life. But you know, If we want to have success
in the mountains of Mexico the most important is to be
obedient to His calling; the question is will we obey?
Walking the path of discipleship is not easy. We should make
an effort to keep our minds and hearts always focused on
Jesus, to be in perfect harmony with God’s Son in mind and
heart, always.
The trip to the Town of Tepeyac, State of Guerrero in
the Mexican Republic was an excellent place to test our
faith and obedience: in this part of the mountains we
encountered lots of witchcraft, sorcery, divination, etc.
For the first time we even had some guards posted around the
outreach site. Each chief sorcerer had a “clientele” they
like to keep at all costs, even by killing another chief by
beheading him with his machete.
NOTE:
This is the first trip we had the largest contingent of
servers: a total of 65 persons. From ASF 36, from the
Tlapaneco Church Alliance a total of 20 and the local church
9. There was also the largest number of Doctors (9) and
Dentists (7), as well as 2 Optometrists.
21 April/0600 hrs:
A convoy of 1 bus (to carry all personnel and luggage) and a
van (to carry dental equipment) left for our destination: a
Town called Tepeyac located in the State of Guerrero,
Republic of Mexico. After approximately 3 hours of traveling
we stopped at a gas station where 20 more persons in 4
vehicles joined our caravan. These individuals came from
Mexico City to be part of our evangelistic campaign. In one
of the vans was traveling the Director of the Tlapaneco
Indian Ministry in the State of Guerrero where there are now
20 established churches and 40 missions in the region.
Unloaded everything and set up all clinics.
NOTE:
Two (2) days previous to the start of our trip, a truck was
loaded with all the equipment and supplies and transported
it to the Town of Tepeyac.
22 April/06:30 hrs: Wake up call 7:30 a.m.,
devotional 8:00 a.m. breakfast, and 9:00 a.m. start work.
Same itinerary for every day that followed.
In
the Clinic of the Soul (Evangelism) we had a total of 73
rejections to Christ; a very large percentage maybe due to
the diabolical influence in the area. We also had to use
interpreters for some of the older part of the population,
but the rest of them were bilingual. We found that most of
the young folks had very limited reading skills.
Also, we also “re-evangelized” 91 persons pronouncing
themselves to be Christians: they all had very limited and
very minimal understanding of the Gospel and Bible
knowledge. This is unsatisfactory because it points to a
Pastor that’s either irresponsible or lacks Bible training.
This was made known to the Director of the Tlapaneco Indian
Ministry.
NOTE: A young Tlapaneco missionary woman left
her residence in Canada to come to evangelize her own
people, saying that she found this to be her calling. Just
like Joseph, she preferred to say NO to a better living,
than to minimize her responsibilities towards her own kind.
She wants to dedicate the rest of her life to proclaim Jesus
to the people of Tepeyac and throughout that part of the
mountains.
23 April: This
was the first time that a young woman receiving Jesus in her
heart, while I was presenting her God’s plan of salvation,
wrote down all the Bible references I mentioned. She asked
me for a Bible to study every day to verify everything I
said was true, and continue growing in Grace and knowledge
of our Lord and Savior. This reminded me of the Berean
Church; they were always searching the Scriptures for God’s
Truth.
24 April/9:00p.m.
The local authorities publicaly knowledged their gratitute
and appreciation for all the services their town received in
these past 3 days, and invited us to return at any time in
the future. Then, we proceeded to dismantle all installation
to be ready to leave next morning. All material and
equipment was loaded in a truck which will transport it to
Cuernavaca during the day or the next.
25 April/6 a.m.
Left the outreach site, and after 9 hours we arrived at
ASF’s Headquarters in the City of Cuernavaca.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, BY THE GRACE OF
GOD.
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STATISTICS
MEDICAL CLINIC: A
total of 406 patients were seen (16 surgeries). Three (3)
persons were transferred to a Hospital in the City of Tlapa.
DENTAL CLINIC:
A total of 244 persons examined who received 427 treatments.
OPTOMETRY CLINIC: Patients
188 and 144 persons received lenses.
SOCIAL WORK:
Distributed dozens of Bibles, New Testaments and plenty of
other literature. A total of 80 sacks containing clothing,
shoes and toys were given to the people. Also, a total of 67
hair cuts were provided.
EVANGELISM:
A total of 310 persons received the Lord Jesus in their
hearts and many more were touched by God’s Holy Spirit.
To all
persons interested to travel with us, I wish to let you know
that again I traveled by bus. It took me 24 hours to get to
Cuernavaca and 29 hours to return to Houston; reason being
the crossing of the border between Mexico and the United
States was very slow and crowded with many vehicles.
WE ASK ALL INDIVIDUALS, CHURCHES, CONGREGATIONS THAT
RECEIVE THIS REPORT, TO FORWARD SAME TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, SO
THAT THESE MINISTRIES CAN BE KNOWN MORE AND MORE, IN ORDER
TO INCREASE PRAYERS AND DONATIONS, SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE
WITH THIS LABOR OF LOVE.
TOGETHER, WE CAN CHANGE MANY LIVES. MANY BLESSINGS
FOR EACH OF YOU.
Sincerely,
Raul G. Sifuentes
On behalf of Amigos sin
Frontera, A.C. and United Pursuit, Inc.
Finalmente
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