General Team Update

Just a quick general update on our team. The McGathy’s took off yesterday to return home. They had originally planned to return later in the year but decided to expedite the process a bit, since their family seems to need some time off the front lines to focus on their personal growth and family unity. Please pray for our team as we adjust to their absence. Both Chris and Julia have had a great impact on the team and on the community, so we want to make sure this transition goes as smoothly as possible.

Please pray, first of all, that the team’s pastoral needs would continue to be met. I know several teammates have had great emotional/spiritual support from Chris and Julia, so this is one of the primary ways they’ll be missed. And pray that the McGathys’ disciples and ministry contacts would not be lost completely. Some of the most important investments for us are their adult contacts, since we are mostly still working with kids. So we want to follow up with the adults often in the coming weeks and identify those that are faithful.

On a separate note, teams from 2 Houston universities will be joining us at the end of the week for a week-long training. Please pray that the right people would come, and that the Spirit would transform hearts through the training and equip people for the mission.

The mission trip to southeast Asia starts in 2 weeks and will last till the end of March. Soon after that is over Mario, Alejandra, Xavier and Catherine will leave to start the Los Angeles team. So in a couple months the Houston teams will foreseeably look like this…

Ranchester Team: Joe and Keri H., Zachariah and Hannah D., Susana, Chris Block, and Jerome

Salem Oaks (Los Arcos) Team: Jacob, Nicole, Lacey, Richie, Julio (and young internationals Hafsa, Kho and Sanjay).

Thanks again for all your support! Probably our biggest need in prayer right now is for more laborers in general. We see that refugees are flooding into many different U.S. cities. We have a heart to start mission teams in a few different cities, and the only thing holding us back right now is that we don’t have enough people, nor the right leaders, to start those teams. Anyway, have a blessed week!