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February 17, 2004
Hello praying family,
Thank you for praying for us and for our people group. I need to ask
you to change our e-mail address in your address book to rjfleming@middleamericaregion.org
I will be asking you to change it again when (or if) we get a telephone
line in our area. It is rather frustrating to have to travel to the
Internet shop to get our e-mail but the Lord has been good to us and has
given us patience. Thank you for making this address change. For those of
you who reply to this letter Bro. Lee forwards me all of your notes.
The Lord has given us a very important contact in a municipality an
hour south of here. We were dumbfounded as to how we would get the word
out in this particular area but God provided us with a family who loves
Him and we are hoping to train them in house churches. Please pray for
the Nolasco family.
We praise the Lord for His faithfulness during an evangelistic campaign
three weeks ago. A group from Indiana came and worked faithfully for 10
days with us. We witnessed door to door, distributed tracts and Gospels of
John, and projected the Jesus video in five different communities. The
Lord added to His kingdom and several doors were opened to bible studies.
One community, that had been closed and even hostile toward the
evangelicals, received us very well. Two homes were opened up to us and
two more asked us to return and share more. And two Christians were
discovered living in this community. Please pray for La Trinidad.
Please pray for the brothers and sisters from Iglesia Bautista Jerusalen
who worked along side of us to promote the gospel in the communities of
Jardines de San Juan, Manantiales, and Nogales that they would have a
vision to start house churches in their neighborhoods. Also please pray
for the people of El Cerrito. We entered this community and were
received with caution. One of the cults had bombarded this community
already and the people were dubious of us. The Lord has provided two
contacts in this particular community.
Also please pray for Iglesia Bautista Jerusalen and Iglesia
Bautista Getsemani as they search for pastors.
Jody and I would like to thank you also for your faithful giving to the
Cooperative Program, and the Lottie Moon Christmas offering. Also thank
you to those of you who very faithfully give directly to missions and
missionaries. With your giving we can see more missionaries appointed to
service in Mexico and around the world.
Our days have been filled with visits and training. As we train our
people we too are receiving training in the culture and language. Please
pray for us as we serve in the Heart of Darkness in Querétaro,
Mexico. Also please pray for Garry and Lori Jones who will be here
in about 30 days to begin language training and then to reach the city
dwellers in Querétaro City.
We are also asking you to pray for the Barrio de la Magdalena as
we are trying to start a house church in this barrio. We have targeted an
area of 2400 people that there is no gospel witness.
 I’ll close with a short story. In a paragraph above I mentioned the
Jardines of San Juan. The night that we projected the Jesus Movie in this
community was a freezing night. One of the neighbors objected to our
activity in their community. They did not believe we should show the movie
in their neighborhood and even told us that they were speaking for the
whole community. We were sure that the Lord wanted us to show the movie
and there was a prolonged discussion between a Christian family in
Jardines and the family that objected to our work. I thought at the time
that this lady and her husband were in a dangerous position as they were
deciding, for their community, who needed to hear about Jesus and who did
not need to hear. We projected the movie that night as the objecting
family finally relented. Three young men were saved that night at the
close of the movie. But even more remarkable was what happened a half hour
later. As we were drinking coffee and thawing out one of the young men who
was saved, went and found two of his friends and brought them to our
location and asked us to explain the Gospel to their friends so they could
be saved also. Praise the Lord for His faithfulness. Had we packed up and
left in the face of opposition these five would not haven been added to
the kingdom that night.
See why we ask you to pray?
God Bless
Bro. Rich and Miss Jody
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Querétaro
para Cristo