November 8th, 2026

Dear Praying Partners, I should have updated this a few days ago. Regarding the meeting about the illegal miners, The meeting went way better than anyone, including myself expected. At first there was anger and yelling, but the leaders kept their cool and finally, the younger men admitted they were in the wrong and would drop the issue. No one expected them to accept that. I look at this as a real miracle. But please keep praying. The miners who want to come in are not going to give up, but our God is able.

As I mentioned, Keila is still in the USA with our daughter Mia, she is scheduled to return to Venezuela on the 14th and then, on to Puerto Ayacucho on the 16th. We are in contact with the pilot with the Kodiak and are praying we can get a flight up here for her without too much delay or hassle. On that flight, we are planning on bringing up the Torches and the medicines that were shipped from the USA the same date as the Torches. It has taken forever to get this stuff up here, but In HIS time.

As I mentioned in my last update, starting on the 16th of this month, Andrew is hosting a seminar for the youth through Bible studies and soccer. At this point, we don't have the food or fuel to bring in a lot of outside villages, but Andrew is bringing the people from Jalalusiteli as he worked there for a number of years before joining the team here.

We had thought we would do the seminar with the people from the Mavaca River area the week after Andrew's youth seminar, but Javier, one of the guys from way up the Mavaca River got tired of waiting for us so has started downriver already. He passed a village a day and a half from here and let us know via the village's starlink that he was going to be here tomorrow. So we are moving up going and getting the other guys and are just going to move our seminar dates up. I guess in the long and short of things, who cares if it is this week or in two weeks..especially since most Yanomamö don't know or even care that it is now November, 2026 so why make a huge issue about something that is actually pretty insignificant.

Thanks again for all your prayers and support for this work! We are so honored to have you all as our partners in this work.

In HIM,

Michael and Keila