November 2025 Update

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone is doing well. Thank you for your prayers and support. Prayer is a vital part of the missionary task. Thank you for praying for the displaced indigenous work in Bogota. Please continue to pray that the Word of Christ would speed ahead and be honored and that the gospel would advance unhindered among the people groups of Colombia and throughout the world. Missionary work is hard. And our Lord has promised to be with us as we go to the nations. We trust that God will use His Word to change lives as we proclaim the gospel to the nations.

My work in Colombia focuses on the displaced indigenous in Bogota. There are thousands of them

in the city. Throughout the week I visit the various placed where they live such as parks and shelters.

Several Colombian believers have become involved as well. During our visits we share Bible stories

(often using recorded stories in their indigenous language) with the goal of telling stories from

Creation to Christ while at the same time proclaiming Christ and the gospel. Please pray that our

visits to the parks and shelter would be fruitful and that many will come to know Jesus.

The indigenous live really hard lives. They have many material needs for which we often provide a

aid. Last week, some indigenous who were living in a cheap apartment had to move out and were

living on the street. Today they began living in a city park. One of the shelter we have been unable to

enter, so we visit them just outside the entrance. At times when we go to visit, we are unable to

because they are all drunk. Their life is hard. They are sinners. They live without hope. Pray that

they will find hope in Christ. They need the gospel. Pray that God will open their eyes to receive it.

Pray for us as we preach the gospel that it would be clearly understood.

A few times a week, I visit an indigenous man named “Mike” and his family from the other side of

the country as those in the parks and shelters. I have had several good conversations with him. He is

eager to learn more about the Bible. Pray for my visits with him and for Mike as he tries to provide

for his family.

Please also pray for the Wounaan. I haven’t been able to focus as much time with them as I have in the past due to time. But a few Colombia believers have become more involved in the Wounaan work. I was able to visit with my Wounaan friend “Silas” who is a believer. There is a small Wounaan church. Pray that it would grow to become a healthy church that reaches the other Wounaan in Bogota. Pray that they can work with Wounaan believers in Panama to help reach the Wounaan in western Colombia.

Pray for my team as we strategize for the new year. We have a members who recently arrived in Bogota and a few who will be here soon. Pray that good will give us the wisdom we need to know how to best use the strengths of each member and how to divide the work so that we can maintain a presence at each location three to four times a week. Pray that we can mobilize local churches and individual believers to be actively and consistly involved with the indigenous work. That task is large and the laborers few, soo ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers.

Pray for those of us who are learning an indigenous language. I’ve been working on Katío and another missionary is working on Chamí. Pray that we will learn the language quickly so that we can clearly teach the Word of God in the heart language. It’s a big task, but I believe it will be highly beneficial. Again thank you for your prayers and support; they are crucial to the work. I hope each of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and family.

Psalm 108 is a psalm about God’s help in a time of distress. In verse 3, David says he will give thanks to God among the peoples and sing praises to God among the nations. In verse 4, he explains why. It is because of God’s great mercy and truth. He wants God to be exalted. David begins the psalm with praise and ends it with hope. Because God is with him he will have victory (v. 13).

This hope ultimately points to Christ who defeated our foe on the cross. In Him, we have victory and a reason to give thanks and to declare His glory to the nations with the hope that all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. May we shout God’s glory to all the world so that all nations and peoples would come to know the God who saves, the God who is rich in mercy and abounding in grace and love, the God who saves all who call upon His name.

May we learn to give thanks to God in all things and in all circumstances (1 Thes 5:18). He has poured out His mercy upon us and saved us. He has united us to His Son and in Him we have every spiritual blessing (Eph 1:3). When it comes to material things, He has blessed us in many way. May we never take these blessing for granted. They come from a God who is good. We owe Him our gratitude.