Dear Friends and
Family
Merry Christmas!
We pray that during this Christmas season God will make himself more real to
you; is in Him that we can find everything we need, he´s our rock and
salvation!
We apologize for
the long wait for our newsletter, but please be sure we are keep fighting the
good fight bringing the news of Jesus to everyone we can! These last 6 months
has been months full of work but also of growth, persona growth.
Our work with YWAM
is still going, helping with all the paperwork for the ywam schools (2 a year
now), helping with some of the English logistic, teaching in other things. We
must tell you thought that since the YWAM base move to the new location (about
2. He is from lima) it has been hard for us to spend entire days at the base,
due to our work with our new church.
The DTS
graduation was 2 days ago, we have a school of 3 students. They recently cam
from outreach, is amazing to see how God raises new workers for his kingdom!
I never thought
about this, but working with Missions and planting a church are 2 very big
different ministries! And therefore you need a different set of skills for each
one! And this is why I keep saying that we are growing and learning. Learning
the skills but also growing in our character. One of the big differences is
that our work with YWAM we only see the youth for 4 weeks (summer camp) a year,
or 5 months (DTS) a year. But at church it is a constant discipleship with our
youth; Their struggles are real and most of them are so wound it and hurting
looking for someone for help. I believe this is why the world has such a pull
on the youth; if we as churches are more open to receive ALL the hurting it
will be a different story.
Lets talk about
Joel for instance; a nice guy, he came from a Christian home but walked away
from God for a while, during his time “off” he encounters pleasures and things
from the world that create a big hard heart; when I first meet him I thought he
would never come back to our youth group, I thought he was there because his
parents make him; he is 19, has a great voice and is a natural leaders, great
qualities for a youth leader, but not yet… after a few months God start moving
in his heart, he comes to my discipleship group every week and one of those
days I asked him to accompany me to Cieneguille (YWAM) he didn’t know we had so
much time to talk… and we did God minister to his heart and now He’s on such
fire for God! He’s playing the guitar and leading worship on Mondays prayers,
and some Sundays he plays at church. Is not only his service to God that has
change him, but also the fact that he knows God is real, his relationship with
God was full with doubts but now he embraces who he is and who God is, he’s
truly a different person! I’m praying that God will do the same with all our
youth. I’m also praying he will do DTS and perhaps serve him full time!
2ND Church
Retreat
A few weeks ago
we had our second retreat. The 1st one was about a year ago and we
had about 30 people, this time we were close to the 70 people!!! Pastor Roger
preach in all the sessions, I got to translate for him; Ann his wife taught
about marriage good times! We really feel like a church family, and is not only
because of our size, but because we do know each other. We care and pray for
one another; during this retreat we spoke about Gods future, the time in
heaven, how that will be for eternity but the time we have on earth is as
important as our time in heaven. Is what we do here that will impact our
eternity, our future! It showed us how much work to do is left on earth, and
also how much better we need to manage our time and be effective in what we do!
God really blessed us this retreat!
Prayer requests:
1.
Please pray for our spiritual
walk as a couple, that God will continue to show himself to us and that we can
grow together as a couple
2.
Also please pray for Mayi,
we´ve gone to the ER twice in one week, first time was because of a throat
infection, but the second one was because she had a really bad headache; we
tried all pain killers we know before going to the ER, but even then the pain
was still there; we got the OK from our health insurance to do a MRI of her
brain, this is a very expensive test, but thank God we have health insurance in
Lima, it does not cover all but it is a great help.
3.
Please pray for peace as we go
to the dcs and see what’s wrong.
4.
Finally, pray for our finances,
that God will continue to give us wisdom to manage them and be faithful in all
that He has given us
And Remember,
Jesus IS the greatest expression of Love from our Father! He is faithful indeed
and His mercies are new everyday!!!!
Please let us
know how can we be praying for you.
César and
Mayerlin Ausejo.
