Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

First of all I would like to thank you for your tremendous encouragement to our family in letters, cards, phone calls, and E-Mails sent upon my father's going to be with the Lord August 6. Together with your expressions of love and support we were so very touched by approximately 80 E-Mails received from Chile, many of those from Dad's "spiritual children" who had come to know Christ through his ministry. Dad was a good and faithful servant of our Lord Jesus Christ, loved by all who knew him. It is an honor to be his son.

My mother is doing very well. We are living close enough to get together a couple times a week, and I am taking her with me on some trips to churches where she is known. She is very grateful to be in a place like the Quarryville Presbyterian Retirement Community and get the support of godly men and women who live there.

As you know, the Lord in His Wisdom and Sovereign plan has permitted us to go through a difficult period of separation from Chile. We know that He is in charge of our lives (even when at times it has appeared to us that He isn't). And we know that in His gracious hands He is molding us and making us more and more into His Image. We thank you for your prayers, words of encouragement, and patience in this period of time in which we have considered it prudent not to express ourselves to you as freely as before.

During this year we have been encouraged by all the possibilities of further ministry that God has been opening up to us. There is so much to do in His Kingdom work!!!. Yet where we see that my gifts and experience would best be used right now is with a mission organization called Logoi. (See attached document "Logoi Ministries", written by its president Les Thompson, and their web page www.logoi.org). Mission to the World and Logoi have had a long relationship of mutual cooperation and I will be loaned out to them. This means that I will continue as an MTW missionary with your partnership and support (Lord willing), yet lent out to work under another mission agency that is in an area of ministry that is more specialized than MTW, or that it is working in a different geographical area. (Wycliffe Bible Translators is another mission agency with which MTW has a working agreement. These mission agencies have had the approval of the PCA General Assembly). Thus Mission to the World is in full agreement with this decision (see the attachment "Letter from Ken Thompson"). Among other responsibilities there, Logoi has asked me to develop the pastoral psychology undergraduate program and later their masters program. This is a privilege, yet an awesome responsibility. I know very able and godly professional Latin American people in this area where I will be able to enhance their ministry internationally through Logoi. I expect that our PEPP program in Chile will become international through this means.

Logoi's office building is in Miami, and we plan to move to Miami after Daniel gets out of school here in Lancaster, next June. My work will be focused on Latin America and all the Spanish speaking world. I will not only be heading a program development, writing and translating, but I will be traveling to Latin America to give intensive seminars and courses various times a year.

Apart from our work with Logoi I am also cooperating with Dr. Richard Pratt in the Spanish "wing" of his Third Millenium ministry (See www.Thirdmill.org), and with Robyn we are spearheading the translation of the Great Commission Sunday School materials into Spanish (see www.gcp.org) . We are starting with these projects already, and so we will be keeping you up to date on our progress and need for your prayers.

Robyn and I have been praying and seeking godly counsel in the process of this decision over the last few months. We believe we can respond to some important work that needs to be done for the Kingdom of God in the Spanish speaking world. So, God is opening our eyes to see not only Chile as our field of service, but all of Latin America.

As our supporters over these many years, we are asking you to join us and stay with us as our partners in ministry. We need your prayers and we need your financial support. Our income continues to be as missionaries who are supported by churches and individuals. As the case has been so far, the support will still go through Mission to the World and to the same account number 11125. Our need is the same as that which we had in Chile, yet right now our account is very weak due to all the expenses of our move back to the US.

Thank you very much for your encouragement, support and prayers. I am scheduling our visits to you in order that I may report to you personally on our work in Chile and our future work in Latin America. Please let me know when it would be convenient to go to your church.

May I add before I close, that the Cristo Rey church has gotten permission to use their building. They have been using it for a month now. There is great enthusiasm because of this. I understand that the Sunday School and youth attendance has grown recently, and that the leadership weekly seminars are still going strong. Praise the Lord. Continue to pray that they may find a pastor.

There are three attachments. If you are unable to open these, please let me know. If you have any questions, please write me at RCRANE@comcast.net

In His Loving Care,
Richard Crane

Documents attached:
1. Logoi Ministries
2. Richard Crane's biographical data sheet and call to Logoi
3. Letter from Ken Thompson

Richard Crane
662 Patriot Drive
Lancaster PA 17601
phone: 717 397 9955 cell phone: 717 201 8649
Web page: http://mtwla.org/people/rcrane.htm
and the Cristo Rey church in Chile page is http://www.mtwla.org/cristorey.htm
Our Ministry Website links:
http://www.mtw.org
http://www.logoi.org
http://www.gcp.org
http://www.thirdmill.org

Please change our E-Mail to:
rcrane@comcast.net (and eliminate the
@netup.cl address from your mailing lists)