Thank you for your prayers for our meetings this last week. They have gone well -- even better than we expected, thanks to your prayers. But please continue to pray because the meetings will continue and we are dealing with some very important issues.

Some of you have asked about the robbery of Phyllis' purse on Feb 18th. Nothing has been found to date. Six checks have been written so far, but we blocked the checks so the bank has rejected them. However, in Chile you are basically guilty until proven innocent. So someone who accepted one of these stolen checks could put us (me, since the account is primarily in my name) in jail for (supposedly) writing a check and then refusing to pay, and I would stay there until we could prove we took all the legal measures to protect ourselves.

Please pray for me as I'll be preaching in Cristo Rey on April 8 and 15th.

Also, please take note of this situation that came up last week:

Over the weekend we learned that the bank which holds the mortgage on the Cristo Rey property has declared, since it is now used for a church building that the land is worthless to them and they want the outstanding loan of $300,000 paid by the end of the month. The confusion comes from a change in an account executive†who originally agreed to the purpose of the land but did not put it in writing, and that the bank has recently been bought by another bank in town. Since a bank will not loan to a church, the four signers of the original loan are in jeopardy, as well as the new building. Your prayer here is deeply appreciated - deeply.

We see this as an attack from the enemy, especially since someone who works in the bank says something like this has never happened before.

Thanks for your prayers.

Gary Gary and Phyllis