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!!

Going door to door on Saturdays mornings

Dear Praying ones: I wanted to ask you to pray for us as we seek to fill the city with the Gospel each week, we go out on Saturday mornings around 10:30 in the morning and are covering the city with tracks, usually this is the group that is going out to share the Word, be praying with us as you remember every saturday morning that God would open doors of utterance and also that God would Grant us to see some come to the knowledge of Christ.

Back in Argentina

We left Miami at 9 pm on monday the 20th of March and arrived in Argentina on the 21st at 12 noon time in Buenos Aires, some of the believers had come to see us at the airport and it was a joy to be back and see there faces, but now we need to get back to everything and it is not so simple...

Lesa has been unpacking all the stuff and that has been a lot of work for her, also getting the kids back to school has not been easy they have had to catch up on a lot of home work and activities, jonathan was happy to get back to his toys!!!

We have had some warm days here up to now, which has been good after the cold of Canada and Maine.

I do want to thank each of you for your support and help to us over these years, I know that I have failed much in communication but I hope to do much better this term in the will of the Lord.

The believers are doing fine, some have left the work and that has caused sadness in our hearts, but we would asked that you would be praying with us for the next matters...

1) Osvaldo and Iris there salvation and Lesa and I as we have weekly bible studies with them.

2) the kids that they would be a good testimony in school

3) That we would be able to organize the church in the next few months so that it would be honoring to the Lord

4) For our weekly door to door visitation on Saturday morning that this might go well and God would open many doors of utterance to the Gospel

5) That we would be honoring the Lord as a family.

6) For Colby as he needs to do his Argentina document again that was lost just before we went on furlough

7) For wisdom as we seek to buy a vehicle for the family.

Thanks for praying and for helping us in the work of the Lord..

we will be updating this page as often as possible, in the Love of Christ , The Holmes

Wedding

We are thankful to the Lord for allowing us to be at Mom and Arts wedding and also for the joy God gaves of being with the whole family once again with the exception of Nathan who could not be there, the wedding was great and also the time of the fellowship, remember mom and Art as they seek to Glorify God and enjoy each other in there new life together.

Meet Jonathan and Mckenzey

two cousins enjoyed there time together