(Every newsletter will profile a different ministry/person)

Recently, we have been putting these men to work. They have helped us pour our concrete roof for our new laundry room as well as stairs for our future second story on our house. The men also helped to pour the concrete roof on the Fe Viva Bible School. They worked hard with about 20 other men from 5:00am till 6:00pm. We see that this is helping the men to be able to get off site and begin to work and do things.
We see the need more and more for our own land. Once we get the land the men will have plenty of work from picking fruit to growing corn and vegetable and in the future raising livestock. These men need to be occupied as well as learn about the things of God! We have decided to have a fundraiser here in Guatemala where we will raise funds here to help purchase the land. We plan to sell lunches, wash cars, make & sell crafts. This way the men will get to take part in the fundraising process and begin to feel that the land project is their project! We will do this around mid December from Thursday until Saturday. All proceeds will go toward our land. This will also help the Guatemalans get involved and bless their own country.
December brings us many other activities as well. We plan to have our annual Christmas kid's outreach. I will give an exact date soon. (We had a date but saw that another ministry will be doing something so it may affect us). We try to bless the House of Refuge men's children as well as the children in the area who may not receive gifts for Christmas. We plan for about 150 - 200 children this year. If you can help with this in any way, please let us know.
We will also have our annual Guatemalan partner's dinner. We invite all the people that support us in one way or another here in Guatemala to join us for a delicious supper and a time to say thank you to each one of them.
Finally, we would like to have a special woman's breakfast as well. It has been a couple of months since we have done a breakfast for the prostitutes so we want to do something special for them for Christmas. Most of them have come from different countries so they will not see their family. We just want to bless them and show the love of Christ to them.
Thank you so much for all your prayers and support. We will try to keep in touch and let you know how each ministry went. We are believing God for great things.
Loving the Unloved,
    Reaching the Unreached

Dios te bendiga!!
Steven & Karla Stoffelsen

steve4guate@yahoo.ca

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to the Lord things in Nicaragua are going well, talking to the directors, other than the fact that they have restricted the inmates ability to have "vigilia", and the right of ex-prisoners to be able to return to  visit other prisoners. These are things that will be debated, because they are legal rights which are being restricted. In March we will be finishing the first grade and in January we will be starting with another group of students.

I pray that God will continue to bless you in everything.

Pastor Rafael Santos