Dear Praying Friends,
God continues to bless the church here in Mexico City. The average attendances have been around 100. We now have a group of about 20 teens to work with. In December, we had a Christmas activity of games, food, and caroling to shut-ins. We had a Jewish teen with us and she heard the gospel for the first time.
This past week we had an activity with 18 teens with indoor ice skating, food, and preaching. Two teenage girls who had been riding the bus since this fall were saved.
We have been running a bus since the fall. A few families of some former soldiers were coming from a distant area. We rented a bus challenging these men and their families to invite their neighbors. We had the bus pass by another church family and the military base to pick up an active military family on the way. All these families have been inviting adults, teens, and kids and now we run over 35 on the bus.
Looking back at 2010, although we spent five months on furlough; the church saw at least 35 adults saved in the church services and soulwinning, nineteen children saved in the children ministries, and fourteen people baptized with twenty-one joining the membership. In the last six years, we have knocked doors in 39 neighborhoods with a total population of over 220,000.
Our building is getting more attractive with every improvement. We have bought 65 burgundy-colored seats and put in two sets of doors in the auditorium and have made a nice background wall in the back of the pulpit as well as ordered gold and burgundy-colored curtains for the baptistery. We have also fixed and repainted a baby grand piano that was given us to use.
Please pray for the financing of the building. This month we lost our promise of financing from a lending institution when the corporate office let us know that they could not lend us the money if the building was going to be used for church services. The loan officer knew it was a church, but never told us that later we would be rejected for that reason. We have already given the owner a 20% down payment of $60,000 dollars including rent towards the purchase of the building and need to pay the rest in July or potentially lose the building and our investment. Please pray for the $240,000 needed.
Thank you for your persistent prayers for our ministry and your faithful support.
For His Cause, Clint Rardin
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