Sholla: Novermber 2009

News from our CMS link missionaries Peter and Sarah Sholl, with Karina, Miriam and Lucy in Monteray, Mexico.

The joy of partnership
We are very appreciative of your partnership with us in the gospel. We feel well loved by your emails, prayers, interest and giving to CMS.

In this Sholla we want to tell you about Adriana so that you can know not just our partnership with her, but feel your partnership with her as well.

We met Adriana and Vicente when we visited Monterrey in 2007. They have been very supportive of us and we attend the same church and school. We gave them some books in Spanish including Two Ways to Live. Then for Halloween, Adriana translated the children’s version of 2WTL and used it to evangelise her neighbours as they came past her garage.

Now Grahame and Patty Scarratt are going to publish her translation so it will be widely available throughout Latin America. Our pastor already is keen to use it in our church.

Our church has also been using Christianity Explored (introduced in Mexico by Rico Tice and the Scarratts in May). Sarah asked Adriana to invite some of her school friends to do the course but they could not do it at that time.

Now Adriana has decided that she can run a course for women from school.

Sarah and Adriana have invited about 12 women to meet together to read Mark and discuss who Jesus is, what his mission is and how he wants us to respond. It looks like 2 or 3 guests will join Sarah and Adriana in our house on Wednesday afternoons. Pete will run a kids club downstairs (with 8 or 9 primary age kids) and another lady will mind the pre-schoolers. We think Pete will certainly have the most difficult task!

We are excited to see the way God is working in our relationships with people here, and the doors that God is opening at just the right time.

Church update
We have been able to make the Scarratt’s books available to people here. (Spanish translations of ‘Nothing in my hand I bring’ by Ray Galea and ‘God’s Big Picture’ by Vaughan Roberts). People are appreciative and interest is growing. Thanks for your prayers about church. Pete has had more opportunity to get to know the young adults. He has joined a course that Augustine leads and he has run an evening to teach them the Swedish Bible reading method.

Please Pray
๏ Thanks that God prepares our good works.
๏ Thanks for the joy of partnership with brothers and sisters in Mexico and Australia.
๏ Thanks for Adriana’s enthusiasm to proclaim Jesus.
๏ Pray for Adriana as she leads the Mark group. Also pray for her as she is very pressured by her work at the moment.
๏ Pray for the women to have soft hearts to see the truth about Jesus, and that they will all keep coming.
๏ Pray for Pete as he runs the kids club (in Spanish)
๏ Pray for the kids to have fun learning about Jesus.
๏ Pray for ongoing gospel conversations Sarah is having with friends.
๏ Pray for Grahame and Patty in the publishing work (and MOCLAM).

Bible Verse - Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.