While leaves change colour in Canada, spring has sprung in Bolivia. The days and nights are getting warmer, and the Jacaranda trees are bursting with purple flowers! As the seasons shift, we reflect with gratefulness on the past months and all that God has done in our lives and ministry.
Our Father who is in heaven, you are always good and you are there, present to help us and protect us from evil. Thank you Abba Father.
The Chagas project seeks to bring attention and intervention to a preventable disease affecting the rural poor and improve food security by providing new skills and supplies for families to produce in orchards, raise small animals, and produce honey for consumption and marketing. Support this project through financial contributions and prayer.
Jireh works with children and adolescents who have been victims of violence and aims to provide children and families a safe place to find restoration physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The centre helps provide support, counselling, and teaches valuable life skills. Support this project with financial contributions and prayer.
The Eagles Wings project aims to support vulnerable women through the challenges their families face. Women with their husbands in prison receive sewing training and life skills workshops to start their businesses. Support this project through financial contributions and prayer.
As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of a heat wave in Western Canada. I see some of the Bolivian pastors in my Zoom conferences wearing thick jackets and complaining of -8-degree mornings in Oruro, Bolivia, while I need a fan in my office to stay cool.
We continue to work from home, connecting regularly with the 10 partner organizations and denomination in the 5 countries where CBM has partners in our region. Like all of you, we have adapted to Covid-19 imposed restrictions, and are getting tired of it.
Almost ½ the total population is comprised of children and adolescents.
Almost 70% of pastors serving in Bolivia have to supplement their income.
Approximately 1/3 of students studying at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Cochabamba are women.
