Its June now, a few months since we last wrote about our new journey here in Bolivia and to be honest, we couldn’t really write much without experiencing first life in the mission field!
In our last news letter we told you we were going to start paper work. We still are in the process of getting our residency here in Bolivia! It wasn’t easy doing the paper work. In the United States everything is very organized and you do everything by mail. Here, a totally different story! While we were gathering all the documents we needed to apply for the residency, the immigration laws changed so I few papers that we had already gotten needed to be replaced and that meant paying more money. So let me tell you how it is once you are submitting your papers. When you are at the window in front of the immigration officer with all the paper work, you really are at his mercy. If he says you need more papers even if you already have them, and you are following all the rules and laws and what not, you are out of luck.
Well, finally after 3 months trying to get all the documentation, we left our paper work and the officer told us to comeback in 3 weeks. After the 3 weeks I went there to find out the status of the our paper work. At the window the officer tells me that my wife’s paper work were still there and weren’t being processed because of a paperwork they had forgotten to make her sign! By this time she was very disappointed because we had gone through a lot get that paperwork in! God definably is working on our patience and trust!
On another more inspiring note, the missionaries from the channel and I have been giving bible studies to the people that live in the neighborhood next to the channel! There are classes for the adult, classes for the children that go with their parents and I direct the study with the teenagers! Its nice to see how every Saturday night people come to the studies because they really want to know about our savior Jesus!
Every Sabbath we go to a little church that is closed to the channel. The church is located in another poor neighborhood called Pedro Lorenzo! Most of the church if filled with the missionaries from the station and local families that are also working to bring more people to Christ! This little church is not finished yet. The rooms where the children have their Sabbath school are half way up. The walls are not finished and they don’t have roofs so when it rains or the sun is bright and hot the children and teacher don’t have cover!
When we got here, there were a lot of young people volunteering. Some for a few months, others, for a year and others are more long term. Now we have fewer missionaries. Most of the temporary volunteers have gone! It is sad to see people who you meet and become friends with go. After all they become your family. If you are considering missions please consider doing it for a long term. You will be a big blessing to the work of God and you will learn what God wants you to learn.
We are in the process of learning how to trust God. A few weeks ago, my wife and I were talking about how were we going to go to the market and buy food with no money?. Our saving had banished doing all the paperwork for our residency. We didn’t really have money anywhere but we new we had to go to the abasto (market) to buy food! The next day I went to the office as usual and one of the local missionaries comes to my office and hands me a $100 bill. I hadn't told anyone about no having money. So when he gave me the bill he told me it was from somebody else, anonymous. My eyes lit up. I could not believe God had sent us money at the right time! The emotions that you feel when things like that happen are inexplicable! God will never leave his children without bread! This is not the first time God has work in our behalf. He does it daily when we open our eyes every day, but just as the Israelites we tend to forget that our God is bigger then our needs or problems! And we need to experience how to depend on him on a daily basis!
Please pray for us as we adjust to our new life here! We don’t have a house yet. We are staying on a missionary’s family house that are visit family right now. On July 22nd we will have to be somewhere else. Wherever we move, we will have to buy everything from beds to stove, spoons etc ! We don’t have the money so please pray that God will provide the right house and the money to buy all we need!
Please pray for missionaries. The channel needs volunteers with experience in TV production! We need to produce the best, heavenly programming to bring more people to Jesus, but without people we can’t do much. Do you have experience in this area or know of someone that would be willing to be a used by God? Please let us know!
The Channel needs to pay monthly bills, like electricity, Internet, etc. Pray that the Lord will send funds to help the station continue working!
Please pray for the people who are going to the Bible studies that The Lord may grow the seeds we are planting in the neighborhood!
Thank you for your prayer and support!
Collegedale, TN 37315
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| The family on the left made a special dinner for us for our 10 year marriage anniversary! |
TV Station Areas of Need:
- Funds for constructing missionary housing (There is a lot of need for housing)
- Car to transport missionaries! (
- Money to stations needs, like electricity, internet etc.
Jaen family Personal Needs:
Your prayer are very important for us. They keep us going. The mission field is a hard place, its a battle field, so we need all the prayers we need no to be discourage with the obstacles the enemy puts in our way!
If you would like to also help us with a personal donation you can do it by regular mail at:
Gospel Ministries International
PO Box 506Collegedale, TN 37315
You can also donate online: http://gospelministry.org/donations/
Or by phone at: 423-473-1841
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