Mireille and Hans Tanner are friends who were part of the Casa Grande church in Chile. They came to Medellín for vacation and we enjoyed catching up with them earlier this week. Yesterday Hans went paragliding but a sudden gust of wind ended his flight with a crash landing. He broke several ribs and 3 vertebrae. Please pray that his surgery tomorrow will go smoothly. And pray for Hans and Mireille as they face at least 3 weeks of recovery time here in Medellín before being able to return home.

Also pray for Jose Buenrostro, a good friend from Kentucky, and Soledad Gil, our pastor Susana's mom, as they both fight cancer.

Earlier this month we learned that Pastor Mark & Julie Waterhouse, friend's in Kansas, lost their daughter to a sudden illness. Today, my boss at Alltech, where I worked for 10 years before becoming a missionary, passed away. Dr. Lyons was a good friend from whom I learned a lot! We ask that you would please lift up the Waterhouse and the Lyons family in your prayers.

Finally, we ask you to pray for our ministry here. While is exciting to see the office buzzing with activity, the tasks before us are quite large.

Pastoral Formation. The team is basically synthesizing information from 4 different sources to create 1 manual for each of 20 different courses. Ricardo and I are responsible for reviewing the theological content and the graphic design, respectively, of each book. Our targeted completion deadline is November.

Community Church Planting. At the same time other members of the team are contextualizing the CCP materials for Latin America in preparation for an area-wide training in July. And, of course, we're also overseeing the implementation of CCP here in Medellín and Pereira (where several churches are being planted simultaneously) while considering how to also implement it in Bogotá.

All of these projects involve planning, teaching, mentoring, evaluation, money management and lots of prayer. (Thankfully, Ricardo hasn't started teaching seminary classes yet, but that will all change on April 4.)

We believe these projects are crucial for the future spiritual growth and multiplication of the church throughout Latin America. We also believe that the enemy is not happy and so this team particularly needs your prayers for protection!