Preaching Escuelitas in Cuenca, Ecuador

Dear friends and family,

We would appreciate your prayers for our "escuelitas" workshop here in the city. Below is a copy of the request from the Langham Preaching weekly "Prayer Shot". Jorge will give three model expositions from the short Book of Haggai, illustrating Faithfulness (to the text), Relevance (to the actual situation) and Clarity (to the listening audience).

Ecuador:  A Level Three seminar on 'How to Preach the Old Testament Prophets' takes place in Cuenca, with 18 participants. Josué Olmedo and Félix Valencia are the Facilitators, and Jorge Atiencia, will be the special guest preacher. ‘We ask God to inspire the spirit of each participant in this final year of their formation process.

I have invited a neighbour, as an "observer", she is a missionary with Assemblies of God here in the region and I am praying that her enthusiastic interest in attending might result in pastors and lay teachers from the denomination becoming involved in a new escuelitas cycle planned for later in the year. 

Gratefully,

Gail

Dear friends and family who prayed for the workshop, 

We are SO grateful to those of you who were able to pray for the workshop on Saturday. All eighteen participants were there and hungry to learn more. My Assemblies of God neighbour, Laurel, also attended, participated actively and contributed from her own preaching experience. She is pondering how their pastors might become involved here in the province where we live. 

Jorge says,  "Thank you so much to all of you who interceded for us on Saturday. What a gift it is when we perceive with fresh conviction and vision, God's dynamic for introducing change and carrying out His purposes. All He needed was someone: "...sent by the LORD, who delivered the message of the LORD to the people saying, 'I am with you,' declares the LORD." (Haggai 1:12, 13)