It is a blessing to be able to experience companionship, especially to always be with brothers in Christ, learning to live together, grow together, especially helping us to strengthen the path of salvation. Romans 12:10 NKJV 10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another. The ministry has had many feats, especially helping members to follow and fight for their souls, salvation, for their dreams, for their peace in God. It's not easy but thank God we don't lose faith when Satan tests us. Evangelism: It is very beautiful to be able to see the faces of those who are proclaimed the gospel, the faces of the brethren when they are encouraged and helped spiritually. The word of God is alive and effective. This month we had 13 Bible studies and 7 invitations to families. We have been visiting and encouraging families and members to come to Christ and others to strengthen their faith and christian life. We have one more family visiting us who also want to study the word of God. Our attendance this month was lowest 15 highest 28 . Please when you can pray for the members and families who visit us and the studies and those of us who invite the seed of God to follow in their hearts. Online Gospel We continue on the internet interacting with others online. We were transmitting messages of encouragement to seek Christ and to seek the truth in God and His Word. We are trying to have sermons on Facebook using zoom : A Spiritual program where we have a general topic and so every week on Friday nights that message is transmitted. What is done , I record a message of 20 to 30 minutes by zoom with a presentation, when I finish recording it I lower it to the computer and install it there. When the day comes on the church page I schedule it to appear on Friday night. At the moment I have seen many people watching the video and commenting. Facebook gives me information on how many click and see more than 10 minutes, etc. Our goal is to spread the true Gospel using these tools and publicize the church of Christ in St. Louis. We continue to invite communities to visit us at church times with Biblical texts of encouragement and meditation. Benevolence: This month, we had families visiting the clothing closet and food pantry. We thank God we were able to share our blessings with others. Even during my trip to Honduras we had some families in a few weeks visiting us on the days set to take what they need. Thank you to Ms. Gayle for helping them at the office and thank you for sharing the blessing and for reaching out to those in need, As one brother said: Together we are more. Companionship: Spiritual Life: We have been collaborating and helping siblings and families in many ways. Spiritual advice, meditations on what the Bible says about what they suffer, and we also spend on other occasions studying about the growth of the Christ during suffering. Baltazar Family of Memphis Tennessee:On one weekend, we had the beautiful surprise of the Baltazar family's visit to our home. The brothers Matthias with his wife Alicia and their five daughters were getting to know where we are now preaching and especially how we are in the family. We had many happy and unforgettable moments. It is a joy to See how there are brothers who remember you and feel joy at being able to be together again. We enjoyed sixflags very much as a family (I was only on the train and Log Flume nothing more haha... Now they know my weakness sixflags causes me to panic riding roller coasters) But at least our children and others were enjoying a good day of fun in families. Thanks be to God they were at the 5pm meeting and were in our bilingual two languages one faith worship. Thank God for the fellowship and love for one another in Christ Jesus that never ends. Two languages one faith: This pastMay 30 we had our second bilingual meeting two languages one faith. We thank God we could spend a moment of companionship, of encourage and admiration. We are pleased as God continues to add value and faith in our Spanish-speaking men. Watching them grow and develop in worship is great to see. We had the theme lives that change lives, where our brother Matt Haynes focused on having responsibility for our spiritual life and example with others in order to change other lives. We hope the Lord will help us grow together as a church with two languages, but with a faith in God. We can't wait to be at the next meeting. Thank you all for your support, help and prayers to make this meeting a reality. Social conviving: The families of the church, had with joy to be able to have some food after the meeting. Well, we celebrated Mother's Day, all the men began to serve and clean the area where we were. We tried to let the women relax that afternoon without doing anything , having a good time together in the Lord. We also have a picture of another Sunday that we were eating together and socializing after Sunday's meeting. Where we sang happy birthday to 4 of the five birthday of the month of May. God bless them all. Extra mile: We've been helping to translate families who need to communicate with school. This has led us to meet more people and we ask if we can invite them to church and they do not refuse the invitation. Thanks be to God we have the opportunity to help the Spanish-speaking society and community. We've had visits before because of translations in schools. My wife still homeschooling our children, but she still takes time to translate documents into Spanish and translate to other families as well that attend the Francis Howell School district where we and the church are zoned. We have been helping the school in being able to communicate with each other for the well-being of their student children. We thank God that the Francis Howell school staff is wonderful and understanding. Family:
This past May, we were blessed to celebrate two of my children's birthdays (two birthdays in a month) it was very beautiful to see them with their gifts especially baseball gloves. Thank you all for your comments of happiness and good wishes to my children on their birthdays. We were also fighting off a little cold for two weeks, more than normal cough because we had to take everyone to the pediatrician to be able to treat my children, one had ear infection, another sinusitis etc. Here's a picture of them in the clinic. The doctor was laughing to see all four in a row attending to them down the line. We are so blessed to have healthy growing children.
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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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