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June 5, 2006
Dear Friends and Prayer Partners,
We continue to see the church in Osorno progressing well and growing. A quilting student of Stephanie's who lives near a city we want to target for future church plants has asked Alex and Greg Senter to begin a bible study in her home - they now travel once a month to study with a group that is meeting there. The local chapter of the Blind Society in Osorno has been using one of the church offices as their headquarters this past year requested that Alex begin a study for the Blind which he now does every Monday. It is good to hear of evangelistic openings in such amazing ways. Pray with us for God's word to produce the fruit of changed lives as his light shines into the darkness of southern Chile.
This past Friday we completed the first Spanish production since I began at Third Millennium Ministries (IIIM). Building Your Theology was scheduled to be finished in August, so we are thrilled to have it ready two months ahead of schedule! God is good. Johan continues to spend time traveling to mission conferences and also managed to complete his reading and written assignments for this semester's studies under the deadline. Richard Pratt has resigned from RTS to give his time exclusively to IIIM. Some prayer needs for IIIM - we need an office administrator; graphics designers and more good translators especially for Spanish and Chinese.
Then we just spent three days flying to Memphis and back for our citizenship interview. All 4 of us answered our 10 questions correctly, and then were asked to produce proof that Brendon was living with us in Chile before he left high school to come to college - paperwork that we'd submitted at stage one of this lengthy, laborious and expensive process Thank goodness we only flew there from Orlando, and not from Chile. What a waste of time. We feel sorry for the many people in this country who would love to become citizens - not only do they need mounds of patience, but lots of money to jump through all the hoops required to become US citizens. Pray for us - and the Dept. of Immigration.
Stephanie is currently working where she uses her Spanish 60% of the time. Apart from that she sees people from all over the world - Brazil; Slovenia; Morocco and Haiti to name a few, and has many opportunities to touch lives. She is learning a lot about working with the growing needs of HIV, TB and other high risk areas. She also completed her Psychiatric nursing requirements in order to be able to do the board exams as an RN and is now awaiting permission to write the Board exams. She's praying about how to use nursing as an evangelistic tool in the future. Pray for her as she studies since it's been a long time since writing her original boards in South Africa in 1974. She also has to have surgery on June 6th for skin cancer on her nose.
Brendon graduated in May from Bryan College and will spend this summer working at Perimeter church with Camp All America. Our son Lionel's Stephanie is now Dr van der Westhuizen and began her first day last Thursday constantly looking over her shoulder to see who this Dr V was that everyone kept addressing!
Praise God for air-conditioning - what a clever invention! Pray for us as we continue to serve the Lord here in Orlando,
Love and hugs,
Stephanie and Johan
- June 6, 2006
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