The Wallace Family to Mexico City
June 17, 2019
Dear Pastors, Friends & Family,
Jokingly, last week our church construction theme was “Build the wall” and we did. We were able to construct the needed block wall to enclose the new auditorium. We almost completed all of the tile work last week at church and the windows were installed. We should finish up the details this week and be able to be in the new auditorium part of our church next Sunday. Then it will be time to make more benches.
The church construction project makes our busy weeks even busier, but that is fine. The last few weeks we have not been able to make the visits and follow-up visits we need to with the work going on at church, along with the regular church matters. I will be glad to get the auditorium done as we need the extra space now but also to be able to get back to a regular routine of church business.
We are praying now, but once the auditorium is done, Mary & I plan to start taking half-day trips to survey potential areas to start our next church plant. Mary & I went downtown last week to an area we don’t normally go to to buy some church supplies. It is about 15 miles away which is a little over a 1 1/2 hour drive from our church. There is easily about 2 million people in that area that I know doesn’t have a gospel preaching church. I don’t feel led to that area but there are so many areas like that all over Mexico City, a city with over 37 million people. Might God be calling you or someone you know to foreign missions; specifically to Mexico City? Would you continue to regularly pray for the prayer request that Jesus mentioned in Matthew 9:37, 38 where He says, “Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the LORD of the harvest, that he will send for labourers into his harvest.” Please keep praying that God would raise up a married, godly preacher to be able to take over our church.
Saturday we were knocking doors and witnessing in the same area as last week and I ran into Miguel again. No coincidence. Last week, I met him, witnessed to him, and found out he is involved in some very bad cartel activities. He told me he had been thinking all week about all that I told him regarding the gospel, but he still wasn’t quite ready to repent of his sins and trust Christ as Savior. Please keep praying for him. I have a couple more projects at our church for the welder, Rodrigo, like a new metal floor in the bus, etc. Keep praying that he would get saved, too.
We did have a lady saved at church yesterday named Valentina. We also had a family that lives very close to the church come for the first time yesterday.
We had a good day at church yesterday. We had a huge crowd for both services (and Wednesday night, too) and we had to pull out lots of chairs both times as all our benches were not enough seating. We had a older man named Maximo who came for the first time yesterday and was saved. A lady named Angelina that was saved and baptized not too long ago brought her niece Irma for the first time yesterday and she too was saved.
A lady in our church named Veronica, who was baptized several weeks ago came to church Thursday for her first guitar lesson with Mary. When she got on the bus at the corner by our church to go back home, armed robbers had just finished robbing the other passengers in the bus. When she stepped on and they demanded her money, she said she had none and they started shooting. Thankfully Veronica wasn’t hit and she gave testimony last night at church of God’s goodness and protection. Please keep praying for our safety and the safety of our people.
Just a reminder to keep praying for the serious need we have of a consistent supply of gospel materials (tracts, John Romans, etc.). We are now going through easily 6,000 pieces of gospel literature weekly and we are running out. I’ve checked but there are no sources in Mexico that currently have gospel material sufficient to supply our need. It is too expensive to have it shipped from the U.S. and our next visit to the U.S. would be in October at the earliest. It is a good problem to have that we go through so much material, but it is a real problem not having an adequate amount. I would like one day to have an additional ministry of the church as a gospel literature distribution center for central & southern Mexico and northern Central America but as of now we don’t have enough material for our own church’s need.
We are planning to take a large group from our church to a week-long music camp in a few weeks and then will be preparing for our VBS. We have a teenage girl who feels called to missions coming for a missions trip visit with us in mid-September and the day she leaves we have a small church group arriving to visit us. Though this year is nearing the halfway point, there is still time to plan a missions trip to visit us if you or some group you know is interested.
Saturday we had the wedding of a newly saved couple of our church named Juan Ignacio and Elisabet. Honestly, though I am a preacher, I don’t get real excited about weddings as far as the dressing up, decorations, cake, etc. But I must say though that I do get excited to think how God changes lives through salvation and breaks a vicious sinful cultural cycle of people living together without being married and having children out of wedlock. Then He gives new purpose and direction in redeemed lives, for His glory. Juan Ignacio is currently training to be an usher in our church and he and Elizabeth, though new in Christ, are already out with us twice weekly soul winning.
Yesterday we had a couple new families visit for the first time. Two middle-aged people were saved - Guadalupe and Salvador. An older lady in our church named Rafaela, who heads up the kitchen/food for special events and preparing our gospel literature weekly for soul winning, had her older brother die last week. Thankfully he came to church late last year, heard the gospel and was saved. He came a few times after his salvation but then contracted an aggressive cancer.
Thanks for reading this update and for all you do for us. We are “your servants for Jesus’ sake.” 2 Corinthians 4:5
Bro. Mike Wallace and Family
PO Box 908
Donna, TX 78537
Ph#: 330-419-0520
Email: www.mexico-missionaries.com
Dear Pastors, Friends & Family,
Jokingly, last week our church construction theme was “Build the wall” and we did. We were able to construct the needed block wall to enclose the new auditorium. We almost completed all of the tile work last week at church and the windows were installed. We should finish up the details this week and be able to be in the new auditorium part of our church next Sunday. Then it will be time to make more benches.
The church construction project makes our busy weeks even busier, but that is fine. The last few weeks we have not been able to make the visits and follow-up visits we need to with the work going on at church, along with the regular church matters. I will be glad to get the auditorium done as we need the extra space now but also to be able to get back to a regular routine of church business.
We are praying now, but once the auditorium is done, Mary & I plan to start taking half-day trips to survey potential areas to start our next church plant. Mary & I went downtown last week to an area we don’t normally go to to buy some church supplies. It is about 15 miles away which is a little over a 1 1/2 hour drive from our church. There is easily about 2 million people in that area that I know doesn’t have a gospel preaching church. I don’t feel led to that area but there are so many areas like that all over Mexico City, a city with over 37 million people. Might God be calling you or someone you know to foreign missions; specifically to Mexico City? Would you continue to regularly pray for the prayer request that Jesus mentioned in Matthew 9:37, 38 where He says, “Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the LORD of the harvest, that he will send for labourers into his harvest.” Please keep praying that God would raise up a married, godly preacher to be able to take over our church.
Saturday we were knocking doors and witnessing in the same area as last week and I ran into Miguel again. No coincidence. Last week, I met him, witnessed to him, and found out he is involved in some very bad cartel activities. He told me he had been thinking all week about all that I told him regarding the gospel, but he still wasn’t quite ready to repent of his sins and trust Christ as Savior. Please keep praying for him. I have a couple more projects at our church for the welder, Rodrigo, like a new metal floor in the bus, etc. Keep praying that he would get saved, too.
We did have a lady saved at church yesterday named Valentina. We also had a family that lives very close to the church come for the first time yesterday.
We had a good day at church yesterday. We had a huge crowd for both services (and Wednesday night, too) and we had to pull out lots of chairs both times as all our benches were not enough seating. We had a older man named Maximo who came for the first time yesterday and was saved. A lady named Angelina that was saved and baptized not too long ago brought her niece Irma for the first time yesterday and she too was saved.
A lady in our church named Veronica, who was baptized several weeks ago came to church Thursday for her first guitar lesson with Mary. When she got on the bus at the corner by our church to go back home, armed robbers had just finished robbing the other passengers in the bus. When she stepped on and they demanded her money, she said she had none and they started shooting. Thankfully Veronica wasn’t hit and she gave testimony last night at church of God’s goodness and protection. Please keep praying for our safety and the safety of our people.
Just a reminder to keep praying for the serious need we have of a consistent supply of gospel materials (tracts, John Romans, etc.). We are now going through easily 6,000 pieces of gospel literature weekly and we are running out. I’ve checked but there are no sources in Mexico that currently have gospel material sufficient to supply our need. It is too expensive to have it shipped from the U.S. and our next visit to the U.S. would be in October at the earliest. It is a good problem to have that we go through so much material, but it is a real problem not having an adequate amount. I would like one day to have an additional ministry of the church as a gospel literature distribution center for central & southern Mexico and northern Central America but as of now we don’t have enough material for our own church’s need.
We are planning to take a large group from our church to a week-long music camp in a few weeks and then will be preparing for our VBS. We have a teenage girl who feels called to missions coming for a missions trip visit with us in mid-September and the day she leaves we have a small church group arriving to visit us. Though this year is nearing the halfway point, there is still time to plan a missions trip to visit us if you or some group you know is interested.
Saturday we had the wedding of a newly saved couple of our church named Juan Ignacio and Elisabet. Honestly, though I am a preacher, I don’t get real excited about weddings as far as the dressing up, decorations, cake, etc. But I must say though that I do get excited to think how God changes lives through salvation and breaks a vicious sinful cultural cycle of people living together without being married and having children out of wedlock. Then He gives new purpose and direction in redeemed lives, for His glory. Juan Ignacio is currently training to be an usher in our church and he and Elizabeth, though new in Christ, are already out with us twice weekly soul winning.
Yesterday we had a couple new families visit for the first time. Two middle-aged people were saved - Guadalupe and Salvador. An older lady in our church named Rafaela, who heads up the kitchen/food for special events and preparing our gospel literature weekly for soul winning, had her older brother die last week. Thankfully he came to church late last year, heard the gospel and was saved. He came a few times after his salvation but then contracted an aggressive cancer.
Thanks for reading this update and for all you do for us. We are “your servants for Jesus’ sake.” 2 Corinthians 4:5
Bro. Mike Wallace and Family
PO Box 908
Donna, TX 78537
Ph#: 330-419-0520
Email: www.mexico-missionaries.com
The Briar Family – Missionaries to Romania
Pace (Pachay) the Romanian greeting for believers,
We are missionaries with Manna Worldwide to Campulung, Romania. We will be living and working at Father’s House a children’s home, helping meet the daily physical and spiritual needs of the children. We will be hosting Christian youth and orphan camps, along with mission outreach trips. We are being sent by Calvary Baptist Church in Connersville, Indiana with Pastor John Reynolds.
We have served in children’s ministries of our home church for over 7 years. The Lord has placed a burden on our hearts to care for children and lead them to know and love our Lord. As parents to five children, it has been our greatest joy to teach our own children to follow the Lord. This joy is repeated every time a child understands for the first time that they have a Heavenly Father who truly loves them and sent His Son to die for them!
We submitted to give the Lord full control of our lives at a Christian family camp. This allowed us to see, first hand, the benefits of a camp ministry. As we continued to pray for guidance, the desire to open our home to orphans grew. After a Manna missionary came to our church and told about the needs of children in Eastern Europe, the Lord began to make His way known to us. We began to learn about Romania’s great need for orphan care, as only 1.5% of children are ever adopted due the broken child protection system. We also learned Romanian children who age out of the system become adults without the roots or safety net of a family, causing them not to have any example of healthy family relationships creating a cycle of abuse and poverty.
During our survey trip to Eastern Europe we were introduced to some of the stories of these children. From living in unspeakable conditions with abusive parents, being sold into human trafficking, or abandoned because their parents were unable or unwilling to care for them. All the stories were heartbreaking. The Romania children’s protection system is broken, and these children seemed forgotten. We were able to meet the children and see the difference that being cared for in a Manna Children’s Home made. From tragic circumstances to a loving family, from knowing no hope, to knowing the love of our Lord
We are very excited to answer the Lord’s calling to Romania and would love the opportunity to share our burden, hearts and ministry with your church. We will be working with MANNA Worldwide as missionaries to Campulung, Romania, living and working at Father’s House, a family style children’s home. This will put our family where we can serve and disciple the children of Father’s House as members of our family. Father’s House facilities are used for Christian youth summer camps, to bring in unreached youth. Part of our responsibilities will be hosting these camps while expanding to include summer camps for orphaned children and youth throughout Romania. We will also be bringing in mission teams to help with hosting men’s and women’s conferences along with other outreaches for the local community, such as starting a children’s church and AWANA program with the local Baptist church.
We are praying the Lord provides us with the opportunities needed to disciple the youth and children of Romania, teaching them about our Lord while modeling healthy family relationships, breaking the cycle of poverty and abuse for the next generation. We are praying the Lord uses our family to make a lasting impact for His kingdom.
Faithfully,
Kyle and Amanda Briar
Sending Church: Calvary Baptist
309 W 24th St
Connersville, IN 47331
Email: k.briar@mannaworldwide.com
We are missionaries with Manna Worldwide to Campulung, Romania. We will be living and working at Father’s House a children’s home, helping meet the daily physical and spiritual needs of the children. We will be hosting Christian youth and orphan camps, along with mission outreach trips. We are being sent by Calvary Baptist Church in Connersville, Indiana with Pastor John Reynolds.
We have served in children’s ministries of our home church for over 7 years. The Lord has placed a burden on our hearts to care for children and lead them to know and love our Lord. As parents to five children, it has been our greatest joy to teach our own children to follow the Lord. This joy is repeated every time a child understands for the first time that they have a Heavenly Father who truly loves them and sent His Son to die for them!
We submitted to give the Lord full control of our lives at a Christian family camp. This allowed us to see, first hand, the benefits of a camp ministry. As we continued to pray for guidance, the desire to open our home to orphans grew. After a Manna missionary came to our church and told about the needs of children in Eastern Europe, the Lord began to make His way known to us. We began to learn about Romania’s great need for orphan care, as only 1.5% of children are ever adopted due the broken child protection system. We also learned Romanian children who age out of the system become adults without the roots or safety net of a family, causing them not to have any example of healthy family relationships creating a cycle of abuse and poverty.
During our survey trip to Eastern Europe we were introduced to some of the stories of these children. From living in unspeakable conditions with abusive parents, being sold into human trafficking, or abandoned because their parents were unable or unwilling to care for them. All the stories were heartbreaking. The Romania children’s protection system is broken, and these children seemed forgotten. We were able to meet the children and see the difference that being cared for in a Manna Children’s Home made. From tragic circumstances to a loving family, from knowing no hope, to knowing the love of our Lord
We are very excited to answer the Lord’s calling to Romania and would love the opportunity to share our burden, hearts and ministry with your church. We will be working with MANNA Worldwide as missionaries to Campulung, Romania, living and working at Father’s House, a family style children’s home. This will put our family where we can serve and disciple the children of Father’s House as members of our family. Father’s House facilities are used for Christian youth summer camps, to bring in unreached youth. Part of our responsibilities will be hosting these camps while expanding to include summer camps for orphaned children and youth throughout Romania. We will also be bringing in mission teams to help with hosting men’s and women’s conferences along with other outreaches for the local community, such as starting a children’s church and AWANA program with the local Baptist church.
We are praying the Lord provides us with the opportunities needed to disciple the youth and children of Romania, teaching them about our Lord while modeling healthy family relationships, breaking the cycle of poverty and abuse for the next generation. We are praying the Lord uses our family to make a lasting impact for His kingdom.
Faithfully,
Kyle and Amanda Briar
Sending Church: Calvary Baptist
309 W 24th St
Connersville, IN 47331
Email: k.briar@mannaworldwide.com
The James Miyashita Family – Missionaries to Japan
6-18-19
Dear Pastors and Prayer Partners,
This past week while going door to door, one man I met began telling me about an aggressive Buddhist sect that also goes door to door in the area. He said that they often come between 7 and 8 at night (currently the sun sets around 7 pm). The enemy is still on the move here!
Yesterday, we were able to take some time together as a family to visit a cherry orchard here in Niigata. The farm that owns the orchard grows many other kinds of fruits throughout the year including strawberries, pears, and grapes.
Over the last week, Rosie experienced her first earthquake here in Japan! Around 10:30 at night, our phones started going crazy saying an earthquake was about to hit. Moments later, our place began to shake. Fortunately, no damage was done. For a short time, there was a tsunami warning on the coast, but the wave measured less than 1 foot (whew!). Silas slept through the whole thing.
This coming Sunday morning, the church is going to have Friend Day. Please be praying that we can make some new contacts through this. Also, please continue to pray for the Sunday services that I have the opportunity to lead.
Thank you all for praying for the Father’s Day event last month. While we did not have the turnout expected, we are grateful for the time to try new things and gain experience working in Japan. Please continue to pray for the Hill family as well as Hope Baptist Church (the church plant here in Niigata).
On Sunday nights, I am teaching basic Bible truths. With Japan being an advanced country, it is easy to assume that people might know what the Bible says. That is not the case. Simple things that we might consider basic knowledge in the States are often unknown here in Japan. We are grateful that the Lord allows us to share God’s truth in a place where people have no strong foundation.
Here is an example. The church here has an online question box where people can anonymously ask questions. One person recently wrote to say they have done bad things in their past but try to deal with the guilt by doing volunteer work and not talking bad about people. However, doing these things doesn’t take away the guilt. “Can God forgive a person like me? How can I be forgiven?” they asked. Questions like these show us once again that people do not have a knowledge of the truth.
We have had a college student come several times on Sunday nights. He has not gotten saved yet, but we are grateful for those the Lord has been bringing our way. Please continue to pray for us as we make contacts and invite people to the church. Please be praying for the Lord to work in people’s hearts and for people to get saved!
Yours for Japan,
James, Rosie, and Silas Miyashita
PO Box 442
Alpharetta, GA 30009
Ph#: 470-278-7415
Email: james@reachingjapan.com
Dear Pastors and Prayer Partners,
This past week while going door to door, one man I met began telling me about an aggressive Buddhist sect that also goes door to door in the area. He said that they often come between 7 and 8 at night (currently the sun sets around 7 pm). The enemy is still on the move here!
Yesterday, we were able to take some time together as a family to visit a cherry orchard here in Niigata. The farm that owns the orchard grows many other kinds of fruits throughout the year including strawberries, pears, and grapes.
Over the last week, Rosie experienced her first earthquake here in Japan! Around 10:30 at night, our phones started going crazy saying an earthquake was about to hit. Moments later, our place began to shake. Fortunately, no damage was done. For a short time, there was a tsunami warning on the coast, but the wave measured less than 1 foot (whew!). Silas slept through the whole thing.
This coming Sunday morning, the church is going to have Friend Day. Please be praying that we can make some new contacts through this. Also, please continue to pray for the Sunday services that I have the opportunity to lead.
Thank you all for praying for the Father’s Day event last month. While we did not have the turnout expected, we are grateful for the time to try new things and gain experience working in Japan. Please continue to pray for the Hill family as well as Hope Baptist Church (the church plant here in Niigata).
On Sunday nights, I am teaching basic Bible truths. With Japan being an advanced country, it is easy to assume that people might know what the Bible says. That is not the case. Simple things that we might consider basic knowledge in the States are often unknown here in Japan. We are grateful that the Lord allows us to share God’s truth in a place where people have no strong foundation.
Here is an example. The church here has an online question box where people can anonymously ask questions. One person recently wrote to say they have done bad things in their past but try to deal with the guilt by doing volunteer work and not talking bad about people. However, doing these things doesn’t take away the guilt. “Can God forgive a person like me? How can I be forgiven?” they asked. Questions like these show us once again that people do not have a knowledge of the truth.
We have had a college student come several times on Sunday nights. He has not gotten saved yet, but we are grateful for those the Lord has been bringing our way. Please continue to pray for us as we make contacts and invite people to the church. Please be praying for the Lord to work in people’s hearts and for people to get saved!
Yours for Japan,
James, Rosie, and Silas Miyashita
PO Box 442
Alpharetta, GA 30009
Ph#: 470-278-7415
Email: james@reachingjapan.com
