Newsletter
Dear Family, Friends, Prayer Partners and Supporters,
Latest News as of February, 2008
Happy "late" New Year...
After some good Holidays we just keep continuing with the
ministries we are doing.
Literacy
The last meeting of the Literacy committe was Saturday January
12, '08, at the Language Center. During that time Bridget
introduced the transitional primers as ready to go to the
churches. Bridget has also been busy these last few weeks
setting up times with pastors as to when she can go and present
the program to the people in the churches. The attendance,
however, of the Literacy committee this last meeting was low.
Please pray for the committee members to attend and participate
in all the meetings. Some are also to be showing the transitional
primers at thier respective churches since Bridget herself
cannot share at all the churches.She will be having a seminar
March 17-20 in which she will be teaching how to write a story,
and is hoping to collect many stories to use in the reading
program.
TEE (E.E.B.E.)
Well Rolando started the TEE class at the ACTB center on November
29th and it as been going well. This next week, February 7th,
will be the 10th and final study of the first book. So we
will have another 6 men that will have completed the 1st book
of the course. Pray for them in the next week as they prepare
to take thier FINAL exam for book 1.
Charles on the other hand has been meeting individually with
pastors and it has been going so so. Please pray for these
pastors and church leaders that they will have the time to
come to the meetings and finish the studies.
Computers - Tech Support
Well you will be glad to know that we were donated a copy
of Windows in Spanish by a church in Spain and have already
had opportunities to help pastors with their computers. We
are sure there will be more that will need this help. Thanks
to all who went out of thier way to see if they could come
up with a solution for us. We continue to look at Linux (Ubuntu)
to see if it will be a vialble option for those needing a
OS in Spanish. We have also been requested by many missionaries
and pastors to do a basic computer course. Another mission
has also volunteered to help us set up the seminar to teach
some computer basics. I am praying about this and trying to
think of a way to do it with limited resources. So that is
one thing that I know will help in the long run if the ministry
workers here can know how to use these computers that have
been donated to them.
Discipleship
The ladies that Bridget was working with have not showed up
in several weeks. When we do see them all we get is excuses.
Please pray for them and that they would realize that they
need to know the word of God. Charles also has not been able
to meet with his guy for the same reasons. However, there
was another young man that came and wanted to participate
in the TEE program. After going through the requirement process
we found out that he is not really in a leadership position
at the church he is attending, but just really wanted to study
the word for personal growth. We started meeting on Monday
evenings to do a personal Bible study. Please pray that as
we go through the word and study that he would really seek
the Lord and grow in his walk.
Kids - Home school
Not much has changed from last month - Micah and Brianna continue
with their home school and have been doing well. They got
the program figured out and pretty much finish mid-day. Micah
continues playing guitar and Brianna continues drawing.
On another note, please pray for us as to how we can get
Micah situated to finish his Senior year in high school in
the states. We have had a lot of people help us talk with
the school there and it looks real positive that he will be
able to attend. What is missing is that we need a place for
him to stay. We need a good, Christian family in the Midlothian,
TX school district, basically to house him, feed him and be
his guardians during this school year. Then we hope to be
in the states in May of '09 to get him ready for college.
Please pray about who would be able to help us with our son
this year.
Health
Healthwise we are doing a lot better.. Charles's foot is getting
better, little by little. Still hurts some times. It will
be a year in March since he had the accident.
Again we took Bridget to the new hospital they have here,
just last week and she got a clean bill of health. Her thyroid
is funcioning and the medication is working. She is not having
anymore pain. Praise the Lord. Many thanks to all who prayed
and helped to send and bring her medications. Please continue
to pray that she stays good and controlled with the meds she
is using and will be pain free for a long time to come. The
kids are doing good.
Other missionaries
Again we ask that you please continue to pray for the Pierces
now that they are in the states. The Guardias continue administrating
the Language center and we ask you to pray for their financial
needs. Pray also for Patrick
as he looks for more support, we hope that he can come soon
and start the work that is needed.
We also had a quiet and peaceful Christmas and New Years
just being together and spending some time at the center with
the Guardias.
Please see our prayer page
for our praise/prayer requests. Also, please remember we do
enjoy hearing from you all, too. So, please write. We have
internet access regularly now and really enjoy hearing from
everyone. We will try to respond as fast as we can.
We really, really appreciate it.
God Bless,
The Ulibarri Family
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