Nestor's Leg

Nestor wants to thank you all for helping in the matter of getting his new leg, he is very happy with it , they are very grateful with his wife Carina for permitting this that would hardly be possible with their means. He and his wife Carina and their four children come out on a regular basis to all the meeting and he helps with the leading of the services and also is our best guitar player at church, thanks again for your help in giving and also in praying.

Continue to help us in Prayer

There are some matters of prayer that you should keep in mind for us here in Ezeiza

1) Pray for the youth. Some of them have problems of submission to God and His will. The temptations of the world and the war with their own flesh makes it a difficult thing for many of them. Please keep the youth in prayer.

2) Pray for Marcelo and Sonia and Patricio as they came out to our anual picnic and enjoyed it very much. I was with them a few days ago and Sonia wept as she heard the Gospel again. She is reading her Bible but yet her eyes are blinded to the truth so continue to pray for her. And that they would continue to come out to the meetings.

3) Pray for Adrian and Carina and their 4 children. They are coming on Sunday nights, and Lesa is having a Bible study on Saturdays with Carina, so we can see God working in their hearts.

4) Pray for Osvaldo and Iris. They are not coming out to the meetings but do recieve me fine,once a week, at their home. Continue to pray for them and their salvation.

5) Pray for the salvation of our children and their desire for the things of the Lord, that we would be of help to them in the things of the Lord.

6) Thank the Lord for Joaquin Diaz who had disappeared for almost 2 years has been found and came back to his home this past weekend. Pray that he would come back to the Lord!!!!

Family note

We thank the Lord for our children, our Son Jonathan cant live without his blankets, when Lesas puts them in the wash he cant wait to have them again, pray for our children that Gods fear would be in thier hearts.

Youth Group

Please pray for some new ones that have been coming out to the saturday evening youth meetings, I will give you some names for you to pray for, Barbara, Sabrina, Tamara, and Diana, these four girls are new and we know they are without Christ , pray for them that they might come to Christ, but on another note, pray for the older youth who have been here for a few years that they will continue with the Lord and not depart, KEEP THEM IN YOUR PRAYERS!!!

Pray for Marcelo and Sonia, they have come now for 3 sundays to the evening services, God is working in her soul, please pray as I visit with them also on tuesday afternoons, our visits on tuesday have been very profitable, specially with Sonia who has broken down and asked many question, something she had not done before, so pray with us for the salvation of this house.

Update on some issues you are praying for!!!

We are going out door to door every saturday, we dont see much fruit in this matter but we are happy that we can go with the gospel house to house in the city, continue to pray for fruit in this ministry.

Keep Nestor and Carina in prayer, I did mention that it would cost about 700 dollars to fix his leg, be praying about this and any who would want to help with this matter, just send as a gift to the mission, the address is on the web page.

Also continue to pray for Osvaldo and Iris , our studies have been at the present posponed for different reasons, but I still visit with him once a week, continue to pray that they would come to Christ.

We are having some new ones that are coming out to the meetings on Sunday Night pray with us, I will put pictures on the blog Lord willing in a few days.

The family is well, and continue to pray for our children that they would show more interest in the things of the Lord and that they would be sincere in thier faith.

Our Vacation

We took a few days in July when the kids had their school vacation to go up to Salto Uruguay and be with a Pastor Friend Ricardo Daglio and his family, it was a refreshing time and always a joy to be with them, also enjoyed a time of rest and the hot springs, pray for our children that they might seek and desire the Lord

Week of Camp

We had a good week with youth and God spoke to their hearts, please pray for each one of them, that their decisions would be sincere and truthful and would last through out their lives, Pastor Bob Philbrick was with us and shared the Word that week, thanks for praying for them

Nestor's Leg!!!

Dear ones I had asked before about the possibility of helping Nestor find a leg and now he found out down here that he can get his fixed and almost like new for 700 dollars, so if any of you would like to help with this send the money to the mission as gift for Nestor though our account, thanks so much for your prayers and help on this matter.

Update on Osvaldo and Iris

We had been doing the bible studies but because of school vacations here in Argentina we stopped for about two weeks, but I have been visiting with him and we will began Lord willing tomorrow ; continue to pray for them, she has lost some interest in the things of the Lord but he still has desires for the things of the Lord, pray for them.

Updates on the Work in Argentina

It is with sadness that I write this to tell you that the bible studies that we were going to do with Juan Carlos Areyano did not work out, he is not coming to church presently, I am trying to get in touch with him but he is avoiding me presently, please pray because we only had one bible study and my heart is sad over this matter, he has a lot of family problems, be praying for him and for his soul.

Pray for the salvation of...

Osvaldo and Olga, they have been coming out to the meetings now for about 1 year, but they are both yet without understanding as it pertains to the gospel, pray for their salvation, he made a profession of faith but I dont believe he yet understands and she is catholic but enjoys coming out to the meetings, thanks for remembering them in prayer.

Happy Birthday Lesa!!!

My dear wife had her 40 th birthday today and enjoyed the company of many of her friends from church

Starting a Bible Study with Juan Carlos Areyana

Dear Ones:

Lord willing I will be starting a Bible Study with Juan Carlos Areyana who has been coming to church for about four months but I am not sure he knows the Lord yet, we will began Bible Studies Lord willing on monday nights around 9 pm, He has been separated from his wife for a few months and is hoping things well get better,so pray for his family , he has 3 children ages 23, 21 and 18 , he has a good job, but has need of the Lord, pray that he will truly know the Lord and seek his face in this difficult time.

Osvaldo and Iris

I had the Bible Study with Osvaldo this morning, we are on lesson 9 on the one on won course and I feel that he still does not understand much, pray for Osvaldo that God would open his understanding, Iris is wife is also hearing very intently while she serves us mate!!!, but I come out sometimes sad because he just does not see much yet, but I forget that God is the enlightener of the soul, pray that God would open his eyes to see the need to come to Christ, thanks.

A Special Need!!!

I would like to greet you all who know the Lord. We have a heavenly Father who not only has done many good works on our behalf but has also prepared good works for us to walk in. In this sense I feel as a debtor to my God. But of one thing I am sure that I cannot pay neither should the thought cross my mind, the sacrifice of Gods Son which was given to me in this So Great Salvation, and has made me an heir with Christ in God.
I would like to share my testimony in a brief way.

When I was but 11 years old, I was working on my own to live in this country that offers so little opportunities for people that come from a social situation of poverty, I work to sustain myself and be able to eat each day.

I would sell news papers on the train and I was good at what I did, I would jump off one train and on to the other without any problems.... that trust in my own strength would changed my life drastically ,the 30 of October of 1976 a train would drag the body of a young boy causing him terrible and severe wounds that would leave the young boy in Intensive Care and in a state of unconsciousness for 45 days. When he awoke from that tragedy nothing was the same, my body had been cruelly tortured, my face was disfigured and my leg was amputated, I did not know myself, I did not have any strength to go on, my body was now incomplete, but this was Gods Plan for my life, and today is how I understand this. God had mercy to take away my physical strength and make me realize I am nothing, and that I needed to depend on him. As I look back it was so little what I had lost and so great what I had gained, 6 years after my accident I heard about Christ and I came to know him as my Savior, I continue to be poor physically but at the same time rich in the Lord, slow physically but will one day have a transformed body, and we all who know Christ have this hope of a new body, a heavenly home!!!

I lack a leg, but now I have Christ, and this is the greatest gain that a man or a woman can desire. God has done me good and this good consist in living and knowing him and keeping his Word!!!


A word from me, Colby Holmes...if any of you have a orthopedic leg you would like to donate to our brother Nestor contact me at my phone or address on the blogg. He has need of a new leg, thanks so much.

Our Youth

Be praying for Daniel, this young man who is coming to the meetings but yet has not made a profesion of faith, Benjamin our son also has two of his friends from school coming to youth group, but they both dont know Christ.

Pray for out teens that they might have a desire for Glorifying God in there lives and not seeking there own, we would like to see more desire in them for the things of the Lord...

Pray that they might desire to witness to their friends, and also that they might seek the Lord and seek to honor Him and his Word.

Dear Praying Ones

Matters of Prayer:

1) I had this morning the Bible Study with Osvaldo and it went very well, we talked about sin and he was listening very intently to the issue, be praying because Iris his wife also listens to the study while she serves us the national drink mate, he is close to coming to Christ, at least in my understanding.

2) Pray for the door to door ministry on Saturdays, we are having some new contacts, pray that God would open the hearts of those that are hearing... pray for a man named Crisanto..his daughter comes to sunday school and I talked to him today , he asked me to come to his house in the week and speak to him though he told me that he is a strong Catholic. So I will be looking to going next week and talking with him.

3) We are starting a home Bible Study this evening after youth group in the home of one of the believes, his name his Gerardo, you may recall him, he comes to my house twice a week to pray and read, he is inviting folks to listen, be praying that this will be a profitable time and that sinners will come to Christ. We will start the Bible study this evening at 9:45 pm kind of late but it is the only time we could find to do it, so pray for us.

Bible Study with Osvaldo

Dear Ones, pray for Osvaldo, we are doing the one on one Bible Study with him, but he is yet without understanding, I can't seem to get to his understanding, I know that it is the Grace of God, It is His Mercy that calls sinners to repentance so I would asked for you to pray, we had a good time this afternoon but I feel a little sad that he remains without understanding, but than again the disciples were without understanding also in many occasions of the Lords ministry, thank you for praying, and pray for Lesa as she will be starting with Iris, (Osvaldos wife) the one on one course also.

Saturday Night Youth Meeting

We usually have are youth meeting from 5:30 on saturdays afternoons until 9 pm and what we usually do is have a time of worship and praise from 5:30 till 6 pm and than the time in the Word until 6:45 usually and than it is time for games , fellowship and food!!! They all give a little money and we go and buy something to eat, be praying for more desire in the youth for the things of the Lord, we average number wise about 24 young people, but numbers I know are not important, be praying that they would fear the Lord and seek to serve him in truth.

Good for tea time

You will see this site often, many men who are without work will start cooking fried bread and sell it for 35 cents each, on the road side, I bought some today to take over when I went to see Marcelo and Sonia. It is really good when it is nice and hot!!!

It is really good with Mate!!! some of you tried that drink!!!...didn't like it that much, but maybe your glad you don't live down here, God bless each of you.

Using chess to preach the Gospel!!!

Dear Praying ones, This is Marcelo and Sonia , I go to there house on tuesday for a couple hours and he and I play some chess but often we go through the gospel and he reads his bible on a regular basis, pray for them both, they have need of Christ, he is at a point were he understands his need of Christ but is stalling at believing, of course I dont believe the Lord has truly opened his eyes to see, be praying for his soul and hers and there son Patricio that they might all come to the knowledge of Christ and that God would show him His Mercy.

Thank you for praying and continuining to pray for Marcelo and Sonia, I sometimes become discouraged because he seemed so close to calling upon the Lord but than it seems they fall back, so be earnest in prayer for them, I told them this afternoon that people would see there picture and pray for them. Thanks for your prayers, in the love of Christ the Holmes.

Praying together

Gerardo Corpos and I get together on Tuesday mornings and Thursday mornings at 7 am to pray and read, Gerardo and His wife have been coming out to the meetings for about 1 year, they were from another Baptist church and went into the charismatic movement, he is growing and asked me if we could pray together, he has a daughter from a previous marriage who is 12 years old and does not know the Lord , also pray for Melina..which would be Margaritas daughter ( Gerardo's present wife) she is 21 and does not know the Lord either, they own two businesses in Ezeiza and do well financially and have a very evangelistic out reach, always seeking to witness to people, remember them and also that together as we pray we might see the Hand of the Lord at work thanks again for helping us together in prayer, the Holmes!!!

Sam and Ben going to school!!!

This is a common day for the boys as they go to school, they have to use a white uniform, and they walk three blocks to school, pray for their safety and that they would be a testimony to thier friends.

Bible Study

On tuesday at 8:30 I am having a bible study with Osvaldo who is not saved...( says he is) but I dont think he has yet called upon the Lord to be saved, we are doing the one on one bible course which I find very good to do with new ones, they are coming to church on Sunday Mornings.


Be praying for the whole family.. Lesa is going to start bible studies with Iris who also is unsaved and wants to start a bible study also.

Remember to Pray for Osvaldo and Iris and there 3 children that they would come to Christ in truth, thank you from the Holmes!!