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Samuel Diaz |
Colombia |
Samuel is a native of Honduras who graduated from Baxter Institute in 2002. He is a part of a five member team that is establishing the Lord’s church in Bogota, Colombia. Samuel is single and plays a vital role in the work in Bogotá. He has a tender heart for the children of the city. Maple Hill also supports his teammate, Marvin Tercero.
Email Samuel Diaz at cata_76
Jun
10
The peace of God be with you.
I am sorry do not write you on the right time, I was painting something inside the church building this week and I forget the time.
This month of May nothing new happen in the church in Ramon Amaya Tegucigalpa but we all are doing well.
We still cook for children on Sunday, I get 250 dollars every month of one brother called Ricky from Georgia USA, just to buy food for our children.
On another hand look like time of good peace are coming for Honduras, look like the government will stop kill civilian people of the opposition, some people has die on the manifestation in the street when the police gas pepper kill the fat people with problem to breathe, another with shot of gun like 25 farmers in the north, 12 journalist and 16 teachers, the most of them leaders thinkers.
Please pray about the country of Honduras and for the mission here.
Thank you for your economic supports to me in Tegucigalpa.
Blessings
Samuel.
Jun
10
Dear sisters and brothers
The peace of Jesus dwells in yours hearts.
The Church of Christ in Ramon Amaya Amador (RAA) send greeting to you all.
This April two baptisms for the glory of God, the sister Wendy and her 13-year-old daughter have joined the church, they were baptized in the sea, we had problems with the waves but everything was nice.
For invitation of the brother Reyner Minely, the director of the EBH, on a Friday I travelled to Catacamas to give a class in the Biblical School Honduras, the seminar began on Saturday at 8 a.m. and ended around 2pm.
One week we were constructing in the building of the church, we are improving the kitchen.
One Sunday the Church in RAA went to the sea, there we had the adoration first and later to swim and to play football.
Thank to God everything is going well in the programs of the church, the youth, the children, they are improving, they have good well-known and good behavior in the school.
Please continue praying to God for this mission here and thank you for your economic support.
Blessings
Samuel
Jun
10
Dear Brothers and dear sisters
The God’s peace be with you, wishing the best successes in yours daily labors.
The Church of Christ in Ramon Amaya Tegucigalpa Honduras continues working at the growth and strengthening. Thanks God I have health and the mission is going well.
In March we treat the topic of the leadership, Marvin Rivera teaches the adults on Sunday 8 AM and I teach to the teenagers on Saturday in the afternoon, I have tried to teach this topic of a general way, I hope the teenagers leading in any place where they are.
It is not easy give lessons because it is difficult for them to concentrate and to put on attention to the class. The teenagers like some adults throw the garbage in any place, also here in Ramon Amaya the persons do not organize well the time and come very late to the meetings, I do my better effort to teach good customs.
Last Saturday I was in Catacamas in the North-East of Honduras, I was sharing a class with the students of the Biblical school there. It makes me happy because the church is growing in my natal city.
This month two houses were constructed for two sisters who are single mothers, the brothers of The United States bought the wood and the materials and worked. The sisters Wendy and Nora are very happy with his new houses.
Please pray for the church here and thank you for your economic support for my work in Honduras.
Samuel
Jun
10
Tegucigalpa February 24, 2011
Dears brothers and sisters.
The peace and the God’s love be with you always.
Church of Christ in Ramon Amaya Amador (RAA) it continues forward in his programs of growth and strengthening of the mission in this place.
Several times in the week we met, on Tuesday in the building we have Biblical study, on Thursday we have devotional in the houses, on Saturday at two o’clock pm the teenagers receive his special classes. On Sunday at 9 :30 AM, we have the worship of adoration. We have begun the classes for leaders on Sunday at 8 am, Last Sunday the 20th there were 51 adults and 73 children.
Also we had the feminine regional meeting in our building; around 150 sisters received excellent speeches of motivation. The sisters of RAA organized this event very well, I feel proudly of well that they did it.
Every Sunday we have lunch for our children, thanks to brother of The United States who sends money for this activity.
This month I took some time to prepare a material for the Biblical School Honduras (EBH), I did a easy and small material for the class of Systematic Theology of the third year.
A weekend I went to León Nicaragua, on Friday I went to the sea and also some museums, though I was there to go out of the routine in Tegucigalpa on Saturday and Sunday I gave the lessons about the Messianic prophecies in the church there. It was a good weekend with much to learn of the church in Nicaragua.
Dear brothers and sisters please continue praying for the church in Ramon Amaya.
Thank you for your economic support for the mission in this place.
Blessings
Samuel
Dec
23
November report
Good morning brothers and sisters.
How are you?
The blessing of the powerful God be with you always.
The year 2010 almost ends and for me just has been a year to learn more, the church in Ramon Amaya in Tegucigalpa is in his phase of normal development. In November we had little less the assistance, about 45 adults and 80 children.
The previous months I was visiting the parents of the children of the church but now I want to dedicate big time to the leading brothers, search the time adapted to study with them, almost always in the nights I visit his houses, with these personal studies I wait for some of them start preaching some day.
The group of the children is going well, the children’s teachers do a good work, the teachers are young girls from this church. Here there is strong Christian person, they help a lot.
I try to teach to read and write two neighbors, kelvin of 26 and Angel of 32 years, they learn slowly.
On Tuesdays and Thursday in meeting with the church we are studying the bible book by book, this congregation is fortifying every day more.
Please pray for:
1. For the safety in this neighborhood, in this month it has improved, there is safety but many persons have died between them two policemen.
2. For my neighbor friend David, he is 5 years old, he is disabled and does not have papers of identity, his father and the governments of Honduras have left it, his mother is a young woman without education. I expect to find help for him promptly because it is very thin.
Thank you for your prayers and for your economic support for my mission here in Honduras.
God blesses you.
Samuel
Dec
23
Report of October
Dear brothers and sisters.
The peace of God be with you always. My desire is that you are prospered in everything what you do.
The church in Ramon Amaya Amador is going well, thanks to God, the sisters are very active in the work with the children, in the visitation to the brotherhood and the sick’s. The brothers and the teenagers every day are better in the direction of the worship on Sunday.
The worship every time is better, the songs sound well and the church learns new songs often
At this moment I have a student that I teach to read and write to him, he is 29 years old, he never enter to the school. Like him there is several persons in this neighborhood but they do not want to learn, I have visited them in his houses but it has been no possible.
Please I ask for your prayers for two teenagers girl with pregnancy, one of 13 years and other one of 17, the 13-year-old girl lost the baby last week, is something sad because they do not listen to advice of anybody, I have visited them to work at their restoration and Council. They do not want to return to the church.
Thank God this country of Honduras is going towards the peace, the police already there do not throb the people who is against the government. Now the army visits many places with medicine and food. The people of Honduras are afraid to the police and to the army because they suppress anyone that objects to the government and his politics.
Thank you brothers for your economic help for the mission in Honduras.
Blessings
Samuel
Dec
23
Dears sisters and brothers
greeting from Honduras.
This last weekend we had a good service of adoration in the congregation of RAA, 122 children and about 60 adults. Some brothers and brothers that it was absent have returned. It is agreeable to work with these people of this place, they are very friendly. They motivate me without saying word.
I have finished the course of introduction of the Bible, the examination was difficult to know how they are of knowledge, the sister Elizabeth Moran obtained 100 per cent, answered the examination perfectly, but they all know better the bible now, when they speak I listen to them that they have a Biblical improved language. I have taught them that every Christian one must know the bible, the books with his divisions and several verses.
The motivation anyone that is always works in the church, the work with the teenagers and with children is the reason for which the church is going well in these moments. For example the work of the teachers with the children, the work of the sisters who cook for the children, this helps to the integration and growth.
In September I was present at the juvenile meeting in Baxter Institute. 16 or 18 teenagers of the congregation of Ramon Amaya were with me. Our group took part in all the activities, being the best in soccer sport, it was also an activity of integration and of spiritual growth.
One Saturday I travelled to Catacamas in north east of Tegucigalpa to give a lessons in the Biblical School. It was a good invitation, this school has rural pupils and students who are leaders of several churches of this zone.
Thank you brothers and sisters for your prayers. Please continue praying for the mission in RAA.
Samuel diaz
Dec
23
Dears brothers and sisters in the faith.
The God’s peace be with you all.
This august was a lot good. I am doing well thanks God, the church in growing little more, more children are coming.
This month in Tegucigalpa there is violence between the government and the opposition there is many hurt in the streets, the majority of they are teachers and students. Also the winter has struck this city and many have lost the houses. Thank God in our community Ramon Amaya Amador everything is doing well, here the rain has been small. as you know this country lives in a great moral and material disorder and The persons do weak houses in already vulnerable zones.
This month we have improved a bit more the lunch of the children on Sunday, we have learned to use better the money, also it is one more tool to promote the brotherhood between the sisters who cook.
I wait in a few months the brothers and sisters of here in Ramon Amaya learn enough bible, every Tuesday we assembled ourselves to learn singings and to have devocional, every Thursday we have study of the Bible, prompt I will be doing contest with them, I wait for all learn the books of the bible and 7 verses more known about the bible, these brothers belong a bit different from brothers of other communities of Honduras. Eventually we have worship in houses.
Every Sunday in the evening I have been visiting a special mission, it is a program with indigent persons, homeless, between the paupers there are children, young people and adults, all with problems with drugs. This mission is directed by a sister of the USA, I visit this mission because it is possible they needs help, the meeting is Sunday at 4 a.m. pm, after the worship they also they get a plate with food, almost always I help to serve the food. I feel good this month.
God bless you and thank for your prayers and support economic that hepl my here.
samuel
Dec
23
Dear brothers and dear sisters
How are you?
the God’s peace be with you always. The church in Ramon Amaya Amador send greetings to you.
Thanks to God in July the church has been working at different areas.
The assistance is about 60 children adult 50, sometimes more sometimes less.
The meetings in house and the visits between brothers have improved the communication between the members.
We have tried to do meetings with the teenagers here but it has not been possible, they are busy with activities of his school. But they come on Sunday to the worship.
We have lunch for the children on Sunday, the brother Rikky Boby de Goergia is helping with money to buy food, also it is an activity of integration for the sisters who cook.
This July we had the dental brigade of the church in kentuky, they brought many gifts for the children of this neighborhood. They were employed at construction of a house and at repairs of the building of the church.
The brother Marvin Rivera has returned to the congregation, now there is no major danger for him here, he was threatened last year. I believe his return it is going to improve the work in all the areas in the congregation.
My desire is to form strong leaders to direct the local church and later to go to help elsewhere in Honduras.
My last two students of ABC have moved back, they do not have time now, probably after a few months let’s return to the classes, they even do not learn to read and write well. They are of 27 and 30 years.
I ask yours prayers for this mission. Thanks for yours economic contribution that makes possible my work here.
Blessings
Jul
13
May reeport
La Peace of God stay with you dear brothers and sisters.
The church in Ramon Amaya Amador send greetings to you all, thanks God we are with enough benediction and health. Though some neighbors and friends are with problems with the strong winter.
The church is firm growing in number and spiritually, the brothers who are studying for leaders have good disposition and it is my longing that they could preach soon. Some sisters are visiting the houses of sick persons and help in the program of restoration.
This May has come the winter with a lot of force, is normal here for the season of hurricanes, in our neighborhood there are 4 destroyed houses and 21 houses with serious threats for the dampness after the rains. 25 families are all in the communal house in small mattresses. I have offered them the building of church of Christ but the families they prefer being united in the communal house because they wait for the help of the government. Tomorrow with the president of the neighborhood we are going to do the breakfast with eggs and tortillas. We are going to fry about 100 eggs and we will give them of very warm cinnamon Tea, God blesses the food.
like nurse I help little in something with health but I will be asking for medicine to the clinic in Baxter institute and others for diseases of the climate that I could handle, these people die of small diseases for reasons that you can imagine.
They like the prayer and small preach to have the strength and hope.
Please pray for the mission in here in Tegucigalpa and for our friends affected in the winter.
Blessings
Samuel Diaz Anariba