Retreat with the Lord . . . Scouting New Regions
posted by OConnor
May 1, 2008 on 3:05 am | In letters |Wednesday, 4-30-08
Dear Friends:
Please shoot up a prayer for me, as I get to head south to Ecuador today - for 11 days.
My co-workers — Victor Almendarez and also Ambrocio Cordova — will accompany me for:
1) networking with a rather large cluster of Ecuadorian CP-er’s in QUITO, but also
2) scouting our new regions beyond our own Honduran borders.
NETWORKING…In QUITO, we have a ren-dez-vous with persons from 15 countries, who are brain-storming toward extending new CP movements from River to River (Rio Grande to Rio de Janero). Additionally, 200 local QUITO pastors are set to receiving training toward starting churches the best way possible way. I am to teach one session on CP-ing…pray that I don’t get to be too nervous, and that I can stay calm and in the Spirit! (And that I can have clarity of thought and speech.)
SCOUTING new regions…. we have time in the southern-most region of Ecuador (LOJA Province), with this crazy idea of trying to round up some couples from Honduras to go and make disciples (1% there are evangelical).
Retreat with the Lord… I am encouraging V and A to use these 11 days not only for CP stuff, but for long and extended and early a.m. and late p.m. personal times with the Lord, encouraging them to come apart for lengthy alone times with their Shepherd, as a time to reflect and renew. A “retiro personal”, I speak of.
And to encourage you, we close with this…… Jesus quietly told his men, “do this in memory of me”, as He took the bread and broke it and gave it to them. He broke the bread, but also his very life. And so all of us, too, are permitted to be broken - like the bread - as we give our very selves to others. Please pray for Debbie and I to voluntarily break ourselves for others and for our Shepherd. And we pray this for you, too!:-) And we are encouraged with Jesus’ eve-before-His death comment:
“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life”
“ But make up your mind not to worry”
“ Be always on the watch, and pray that” (Lk 21).
Love from down here,
Patrick and Debbie
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