3. Churches:

Pinotepa:  The church has finished paying off their property as Pastor Dave had prophesied when he was here last year. And they have just finishing building an extension onto their church building and closed it in. Continue to pray for them, as the pastor’s wife Lupita and her family lost her brother to an auto accident this year. With the money they received they want to build some Sunday school rooms this year in memory of their deceased brother.

 Zicatela:  God is miraculously providing for the purchase of their church property and building where they have rented for the past 3 years. They were able to sell a lot that Clint and Dianne Eccles had purchased and had sold to them which allowed them to resell it and just repay Clint the principle amount that they had paid several years ago. With the earnings Pastor Jacob and the church should own the property outright by the end of August. Meanwhile the church continues to grow and mature in the bond of love.

 San Pedro: The church is growing and has finally moved into their new building, though they don’t have the wiring, windows and doors in yet and are still missing about 30 pieces of tin roofing. Pray for Pastor Roberto as he finally is able to bring a new order into the leadership team as it has functioned under the old cultural village system. The young people are rising up and desiring the new system which allows for changes and our new vision. Their mission church in “La Cañada” continues to grow as well. The young pastor will be helping disciple the young men from our Institute in the work place setting this year.

 Puerto Escondido :  We are busy here making changes to how we function as a church and a leadership team. We are writing the vision down, projecting it in every service, detailing it in booklets so that the church can run with it, making the church more dynamic, edifying, God honoring, personable and non-religious. We’re looking at expanding  this fall or winter to be able to hold at least 700 people as we see every Sunday that our church family is inviting new people out. The biggest complaint of the church is there aren’t enough chairs. PTL!! That’s a great complaint! We are also busy with monthly outreach nights in front of the city hall under Franco’s leadership; using dramas, music, and clowns for the kids. We’ve had a GREAT response. Pray for us as well as we seek God for wisdom how to take deaf, mute, blind and downs syndrome young people and integrate them into a Kingdom Businesses and eventually lead them and their families to the Lord. We have a young lady that has joined our leadership team from Mexico City that has it in her heart to work with us in this project, something she has training in and her family has experience with. (She has a downs syndrome sister who works at Burger King).

God bless you

 John and Angela Nickel

Our webpage is www.johnnickel.com

Puerto Escondido before the Sun rises.