Thursday, December 17, 2009

Wow, it's hard to believe that 2009 is coming to an end. The One by One team has been in country for nearly a year now, and God has done so many amazing things already! Here are some of the highlights from this year, in no particular order:

• Jeremy and Jessica Havlin, Dan Quigley, and Katie Loos arrived in January
• Dan Quigley has learned some Spanish and has not been arrested!
• We were blessed with the opportunity to rent an amazing building for a great low price, God knew that our kid's ministry would be huge and he has provided the perfect space and location for us!
• We were able to find a worship director who has been willing to help with skits and whatever else we've needed to minister to these kids and youth.
• Hosted a missions team from Discover Church.
• In just 27 kid's services we have seen over 450 kids pray to receive Christ, and we are averaging between 200 and 300 kids weekly.
• We were able to form an awesome youth band.
• Began youth services in September, and are consistently bringing in about 45 youth every week.
• More and more people are hearing about what we're doing, and we've had several donations from teams this year.
• Chase and Julie Russell moved to Nicaragua in November and began Spanish classes and learning about kid's ministry.
• We were able to go into Schools and share the Gospel with kids as well as bless them with hygiene products.

These are just a couple of the things God has done this year. We have so much more that He has laid on our hearts to do next year, and we're really excited to see how He provides! Please continue to pray with us for this ministry, and seek God to seek how he wants you to be involved.