March 2025
Jim & Cynthia Lemons – Togo, Africa
We are thankful and grateful for your continued prayers and financial support for us and the work in Africa. The PAThS French doctoral program continues to advance as currently PhD candidates from the second cohort are taking intermediate Greek in French. Classes for both the first and second cohorts began in January.
Jim’s knee replacement surgery went well in South Africa and he continues Physical therapy exercises on a daily basis. The graduation of 2024 makes a transition period for us. Jim has accepted a new position: the director of Development for PAThS both French and English programs. He will continue to teach in the French doctoral program and continue to select good Pentecostal English textbooks to be translated into French.
Prayer Requests
Continued healing for Cynthia shoulders and Jim’s knee.
Wisdom, good health, and favor.
- Continued church growth and exponential church planting so that there is a healthy church within walking distance all across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Bill & Lena – Peru
Since our last newsletter, we’ve been to the top of the Andes mountains six times, preached the gospel in the jungle and on the coast, baptized new believers in our church and prayed for pastors and young adults to get the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. We are blessed by all of you who have sacrificed to participate in what the Lord is doing here.
Our church (CCF – Centro de Crecimiento Familiar) has continued to grow and has adopted another church (Roca de Fe). The Lord called us to CCF when it was struggling, then used our team to revive another church in the same condition. Roca de Fe is in a mountainous desert community of extreme poverty. This missional effort has blessed CCF, resulting in new believers, water baptisms and many receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit – including the recent baptism of a young man who converted from Islam.
This past week, the youth group from CCF did vacation Bible school for Roca de Fe. Four of our young adults got the baptism of the Holy Spirit while ministering to the kids.
Prayer Requests:
March: We will be working with a Chi Alpha team to reach the university students in the mountains.
April: We will host an international conference of Red Universitaria missionaries from all over Latin America.
Women’s Missions Team – El Salvador
King’s Castle is a well-known community outreach, church plant, and Bible school that supports local churches throughout El Salvador under the leadership of Don and Terri Triplett. Don and Terri shared a vision of the Lord given to him about reaching EVERY child in El Salvador which is approximately 25 percent of the population. El Salvador, which was once known to be a gang-ridden country is now found to be one of the safest countries. Don shared that the team would encounter many broken homes.
She Ministries‘ trip consisted of 11 women of different ages and backgrounds working with King’s Castle staff as a Compassion Team. The team worked alongside a medical team from Iowa. As the medical team provided care within the local church, She members would split into smaller groups for door-to-door Evangelism. The team would speak with families, share testimonies, or a word of encouragement, give a bag of food, and pray with families. Despite the language barrier present within the team and community, each woman shared their testimonies, shared love and compassion for the homes visited, and allowed the Lord to use them.
We visited 70 homes, reached 147 individuals, 14 salvations, 60 prayers for healing, 60 prayers for problems, 3 miracles witnessed, and 100 food bags distributed. God is moving in incredible ways.