Bring the Good News in Peru
People are hearing the gospel through digital platforms and radio programs that reach more than 200 towns. A local ministry’s radio station receives daily visits and phone calls from people seeking prayer, with many accepting Christ as Savior. Other workers giving away Bibles reported about 100 new Christians were recently baptized.
Help Spread the Gospel in Mexico
The depressed wife of an unfaithful husband put her faith in Christ after visiting a native ministry’s worship service, and then gospel workers contacted her husband, a mason and electrician, to help them construct their church building.
Make Gospel Outreach Possible in Argentina
As COVID-19 cases declined, local missionaries resumed sharing the gospel in town squares, hospitals, train stations and other sites, besides home visits and telephone calls.
Bring Eternal Life to the Lost in Peru
A woman came to a native ministry’s worship and, deeply troubled, confessed that the man for whom she had left her husband and children was mistreating her, and she wished to seek God’s forgiveness and return home.
Alert Workers in Mexico Note Suicidal Signs in Boy
An 11-year-old boy in Mexico had trouble socializing, and his father was addicted to drugs, so local missionaries seeking to help him had persuaded his mother to let him live at their educational center living quarters. Workers noticed some alarming drawings in his notebook. The sketches made it clear the boy was suicidal.
Help Form and Strengthen Disciples in Mexico
His friends and father were heavy drinkers, and a 17-year-old boy was on the verge of falling into the same lifestyle before a local missionary led him to Christ. He faced ridicule from his friends, and his father often beat him for becoming a Christian, but he was very public that he would not deny Christ and hoped to win others from his ethnic group with his testimony.
Feed Hungry Children in Peru
Poor children faced pressure to sell trinkets rather than attend school, and local missionaries encouraged them to stay in class. Every day of the week, children also received nutritious lunches at the local ministry’s feeding center, giving them the health they needed to excel in class and helping workers sow the seeds of God’s kingdom.
Equip Evangelists in Brazil
Local missionaries obtained an invitation to visit elders of a large, semi-isolated people to tell them how the gospel had freed villagers of the Ticuna tribe from alcoholism and vice to living blessed by the Lord.
Transform Lives with the Gospel in Bolivia
The wife and children of a young man fled to another house after one of his drunken, violent rages. He rejected the gospel when a local missionary visited his home, but when the worker returned a month later, the villager said he wanted to repent and receive Christ.
As Conditions Worsen in Latin America, Grit is Key
Amid conditions that seem to grow more apocalyptic every day, local missionaries in Latin America need either super-human stamina or otherworldly faith. A worker in Bolivia needed true grit to continue reaching out to a young man whose drunken rages had driven his family away. “Every time Pablo got drunk, he went home and hit his wife and children,” the leader of the native ministry said.
