Baby on the way! And Great Challenges

We want to share with you the news of our ministry and our personal life, hoping that you will enjoy with us when you find out about everything that God is doing on the coast of Oaxaca, Pinotepa Nacional!

The first thing we want to share with you is that Elda is pregnant, and the birth of our third child will be at the beginning of October! We ask you to pray for her since the doctors consider her pregnancy as high risk. We do not have social security, so we ask you to help us pray, so that God will provide to cover all expenses. We are very happy for our new baby!

My son Asael and I have just came back home from our Mission trip to the city of Monterrey, where we were able to meet many people in need of the Gospel by preaching the gospel door to door. We were able to visit 3 prisons (women, adolescents, and men) where we found people completely humiliated before God. For Asael this Mission trip was a great motivation!

In the church in Pinotepa we have great challenges because we are still learning how to be a healthy church, and we want to reach more people around us! We are looking for mature churches that may advise us on how to plant new healthy churches. I ask you to pray for the missionary work that is done in the Sierra de Guerrero that the place is called Tlaxcalixtlahuaca where we want to start a church, we are currently visiting every two months due to lack of economic resources, the objective is to go there in shorter periods to be able to establish a church.

Prayer Requests:

• For my wife’s pregnancy

• That God provides for traveling to Mexico City for my wife's appointments

• For the missionary work in Guerrero

• May God supply for our most frequent trips

• So that we can establish a church

• For the church to be firm on the Lord

• For the growth and stability of the church of Pinotepa

• For the new families that are joining the ELIM church

• For the ETS Groups:

  • Book 1 in Guerrero

  • Aparicio Tello Family: Book 5

  • Seminary: Book 4

  • Delgado Gonzalez Family: Book 1

  • Asael: Book 1

  • Our graduate, Luis, he started an ETS group

  • For the upcoming new groups

Thank you for all your support to this ministry, to God be the glory!

“Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Joshua 22:5

Rafael Martínez,

Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, México