The Waldecker Family Update
January 24, 2006

Date: January 24, 2006

Thank you for your prayers for us and our ministry.

We're thankful for some vacation time with had with family around Christmas and New Years. It was refreshing.

Please pray for the following:

  1. We have two missions conferences coming up in February. At one of them I will be the main speaker. Please pray for us as we seek to serve the people in these churches.
  2. We will probably be attending another missions conference in March.
  3. Pray for the MTW Latin America Leadership Team as we try to promote greater synergy across the region.
  4. Pray for me and for Rodney Davila as we help different teams throughout Latin America develop leadership training programs.
  5. For example, pray for Caleb Dunn as he seeks to implement a training program for national leaders in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico.
  6. Pray for Jorge Aleman, a Mexican leader in Monterrey that MTW works with. He is trying to implement a training program for church planters in that city. I will be making a trip there in a few months to speak to the pastors in the area about training. At another date in the not too distant future, I will also be speaking about training to the US network of churches that supports this work in Monterrey.
  7. Please continue to pray for the tedious process of transcribing interviews for my dissertation. As soon as I get done with this and have analyzed the data, I will be making another trip to Mexico to get more data.

Training national leaders is one of the big issues before us in Latin America, and this is the issue I'm giving most of my attention to as Resource Team Leader for Latin America. To see some of my thoughts on training, go to the following website: http://partners.waldecker.net/ and click on Missiology.

Thanks again for your support of us and the ministry the Lord has given us.

Gary Waldecker P.S. For those of you who have just been added to this mailing list--or who want more information--you can get access to previous letters and other information at the following website:
http://www.mtwla.org/people/gwaldecker.htm

Also, you can access a family bio, some family pictures, some articles I've written, and other resources at the following address:
http://partners.waldecker.net/
This site replaces the mac.com site I was using before. It will eventually be password protected. The access information for this site is:
user: partner
pw: opennow

- January 24, 2006