USA Here We Come/Refuge Churches

Hello - While international travel to the US has been down recently - Alejandra and I are traveling to the States today along with our baby boy Jackson.

My mom is also coming with us which is amazing, because she hasn't been to the States in 5 years! ...We'll be dropping her off with my sister on our layover in Atlanta, and then we're heading up to the Midwest (my dad will be arriving to Atlanta shortly thereafter).

It'll be fun to travel with little Jacks, and hopefully we'll be able to figure everything out along the way. I confess that I haven't done a good job of figuring out where we're going to stay and how we're going to get around and everything, but if anyone is up for helping and receiving us, please just let me know. Especially Alejandra has mentioned that she finds a lot of inspiration in thinking about Mary the mother of Jesus, and how she was so flexible in adapting to such awkward situations, especially when Jesus was just about to be born, as well as when Joseph and Mary had to flee with him to Egypt.

This next picture is just hilarious, which was what my sisiters and I looked like when we were traveling as kids:

Even though I'm not a part of the movement of boycotting travel either to the US or Venezuela as a form of protest against any particular government - I love it when my family and my friends and I are treated with dignity and respect wherever we go. Thanks especially to the churches and families who have welcomed Alejandra and I better than what we deserve, and who have encouraged us to use and develop our gifts of the Holy Spirit for the building up of the body of Christ. Let me know if there is any church in particular who would like for us to visit in these next few weeks.

Sam and Alejandra Killins Missionary profile: https://www.cmml.us/m/702 -------------- Hi - Here's an update about what God has been doing recently in Refuge Church Parkway, Refuge Church Duitama, and Refuge Church Cucuta:

The leaders of Parkway Church have been meeting every week to clarify our mission and vision and coordinate our different ministries and pray.

Within the past few months we've invited several Christian artists to sing and share the gospel

Every Friday night we go out to the Parkway to give out hot drinks and share the gospel with anyone we can. Simultaneously we also have a Bible study at a house near by, and we sometimes share a meal together.

Refuge Church Duitama is growing steadily and besides meeting every Sunday morning to worship, break bread, and learn from God's Word - every Friday night they get together to pray. Recently they also baptised 8 new believers including a couple of Alejandra's and my friends from Bogota that we met at the hospital when Jackson was born, and we've been discipling ever since.

Refuge Church Cucuta continues to work with a fair amount of street vendors and street musicians as well as Venezuelan immigrants. Whenever I make it out there I've also been sharing the gospel with barbers and victims from the violence in the Catatumbo region.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! (Ephesians 3:20). Thanks for your prayers and support, Sam and Alejandra Killins Missionary Profile: https://www.cmml.us/m/702