Meet Mr. and Mrs. Garcia

It is always a joy to have people come to our home to drink mate and visit. 

This dear couple have been attending the church for the last two years or so.

 Osvaldo says he is saved and Olga is Catholic.

 They had been coming out every Sunday night ..........................'till lately. 

Why are they not coming out anymore?

 Osvaldo has cancer and he is not doing very well. He stays in bed, under an electric blanket we loaned him. He has failed a lot and Olga cries a lot. Will you pray for them? We would love to see Olga come to Christ and Osvaldo needs to be sure of his salvation.

 We miss them in the meetings and their visits. Osvaldo always had candy  or cookies for Jonathan. They even came to see Jonathan when he went to pre- school. 

It doesn't look good for Osvaldo BUT our God is able.

 Pray for his spiritual health and and Olga's salvation.

*The picture is taken in our home and the little boy with them in the picture is Jonathan's friend Martin. 

Happy 13th Birthday Samuel!!

JUNE 7, 2007

Happy Birthday Samuel! 

He wanted a chocolate cake and did he get it! Here is the gang...... Benjamin, Samuel, Jonathan and Natalie.

Some of Samuel's friends came over to visit him. Others came in the evening to finish off the cake! For Sam's Birthday we got him a violin. He is studying every Monday and Thursday night so we are looking forward to having him play in church SOON!

Lesa's Bible Study With Karina

Every Saturday afternoon Karina and I get together at my house to study God's Word.  We are studying "Won By One" Bible course and it's going very well. Please pray for her...she says she has an open mind and likes to hear all kinds of different ideas. She says she has received Christ as her Savior so I ask the Lord to work in her life. If HE has begun the work HE will finish it. (Philippians 1:6)  She loves YOGA and teaches it in her home. Karina comes out to the Sunday services and sometimes her 4 children come with her. Pray for her husband Adrian...he use to come to the meetings and he was baptized in our church BUT he now doesn´t want anything to do with God and church. She would love to see him come with her.Pray for him also. Their 4 children are FEDERICO,PABLO,PRISCILA, and TOMAS.

Sorry for not being around and sharing with you what The Lord is doing here in Ezeiza, we are happy with the change of heart in Marcelo and Sonia, Colby goes on tuesday afternoons and does a bible study with them, they are going through the book, the stranger on the road to Emmaus, it is going well, pray that they will come to and understanding of the Lord and His Word. Sonia has a skin disease that you can pray about, and they have to spend a good amount of his salary on the medicine each month so please be in prayer for them, they are not coming to the meetings but are doing the study and that is a joy to our hearts, thanks for praying!!!

Recent picture of the family

more of the family and sites

family and sites!!!

more photos of our trip over the mountains and to Villa Regina

Some more beautiful sites we were able to see!!

Photos of our trip to chile

Ersilia Caverzan one of the ladies that mom and dad years ago led to the Lord in the city of Villa Regina, I had the joy of visiting with her and being reminded of Gods Faithfulness over these years, remember her in Prayer, she is 66 years old and lives alone, thanks for remebering her.
Joel Hidalgo, when I went into his bookstore in Regina he did not know who I was and neither did I, but in speaking to him he asked of what denomination we were and I told him, Union de Centros Biblicos, to which he showed me a book that some man gave him 30 years ago and lead him to Christ , he than continued to tell us how that man taught him the Word, then Ricardo who was with me, asked him, Is that man Ronald Holmes to which he replied ...YES!!!! then Ricardo said, well this young man standing here (speaking of me) is His son..Colby..tears flowed from his eyes and we had a great time of fellowship...thank God for fruits that remain to Gods Glory

Update from the Holmes

Well I am sorry it has taken so long to give an update, sometimes not much to say.... sorry !!! We went to Chile for our anual missionary conferance and it was a great time in the Word, we had a good trip going and coming, and Lesa was able to see sights of were I grew up from the age of 7 to the age of 12. Also we were able to rest for a few days when was very good for the family. When we got back to Ezeiza on the 3 of February our son benjamin took a sick spell, so we would asked you to pray for him, we will be running some studies on him to see what is wrong, pray with us for him, thanks so much for your prayers.

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.