Samuel and Tracy Recalde REACHING TRIBAL PEOPLE FOR CHRIST Isidora’s new daughter
Many of you will remember us asking for Prayer for Isidora when her daughters beat her up badly on two different occasions.
Isidora is one of the Colony midwives and you probably also remember Raulito, the adorable little boy she is raising because his biological mother told her to throw him away at birth.
We have news for you! Isidora has a new little daughter. The mother (Isidora’s sister) had abandoned her with the paternal Grandmother who is already raising several other children and was very impatient and cruel with the little girl. She has scars all up and down her arms and on her shoulders and neck from the beatings that she endured at the hands of her Grandmother who finally gave her to Isidora saying that she doesn’t want her anymore.
Although these children are much better off with Isidora and her husband Gregorio than they were before, life will not be easy for them. Gregorio and Isidora are both alcoholics and also in the Pai culture, adopted children are usually raised to be the family servants and forced to work in the garden and carry water from the river etc. at an early age.
Please take a moment to Pray for Isidora and her husband, Gregorio, that they will get saved soon so that these sweet children can grow up in a Christian home.
PLEASE PRAY FOR JUSTINO, MAMILA AND FAMILY
We would like to ask that you please Pray for Justino and Mamila, faithful Tribal believers from the Indian Colony where we are working.
Justino’s 28 year old son, Andres from a former marriage was killed here in the small town where we live.
Andres was an alcoholic and drug addict and has been roaming the streets for about a year now.
Yesterday was the burial out at the Colony, Tava Amboae. It was the saddest burial that we have ever attended.
Please Pray for Justino and the rest of the family. It is hard to know how to comfort them in this situation.
Body on table in front of Justino’s house
Ready to take the body to the cemetery by horse and cart
People following the body to the cemetery
Ready for burial at the cemetery
Lowering the body into the grave
Andre’s brother arranging his body in the grave
Samuel saying a few words and grieving brother in red shirt
RECALDE REFLECTIONS (June 2009)
Dear Friends, JUNE 2009
We hope this letter finds you rejoicing in the many blessings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Isn’t it wonderful to know that God is in control of the drama of our lives!?!
We want to share with you what has been happening in our lives and work here in Paraguay as we teach God’s Word to the Pai Tavyterã Tribal People.
We Praise God that the Believers are maturing Spiritually and the Church is growing.
Please Pray especially for the Tribal children as Winter sets in here. They always suffer the most in the cold weather.
Also please Pray that the sun will shine on Sunday morning for the children’s Sunday school since I teach them outside in the open and many of them come in short sleeves even when it’s cold because they don’t own warm clothes. They are used to sitting by a fire for warmth.
Pray for us as we make trips back and forth between the town where we live and the Indian Colony, for safety and good running vehicle in spite of the rough road conditions.
Please Continue to pray for the Bible classes among the Tribal men and women.
Pray that we will have wisdom to be able to teach clearly so that the People will understand and apply it to their own lives.
We are excited that there are several new believers and planning a baptism for sometime in September.
Please Pray too for us to have wisdom in caring for and hosting the New Tribes Mission Guest House along with our other responsibilities.
Samuel will be taking Stefany back to the States for her to attend the New Tribes Mission Bible school. He and Stefany will fly out of Asuncion on July 16th and he will take Stefany to
Wisconsin the first part of August.
Please Pray that Stefany will find a job quickly there in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Also for Stefany as it will be quite an adjustment for her to study in English since she did most of her grade school and all of high school in Spanish.
We are Praising the Lord that Samuel now has a sponsor for his green card (immigrant visa). Please continue to Pray for the process to go smoothly. We will be petitioning for it at the American Embassy as soon as he returns from the U.S.A. in August. Right now Samuel only has a ten year tourist visa which is very limited.
Reaching tribal people for Christ requires a large team of Christians each working together in the ministry that God has given them.
We are so thankful for those working at the Bible and missionary training schools who taught and prepared us many years ago for our ministry.
The missionaries in remote places of the world depend on the support team
back at the N.T.M. home office in Sanford, Florida to keep things running smoothly so that they can focus on their tribal ministry. You are also an important part of this team, as together; we are involved in taking the Gospel to Tribal People.
We are thankful to God for each of you who faithfully supports and prays for us.
“For we are laborers together with God.” 1 Cor. 3:9
Thank you for being our co-workers!
In Christ’s Service, Samuel, Tracy & Family
C/O New Tribes Mission 1000 East First St. Sanford, Florida 32771-1487
RECALDE REFLECTIONS (April 2009)
I will lift my eyes to the hills – where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. Psalm 121:12
Dear Friends and Co-Workers APRIL 2009
Greetings from the Recaldes here in Paraguay.
First of all, we want to thank you very much for your faithfullness in Praying for us and supporting us financially! Thank you for being our co-workers!
We Praise God for his mercy and grace in our lives and for his faithfullness! We are thankful for the Lord\’s protection and provision of strength as we travel back and forth to the Indian Colony to teach His Word! Please continue to Pray for the Pai Tavyterã Tribal Believers, to remain faithful and to continue to grow in their walk with the Lord, for the Indian church as they grow together, especially for those who are struggling with alcoholism, and that many more will get saved.
Please Pray for Samuel for continued safety and endurance as he makes trips out to Indian Colony alone during the week to teach Bible and literacy classes and to visit the Tribal People. Please Pray that our truck will hold up in spite of the rough road conditions. Lately, it has broken down several times and we had to have work done on the motor.
Please Pray for Emilio, that he will continue to attend the Bible classes and meetings and will continue to mature Spiritually and for Mamila as she co-teaches the ladies Bible classes with Tracy.
Please Pray for Tracy, for wisdom and patience, as she works on translation from English to Guarani and also for her Sunday school class with the Tribal children. Mirta, one of the young Tribal girls has begun helping by playing her guitar for the Sunday school children to sing.
We continue to host the New Tribes Mission guest house here. It is where our coworkers who live interior stay for a night or two when they come to town for supplies and mail etc. It is beside our house, separated by a gate in between. Please Pray for us to have wisdom as we see how we can make the guest house more secure as lately thieves have been going into the yard. They seem to know which days we go out to the Indian Colony and take advantage of those times to come over the wall to steal things. Thank you very much for Praying for us and for helping us!
We are pleased to inform you that our daughter, Stefany Danelle has been accepted at the New Tribes Mission Bible School in Waukesha, Wisconsin and will start in August for the Fall semester!!
In Christ’s Service, Samuel, Tracy & Family
♪♫♪There’s within my heart a melody Jesus whispers sweet and low, Fear not, I am with thee, peace, be still, In all of life’s ebb and flow. ♫♪♫
Samuel & Tracy Recalde C/O New Tribes Mission, 1000 East First Street, Sanford, Florida 32771-1487
JUSTINO & HUGO IN THE CAPITAL CITY, ASUNCION
JUSTINO & HUGO’S TRIP TO THE CAPITAL CITY, ASUNCION
Last week, we made a trip to Asuncion and back, taking with us two Tribal men from the Colony where we are presently teaching. It is about a six hour trip from here to Asuncion.
It was a VERY hot day and about half way there, our truck motor suddenly died and refused to start again no matter how much Samuel tried.
After only about ten or fifteen minutes, a passing vehicle stopped. It was a German man and he said that he is a mechanic and offered to take a look at our motor.
Right away he knew what was wrong. The last gas station had put dirty diesel in our tank. It probably had water in it.
The man had just the right tool in his car and had our motor running again in no time and sent us on our way telling us to stop at the next town to have the filter changed.
Thanking God for sending us our very own “Good Samaritan,” we continued on our way.
Just as we drove up to the mechanic shop that the man had told us to go to, our motor completely died again and we rolled quietly into the place, where they quickly took care of us. After about an hour, we were on our way again praising our Lord for
His goodness and provision!
In Asuncion, our Tribal brothers, Justino and Hugo, participated in a special meeting organised by another New Tribes Missionary to challenge local Paraguayan Churches to become more involved with reaching Tribal People for Christ. Samuel also gave a presentation of the work that we are doing here.
Yesterday, out at the Indian Colony, during the Sunday morning Church service, both Justino and Hugo shared with their own People all about their experience of going to a big city and how God took care of us on the trip.
They were both very impressed with the fact that now they had seen for themselves that there are people in far-away places who Pray for them and want to help them.
THANK YOU PRAYING!!
RECALDE REFLECTIONS (February 2009)
Dear Friends,
ISAIAH 40:31
Greetings from the Recalde family in Paraguay, the heart of South America.
We hope this letter finds you all well and rejoicing in the Lord because of his faithfullness and his many blessings!
First of all We want to thank you very much for your faithfulness in Praying for us and supporting us through the exciting times when we see much fruit of our labors and also through the discouraging times when it seem as though nothing is happening! We thank God for you, our co-workers!
We praise God for the work that he is doing in hearts and lives out at the Indian Colony! Attendance to the Bible classes and Church has increased greatly in the past few months and the Tribal children who attend Sunday school continue to increase in number.Please continue to Pray for Tracy, as she must translate the Sunday school lessons from English to the Guaraní language each week in order to teach the children.
The Tribal People continue to struggle against alcoholism, but we are encouraged that many of them admit that they have a problem. Please Pray for us to have wisdom from God in how to counsel and help them.
Saturday ladies meeting started up again in January with Mamila again helping Tracy to teach. Samuel also started Prayer meeting with the Tribal men on Saturday mornings at the same time as the ladies meeting. This way, the married couples can come together and the ladies don\’t have to walk the trails alone to get to the Bible class.
We Praise The Lord for Emilio\’s repentance and return to the Church. He continues to faithfully attend the Bible classes and meetings. His wife, Kita, has also begun attending Church and ladies meeting again.
We also ask that you please Pray for our daughter, Stefany, as she has decided that she would like to attend the New Tribes Mission Bible school and is shooting for August so we are helping her to get the different forms all filled out, letters of recommendation, Dr. report, etc. Please Pray for Stefany, as this is a bit scary for her, since she went to the Spanish school most of her life and although English is her first language, reading and writing in English is hard for her. Also she has never lived in the U.S.A. for more than a few months during furlough times. She continues to work at the computer and electronics supplies store here until she goes and is saving as much as possible towards her plane ticket, Bible school registration and initial down payment etc.
Pray continue to Pray for us, for health, safety and encouragement as we seek to faithfully carry out the responsibilities that God has given us.
Please continue to Pray for more laborers for the work here in Paraguay. There are still many who have not heard and much that still needs to be done! Thank you very much for Praying for us and for helping us in our work here amongst the Pai Tavytera Tribal People!
In Christ\’s Service, Samuel, Tracy and family
TRIBAL LADIES PRAYER REQUESTS
After the Saturday ladies meeting at the Indian Colony, we always have a time of Prayer requests and I (Tracy) wanted to share some of them with you so that you can know how to Pray better for our Tribal sisters.
*For our Saturday ladies meetings
*For the Men\’s Saturday meetings
*For those who haven\’t been attending lately
*For the children\’s Sunday school class
• Kita: Her family, She thanks God for her new sewing machine that she received through a governmental project to help the Tribal people, Kita also thanks God for her new Grandson.
• Mamila: asks Prayer for her family, especially her husband and married son with their drinking problem, and her newly married 14 year old daughter
• Emiliana: asks for Prayer for her grown children, especially Andres (one of the Colony chiefs) and Evaristo. For her teenage son, Jorge\’s health. Emiliana also thanks God for the missionaries who came and told her how to get saved.
• Isabelina: asks for Prayer for her family and their problems with alcoholism
• Rubia: asks for Prayer for her son, Marcos who is not living for The Lord and also for her family (she is raising two of her Grandchildren alone)
• Miriam: ask for Prayer for her husband, Andres, that he will come home soon from where he is working at one of the neighboring ranches and that he will stay and attend the literacy and Bible classes being taught by the missionaries.
THANK YOU FOR PRAYING!
THE REPENTANCE OF A WAYWARD SON
Some of you may remember back a few years ago when we would often mention Emilio in our Prayer letters.
Emilio\’s wife, Kita came to know The Lord as her personal Savior long before he did and would often ask for Prayer
for her drunken and abusive husband. During the time when the men were building the church building at the Indian Colony, Emilio suddenly began coming around asking if he could help. During breaks when they were resting, Samuel and our then co-worker, Jerry Holmes would talk with Emilio about his need of a Savior and one day Emilio made a decision to accept Christ and was saved.
Samuel spent many hours discipling Emilio and teaching
and encouraging him in gardening.
Then last year Emilio began drinking and beating his wife again. He stopped coming to church and was never home when we would try to visit him.
Yesterday, 12/28/08 everyone was surprised to see Emilio come to church and then even more so when he went forward
and began to speak saying “I have sinned and I have done many bad things, but I am sorry and I want to come back!” Then to everyone\’s amazement, Emilio began to cry tears of repentance before God
and The Church! Pai Tavyterã People hardly ever show emotion, especially the men.
Thank you for Praying!!
Please Pray for Isidora #2
Dear Friends, Many of you will remember Isidora. Back in July, we asked you to Pray for her because three of her grown daughters had beaten her up so badly.
Our hearts are heavy as we again ask that you Pray for Isidora. We found out yesterday, that on Christmas eve, one of Isidora’s daughters was very drunk and beat her up badly AGAIN and even bit her in the face! Please Pray for healing for Isidora and that she and her family will get saved. Thank you for Praying
THE PRIVILEGE OF PRAYER
Imagine what life would be like without worry! One Bible verse that I always come back to, is one that the apostle Peter wrote to the suffering saints of the early church.
1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
David encouraged the same thing in Psalm 55:22 when he said, “Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and He shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”
It is a wonder that we don\’t pray more! Mark 11:24 “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” Rely upon His sure promise in Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it shall be given you.” While we are on this earth there will always be opportunities to take on the cares of the world, but it says in Phil 4:6,7 to:
Be anxious for nothing,
but in everything by prayer and supplication, with THANKSGIVING,
let your requests be made known to God;
and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,
will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Our Loving Heavenly Father gives strength for the burdens of the day–we shouldn\’t attempt to carry the load of tomorrow with it or our burden will seem heavier than we can bear.
Our Lord sincerely wants us to give all of our cares to Him, but He won’t wrestle them away from us. We must surrender them to Him.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace. (Helen H. Lemmel)
Let\’s Praise and thank
our AWESOME and MIGHTY Heavenly Father
For the Promises of His WORD!
