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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 Dear , Mike & Christ Episcopal ,
We want to first thank you for your support this past year in 2021 and wish you and your congregation a blessed and happy 2022. The past year of ministry in Honduras continued to face many challenges, but from which developed some great blessings and we want to give all the glory to God and share these things with you. The Bilingual School continued virtually all year, where Kelly and I faced the challenge of really connecting to and reaching the students through the computer for the second year in a row. They did hear the Word and had difficult assignments that really challenged their spiritual thinking in order to grow deeper in their faith, and praise God. There were moments where we knew God was working and opening up hearts to help them through some difficult home situations. We are praying that when we start the new year in February that we will be able to be back in person. In the Night School Program, Kelly worked in person with a young man who is sixteen and she got him through the 6th grade in all of his subjects, while having some great conversations with him one on one about growing in the Lord. I had worked with a young man with some special needs teaching him some life skills in order to help him find some potential work so he can make money for his family. We connected him into the Rec Center and he became our bread baker each weekend. The Rec Center was up and down due to continued Covid restrictions. Earlier last year, we opened and later had to shut down for a few weeks, then to return to open up again. As people around the city found out we were open, we began to run at full speed. No matter the attendance, the Word still went out and there were many who made decisions to follow Christ, and we saw several join us in the church. The Enlaces Church has become established and stable this year, steadily at around 35 people, with many children of whom are excited to come and learn. Kelly and I have also been leading men and women's Bible study groups from this. The Humanitarian Aid was able to give out many items that opened the doors to evangelize in the city. We also were blessed to be able to go out on an in-country mission trip about 12 hours away with some of the Enlaces team, to give many clothes, food, household items, and a seminar on how to start and maintain a small business that honors God, and most importantly to share the Word with the community there. As we pray and prepare for a new year of ministry, we hope that you continue to join us in prayer to continue the work God wants us to do, as well as to open new avenues to minister to the Honduran people. As you know, going into a new year we never are sure of what challenges we will face and what changes will be made in ministering, but we trust in the Lord and know that each year we are blessed to be able to look back and see how His hand has moved and guided us through every moment. We thank you again for your continued partnership and thank God for you and your faithfulness to support God's mission in Honduras. 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 Dear Family & Friends, We hope and pray that each one of you had a great Christmas and wish you a very happy 2022! We always are asked about what it's like to do 24-7 ministry with our kids in Honduras. So at the end of each year, we like to give a glimpse of what ministry looks like through the eyes of our son Ezra (who is now 4). Whenever we reflect on all that God has done each year, we learn so much through what our kids experience and the things that Ezra says! He is a great reminder to have that child-like faith. So we hope that you take the time and enjoy this year's video about Discipleship in 2021. You can click on the blue link below to see the video on our website. God bless you all, and thank you for your faithful support <3 We look forward to continuing to partner with you in 2022. Discipleship in 2021 - Through the Eyes of Ezra Family & Friends,
We have just updated our website with a new newsletter entitled "Small Victories" which talks about what God has been doing and showing us these past two months here in Honduras. We hope that when you have the time you are able to watch it, and as always we thank you for your continued support, prayers and encouragement. God bless you all, and we pray that you and your families have a wonderful Thanksgiving. God bless, Ryan Kelly Ezra & Kezia Saurers "Small Victories" Newsletter For His Glory; In His Love, Ryan & Kelly saurersfamilymission@gmail.com psalms963.weebly.com Blessings to You and Yours,
We pray this email finds you well, and that you continue to see the Lord working in your lives. We have published a new newsletter on our website where you can see photos and videos of our mission trip to Tomalá, Honduras, that we were blessed with the extra support to be able to take with the Enlaces team earlier this month. We want to thank all of you for your continued prayers and interest in how God has been opening doors here to minister. We feel blessed to be able to be hands and feet as the Lord has called us to. We hope you enjoy, and God bless Newsletter - Tomalá Ryan, Kelly, Ezra & Kezia Saurers -- 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 this email finds you well, and that you have been healthy, blessed, and seeking after what God has for you in this season. We are sending this email with a link to our newest newsletter entitled "Consistency". We apologize as it's been a while since our last update and email, but we want to thank each and every one of you for your continued prayers and support. God bless you, Love always, Ryan Kelly Ezra & Kezia Click Here to Watch "Consistency" 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 Happy February to all and God bless you!
We have just posted our newest newsletter entitled "Prepared" that shares about our first month back here in Honduras and in what ways God continues to prepare the way for ministry. We want to thank each and every one of you for your prayers and support, and we pray that you are seeking what God has prepared for you personally - and that you are opening your heart to Him to receive it. CLICK HERE to Listen to "Prepared" For His Glory, Ryan, Kelly, Ezra & Kezia Saurers saurersfamilymission@gmail.com |
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