A New Year, with New Goals, and New Beginnings

I believe we ended 2025 in a very special way. At Hope Baptist Church, one of our young ladies, Lara, received Jesus as her Savior. We also held our Christmas Service, which included our first-ever Christmas play. We were encouraged to have family and friends in attendance who do not normally come to our services. We also celebrated our annual “Empanada Night,” which served as our final service of the year. The church family chose the songs we sang as a congregation, I shared a message challenging us to finish the year strong and begin 2026 determined to live for Jesus, and we ended the evening enjoying fellowship together over empanadas.

As we begin a new year, we are also launching new themes and goals. On Sunday, January 4, we will have “The Vision” service, where we will unveil the theme for the year and share how it will be implemented throughout 2026. This year’s theme is “Keep Thy Heart,” based on Proverbs 4:23. Each month, we will study the different kinds of hearts the Bible describes and how they apply to us as Christians.

Faith Baptist Church is also starting 2026 strong. The final service of 2025 was a special one, honoring Pastor Matías, and my family and I were honored to be part of that service.

Please pray with us that God will bless and use both Faith Baptist Church and Hope Baptist Church. By faith, we are trusting God for an incredible year ahead—seeing souls saved and believers baptized and discipled.

Serving together,

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

Prayer Requests

• Pray for Faith and Hope Baptist Churches as they start out 2026. 
• Pray for the leadership. 
• Pray for the evangelistic and discipleship ministries.

The Christmas Season Begins the Summer Season

Se had our first-ever mission conference at Hope Baptist Church, and it was a wonderful success! We held a Saturday night service that began with an “international snack” and a Sunday morning service that ended with an international lunch. We preached and taught on missions, how to be a missionary church, and the church’s next goal: to start supporting her first missionary in January 2026! The church was decorated with flags from around the world, posters about the needs in specific countries, and inspiring stories of missionaries from the past. I was so encouraged by how the church responded to the mission conference. Another blessing was that I preached at the Saturday night service of the Faith Baptist Church mission conference the very next week. We also had a combined couples fellowship between Faith and Hope Baptist Church, which was encouraging for everyone.

We are now entering the Christmas season, which is quite different from our American Christmas season because it is also the beginning of summer. At Hope Baptist Church, we plan to do something we have never done before: a Christmas play during our special Christmas service. This will surely be the highlight of our month at the church. Faith Baptist Church will also have a special Christmas choir for their Christmas service. Please pray for both churches.

Serving Together,

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

Prayer Requests

• Pray for the Christmas Services at both churches. 
• Pray that both churches finish the year right and begin 2026 for the Lord!
• Pray for the evangelism and discipleship ministries in both churches.

The Church’s First Mission Conference

October was a very busy month with our Mother’s Day Service, a special Pastor’s Fellowship, a Ladies Conference that had Leslie as a keynote speaker, a young man name Leo put his faith in Jesus as Savior, and we had several visitors at Hope Baptist Church! Our Bible Classes in both churches are going strong and is a highlight of the week for many who attend! 

Hope Baptist Church will have her first ever mission conference. This is something brand new for the believers there, and we will be presenting the importance of being a church with a world evangelism focus. The church will start supporting a missionary in the coming weeks! This is a big step for the church and something that the members have never done before. During the conference we will be teaching on the need and also how the church can be a part of meeting that need. Please pray for Hope Baptist Church. Faith Baptist Church will also have their annual mission conference this month, they already faithfully support two missionaries, and Pastor Matías has a great desire to support more! 

The ministry is growing, people are receiving Jesus as Savior, Christians are growing, and the devil is attacking, but we know that Jesus has already won the battle! 

Serving Together, 

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

Prayer Requests

• Pray for the first ever mission conference at Hope Baptist Church. 
• Pray for the annual Mission Conference at Fatih Baptist Church. 
• Pray for the evangelism and discipleship ministries in both churches.  

Mother’s Day in October

We enjoyed a wonderful month of blessings in the ministry in September with a few “first-time” events in both churches. Faith Baptist Church had their first deacon’s meeting, the church now has two deacons who are eager to serve their church family. Hope Baptist Church had an exciting event, “Family Photo Day” with new visitors who were able to hear the Gospel. We were also able to see the discipleship ministries in both churches continue to grow. This month, three ladies will complete the discipleship program at Faith. We hope to start a new one-on-one discipleship meeting at Hope with a lady who has recently completed the discipleship program and will be teaching a young lady in the church! Both churches also began their Bible Classes last month, we are excited for our men’s and ladies’ classes! We were able to survey the country of Paraguay with the Prater family, who will be completing their language school and cultural acquisition period with us at the beginning of next year. 

The main event this month will be Mother’s Day. This is an opportunity to invite others to the churches who normally would not attend. We will begin the day with a special breakfast, “Medialunas con Mamá”. We are praying that the Lord use His Word to work in the hearts of all who will be present. Thank you for praying for the ministry, God is at work and we are pressing forward. 

Serving Together, 

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

Prayer Requests

• Pray for the Bible Classes in both churches.   

• Pray for the evangelistic and discipleship programs of Faith and Hope Baptist Churches. 

• Pray for the Mother’s Day services in both churches.