News from the Border

Hi - If anyone wants to hear my thoughts regarding the capture of Nicolas Maduro and the ensuing tension between Colombian president Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump - you'll have to travel to Sweden and watch the news there.

For everyone else - you're welcome to pray for the ABCD churches my wife and I started in Colombia (the two Aposento Alto churches, the Refuge Church in Bogota, the Refuge Church in Cucuta, and the Refuge Church in Duitama)... Also - will you please pray for Iglesia Levantemonos y Edifiquemos as well as for missionaries working with indigenous communities in Colombia?

In the picture above, just this last Sunday leaders from LyE, Parkway, Duitama, and Cucuta met together to kick off the year and pray for what's ahead. We also heard a report from Venezuelan pastors and close friends Nino and Virginia about the status of the Venezuelan church, and we prayed for them as well as for all the other churches mentioned above

After showing some of my friends from out of town a little of Bogota

I met up with Duitama and Cucuta leaders at my parents house where my awesome Venezuelan friends then spent the night

On Monday I jetted over to Cucuta to encourage my friends there and see what's happening at the border, as we also shared the gospel

Today I'm getting my passport renewed, and Alejandra is back in the States with little Jacks, as she also tries to define a few things related to her American visa

It was great to have all the extended Killins' together this Christmas, along with honorary family members Carolina and Orlando Bueno

As executive director of Christian Missions in Many Lands John Peaseland has emphasized in his most recent Prayer Handbook - please pray for missionaries like the Buenos (and especially their daughter Ana Sofia), who have (and are) working hard to take the gospel to the Arab world... You won't be able to find the Buenos in the handbook, and you won't be able to find Alejandra and I either - but then again - who's looking?

...As I was at the border of Colombia with Venezuela yesterday - everything seemed fairly normal, albeit a little more tense, and with a lot more news reporters than usual...

The thing that caught my attention the most however, was a hearse that was picking up a corpse which was being transported from one country to the other

As this world gets crazier and crazier every second - the main thing that us Christians should be intentional about is sharing the good news of Jesus to spiritually dead people who are being shuffled around from one place to another... Alejandra and I happen to be doing that in Colombia (and at times in Venezuela and the States), and so any way that you would like to support and/or pray for us in the midst of this calling we would really appreciate it.

Christian Missions in Many Lands is a good missions organization, and thankfully they have been very gracious to my family and I in channeling tax deductible donations from friends and churches in the States to us here in Colombia... If you would like to support my family and I as we share the gospel and plant churches and serve Venezuelans and Colombians (as well as anyone else that God puts in our path) just click on this link to see how to do that: https://www.cmml.us/waystogive. Also, at this link you can send us a gift electronically by clicking on the blue support button, as you also read our missionary profile: https://www.cmml.us/m/702

Make it a good 2026, and don't be afraid to live loud as ambassadors of our King. Just remember who's our King.

Come quickly Lord Jesus, Sam Missionary Profile: P.S. Recently I've been thinking a little about how as Chrisitans we're all kind of like Nicolas Maduro who has been taken captive, and is now being led around in triumphal procession (2 Cor. 2:14).