Raymer September 2006 Prayer Letter

September 2006

Dear Praying Friends,

Php 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Thank you for you prayers and support as we continue to serve our Lord here in Mexico.

God has blessed us greatly over the past few months. It has been a very busy time, but we have seen many blessings come from the Lord.

Carena is 22 months now, and continues to grow, and her vocabulary continues to expand in both English and Spanish. She is able to count to 5 by herself in both languages and knows which is which. She loves to make new friends. We thank God for the health that He has given Carena throughout our many travels.

This summer we took several groups into Mexico on mission trips. Our first group went to the church that we attend in Reynosa. We painted the entire auditorium a nice shade of yellow. We were also able to work on a new office space for the church’s assistant pastor.

Our next two trips were to new locations for us. At the first of these locations we were able to help sand some pews for the church and also level some property on the side of the church to extend the sidewalk. Then each evening we helped with the Vacation Bible School classes. We were able to see many children come to a saving knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Our next group went to another new location where we were able to hold two VBS classes each day. The first class was held from 9 till 1, and then the next class started at 4 and lasted till 7 at a mission church about 30 minutes away. At each location we saw God’s hand working in lives. Once again we saw a number of children saved. The mission church we were helping had just been started this year, and the Pastor asked us to pray for men to come to the church because up to that point they had no men attending. A couple of weeks after the trip, I received an exciting e-mail from the pastor that stated since the VBS classes two complete families were now attending the church! To God be the glory!

We are thankful that God allowed us to have the help of Idai Ramirez this summer. We met Idai about 14 years ago when we took a group to her father’s church in Cd. Madero, Mexico. Idai is now a linguistics student at the Universidad Cristiana de Las Americas in Monterrey. She was a great help to us, and Carena adopted her as her best friend.

Between trips we have continued to advance on the project of transferring of the videos to DVDs. I am now working on the 4^th of 4 levels. The requests for the videos and DVDs continue to come from all around the world.

After the summer trips ended we were able to travel to Loveland, CO for a missions conference at Gateway Baptist Church. We are so thankful to Gateway and the many others who have faithfully supported us for many years.

We quickly returned home from Colorado in time to pack for our next trip to Monterrey, Mexico. We are currently in Monterrey at the Universidad Cristiana de Las Americas (a sister ministry of ours). Over the next two weeks we will be recording a block course that will be presented to the Theology students at the University. This is a trial recording to see about the possibilities of recording more courses that are offered at the University, as we have had pastors asking us for more in depth studies. We are at the same time working on my immigration papers. Over the past few months, the immigration has been telling me that because of the frequency of our trips to Mexico that I need to obtain some different papers. The process is a two to three week process if all goes smoothly. Please pray that the papers will be processed quickly.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

May the Lord richly bless each of you,

Russell, Debbie & Carena

Russell, Debbie & Carena Raymer