What a blessing it is to know that God is in control of his children at all times in their lives. As it says in his Word Romans 8:27 "Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”God's will is powerful in Heaven and on Earth. This past month, we had many challenges in the ministry and family. The church continues in its growth, it is a blessing to see how brothers and sisters spend time together in harmony and simplicity of heart. All supporting each other in what we can. Evangelism :This past month we have sown the seed of God in the hearts of those in need. In this month we had an average of 14 Bible studies, with 22 people gathered during the different Bible studies and made 11 invitations to persons that we met during our departures. I hope in the Lord Jesus that these studies will bear fruit of growth and awareness at the need to obtain God's salvation. In Honduras, I had the opportunity to encourage my family and to make a devotional on Wednesday, April 28, preaching on the topic of “What is in our heart?” Because of the need to help my parents. I had the opportunity to teach boys on Sunday, May 2nd in the morning with the theme : “Where does the church go from here?” , Based on Numbers 18 ( Implying if my father had died, how were the men prepared to continue with the church? and we applied this reading, teaching that we all need everyone in the church, and a church must take charge so that the preacher only has to preach and evangelize the word of God) On Thursday, May 6th I had the opportunity to preach a kind of encouragement of prayer, with the theme: “God prays for you as well.” Based on Luke 22 31-37. On Friday the 7th, I had the opportunity to restore a brother to the faith and restore his marriage. Thank God the Gospel could be sown in the hearts of those in need. Thank God for this great opportunity to serve Him when the kingdom needs me. Online messages: Over the past month, we have reinforced the gospel message on the different media and social platforms that local Hispanics are constantly viewing. Weekly biblical texts have been being announced with meditation messages ad advertisements for different worship meetings and website. I have also been recording messages on Wednesdays at 1 pm, recording approximately 20 to 30 minutes each video message to be streamed online on Fridays at 8 pm. (doing so for the purpose of showing Christ's church and making known the true Gospel of Christ.) Benevolence: It's wonderful how the church can help those in need. Sharing what we have at home to give to those in need especially the church. People come, we give them what they need, many times we only tell them that: God loves them, and they begin to ask about the church. Others begin to confess their problems and difficulties with their families. Thank God there we are to pray for them and make them known that Christ loves them and wants to help them morally and spiritually. This past month we gave 7 families food and 4 families of the 7 clothes as well. Thank you all for helping to give and show Christ's love to those in need. Companionship: This month we were helping the brothers in different difficulties, Prayers, encouragement, spiritual strength, biblical councils. The need to feel the spiritual presence among the brethren is very important. We were helping Sister Sandra, she had and continues to have a great difficulty with her personal life and her family already in Honduras. We continue to encourage and advise her every week, so she can get out of the various trials she has. Please pray for our sister Sandra and her son. Extra mile I,Elias, had a anguish to see my dad have an accident, falling from the second floor of his house, For he fell 9 meters high and thank God he only had a slight fissure in the back of his head and broke his small finger of the hand for the protection of God. In my anguish, the brothers encouraged me to feel that I can go see my parents and help them in everything I could do. The local brothers gave me a lot of love and support to feel the great opportunity to go and be able to hug my father and mother and help them in what they needed. This fills me with joy at feeling that brothers made my departure possible by helping with meetings and brothers doing meetings and personal help for my journey and more. Thank you very much for your love and companionship for everything. Those days while in Honduras the days went fast doing everything they had in mind to do, I had the opportunity to help strengthen the spiritual life of my brothers in the flesh, my family, and brothers in the Faith. I was preaching, studying the Bible with others, advising a couple and seeing brothers in the Faith while I could. Thank God by your prayers and your help, my father was able to recover satisfactorily, my mother and now my father will be visiting the physical therapist in the following days. (My mother since January had an operation and as a result cannot normally walk every day and my father because of the fall needs to visit the physical therapist.) Thank you all for helping emotionally, spiritually and physically my life. God is good and forever His mercy. Family
Me and my family, we had the great opportunity to go see a game of baseball Cardinals, planned a long time ago as an annual activity. That was before my dad had the accident in Honduras, on Monday we went to see the Cardinals in a very intense game, our children managed for the first time to receive a baseball thrown by a professional baseball player, their faces were marked in our minds when they saw their reactions to having the ball in their gloves. The next day I traveled to Honduras to restore my parents, my family, and help fix the house in everything I could and by its position encourage the faith of the brothers in the church in Honduras. Thank you all for your love for us in the west end. Thank you for your wishes and prayers and aids that made it possible to show my love to them every day being in depth with my parents and family in Honduras. My son Abel, due to his allergies, spent a month with allergies bothering him and medicine, and upon arriving from Honduras, I took him on Monday to the doctor as he did not sleep the night before because of his cough. I thank God we were able to take him as he was breathing more quickly than usual because of his difficulty breathing from his cough and phlegm in his lungs. He's being treated at home for now, he was sent with an inhaler and medicine. It is but in God that he will improve soon. We miss his joy and conversations he makes in the house. Thank you for all your brothers, there are no words to describe your immense love for us even if you only know each other for a short time. God bless your hearts and your work
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AuthorElias and Kristi Roque have been married for 9 years and during this time have planted/grown 4 congregations. They have 4 boys 7 and under working alongside them. Archives
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