Latin & South America

Bolivia: Jaime Jr. and Dr. Carola Torrico

Dear Friends and Family in the Lord:

Aug. 18th 2008

Once again receive our love and greetings in our precious Savior Jesus Christ.

It took a while to get enough information for this update, mainly because in the best of the Bolivian styles, things are not solved by the referendum were we voted last Sunday. The results are as follows, more or less 65% of the Bolivians support our socialist government, which means that our president has enough support to stay in the office. This concerns us, because it also means that many Christians voted for him. And this also means that he has the power to continue his policies and even strengthen them.

Brazil: Jean Marc Olivera Montiero

Jean Marc has his R-1 visa sponsored by CMM with Homeland Security. Jean Marc has pastured, planted churches, and trained many for 20 years. He is a gifted healer, evangelist, and moves in the prophetic. He has traveled to many nations, recently visiting CMM friends in Nigeria and Malawi.

Guatemala: Cristobal Chamale

Our vision is to develop spiritual movements in the key universities from Latin America through sports influential leaders

For this reason we are committed for the next years to share the Gospel with sports leaders and potential leaders from those countries and lead them in their spiritual grow and train them to be effective sharing their faith with their family, friends, teammates, and beyond our borders.

Guatemala: Dr.Samuel Berberian

Dear Friends,

Since our last letter in March our ministry continues as varied as you can imagine. For example, twice this month I was a guest on Vision Radio; one was a 6:00 to 7:30 a.m. interview on the subject of "Determination". The other program was from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on "How to recognize your vocation", both aimed at young people. In August I taught two workshops in a large congress for youth leaders called Especialidades Juveniles. I was surprised to be included among the three favorite speakers. I wonder if it is the sense of humor, or saying it like it is.

Guatemala: Samuel and Martha Berberian

Samuel is the founder of Federico Crowe Institute and the Dr. Nunez Library. Sam is also the Dean of the School of Theology of the Pan American University, the largest University in Central America, with over 100,000 students. Martha Berberian, niece of Nate Saint, martyred in Ecuador in the 50’s. Samuel is well connected throughout the church and government in Guatemala. As founder and director of the Federico Crowe Institute in 1989, he oversees junior and senior high education on up to college degree and mastor’s and doctorate programs. One of his recent graduates is pastor of a church of over 6,000. In central America many of church pastors do not have a high school diploma and lack much higher education. Over 600 have graduated since the 1980’s and received a higher education. Samuel serves on the board of Christians who help the Israeli ambassador in Guatemala. Martha is an author and she and Samuel also teach in the largest university in Central America.