The Contreras Family in Gijón, SPAIN -
Thank
you to all of you for continually praying for us and supporting the work God
has called us to do in Gijón, SPAIN. This February 3rd we will be
celebrating 13 years as full-time missionaries in Northern Spain. God never ceases to amaze us, giving us
yet another year to battle for souls in this country so hurt by man´s
religion and philosophies. Keep
praying for the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives (1 Thess. 1:5)!
A slow start to 2013. We started
the New Year with a drop in church attendance with one family moving to Madrid
in late December, Carlos starting a job in Galicia on January 2nd
with his wife eventually moving there too, Alejandro finding a church to attend
closer to where he lives, and many others battling the flu. The church (Iglesia Bautista Libertad de Gijón) is printing new postcard
invitations for distribution. Pray
we can reach new people and families.
Be Strong weight training participants, Raptors football players, and English students are down in number
as well. However, we did start a
new English student, an ex-Mariner and fellow football coach! He is one of the best linebackers in Spain, played with Joseph on the
Gijón Mariners football team from 2005-2008. He has shown much interest in our conversations
about the Gospel, Baptist history and Bible principles, the End Times, and the
cults. Pray he will come to know
Christ as Savior.
Danielle
has some new unsaved young ladies in her fitness class. She is witnessing to Caro, who, like
many people we meet, doesn´t believe in God, but in
“energy.” Pray for her
and her family´s salvation.
Our greatest goal for 2013. One of
our main goals and prayer requests for this year is to get full-time co-workers to
share the work with us here in Gijón. We are so pleased with how the work has
been the last two years, but we really need help. For the majority of our years as
missionaries in Spain, we´ve worked with co-workers. Pray especially that God would call a
family for church planting, and also who has a heart for evangelism through
sports, since God has led our work to develop in this way.
Family prayer requests. God
has blessed us with three young men, Isaiah, Andrew, and Michael, who love
serving the Lord. We continue
homeschooling them, and they are friends with all the kids in the
neighborhood. Girls like them
too. Pray for us as we raise
teenage boys. The challenges have
changed, but we just keep teaching them to be pure, godly friends, and to point
their friends to Christ. We pray to
instill biblical principles in their hearts during these years as one day they
will marry and start a home. Our
family prayer request is that we can have a couple of furloughs during their
high school years in which we can be in the States, even as soon as 2014.
May God continue to bless and prosper you as you
serve Him. Thank you for your
commitment to Christ´s Great Commission in Gijón, SPAIN!
The
Contreras Family
Joseph,
Danielle, Isaiah, Andrew, and Michael
Support address: Central Missionary Clearinghouse
PO Box 219228, Houston, TX 77218
Field address: Calle
Feijoó 52, 4-C,
33204 Gijón,
SPAIN
Sending church: Sun Valley
Baptist Church
9901
McCombs, El Paso, TX 79924
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