July 5, 2005

Dear Friends,

Many of you must be praying for us.  God has blessed us and the ministries here in ways that we could not even imagine.  We thank Him for His grace and you for praying for us.  We love what's happening, so please keep it up.

In less than three months our youth outreach has tripled.  Our leaders, Anderson and Janayna, are very dedicated to their teaching and example are having a marvelous impact on those youth that are being reached.  At every weekly youth meeting there is at least one new person present.  Two encouraging facts about these visitors are that they come as a result of a friend excitedly telling them about how God is changing their life through our church and that they are coming from a non-Christian background.

I get excited about growth among the youth for several reasons, but especially because it is from this group that most of our missionaries to new works will arrise.  We developed our theological training program specifically to equip lay leaders and God-called ministers to take the Gospel that they have heard and accepted on to those hundreds of cities in our region where there is no gospel witness.  Charlene and I often have the opportunity to share with these folks the joy and spiritual reward we have received by following Jesus in reaching the lost.  We want them to see in our lives and in their own experiences that surrender to Christ and His service is not a sacrifice, but is gain.

Last month I thought I had temporarily resolved a seating problem we were having.  I bought as many new chairs as we could fit into our auditorium.  That attempt turned out to be VERY temporary.  Within three weeks those new chairs were full and now we have no space to put more.  These are the kinds of "problems" that I love to deal with.  We are praying for God's guidance in what should be our next step.  In the meantime, we are looking for a larger piece of property nearby.  Please remember us in your prayers.

Thank you for your faithful support.

In Christ's love,

Bobby, Charlene, Jessie and Brennen Wacaser

The public school ministry here in Brazil.