Hans and Liliana Frank Mobilizing Latin America to spread the Gospel / Movilizando a la iglesia para hacer obra misionera THE LEAST REACHED IN COLOMBIA
This is a map of Colombia with the name of 20 tribes which we are identifying as the least reached and with the least opportunities to count with an evangelizing church in their own culture and language.
It would be of great help that we may count with your prayers especially with future trips to the territories where these tribes are located. This is so that we may confirm what we think about the situation these tribes are in, inform the churches about them, train missionaries from these churches to them, and give advice to these missionaries so that they may plant churches where there aren’t any yet.
March Prayer Requests
About our previous prayer requests:
The team that went to investigate the needs of the Katíos tribe were able to confirm that the team has no church and no one is at work among the tribe bringing the Gospel to them. They found a location of about 400 residents who speak only Katío and are open to receive missionaries. So now it´s necessary for the Lord to send workers to be trained and place in this ethnic group churches. Please pray for this and for the following survey trips to know about the needs of other tribes.
Our training program is working well, although in the end only 3 new students arrived. In total, with the former group, we have 6 students committed to serving the Lord in mission work. The Teachers are really pleased. I will be teaching at the end of this month the classes on how to preach (homiletics) and how a missionary should relate to their home church.
In Ecuador, I met very valuable teens that are serving the Lord moving more youth people into missions. I shared two workshops and had time to know deeper some of them by ministering them about their future in serving the Lord. There is interest in participating with us in August at a mission camp with an indigenous group in Colombia. Pray that it can be carried out and for provision to these young believer’s to make the trip to Colombia.
And now this month:
This week I have another chance at a missionary conference in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, in a Mission Expo organized by the Dominican Missionary Cooperation (COMIDOM). This Thursday, Friday and Saturday I’ll be teaching two workshops: The 7 Pillars of Mission Support and The Biblical Perspective on Ethnic Groups. Pray for good contacts and that the Dominican Church will be interested in the missionary training we offer in Colombia.
I will also be sharing the 14 to 16 March at the Missionary Training of our mission in Camdenton, Missouri in the United States. I will present the ministry opportunities from the field of Colombia to future missionaries.
Pray for the family, the caring of the Lord during my absence from home for these 11 days.
We already have a couple of our Missionary Institute graduate ready to serve the Lord with the Yukpa tribe northeast of Colombia, in a mountainous region bordering Venezuela. They will joined a family that has been serving with the Yukpa translating the Bible, the idea is that our missionaries will involved in church planting. This is a great joy for us as we motivate them 5 years ago on a mission camp, and now with his pastor and church leaders they are send to the mission field. Let us ask the Lord for more missionaries that are sent the same way as happened with this couple.
We ask the Lord for His guide to continue motivating the church, that He is blessing our work and convincing pastors and church members to send missionaries and become missionaries.
Let us pray for our financial provision to carry on in this ministry, mobilizing the church to the unreached by the Gospel.
February Prayer Requests
Ministry Requests:
Katio Girls
On this Monday January 30, a group of missionaries will travel to the north of Colombia to visit four villages of the Embera Katío tribe, in order to explore the possibilities to carry out a work of church planting among them.
Pray for this team for clarity in recognizing the real needs of this tribe and for the security on the field.
Our training campus.
On February 12, a new group of students will start training to future missionaries in our missionary training.
It is an exciting time because after 18 years the missionary training went back to its original campus near Bogotá.
The bad thing is that now we only have 4 new students enrolled and we would like to have more. We know that it is difficult to leave all to dedicate to a full time missionary work. The students need faith, vision and support, to take a step as important as this. Many do not. Pray for more support from the sending churches, faith and vision of both of these churches and students. And more students coming to register from now until February 12.
The leaders of CIMA are giving me the opportunity to participate in a youth congress in Quito, Ecuador from 15 to 21 February (CIMA 2012) . I will be speaking in two workshops about the role of the church in the formation, sending and support of a missionary and also I will share the topic of the leadership of the church in the missionary work.
May the Lord use this opportunity to bring the message of God about going and making disciples of all nations.
Familiy Requests:
Provision for a new car, ours is very useful, but we are increasing more and more in repair costs.
Tags: New Tribes Mission, NTM
Exciting 2012
This year the work continues in the 9 tribes in which we ar e involved in Colombia, but now we also begin to explore the possibilities of opening new works in 21 ethnic groups, which we think are the least reached in Colombia or require further assistance in church planting.
Although some people predict the end of the world again, we remember what Jesus said in John 5:17 “My Father is still working and I am working too.”
Let’s keep working in the work of the Lord until He comes for His church that is also made up of representatives of these 21 groups!
Building a warehouse in the Amazon
Our daughter helping with the project
We were in a Tikuna tribe in june leading a group to build a warehouse for the missionaries because they had all their stuff under the beds and in other such places. Now they will be putting their things in place and will have more space in the houses, which are tiny themselves.
They were all very young people between 18 and 22 years of age, and they worked very hard. We needed help to communicate because no one from the group spoke Spanish.
Chad working with the missionary John
There was a time when there was a Tikuna Indian, Sean (one from the group), the missionary John, who is Colombian, and Liliana doing a little something, and to communicate we had to do this: If Sean wanted to say something to a Tikuna Indian Liliana had to translate it to John, and then he translated it to the Tikuna Indian. If the Tikuna Indian wanted to say something he said it to Jhon, Jhon said it to Liliana and Liliana told Sean, it was super funny and we laughed a lot .
Liliana felt sad feeling that she misses many of those things. She needs to work at the kid’s school because we are short in our budget, and with her work we gain two scholarships. She used her vacations to be able to go and we are greatful we could all go.
Our son Miguel on the boat going to the Tikuna village
First we had to go 2 hours by plane, then 2 hours by motor canoe (I quote) and we were there in the jungle with little opportunity to leave for 5 days. The Tikunas hunted a horribly large caiman, it was just awful to see the size of his claws and to think that it was somewhere out there in the river. Hans and the children helped painting and especially Liliana was helping to wash dishes and pots. Miguel was entertaining Jhon’s little girl, Sarita, by playing with her all day.
The amazing black crocodile
Liliana had only eaten a small caiman and told one of the girls that came with us that it would only be about a meter long. When we bought the piece of the caiman enough so we could all eat (we were 18) it was just the arm and part of the back, just that piece was a meter long. Jennifer, the girl, cried, ” Liliana! You told us it was only a meter long!” Liliana apologized a lot because it was also the first time that Liliana had seen something so scary.
