The rest of the summer, our facilities will transform into a camp specifically for teens. Keep us in your prayers as we will be sharing the gospel and discipling youth during this season. 104 salvation decisions were made, and 175 children dedicating their lives to the Lord.
The rest of the summer, our facilities will transform into a camp specifically for teens. Keep us in your prayers as we will be sharing the gospel and discipling youth during this season. 104 salvation decisions were made, and 175 children dedicating their lives to the Lord.
The rest of the summer, our facilities will transform into a camp specifically for teens. Keep us in your prayers as we will be sharing the gospel and discipling youth during this season. 104 salvation decisions were made, and 175 children dedicating their lives to the Lord.
We have great news to share with you about the beginning of summer camp and what it was like to reunite with our family and staff. During the beginning of December, we sent out a prayer update about the three months we would be spending here in Argentina, visiting our family and serving in our summer camp. If you did not receive that update, we apologize and request that you send us an email to sign up for our prayer update via email. We have exciting news about summer camp. We just finished our one week of children’s camp. The rest of the summer, our facilities will transform in to a camp specifically for teens. Keep us in our prayers as we will be sharing the gospel and discipling youth during this season. On the victory side, Stephen and Debora Lopez www.SDLOPEZ.com Children’s Camp The first week of January started and we had nearly 400 children dropped off here at camp for the time of their lives. Shortly before camp started, our whole staff, including students, were scrambling to arrive here from celebrating the new year with their families. We had little time to fellowship, and hurried to get things ready for the arrival of the campers. During the first week of camp, we had the entire program set up to specifically minister to kids aged 7 to 12 years old. We praise the Lord for the 104 salvation decisions that were made, and 175 children dedicating their lives to the Lord! We are amazed to see that kind of response from the children, but are reminded that we, too, are to have faith like a child. I will never forget receiving Jesus as my personal Savior at the Word of Life Family Campground at the age of 6. It was a huge blessing to serve this week now as a missionary. We are also thanking the Lord for the scholarships we were able to raise to send over 26 campers to a free week of camp. Many children in Argentina live in difficult conditions, and we were tremen- dously blessed to give them a spectacular week of camp and pre- sent the Gospel. Pray for the next 8 weeks of teen camp! Our goal is to reach and disciple youth with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As you partner with us, we commit to pray for you, and to regularly share news and fruit of the ministry. I/we desire to be a part of your team by: • All contributions will be acknowledged with an official receipt _ Praying daily for you and your ministry. for income-tax purposes. _ Giving $ __________per month/year (090K2S). • Please make checks payable to “Word of Life” and write _ Giving a one-time gift $ __________(090K2C). “Stephen Lopez + code” in the memo section. _ I no longer desire to receive this newsletter. • Visit our website to give online or contact us. Name:_______________________________ • Please detach or make note of this form and mail to: Address:_____________________________ Word of Life City/State:____________________________ PO Box 600 Zip code:________ Schroon Lake, NY 12870
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with no hassle As of our January 2010 we will depending financially on any faith promises which have been made to us. Many of our supporters have communicated to us that they may forget to send monthly support. If you are tired of sending monthly support by check, we have some useful tools for you. Here are some options to make sending monthly support easier for you. 1) Electronic Funds Transfer This option allows your support Our family reunion. Debora’s parents (left) Juan and to be sent automatically to our Mirta. Debby and me in the (middle.) Barbara and ministry directly from your per- Andres (right) are Debora’s siblings. sonal bank account. 2) Credit Card Our Family Reunion in Argentina This option is for those who like As we arrived in Buenos Aires at 2am, on the same day as our 2 year to rack up those points on your anniversary, we left the baggage area and were greeted by our family. After credit card. Now you can have traveling for 24 straight hours, it was a huge blessing to see our family your credit card charged monthly again. Debora’s parents (Juan and Mirta) and her siblings (Andres and Bar- to support our ministry. bara) were there. Neither of us could sleep, and once we arrived at their If you are interested in either of home we talked for another three hours and then collapsed! these options please contact us Later that day, after a good siesta (nap) my father in law Juan had a and we will give you the necessary delicious BBQ (“asado”) for us, and many of our good friends came over to paperwork to set it up. If any of join us. We had a lot of catching up to do and ended up talking so much we these options are not of interest, went to bed at 2am! It has been two years since we have been back and we but you struggle to remember to are so thankful to see everybody again. We also celebrated Christmas and send monthly support, we would the new year with them. We then began to prepare for summer camp early in encourage you to make a yearly January. gift in the sum of how much you Gracias a Dios por nuestra Familia! (We thank the Lord for our family) desire to support us monthly. Thank you! Our Summer Ministry Debora and I will have various responsibili- ties this summer that we desire to share, so you know how to pray for us. We both will be supervising the many counselors who will be ministering to the campers for the duration of the summer. Both of us have to deal with any situation at the camp that needs attention with regard the camp- ers. Much of our time is consumed with checking on counselors to see if they need help with their camp- ers as well as supervising all chapels and games. Here at camp, we invite all teenagers from all walks of life to come and have a great time, and to be challenged by God’s Word. We have campers that arrive from Buenos Aires and the surrounding A Visit From USA providences of Argentina. Sometimes we have groups from countries like Uruguay, Bolivia or Peru. A few days before the first day of camp, a family from our home church came to visit us at Word of Life. The Blumetti Many campers who come and are dealing family came to visit their son who is studying in our program at with tough issues such as drug addictions. It can be the Bible Institute. They are originally from Argentina and are a huge challenge at times to minister to them with living in the USA. the things they are going through. But if it’s one thing we trust, it is this; We all had such a great time together. I was able to show the property and introduce them to our directors and “For the word of God is living and powerful and staff. We thank the Lord for this family and their testimony for sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing the Lord. even the division of soul and spirit and the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts Please pray for the Blumetti family and their son Nicky and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 as he is finishing his first year at the Bible Institute. Our prayer is that no matter who they are or what they have been through, that these teens can come to a have a personal relationship with Jesus Prayer Requests Christ. Even more, we desire for them to learn to 1- Pray for salvation decisions this summer walk in daily fellowship in God’s Word and to be able to connect them to a local church. as we are in a spiritual battle. Pray for us as we minister to youth. 2- Pray for our health as we will be very ac- tive in these next few months to come. 3-Pray for wisdom for us as we are counsel- CONTACT US ing the different counselors of the camp. Email: stephenlopez@wol.org 4-Pray for us as we will be traveling to the Web: www.sdlopez.com USA the end of March to finish raising our financial support to dedicate full time to this Skype: stephenlopez.wol.org ministry.
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