Dear Friends and family,
Hello again from the jungle metropolis of Santa Cruz,
Bolivia! We have had a busy spring with teams and volunteers visiting and plenty
of activity here in Santa Cruz. Our
family will be staying in Bolivia this summer, hosting several teams that will
be focused both on ministry here in the city and in our rural Agua Yaku water
projects.
Our latest team came from C. I. Thornburg, a water utilities
supply company based in Kentucky and West Virginia. A group of seven employees came to help us
drill two wells in Pailon, a small town just east of Santa Cruz. You can check out a video of there week of
work and fun at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkFwkksM-VA&t=4s.
In June, Crossroads, our home church from Kentucky, will be
sending a family team to work with Compassion International and with a home for
children called Judah Quy, where we will be painting and helping make
improvements to the home. In July, we
will be hosting a team from the ABLE ministry that will help us distribute
water filters in rural Guarani communities in the department of Tarija, which
is south of Santa Cruz. We will be
working jointly with another mission organization that recently finished
translating the New Testament into the local Guarani dialect. We will visit communities where we will share
both clean "physical" water and "living water" -- the hope
of the Gospel message that is promised through Jesus Christ.
We are continuing to develop our own brand of water filter,
called "AquaSiv," which will replace the Sawyer filter that we are
currently using. The manufacturing in
China is slower than anticipated, but it is still on course to be released this
year. We recently completed a video,
which you can find at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJxlXVcD18A&t=12s
on YouTube. This video describes our
work both drilling water wells and distributing filters and the importance of
clean water, and proper hygiene and sanitation for the improvement of health in
developing countries such as Bolivia.
CAFA update: Vanessa continues to work in the El Alfarero
ministries and specifically in the administration of CAFA, the family
counseling ministry that helps families break the cycle of domestic violence so
prevalent in Latin America. Please pray
for both the counselors and the participants in these programs. The counseling sessions can be quite
emotionally intense as the deal with difficult past and current family
situations, and the hard work of true forgiveness and hearing God's voice in
the middle of crisis.
We will soon be enjoying several weeks with our daughter,
Luciana, as she has a chance to visit Bolivia several weeks in June. She will
be graduating from Dallas Baptist University in December! Please remember to pray for all our kids: Nat
in Colorado, Luciana in Dallas, and Isaiah who will be a high school sophomore
here in Santa Cruz in the fall.
Financial needs: I don't like to focus too much on our
financial need as missionaries here in Bolivia, but several key partners have
not been able to continue supporting us this year. We operate under the guidance and
supervision of the EFCCM (Evangelical Free Church of Canada), but we are
completely responsible for raising the funds for our own family support and for
the operating budget for Agua Yaku and CAFA.
We are about $1500 a month short of what we need for our personal
support for the year. Thank you to
everyone who has, or is faithfully supporting our work, we could not have been
serving here 13 years without your prayers and support. If you are not already on our team, please
prayerfully consider becoming regular monthly supporters of our ministry. Just follow the links on this email. It is easy to set up a monthly donation, or a
one-time gift, through the EFCA (Evangelical Free Church of America)—for U.S.
citizens, or through the EFCCM for Canadians.
If you have any specific questions about our ministry or about how to
become a partner please do not hesitate to write or call.
We hope you have a great summer surrounded by loving family
and friends.
Blessings,
Danny and Vanessa
Danny and Vanessa
