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Blessings to all of you, and happy March!
We have started off the new year here in Honduras in a whirlwind, and we know we haven't updated everyone yet about what's been happening these past two months. But God is good! His faithfulness always seems to amaze us, and we are thankful that we are able to serve Him here as a family. We have posted our newest newsletter on our site, called Firm Foundation. We hope that you will take a moment to listen and pray for the people here. Thank you as always for your love & support! Ryan, Kelly, Ezra, Kezia & Isaiah Saurers Click here to view the "Firm Foundation" newsletter -- For His Glory; In His Love, Ryan & Kelly saurersfamilymission@gmail.com psalms963.weebly.com "Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all people" - Psalm 96:3 Friends & Family,
We want to first wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Also to share that we are sending a link to our latest newsletter, Through the Eyes of Ezra and Kezia. http://psalms963.weebly.com/newsletter It's been a good and busy year in ministry, but through their eyes, this is just life. Serving God and learning about sharing His love. And for that we are blessed. Thank you for all of your support and prayers for God's people in Honduras, and we look forward to sharing with you more in 2023! The Saurers Family -- For His Glory; In His Love, Ryan & Kelly saurersfamilymission@gmail.com Family & Friends,
We wanted to update you to say that we have posted our newest video newsletter on the site. In it, we reflect on ministry here in Honduras over these past couple of months - and how important it is to look at things with God's Perspective. Thank you for your support of God's work here in Honduras, and we pray that you are all well and blessed by knowing Him. Newsletter Video - God's Perspective -- For His Glory; In His Love, Ryan & Kelly saurersfamilymission@gmail.com psalms963.weebly.com "Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all people" - Psalm 96:3 Mike & Fiona, We hope and pray you are doing well. Mom keeps us up to date on what's all happening at Christ Episcopal and with you both. We have you all in our prayers and we wanted to let you know that we so appreciate you praying for us and the ministry in Honduras. We wanted to share with you a video where we as a family speak about what's going on down here, and to thank the church for their continued love and support. We look forward to seeing you both in December when we visit! God bless, For His Glory; In His Love, Ryan & Kelly saurersfamilymission@gmail.com psalms963.weebly.com "Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all people" - Psalm 96:3 Friends & Family,
We hope and pray you are well! We have a new update from down here in Honduras for you, talking about what has been happening at Enlaces Bilingual School. Check out the link below to hear from some of the Senior class students who reflect on the outreach they did last month and how God is using students, current and past, to continue to share the Gospel. We also have posted praise reports & prayer reports, as well as information about how you can help in a very special way, to put the Word of God into the hands of more students here. God bless each one of you, and thank you as always for your love and support! Students on Mission Newsletter - CLICK HERE For His Glory; In His Love, Ryan & Kelly saurersfamilymission@gmail.com psalms963.weebly.com "Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all people" - Psalm 96:3 Friends & Family,
We hope that you are all enjoying a start to a great summer there in the States! We have been BUSY down here, in a little bit of a different way this past month. Isaiah Michael was born on May 14th and we have been overwhelmed with the outpouring of love on our family and so appreciate every prayer over him. We continue to minister here in Honduras with Bridge Ministries and so appreciate your prayer and financial support. In this newsletter we discuss how our focus here in ministry (and personally) has been on family. We hope it encourages you, as it has us, to reflect on this beautiful gift that God has given us. Click here to view newsletter God bless, Ryan, Kelly, Ezra, Kezia & Isaiah For His Glory; In His Love, Ryan & Kelly saurersfamilymission@gmail.com psalms963.weebly.com "Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all people" - Psalm 96:3 Friends and Family,
First and foremost, We pray you all are excited to be celebrating the resurrection of our Lord Jesus this Easter, and that you are able to reflect with your loved ones the amazing meaning behind the holiday. That we are no longer dead in our sins, but alive in Christ, because he has defeated death and HE IS RISEN! We are also happy to share with you our latest newsletter entitled "Connections" where we reflect on the mission group we had visit this past month from First Friends Church in Canton, Ohio. It was not only great to minister with the church from where we first came to know Jesus, but wonderful to see the heart connections they were able to make with the people here in Honduras. You can click on the link below to view the newsletter. Thank you as always for your love and support, Happy Resurrection Sunday, and God bless! Saurers Family Newsletter - Connections For His Glory; In His Love, Ryan & Kelly saurersfamilymission@gmail.com psalms963.weebly.com "Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all people" - Psalm 96:3 To the Church of Christ Episcopal in Huron,
We are so thankful for your Love and Support and pray you all are well and are goring in our Lord Jesus Christ. Here is an update from Honduras. We are filled with Gratitude for your support of the mission to raise and equip disciples to change the nation of Honduras. It has been a whirlwind this early early year with constant changes. It has been a great lesson for me (Ryan) to learn how to eb and flow with the will of God and not just be so fixed in my own ways and ideas. Since Kelly has returned from visiting family, night school has begun, the bilingual school has changed several times because of government decisions of virtual class and students being present for class. Praise God we will now be able to have them back at school for the remainder of the year. We were seeing large educational gaps during the virtual weeks. Furthermore, I have begun an English class program to help those who have a desire to learn the language. My hope is to attempt to use bible stories to help teach English. With all that being said. We are blessed. The kids are doing great, Ezra loves school, he is extremely social and loves his classmates. Kexia is enjoying the time spent while Ez is at school. and baby three is growing big. Kelly is doing very well with the pregnancy, we both are being hit with the realization that we will be a family of 5 only in 2 short months. For His Glory; In His Love, Ryan & Kelly saurersfamilymission@gmail.com psalms963.weebly.com "Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all people" - Psalm 96:3 Update and Prayer Requests: February 2022
Valerie and Nicasio Martinez Translating God's Word with and for the people who speak Quiatoni Zapotec This month has been a busy one—and we could have done without some of the events. Read on to see what the roller coaster was like! We mentioned last month that Nicasio will be the coordinator for a class on translation for the Master’s Program at his university and that SIL will supply the actual teachers. They have had several good meetings and this class will start on March 3, every Thursday into July. We appreciate your prayers that it will all go well. I have been attending the on-line course twice a week on Scripture engagement. (It “gives the big picture of Scripture Engagement, building and expanding on long established insights about how people engage with Scripture - and why sometimes they don’t.”) It has been very interesting and helpful in thinking about what we can do to encourage the Quiatoni pastors and others to take advantage of having God’s Word in their own language. They are so convinced that Spanish is better than Zapotec and that Spanish is “church language.” Please pray for their hearts and minds to be open to using the language they understand the best. A neat side-light from the class is seeing how many of the things they recommend doing Nicasio has done without having had a class on this! The course says that relationships and partnerships are the most important factors in Scripture engagement and Nicasio has been doing that naturally all these years. I’m so thankful for the gifts God has given him. When Nicasio approached Pastor and co-pastor about the Zapotec service returning to in-person services,* he was told he had to talk to the church council. When he told all those who attend the (online) Zapotec service that, they all said they were going with him to meet with the council! The council wanted to reach a "good agreement" but they had already prepared their terms for us to return to church, which included completely canceling the Zapotec service. Now, that was a big blow. The meeting went for three hours; Nicasio and lots of "our" people spoke up. A “good agreement” was finally reached when Pastor and the council agreed to letting the Zapotec service resume in the church after we’d been attending for six months. (There were some other minor conditions, too.) Meanwhile, we continue to hold the Zapotec service online. Please pray for us as we re-integrate into the church and that those who see us as causing problems will see that that is not true. Early in February my computer “seized up,” as my dad would have said; the computer guys say it crashed. I’m very thankful that the local computer guy was able to save all my data and get the computer working again. It’s even faster than it was before! Unfortunately, my email took the brunt of the crash and I’m still working on rescuing what I can of that. We are so dependent on our computers for work so our computers can use your prayers, too! Some really good news is that Nicasio went to an eye doctor to see how his eyes are doing since he has gloucoma. (This was found years ago and he’s been using drops since then but hasn’t had many check-ups.) The doctor changed him to another drop but we are so thankful that the doctor found no indication of damage or loss of sight! Thank God with us! Beto is starting his last semester of college! We continue to be impressed with his abilities and how he loves to learn. He’s also making progress on translating Proverbs (done through chapter 17) to attend workshop later this year. Thank you for praying for us, for our ministry of Bible translation, for our family (they are all fine; Rusty arrives March 1 for a week’s visit!), for Beto and his family, and for all those who speak Quiatoni Zapotec, that they may come to know Jesus through their own language. Love, Valerie and Nicasio www.cten.org/NicasioMartinez *Nicasio canceled in-person Zapotec services when the government regulations prohibited group meetings in March 2020. Since January 2021, we have been meeting online for the Zapotec services. Family & Friends,
First and foremost we want to thank each one of you who have reached out to us in the passing of Kelly's grandmother. She was truly an amazing woman and while we will miss her dearly, we reflect on her confidence in the Lord and how she has always supported us in chasing after Jesus. We hope you have a moment to view our latest newsletter entitled "Extra TIme" where we update on our return to Honduras, the start of the new year in ministry, and a reflection on the purpose for the Extra Time the Lord gives us in the midst of it all. CLICK HERE - "EXTRA TIME" NEWSLETTER Thank you as always for your love and faithful support of the ministry here in Honduras. God bless you all. For His Glory; In His Love, Ryan & Kelly saurersfamilymission@gmail.com psalms963.weebly.com "Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all people" - Psalm 96:3 |
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