From Easter to a Ladies Fellowship

In March we had a special service with a lunch. We called it Levi’s Banquet. It was a time where many were invited to enjoy a good meal but more than that, a time to meet Jesus. 

This month will start off with Easter, which is on April 01, but actually started with our normal Thursday service on March 29, a special “good Friday” service (good Friday is celebrated more than Easter is), and culminating on Sunday. This month we will also have our first women’s fellowship (our men’s fellowship will be in May). This will be an opportunity for the ladies in our church to get together and spend time together and also be challenged with a special lesson for God’s Word. On top of all of this we must find a house to rent and move into the house before the end of the month!

Serving Together,

Patrick, Leslie, Lily, Piper, Ivy, and Isla Henry

• Pray for us to find a house to rent.

• Pray for the first ladies fellowship. 

• Pray Faith Baptist Church as we labor to evangelize, equip, and empower believers.

• Pray for those attending Faith Baptist Church that they will catch on to the vision and purpose of our church!

Semana Santa (Holy week) is a special time here in Argentina. To some, it is one last opportunity to go to the beach before it gets too cold. For others, it is a time to spend time with family. For anyone with any religious background or considering God and eternity, it is a time to either worship, sacrifice, or spend time thinking about who Jesus is. We hope to take this opportunity and use it to explain what the Bible teaches to anyone and everyone who will entertain the truth. For us, it will all start tonight. We have a special service to emphasize the death of Jesus. We have a guest preacher who will be preaching. We already have several families who have committed to being with us. We are looking forward to it. We will continue celebrating the resurrection with our special Easter service on Sunday. These next few days will be wonderful days at Faith Baptist Church.

One of my favorite things in the ministry is discipleship but it is also one of the most frustrating. Why? Because I lack patience. Inevitably, we want to see the person we are discipling grow at a much faster rate than he/she is actually growing. We want to see great strides instead of baby steps. But one quick trip down “memory lane” will remind us that we didn’t take great strides either but rather that God worked patiently in us. Even when we fell or reluctantly took the next step, God was patient and continually guided us.

Even though this is true, I find it easy to forget my own “baby steps” and grow inpatient when others I am working with aren’t growing in their Christian walk by leaps and bounds. There is a time for babies to drink milk and a time for them to grow into eating more solid foods and the same thing is true for new Christians. We cannot expect them to be “dining on spiritual steak” any more than we can expect a newborn to be “gumming a T-bone”. As the father of an 8 month old girl, I know that it takes time for this baby to learn to crawl, walk, talk, etc. There is definitely a time for babies to “leave the milk” and move on to “solid foods”, but it takes time. The same is true with new Christians. We must have patience.

This Sunday should be a really big day for us. This Sunday we will be having a special service we are calling “Levi’s Banquet”. When Levi met Jesus in Luke 5, he threw a big banquet and invited all of his friends so that they could meet Jesus. That is exactly what we are trying to do. We will have a big lunch after the 11 am service. I know one family who will be coming (they have not yet visited the church). We have several of our faithful attenders who have invited others as well. Please pray with us that God would work in the hearts of those who attend, that they would understand the Gospel and believe on Jesus as Savior.