Steve and Eida Irwin Equipping Latin American cross-cultural church planters CRASHED WEBSITE UPDATE – GOOD NEWS!
We are happy to report that our NTM Communications Dept. programing team (which “coincidentally” had already scheduled an international meeting this week) studied our dilemma and they have offered to create a section for our Spanish Resource library on the ntm.org site!
We won’t bore you with the nerdy details, but it’s going to be great! I will still have to upload all the articles, chapters and lessons again, but this time to a much improved site which will be maintained by expert webmasters! And it will be directly linked with the Spanish Prayer Bulletin and current events articles about what God is doing through NTM among tribal groups.
TALIABO VIDEO IN SPANISH
We are happy to report that the Spanish dubbing of the Taliabo missionary video has been completed! The “master” has been “burned,” and as soon as we receive it from Chihuahua, it will be sent to our mission offices in Florida to be reproduced for distribution. Pray that this will be a powerful tool for challenging Spanish-speaking Christians to respond to Christ’s commission to take the Good News to every tribe and tongue.
OUR SENDING CHURCH
The church which originally sent us out from San Jose as missionaries in 1980 closed last summer and was reopened in October as a new church plant by Valley Church of Cupertino. While we were in San Jose for Christmas and New Years, we met with Kurt Jones and Glen Miller regarding the future of the newly christened Neighborhood Bible Church and our relationship with both Valley Church and NBC. Our meetings were very warm, reassuring and encouraging. We’re looking forward to a fruitful partnership with both congregations. They truly have a heart for sharing the blessings of Christ with those who’ve never had the chance to hear.
CAR “ISSUES”
We’re grateful for a safe 3,000 mile trip to California and back in our Explorer. We were even able to tie a very nice mattress (thank you, Coots family) on the rack and bring it from Phoenix, Jed Clampett-style. We’re ALSO thankful that it wasn’t until we had been home for a week that the heater core broke and started leaking antifreeze in our driveway. Between that repair and a major brake job and some servicing that was due, we’re looking to the Lord for $1,700. Thank you for praying with us. God has always proven himself faithful to meet our needs and we’re learning not to panic, but just to trust Him.
May you have a very happy and blessed New Year,
Steve & Eida Irwin
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