Global Talk

From: Bryon Scharenberg
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007
Subject: Re: Thanks!

Hey Tom!

How are you doing? I hope you've been well. Know that I'm beating myself up for not writing you back earlier. And now, I look at the calendar and it's JUNE!!! How did I let so much time fly by?!

Things have been great here in Merida. After you guys took off, we were able to see a couple of the students that we met through our outreaches come around to our functions, and we've had one guy, Jason (do you remember him?) actually start getting involved with us, and helping out! It's pretty cool to see the fruit from time that we go out there and trust the Lord.

Aside from those things, we've had many changes happening. This last month, we said goodbye to Amber and Claudia, who both went back home to start raising support for another year of ministry. We've also been traveling a bit, renewing visa's, and adjusting ministry roles around to fill the gap made by less teammates! The best part of it all, is that there are so few of us now (3) that the students are really running with their responsibilities. They've been leading our meetings, teaching up front to their fellow students, and now that the summer project is here, they are pairing up with students from the US and getting out sharing their faith all the time! What a blessing to see how God has used the work of foreigners like us to sow into something that will last a lifetime.

Tom, I also want to say thank you, thank you, thank you for the donation that Grace Community gave to our ministry. We have been able to use it to scholarship our students to things like the Congreso and transportation getting there. The national conference was pretty incredible. We had nearly 200 in attendance. The best part was seeing how God used that opportunity as a way to grow people in their faith. We've also been able to use some of that donation for other ministry events, like fiestas, an outreach on the Economics campus, and helping cover the expense of having a place where we can see God develop community in our movement- the Vida Estudiantil
office- which you all know of.

So mostly I just wanted to touch base, and thank you again for sowing and harvesting here in Venezuela with us. Your visit here in Merida was a blessing to us, and to the many students in our movement. God bless you and all those back with you in Eugene.

'Fishing' in Venezuela,
Bryon
Luke 5:10