A Great Start to a New GAP Year - North Main Baptist Church; Danville, VA

This past week we had the privilege of working with North Main Baptist Church from Danville, VA for our first GAP team of the year. The team was hosted by El Camino, a small Baptist church with a heart for reaching their part of Montevideo for Jesus Christ.

God truly blessed the efforts of all involved. While there was great spiritual opposition, God again showed Himself faithful and victorious over all that we encountered. The following is a brief rundown of what happened during this past week:

Saturday – the group from Danville arrives early in the afternoon. We enjoyed an early supper and a time of orientation and fellowship.

Sunday – the GAP teams worshiped with El Camino for the morning worship. Pastor Jason preached and we began to see a great relationship between the two churches develop. Sunday afternoon the group went to a park near our house for witnessing and a time of cultural orientation. In the evening the GAP team provided a pizza fellowship for the people of El Camino. During this fellowship El Camino shared their story and introduced every single member of their church to us; this was an awesome time of fellowship.

Monday and Tuesday – these days were set aside for prayer walking in the target zone of Barrio Colon and for a prayer tour of Montevideo. During this time, it became evident that we were on the front lines of spiritual warfare. We encountered situations and signs that Satan would try to intimidate us away from the task at hand. We also lost one of our team members, “L. A.” due to a death in his family. We are thankful he was able to safely make it home to be with his family.

Wednesday – we spent the day distributing the Gospels of John to the homes where we had prayer walked. People seemed open to receiving the Gospels. In the evening Pastor Jason gave a workshop on keeping one’s passion for Christ.

Thursday – this was a very long and tiring day. The morning and afternoon were spent distributing the Gospels door to door in the target zone. In the evening the two churches worked together to host a family festival with games and prizes for children of all ages. Over 90 people attended this event and 11 people made decisions to follow Christ.

Friday – this was our final day of distribution. At least one person prayed to receive Christ during the door to door outreach. In the evening we should the Billy Graham film, “The Climb”. At this event five people prayed to receive Christ! To God be the glory.

Saturday – the team was able to sleep in and spend a “tourist day” in Montevideo before leaving late that evening.

The following highlights are what made this week great for me:

• Kristin (our daughter) was able to stay an extra week with Rachel and participate with this team. Rachel was our first GAP baby and handled the heat and long days very well.
• I enjoyed getting to know the people of North Main Baptist; they are a great church with a wonderful staff.
• El Camino was and excellent host team. They are excited about starting a new study in this target zone and following up with all the prospects we discovered.
• God truly blessed the efforts of everyone involved – 17 people prayed to receive Christ and 11+ people indicated they would be interested in attending a Bible study in their neighborhood and over 1,300 Gospel's of John were distributed.

Pizza Fellowship at El Camino Baptist Church.

Waiting for lunch at our "staging house".

Prayer walking is key to every GAP team.

Preparing the Gospels for distribution.

Team #1 (notice our first GAP baby!)

Team #3

Team #4

Team #2

We are blessed with a great team of translators.

Family Festival - lots of people, games, and prizes.

Jota and Claudia receive our thanksgiving gifts for allowing us to use their home as our staging house. They truly blessed us with their generosity.

The team's last night with El Camino - many tears along with many fond memories.

From November to February - Family Update

Proud Abuelos (Grandparents)

Aaron, Kristin, Rachel

Since our last update a lot of interesting and exciting events have happened in our lives. At Thanksgiving our son Kasey was able to come and visit with us till New Years. We had a great time and it was good to see how God has been working in his life. Christmas was celebrated Uruguayan style with fireworks and roast beef over the parrilla. December was spent preparing for teams and preparing for training Paul would at two seminars in Chile and Paraguay.

January was basically a month of meetings and training. We spent a week in Paraguay, close to a week in Chile, and Paul spent six days in Atlanta for International World Changers Training. We also hosted a World Changers vision team in preparation for our World Changers project scheduled for June.

In February Kristin, Aaron, and Rachel came for a visit as well. It was wonderful to see them and we all enjoyed seeing how strong and healthy Rachel is. Aaron had to return to Southwestern Seminary for work, but Kristin and Rachel were able to stay for an extra ten days. Kristin was also able to participate with our first GAP team of the year.

Thanksgving Day with Kasey

Baptism Service - Julieta was saved through GAP this past year.


Kaitlyn on the keyboard during one of our church's celebration services.

Kasey and Kaitlyn at the beach during a visit to Punta del Este.

Christmas Celebration with our cell church.