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AUGUST 2002 NEWS LETTER
Dear Praying Friends, BIBLE INSTITUTE: ·
Faith Baptist Church in Dearborn Heights, MI came in June
and built a two-story building to house married students.
It is such a beautiful building.
They did all the work in ten days.
Thanks to Pastor Gregory and Faith Baptist Church.
Praise the Lord! ·
Pray for one of our June graduates, Jose, with his wife,
Isabel. They moved to La
Paz in southern Baja to start a new mission.
Pray for Brother Mario, also a June graduate. He is praying about
missionary service to the Tarahumara Indians in Chihuahua.
Brother Mario is at present serving as youth pastor at the
Sublime Prayer Baptist Church.
·
We are expecting between 25 and 30 new students arriving for
start of fall semester. That
will put our student body at 55 plus.
Please pray for the funds to supply food and pay utilities for
our institute. We thank
those of you who contributed to these expenses in past years. ·
Pray for the importing of a mobile home for use as a dorm
for the students. At
present all we have are busses for the single men to live in.
The mobile home will cost $2000 to import and transport to the
institute property. NEW MISSION WORKS: ·
Brother Juan Ciro, a 2001 graduate of our institute, has
started a new mission work here in our city of Tecate.
Pray for Brother Juan Ciro that this work could soon be
organized. ·
Last letter we asked you to pray for Brother Andrés and
Brother Marcos. They
started a new mission work out of the Sublime Prayer Baptist Church.
On their property they have been able to put up a tin building.
Thanks for praying. Please
continue to pray for these young men in this new mission work. Thank you all so much for your interest, prayers
and support for our ministry here in Old Mexico.
We pray that God will bless you abundantly for your faithfulness.
Ephesians 1:3 In Jesus’ Name Don and Mary E-mail:
dmrtkt@juno.com
Sent by:
MAY
2002 NEWS LETTER Dear
Praying Friends, BIBLE
INSTITUTE: ·
Sixteen
men from Faith Baptist Church Dearborn Heights, Michigan
are
building a two-story building for our Bible Institute in June. This is
such a great
blessing to our institute. We
give God praise and glory.
We are
looking forward to working and fellowshipping with them
during
their visit. Thank you Pastor Gregory and the folks at
Faith
Baptist Church. ·
Nine
students are graduating this year.
This is our fourth graduation and the completion of eight years
of our institute ministry. After
graduation there will be 24 Mexican nationals trained for ministry from
our institute. All
our graduates are still active in ministry to date. ·
We’ve
never advertised to recruit students for the institute.
Even so, we have students arriving next fall from seven churches
here in Northern Baja and from the states of Oaxaca, Jalisco and Sonora.
Word of our institute has spread miraculously by national pastors
and churches that have heard of us or had contact with our institute in
some way. ·
We
are seeing such a large number desiring to prepare for the gospel
ministry in our institute. We
are about at our limit of housing up to 60 single students and in the
future we’ll need to turn away some.
Pray with us about the expansion of our institute ministry. NEW
MISSION WORK: ·
Brother
Andrés and Brother Marcos, both graduates of our institute, are working
together starting a new mission work out of the Sublime Prayer Baptist
Church. Property has
been purchased and they are working on paying that off as well as
preparing the property to start on a building.
Pray for these young men and their wives in this new mission
work. Thank you all so much for your interest, prayers and support
for our ministry here in Old Mexico.
We pray that God will bless you abundantly for your faithfulness.
Ephesians 1:3 In Jesus’ Name Don and Mary
DON
AND MARY ROWLAND Dear
Praying Friends, BIBLE
INSTITUTE: We praise the Lord because He has always supplied abundantly for this ministry. We continue to ask you to pray about funds for our
institute. Our student body
increases each year, as do our expenses.
We have experienced increased costs in utilities and we need to
feed the student body. We
offer a Bible School education very reasonably to our students.
They are required to work on campus to pay their way, but that
does not bring in needed funds. THE
NEW HIGHWAY
is still to be a future reality. We
have had no news about it for several months.
For now that is fine with us.
Please continue to make the highway a matter of prayer. BROTHER
MIGUEL FLORES, one
of our first graduates in 1998, is now pastor of the Sublime Prayer
Baptist Church. The church
runs an average of 300. Our
Institute is a ministry of this church.
Pray for Miguel and his family as they work tirelessly in the
church and as he teaches in the Institute.
Miguel and wife,
Veronica, are expecting their second child this month of February. IGLESIA
BAUTISTA BETANIA: (Bethany
Baptist Church) May
our God richly bless you in your faithfulness to Him. Don and Mary
DON
AND MARY ROWLAND Dear
Praying Friends, BIBLE
INSTITUTE: Youth camp this summer was a great blessing with 25 saved
and 18 baptized. Some of
these young people are now in the Bible Institute preparing to serve the
Lord. With so many new
students there are many more needs.
Thank you for praying for the institute needs and for the
students. THE
NEW HIGHWAY seems to be in limbo with the
government for now. Mexicans in general are sympathetic with the US.
Here in Tecate a large banner you see as you enter Mexico conveys
Mexico’s sympathy to the US at this time. But, we have heard on
Mexican news, reports of Anti-American demonstrations with US flag
burnings have occurred in Mexico City.
We
have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Thanks for your prayers.
Don and Mary
DON
AND MARY ROWLAND Dear
Friends, In March of 1984 we moved to the state of Baja California,
Mexico. We had the
opportunity at that time to work in the Sublime Prayer Baptist in
Sanchez Tabuada. We
assisted this ministry in various ways during our first 10 years here.
In 1987 we started the Bible Baptist Church in El Florido out of
this church. Our Bible Institute is a ministry of the Sublime Prayer
Baptist Church. The
institute is in its eighth year of ministry.
Our prayer request concerns new property for the Sublime
Prayer Baptist Church. One of our graduates, Bro. Miguel Flores, is the
pastor now. The attendance there is 400 plus in many services.
They are very crowded and need to relocate.
Property equal to the size of five lots has been offered for sale
to the church. They are asking $14,000.00, which is an exceptionally good
price. Most lots here
will sell for $7,000.00 to $10,000.00.
We are asking you to pray for the wisdom and guidance as the
Sublime Prayer Baptist Church considers purchasing this property.
Pray that according to God’s will the funds for this property
will be supplied. Thank
you for your faithfulness and may our God richly bless you. Don and Mary
DON
AND MARY ROWLAND Dear
Praying Friends and family, Just
a quick update. BIBLE
INSTITUTE: ·
We
have at least 22 new students enrolling for the fall semester.
That will put the entire student body at around 60 students.
Praise the Lord.
We have four married couples starting new this year.
We are bringing in three or four old school buses and trying to
fix them up for housing for the married students.
They will have privacy and take their cooked meals in the school
cafeteria. This is
quite rustic by the standards of many.
It is so encouraging to see the dedication of this young Mexican
national and their determination to prepare for the Lord’s work. We’ll need to raise funds for food again this year.
Please pray about this need. We
thank you all so much for your interest, prayers and support for our
ministry down here in Old Mexico. Don
and Mary
DON AND MARY ROWLAND JULY 2001
NEWS LETTER
Dear Praying Friends, BIBLE INSTITUTE: Our graduation took place June
23 with eight graduates. This
year’s graduation service was held on campus.
A large tent made of tarpaulins that seated over 300 for the
services. It was so
exciting to see these young Mexican men and women finish their studies
and eager to launch out into ministry. Here are portions of testimonies
by two of our graduates. Juan Ciro Galaviz:
“My plans after I graduate are to continue winning souls and bringing
them into my church. I
will work in my church with my pastor for a year.
Please pray for me.
Francisco Villalpando M:
“My plans after graduation are to work in church for a year.
During this time I will pray and work to start a new mission
work. I believe God has a
place already for me. I
want to stay here in the state of Baja, CA but the decision is the
Lord’s. In the mean time
I will continue winning souls and making disciples”. What a thrill and blessing to be
a part of training these young Mexican nationals for the Lord’s work. THE NEW HIGHWAY:
It
is sure now that the road will be built sometime in the future.
Continue to pray about who will
pay for this government project. IGLESIA BAUTISTA DEL VALLE: (Green Valley Baptist Church) We asked prayer for Pastor Perez
and his need for a vehicle. You
prayed and God supplied. This
vehicle has already been a great asset to Pastor Perez and his ministry. Till now he had been walking and taking buses for
ministry transportation and pastoral visitation.
Thank you
for praying. SUMMER: Pray for Green Valley Baptist, Bethany Baptist and
Sublime Prayer Baptist churches in their DVBS and Camps that many
children and young people will come to know the Lord. We thank you so much for your
prayers and support for the ministry in Old Mexico. Don and Mary
DON
AND MARY ROWLAND APRIL
2001 NEWS
LETTER Dear
Praying Friends,
BIBLE
INSTITUTE:
Our
Bible Institute will have this year’s graduation on June 23.
We’ll have five students who completed the four-year full
time course of study. The
graduates are: Andy, Jose. Isabel, Mario and Marcos. This will be our
third graduation since we started the institute seven years ago.
We
have had a phenomenal increase in the student body over these short
years. The Lord has
blessed in EVERY area. Everything
is paid for. AND,
NOW, Surprise, Surprise, it is time for the government to get involved
= TAXES (about $3000). We
asked you to pray for sufficient funds to feed the student body.
THANKS for your prayers. The
Lord supplied even more abundantly than we expected.
There are sufficient funds to end this semester and into
September of our fall semester. Continue
to pray about the new highway near the school property.
It is going to be built (someday). BUT,
There still has been no solution as to who pays for it. BROTHER
ANDY, one
of our students, has started a mission work in an area called Los
Presidentes. There are
many multi-story apartment buildings and thousands of people in this
neighborhood. This
mission is already running close to 100.
Pray for Andy in his new work.
Brother Andy will be graduating this year. IGLESIA
BAUTISTA DEL VALLE VERDE: (Green
Valley Baptist Church) This
church has such a wonderful spirit of love.
When you attend services you can feel it (Love) in the
attitudes of the folks there.
Don is preaching during a family conference in May.
Pray that these meetings will be blessed of the Lord.
These dear Mexican believers desire to know and do what the
Word says about their family and their relationships between family
members. IGLESIA
BAUTISTA BETANIA: (Bethany
Baptist Church) Church
planting is our ministry here in Old Mexico.
We have seen this church grow over the last eight years.
We are not involved there as we were before. They are an
indigenous church, sustained by their tithes, offerings and depending
on their own people to serve, teach and do the work of the ministry.
This church is planted, growing and bearing fruit.
Praise the Lord! May
our God richly bless you in your faithfulness to Him. Don and Mary
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