Pray for our missionaries…
David & Anita Luzuriaga
MONTHLY MISSION FOCUS
Our mission focus for April is David and Anita Luzuriaga who serve with Palm Missionary Ministries in Ecuador..
Please share an update on your family.
Anita and I continue to serve in Ecuador (see below). Tiare (24) is finishing the BA in Bible Counseling, and then she will take the MA also in Bible Counseling. Ethan (21) is studying Worship and Media Ministries. Both are in Moody Bible Institute. They need to work hard to pay for their studies, and sometimes the job is not enough. Tiare is looking for a job at this moment. But God is powerful to provide them with the resources they need, and the strength they need. We trust God does everything well.
Please share an update on your ministry.
This 2024 our ministry task has increased. Apoyo Pastoral, in Spanish, (Pastoral Support) has reached 11 different places in Ecuador, working with about 60 local churches. Our team is composed of 5 people. So, we are looking for more missionaries who want to come to Ecuador and serve with us.
One of our ministry tasks is providing the workshop “How to Study the Bible with Computer Software. So far 43 pastors and local leaders have been trained on how to use this software. When my wife and I launched this project last year, we did not have the idea that it would have a tremendous impact on pastors, but also, we did not know how it would take all our time, strength, and energy. God allowed us to reach 5 different places with this workshop. Some places have taken up to 5 visits in the field to teach and train those brothers and sisters. We are so blessed to see them learn and implement that knowledge in their own ministry.
My wife Anita is organizing the “Bible Conference for Women in Leadership”. This conference will take place on April 27th. More than 100 women are now registered for the conference. She will teach on how God does His work on each one of them through their weakness, their character, and their circumstances.
How can we be praying for you?
The harvest is plentiful and the laborers are few. Please pray for strength, health, desire, and commitment, to accomplish this God´s task.
Our prayer requests are:
Pray for our health. My wife Anita feels better since the stroke in February 2023. Sometimes the stress of ministry causes her to have several severe headaches. We praise our Lord because this could have been serious and it wasn´t. God got her out of it quickly. Pray for her health and strength to keep going.
Pray for my health condition too. All this ministry routine travel to the high mountains, to the jungle, at the inner-city ministry, is getting me to remember that I am not so young as before. I need new glasses too, and my blood pressure reminds me that I need to be intentional about taking care of my body.
Pray for our kids and their college education.
Pray for Apoyo Pastoral ministry. We really need more missionaries coming to serve here in Ecuador.
Pray for the following pastors and churches:: Roberto Rubio, Pascual Paguay, Elías Ushigua, Leonardo Becerra, Kairos Church (They do not have a pastor.), Luis Canderón (Elder, Emanuel Church), Juan Moncayo (La Fuente Church), AIENVA (Indigenous churches association) There are 13 local churches in this group. Only one has a local pastor.
These are the churches Anita and I are working with. Looks like a lot, and it is. This doesn’t include the churches the other Apoyo missionaries are working with. Pray for those pastors. Some need encouragement, some need wisdom, and some need spiritual and emotional support. Pray for them, some of them are facing tough times in their churches.
6. Please pray for our personal and ministry budget. God is almighty and He has been taking care of us every month. We have a plan to find 16 new donors with USD 50 each. We want to go to Chile to find 8 of them in September-October 2024 (Pray for this trip). And we are praying to find the other 8 in the USA. We want to send emails, make video conferences, and any other online contact to reach them. We know God has already those brothers, sisters, and churches. So, pray for them who already God has called to support our ministry.
What is your current support level and do you have any special needs?
Please pray for our personal and ministry budget. God is almighty and He has been taking care of us every month. We have a plan to find 16 new donors with USD 50 each. We want to go to Chile to find 8 of them in September-October 2024 (Pray for this trip). And we are praying to find the other 8 in the USA. We want to send emails, make video conferences, and any other online contact to reach them. We know God has already those brothers, sisters, and churches. So, pray for them who already God has called to support our ministry.
You can send a check payable to PALM MISSIONARY MINISTRIES at 203 Long Lake RD., Hawthorne, FL, 32640
Please write “Luzuriaga Ministry” in the memo line.
Also, you can go to: https://give.cornerstone.cc/palmministries and make an online donation. Also please designate to LUZURIAGAS