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2019 FEBRUARY HBM MISSIONARY REPORT
KRISTIN POWEll Surco, PERU
PRAISE -These past few months
have been full of traveling.
I was able to go on a
missions trip to Pucallpa (a
city in the jungle of Peru)
and minister to the people
there.
-Right now in Huancayo. (a city in the mountains)
We have been busy passing out tracts and
witnessing to those in the community.
-The Lord has helped me so much with my Spanish
and I am able to witness and share the gospel more
confidently.
-I was able to come back to the States for a month and a half to spend some time with my family.
PRAYER REQUESTS
-Pray for me as I start teaching in March. This year I will be teaching 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade.
-Please pray the Lord will give me patience and wisdom as I teach these children. Pray also that
the Lord will give me many opportunities to share the gospel and help my students spiritually.
HENRRY and KENDRA SILVA Abner, Megan LAPAZ, HONDURAS [email protected]
PRAISE -2018 was a very busy year in our ministry
in La Paz, Honduras. We had many saved,
baptized, and discipled.
-We had personal heartbreak with the death
of our 2 day old baby boy, Henrry Josue.
God proved himself in such sweet ways
through that time.
-We were able to get a piano for the church
as well as a better sound system and a projector.
-A new family joined the church several months ago.
-We had a teen saved at teen camp in December and several teens are
in discipleship class PRAYER REQUEST
-For spiritual growth in the church. We are praying for a 15 passenger van or something similar to
be able to use in the ministry.
-Our Sunday school building needs much maintenance.
-Spiritual growth in the church.
CHRIS and ELISABETH ROBERTSON
David, Ashley, Joshua, Annalise Jala, MEXICO [email protected]
PRAISES -Arturo received Christ as his Savior
and is now studying through
discipleship with Chris and Adolfo Guzman, who is a leader in
the church.
-We started a Wednesday evening service in the mountains after
having just a Sunday morning service when the church was
planted in May. The Wednesday service has a higher
attendance than the Sunday service.
PRAYER REQUESTS
-For the salvation of Arturo’s family and that he will
become a faithful man in the church.
-For Adolfo. The pastors have approached him and asked
him to pray about becoming a pastor and specifically
taking over the Bible study in the town of Estancia, which
we are striving to see that work become a church plant.
-For wisdom and grace as we apply principles to see this church become national led.
-That all our churches and ministries will become self-supporting, self-governing and self-
propagating.
-That our kids will grow in wisdom with God and man and that as a family we will be a great
light for the Lord
-For protection for our family both spiritually and physically.
EVER & CAROL SANDRES Comayagua, HONDURAS [email protected]
PRAISE -We got married! Praise the
Lord for bringing Ever and I
together to serve Him!
-God provided the finances and
our house was completed.
-People are getting saved! Praise
the Lord for souls saved not
only on visitation, but also in
everyday encounters (even on our honeymoon:)
PRAYER REQUESTS
-Our bus route and church to grow.
-Sunday school program.
-The construction of staff/group housing and our clinic building later this year.
-God to touch the hearts of our teens on the property.
JAY AND TIFFANY KOPEAP PAPUA NEW GUINEA
PRAISES -Susan, Robina, Caroline= saved
after Tiffany's ladies meeting
-Joycee, Doris= saved after Tiffany
went to Nipa for a special ladies
meeting in July
-Jayson helped install the first
permanent shower rooms and
bathrooms
-Starting the youth group at Moriah Baptist
Church
-Our church in the village, Moriah Baptist
Church, had our first ladies meeting in
December 2018. Over 230 ladies attended and
28 ladies accepted Christ. Tiffany was able to lead one lady to Christ and several got saved after
she spoke at the meeting.
PRAYER REQUESTS
-We are expecting our first child- a baby boy!!! Please pray that the delivery will go smoothly and
baby will be normal and healthy. Tiffany is expecting in April 2019.
-Tiffany is delivering in the states and so now we are back in the states. We are on furlough and
will be traveling to raise additional support after the baby is born. Please pray for traveling
safety.
-Our church back in the village to continue to grow spiritually
-The ladies who have been saved since we have been there to have the discipleship needed
-Ladies meetings and youth group to continue during our absence
MIRANDA ROSE Lima, PERU
PRAISES
-Salvation of Tamer, Victor and Lucía!
-The opportunity to share the gospel with 100s of
children in special December Bible clubs.
-A good turnout for the New Life house
church´s Christmas in the Park evangelistic
outreach.
PRAYER REQUESTS
-Wisdom in planning and preparation for this year´s
ministries
-7th - 11th grade girl´s Bible Studies at LMCS
-The salvation of the Luna & Vallebuona families,
salvation of Jorge and Giselle and family.
SARAH YODER INTERN IN TOGO, W AFRICA [email protected]
PRAISE -The Lord has used this internship
to show me my next step. I’ll be
getting my masters in Educational
Leadership starting next fall.
PRAYER REQUEST
-Safe trip and smooth transition back to the States next month
RUBEN and JORDAN CRISTINOIU Eva Ruth
ROMANIA [email protected]
PRAISES
-As of February 1st 2019, our precious baby girl, Eva
Ruth is now One year old!
-Claudia (a teen girl in Medes that we have been
praying for and working with for over a year) finally accepted
the Lords as her savior! She wants to be baptized soon.
-Two young girls were saved during the VBS in the church of
Sânmihiau!
-Since the move to the church in Sânmihiau, 6 more children
have been saved and we now have a strong group of about 15
children who are coming to church regularly on Sundays and
kids clubs!
-We had a wonderful first Christmas with the church and children’s Christmas program.
PRAYER REQUESTS
-We are still new to the church in Sânmihi. Our prayer is to make good strong relationships with
the people in the church.
-As well as the people in the community and the parents of our bus children. We want to get them
into the church and see them saved!
-Pray for Claudia’s parents to now be saved!
-Pray for missionary (Romania) Sara George’s recovery. She had her kidney removed.
RAJSINGH (RAJ) RAMANJULU SURINAME (Bible Translator) [email protected]
PRAISES
-I was given a house in Suriname. God sent someone to help me
fix it up.
-Our translation team has increased to 4 people. PRAYER REQUESTS
-Wisdom as we begin to develop a lexicon for the translation.
STAN and SUSAN MYERS BRYAN MYERS Creation2Christ
PRAISES Thank you all for praying for Bryan! His surgery went well His procedure this morning was a scope into his small intestine and we are so thankful that they didn't find any Crohn's disease there! God is so merciful! Bryan is currently on IV antibiotics and it sounds like he will most likely be in the hospital for 6 weeks due to them.
PRAYER REQUESTS
Pray that he can get total healing this time around. It has been almost a year since his big surgery and this surgery was due to non-healing complications.
MARK and SUSAN SCHULER ROATAN ISLAND, HONDURAS [email protected]
PRAISE -Just hired a new and CAPABLE
Honduran teacher. She is taking
first grade, WHAT a blessing!
-BRAND new house has been built
and given to our two teachers
-Another one of our 12 high school kids has accepted Christ
-The person in charge of granting resident VISAS is now a
member of our church
PRAYER REQUEST
-An associate pastor is urgently needed.
-Substantial support has been lost this year.
-We need at least 2 more American teachers (women)
PETER PAUL and CHARMAINE RAMANJULU INDIA [email protected]
PRAISES
-We visited India Dec-17-2018 to Jan-17-2018 during that time
Charmaine and I have visited about
10 churches. All of these churches need help and support
from us.
PRAYER REQUESTS
-In order for us to provide any kind of financial support to these churches, we have to start raising
funds before our next visit. Our primary goal is to be able to come up with the necessary funds to
help at least one or two churches.
HARRELL and JEANIE NOBLE Missionary and Field Director of HBM
PRAISES
-We praise the Lord that we have so much to
share with you.
-God is blessing the ministries in the
Philippines with souls saved and the many
different pastors we work with report
increases in the membership plus several
baptisms.
-One of our young preacher boy, Renie Jun Barrentes, has
started another church up in the mountains. This will make his
3rd church he has established and is now pastoring all 3 at the
same time!
-In total we are now helping 10 national pastors in the Philippines! God is so good! The work in
Vietnam is progressing also and the churches are growing in spite of the continued harassment
and persecution they face for preaching the Gospel. We receive reports from our pastor there of
being thrown in jail for baptizing new converts but he calls it a light affliction to serve our Lord!
Oh that I could have that same heart and burning desire to see souls saved as they do in Vietnam.
-We are also beyond blessed in that we sold our house and were able to buy an RV to live in! it’s
more than we ever expected God to do for us and we praise HIM for his supply and care for us as
we start on the last chapters of our service for HIM! It is so nice being able to sleep in the same
bed every night and to know exactly where your wife has put your socks!
PRAYER REQUESTS
-God would give us souls this year. Our heart is burdened for the churches and the lack of a real
revival. We are praying that God will give me power as I preach that HIS Word would touch the
hearts of the lost and fire up the saved.
-Pray that God will send in sponsors for the Pearl’s Of Grace Girls home. Everything is ready for
the home to be occupied but we are being held back by government paperwork. It has been over a
year that we started on the papers. We’re close (that’s what they keep saying!) to opening but not
there yet!
-For our health that we will be able to continue to serve, travel, drive and minister wherever God
puts us.
ASHLEY CLARK ROATAN ISLAND, HONDURAS
PRAISES
-It has been a great school year
-I want to praise God for the wonderful
new house that Jessica and I have been
blessed with. David and Brenda
Dashner with the Abundant Life
Foundation blessed us with a beautiful home right on the school
property, and we are looking forward to serving the Lord with it.
PRAYER REQUESTS
-pray for God’s provision financially and logistically for a reliable car.
-I would ask that you please pray for the spiritual and physical health of my students.
BOB and VICKI TAYLOR HBM Director [email protected] [email protected]
PRAISES
-So very thankful for all God has done through
the ministry and outreach of each of our
missionaries.
-Praising the Lord for the souls saved, believers
encouraged and for the power, provision, and
protection God has supplied for each of our “HBM Family”.
-Praising the Lord for the Mission Teams HBM has been able to help
send out. The picture is of the Haiti team who had about 100 saved in
December.
-Praising the Lord for the new missionaries God has sent HBM.
-We are very thankful for the blessing and help of our 2 HBM Field
Directors.
PRAYER REQUESTS
-The 13 mission teams going out this summer
-Annual Mission Candidate School in August
-Brother Roy Chestnut’s health. He is HBM’s Founder and President.
-Important decisions concerning care for Mrs Rella Chestnut
OLIVIER and ALLISON BROC Johnny
Field Director of HBM
PRAISES
-The Lord Has been good to us!
-We have ministered in several churches as pastors needed time off.
(Sickness, mission trip, mission conference, and filling the pulpit.)
-In November, I worked with a group of Pensacola Christian
College students who were planning a mission trip to Haiti. They conducted VBS during the
Christmas break and over 300 children were in attendance. There were many profession of Faith!
They are already working on next year!
-Since mid-December we have been involved in a Spanish church plant
-Allison and I were involved in an outreach in our sending church. What a blessing to see a
dozen teens getting saved! Many others getting right with God!
PRAYER REQUESTS -Souls to be saved!
-Increase in open doors to present ministry
-Increase in our support
-Jean Baptiste (Johnny) second semester at PCC
ADAN and REBA PINEDA David, Nathan Sabana Grande, HONDURAS [email protected]
PRAISES
-Our son Nathan was born in November and
both our sons are healthy.
-Adan's grandma and father trusted Christ as
Savior.
-Adan's dad has been recovering from his
surgeries and began chemotherapy (started January 2019).
-Adan's sister Lupe started coming to church.
-Open door to continue in the public school ministry.
-Many children saved in the public schools.
-Many children from the public schools now come to church.
-A mother of a public school student and a public school teacher
trusted Christ as Savior.
-Four of Adan's Sunday school students decided to enter Bible college (started in January 2019).
-Many of our Sunday school stdents have been saved, and a few of them baptized.
-We began a new bus route and have had good attendance in our bus
PRAYER REQUESTS
-Salvation of Adan's family
-Health of Adan's grandma and dad
-Wisdom in decisions for this year
-More workers for the public school ministry
-More bus route workers
-Spiritual growth for Sunday school students
KELLLY HASTINGS Surco, PERU [email protected]
PRAISES
-I was able to help with two
mission trips to Arequipa and
Pucallpa. In jungles of Pucallpa,
Peru I was able to teach a Sunday
school lesson and present the gospel to several children
in Spanish.
-I had the opportunity to teach English to 4th and 5th grade at Pionero
Cristiano Colegio in Lima, Peru. My students were able to learn Bible
verses and songs each week in addition to English vocabulary and grammar
principles. I also taught physical education to lower elementary students.
-My fifth-grade class won a singing competition singing “Worthy is the Lamb” in English!
PRAYER REQUESTS
-The gospel to be clearly presented to each student at Pionero Cristiano Colegio in Lima, Peru
-One person to serve with us and teach English as we only have two teachers this year instead of 3
like previous years
-That I rely on God to supply my financial needs as I serve as a missionary
-Patience as I continue to learn Spanish.
JAMES and SUSIE LEJEUNE Sabana Grande, HONDURAS
PRAISES
-Overall growth in our church and
on the bus routes. Our bus in the
past couple of months has gone from
70 to pushing 100 several times.
-Baptisms: Natalia (from Susie's Ss
class) was baptized. Emerson(from our bus route) was saved and
baptized, and Ninfa and Soto(from James' SS class) were
baptized. We also saw two other young people from our bus -
Sahaira and Harold get baptized.
-Seminary- God answered prayers for more girls in the seminary. We went from three girls to 10
girls in the seminary! This January God brought 8 new students to the seminary which makes a
total of 24 seminary students the biggest number of students we have ever had! Praise the Lord
for bringing new people our way!
-The school is growing and we have reached almost 200 students in the school! 5. We had teen
camp and there were 4 teens saved! Many expressed a desire to serve God full time.
PRAYER REQUESTS
-We are making plans to start a tour group to represent the seminary this summer. Pray that God
would work out all the details.
-Pray for an affordable piano /keyboard that we could use for tour group as we travel around.
-Pray for the seminary Haiti missions trip this summer. For finances and students to go.
-Pray for seminary students as they seek to do God's will.
SUSAN WILLIS PHILIPPINES
PRAISES -I received my red ribbons
documents last Friday!
-Vacation Bible School:
120 children faithfully
attended
21 souls were saved at the
closing program.-Weekly Bible Club and Feeding:
Many children continue to faithfully attend. We are
seeing spiritual growth in the children that have been saved and several of
the older children have been showing interest in soul winning.
-Single Ladies Bible study…sweet fellowship.
-Since having VBS, the children arrive two to three hours before Bible
Club begins. They came and sit in a open air church building in the heat
and wait patiently. It is such a blessing to my heart!
PRAYER REQUESTS
-My return to the Philippines soon.
-The summer programs for 2019.
-My 9g missionary visa application.
NATHAN and EILEEN RIDDICK Tayler, Skylar, Austin, Birdie ROATAN ISLAND, HONDURAS [email protected]
PRAISES
- the adoption of our youngest (Birdie
May Riddick) was finalized
-the opportunity to make our trip to
Roatan. The work God is doing there is
great. Our time there was absolutely
amazing the sense of unity and team work there was really
encouraging to my wife and I. We do believe there is a big
opportunity for us in the ministry working alongside Brother Mark
Brother Adam and the others.
PRAYER REQUESTS
-pray for the Lord would show us clearly what his plans are for our
life. We feel like we have a very good picture of what our part is in the ministry of Living Faith
Baptist Church and Solid Rock Educational Institute but we would like to spend the next week or
two praying about it to make sure that is God’s will.
-Our goal is to have clarity in this area and begin calling churches by the end of March.
GLENN and DEBORAH HOHMANN Yakima Indian Reservation, WASHINGTON
PRAISES
-Praise for stable Church and good attendance while we are on the
road!
-Praise for safety on the road as well as being able to see supporting
Churches and family!
-Praise for an elder Indian lady who passed this week that she
professed Christ as her Savior!
-Praise for opportunity in the new corrections facility on the
Yakama reservation.
-Praise for health and God's provision!
Thank God for our Mission Board that cares and keeps current with us!
PRAYER REQUESTS
-Prayers for bereaved families, impoverished families on the reservation.
-Jobs for our Church folk,
-wayward Church folk.
JESSICA EATOUGH ROATAN ISLAND, HONDURAS
PRAISES
-One of the high school boys got
assurance of salvation right before
Christmas after talking to two of
his classmates about it.
-second grade is advancing in English and absolutely loves Bible
class.
-a mom in the school has decided to get her teaching degree and is
now the Spanish teacher in the second grade class, fulfilling a huge need.
-graduating students are doing their community service project tutoring kids and are doing a
fantastic job and getting a burden for what the kids know about God, and basics of academics.
(One child told a graduate he really liked her Bible class because she teaches in an orderly way).
-our new house, that we moved into three weeks ago.
-my church has raised more than half of the money I need to purchase a car here.
PRAYER REQUESTS
-graduating students’ (Janny, Haydee, Axel) future plans
-need for more teachers
-wisdom in teaching
-the rest of the students in our school to get saved and their
spiritual growth
-spiritual sincerity of the teenagers
-spiritual growth/discernment for each of us in the ministry team
TOM and BETSY KLINE
Castlegar, BRITISH COLUMBIA [email protected]
PRAISES
-we celebrated the churches 20th anniversary,
-Sarah is expecting again,
-we have baptized several adults,
-have some visitors becoming more regular attenders.
-Joshua is doing well in his college studies here
-My health has been stable.
PRAYER REQUESTS
-for Sarah’s pregnancy, there have been concerns all along and she has had a lot of tests and
scans, but yesterday the baby was given a clean bill of health. She is 20 weeks ... lots of prayer
has been going on there.
CARMELLO and SHANNON MARTINEZ BRAZIL
PRAISES -What a year! God always shows Himself faithful. We spent time on the field building the church, and training our leadership. God is so good to have provided all that was needed as we built by faith. -We are now in the States on furlough to report of the work and to raise new support. We were able to leave the work with the nationals that we trained and they are doing an amazing job during our absence. We are set to go back Lord willing, in August .
PRAYER REQUESTS
-We ask for needed prayers as we raise funds to return and funds for a 4x4 vehicle to work in the tribes. Last year it rained 7 months straight. There was no way to go into the tribes. This is a great need. We have been blessed with already two of our supporting churches who have a agreed to help raise money for a down payment. -Pray that we would be able to schedule appointments with churches while here. It seems to be harder with each passing year to get into churches, for the emphasis of many churches is no longer missions… If you would like for us to report of our work or have a church that can be recommended to us, please let us know. - Pray for Brazil. They just inaugurated a new president. We pray that the Lord would allow us to continue to have open doors in Brazil, but the country is changing so much. The government is still in unrest and not sure how the new government will work. =Also please pray for funds to rebuild one of the walls that protect our land and the church. During the last storms, it tore down the garage and part of the outside wall. We are not there to repair it and will need to hire someone to fix it. It is very dangerous to have a way for people to come in and steal. -Pray for the new families that have been coming to the services and have started one on one bible studies in their homes. It is exciting to see the people working and continuing on in the things we have taught! **At times you wonder if the work is in vain, and it can be discouraging… But everytime a soul is saved, and changed you know Gods hand is always working! He is good and faithful. We just received word of a young lady from our previous work in Sao Paulo. She contacted us to say thankyou. A few months ago my wife was contacted with the news that she had tried to commit suicide, and was put in a hospital for 30 days. During this time my wife was able to council with her and her family. We had wondered if all the teaching and investing our lifes with her in the past was of any effect. But praise the Lord when she contacted us recently she shared with us that she was so thankful for all she had learned thru the years, and all the teaching. And that she recommitted her life to Christ and was getting married to a preachers son and serving the Lord! Yes its worth every trial, every tear and all the work investing in lifes! We are looking forward to all the Lord has for us this year.
KEVAN and DEANA MYERS Tirzah, Edward, Philip, Isobel & Henry Time To Win A Battle Ministries [email protected]
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NELSON SANTOS Surco, PERU
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STEPHEN WILHELM Eroyn, Johnathan, Cristopher Oradea, ROMANIA [email protected]
