Missionary Update

Hello everybody! I've been super disconnected from social media for a while because after losing a phone in Cucuta and having a brand new second one stolen in Bogota, I just sort of gave up, and haven't tried to publish anything recently... The funny thing is that the most likely time for me to have lost a phone to begin with, would have been while I was in Venezuela and some paramilitaries decommissioned my device for about an hour after I took a picture that they weren't very thrilled about... They told me that I had to buy the equivilent of $15 dollars worth of Christmas presents for Venezuelan kids if I wanted my phone back, so I just sort of thought that that was kind of like a win-win. I bought some Venezuelan kids some preseants, shared the gospel to the leader of the vigilantes, and got my phone back, only to have the silly thing get lost again a week later when Alejandra and I went bowling with some friends in Colombia... I waited about a month for my sister to bring me a new Samsung Galaxy from the States, but before I even turned it on, it got robbed one day while I was preaching, and some wise guy broke the window of my car and ended up finding a pretty nice little state of the art mobile phone right there inside of my blue backpack, just waiting to get stolen. I'm sure that whoever robbed it is enjoying it quite a bit right now. ...So I guess the moral of the story is that you're more likely to get something robbed while you're preaching in Colombia, than after you've crossed the border illegally into Venezuela and gotten held up by paramiliteries (yikes!)... But yeah, anyway, if I were to publish some pics from the past couple months, these would be the ones:

Alejandra and I in Venezuela after crossing the border illegally on our wedding anniversay

Alejandra and I on the open border for Venezuelans but not yet for Colombians

Alejandra and I in a beutiful city of Colombia that we would like to start a church in some day

Preaching on the book of Filemon in Iglesia Duitama

Iglesia Refugio in Cucuta made up of Venezuelan immigrants as well as a few American friends that work with Samaritans Purse

Iglesia Parkway in Bogota which is kind of like the mother church of Iglesia Duitama and Iglesia Refugio

Friends from all 3 churches along with friends from an associated church in La Calera

Street musician friends in Cucuta Soli Deo Gloria, Sam and Alejandra