Happy Easter!

We hope that you have a blessed Easter!

Paraguay Methodist Church Celebrates 25 Years

The Paraguayan Methodist Church in Paraguay (La Comunidad Evangelica Metodista del Paraguay) has recently celebrated 25 years of existence.  Since the very first church was planted, much has happened.  Thousands of people now have a relationship with Christ.  Here is a video from The Mission Society that explains some of that history.

Also, new leadership has just been elected on January 25th!

• Pastor Pedro Magalhaes is now President and will be ordained Bishop in April.
• Pastor Alcides Garay is Vice-president.
• Pastor Dario Revelli is the new Treasurer.
• Cinthia Valdez, the wife of Pastor Eligio, is the new secretary.
  
  
  

The current Bishop, Pastor Pablo Mora (far right in the above picture), has served the church as Bishop for the majority of those 25 years.  We continue to pray that God's Will marches on in the country of Paraguay (and the world)!

It Is Because Of Love

This Physics teacher teaches his students a very important lesson... "The reason why things work is because of love".



Wright's Law from Zack Conkle on Vimeo.

An Orchestra Made of Garbage

These kids from Cateura, Paraguay (a vast landfill outside Paraguay's capital of Asuncion, Paraguay) have a passion for music, but no money for instruments. So they made them out of trash! The world's only Landfill-harmonic orchestra sounds like a million bucks!

Merry Christmas!

We pray that you and your family have a blessed Christmas! In the poem called "The Innkeeper" by John Piper, he tries to imagine what might have happened when the soldiers came from Herod to find the birthplace of Jesus. And what Jesus might have said if he showed up 30 years later to talk to the innkeeper about it. It’s fiction. But its aim is truth and hope and joy.

Prayer Needed: Major Flooding Today near Asuncion, Paraguay

Please keep the people of Asuncion, Paraguay and surrounding cities (including Lambaré) in your prayers.  They have had major flooding happening this morning.

More videos and images:

This video shows two cars getting washed away.

This picture below is where the red car from the above video ended up.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151172020558723&set=a.400254958722.179454.48880688722&type=1&relevant_count=1

This is video taken from the window of a bus.


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151171816513723&set=a.400254958722.179454.48880688722&type=1&relevant_count=1

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151171732633723&set=a.400254958722.179454.48880688722&type=1

Give Thanks

We pray that you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving celebration.   We are truly blessed!

"Lord, I miss my dad."

I ran across these 2 items today that were very helpful to me.  I wanted to share them with you....

The latest blog entry on The Mission Society's blog is very good.  (http://themissionsocietyblog.com/?p=1969)   It is an article written by The Mission Society's President from the latest issue of their magazine.

Also, in the same issue of that magazine, a friend of ours named Hannah shared her story of when her dad passed away several years ago. 

They have the audio from the article on their website here:  http://themissionsociety.org/learn/multimedia/medialib/media-templ/article/48461
Or you can read the article here:  http://themissionsociety.org/learn/multimedia/unfinished/issue-templ/mag-templ/article/92705